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| Preface | ||
| Abbreviations | ||
| Map | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | A Sketch of Israelite Religion According to the Biblical Storyline and in Light of Extrabiblical Sources | |
| Ch. 1 | Premonarchic Israel | 11 |
| The Religion and Culture of the Ancestors | 13 | |
| The Origins of Yahwism | 21 | |
| Tribal Israel in Canaan | 25 | |
| Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan | 35 | |
| Sacrifice in Israel | 45 | |
| Ch. 2 | Israel as a State With Monarchy | 51 |
| Monarchy and Its Spheres of Influence | 53 | |
| City, Temple, and Dynasty in Cultural Analysis | 59 | |
| The Division of the Kingdom in 1-2 Kings and the Problem of Syncretism | 69 | |
| The Omride Dynasty and the Influence of Phoenician Culture | 73 | |
| The Late Ninth and Eighth Centuries | 78 | |
| Judah in the Seventh and Early Sixth Centuries and Josiah's Reform | 84 | |
| Ch. 3 | Israel as a Religious Community in the Exilic and Post-Exilic Periods | 100 |
| The Persian Period | 101 | |
| The Hellenistic Period in Palestine and the End of the Old Testament Period | 114 | |
| Pt. 2 | Religion and Culture According to Some Old Testament Traditions | |
| Ch. 4 | The Transformationist Vision of Deuteronomy | 125 |
| Introduction | 125 | |
| Israel as the People of God | 129 | |
| The Nature of the Covenant | 134 | |
| The Responsibilities of Israel in the Covenant | 137 | |
| The Rejection of Syncretism and Polytheism | 142 | |
| Worship and Ritual | 145 | |
| Blessing and Curse and the Need for Israel's Obedience | 148 | |
| Politics and Religious Ideology in Deuteronomy | 150 | |
| Ch. 5 | The Pre-Exilic Prophets and the Paradox of Israelite Culture | 153 |
| The Role of Prophets According to the Prophetic Books | 155 | |
| The Prophets' Audience: Israel and Judah as the People of God | 161 | |
| Prophetic Criticism of Public Worship and the People of God | 170 | |
| The Prophetic Assessment of the Monarchy and State Administration | 185 | |
| Prophecy and Society | 195 | |
| Ch. 6 | Wisdom and Religion as a Cultural Synthesis | 199 |
| Introduction: Wisdom in Israelite Culture and Religion | 199 | |
| The Wisdom Movement and the Book of Proverbs | 204 | |
| The Wisdom Movement and the Books of Job and Ecclesiastes | 214 | |
| Ch. 7 | Religion Against Cultural Imperialism. The Rise of Apocalypticism and the Book of Daniel | 228 |
| Introduction | 228 | |
| The Development of Apocalypticism in Israel | 230 | |
| Apocalypticism and the Book of Daniel | 240 | |
| The Court Narratives in the Book of Daniel | 243 | |
| The Court Narratives in Daniel as a "Diaspora Theology of Two Kingdoms" | 251 | |
| The Apocalyptic Visions in Daniel 7-12 | 253 | |
| Daniel as Opposition Literature | 261 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 265 | |
| Index of Modern Authors | 269 | |
| Select Index of Ancient Texts | 275 |
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Miller Pinson
reviewed Religion & culture in ancient Israel on March 28, 2009
Religion & culture in ancient Israel
This slim volume brings together three lectures given by Brown on the subject of the "Christianisation" of the later Roman Empire. Brown looks at the symbolic systems in use by the Roman elites, conceptions of authority, and the roles of Christian holy men, and challenges the neat and accepted historical narrative of Christianity triumphing over and absorbing a moribund paganism. Rather, he shows a late antique world in which Christians and pagans negotiated a compromise between the new faith and long-standing ways of seeing the world, and often possessed multiple, overlapping world views. That compromise, moreover, was often not worked out merely in terms of religious syncretism, but in terms of power'the Christian holy man derived his power not because he appropriated pagan religious forms, but because of how he presented himself as a parallel of Roman secular authority'the administrator, the paterfamilias.
Brown also cautions against using the rhetoric of philosophers and theologians as a means of assessing the relative power, or lack thereof, of the two major religious groupings. He points out that such groups were elites, often deliberately withdrawn from the concerns of the secular mundus and thus cannot be taken as representative of how the majority of people conceived of their faith.
As erudite and as beautifully written as always, Authority and the Sacred is perhaps not one of Brown's most groundbreaking of books, but it is still well worth the read if one has even the most passing of interests in the subject.
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