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From Babylon to Eternity: The Exile Remembered and Constructed in Text and Tradition (BibleWorld)

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Most often, readers have a negative idea of the Exile. Psalm 137 has fuelled the concept this was once a time of sorrow and despair. This image of the Exile influenced, for instance, Luther’s ideas on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church. The four essays in this volume deconstruct and reconstruct this image. Bob Becking tries to recreate a history of the exile. On the basis of the to be had evidence, this could be no more than a fragmented history, on the other hand showing that the fate of the exiles was once not as bad as frequently supposed. Anne Mareike Wetter reveals that the biblical image of exile is multi facetted. She shows how a tradition of a people tied to their God-given land was once challenged by the reality of foreign occupation. And how that people eventually succeeded in translating this experience, appropriating them through a transformation into a counter-tradition that enabled them to deal with the new situation, without breaking entirely with their cultural and religious heritage.Jewish ideas on Exile are discussed by Wilfred van der Poll. He concentrates on the usage of the idea that of galut, which refers to the paradigmatic and identity-shaping function of the dispersion of the people of Israel and showed that the exile in Jewish thinking had transform a permanent reality up until the present day. From the perspective of intertextual reading, Alex Cannegieter discusses four texts of varying ages and background – Augustine, Petrarch, Luther, and a Dutch sermon held after the end of the Second World War. She explores the ways authors chose biblical texts to appropriate them a new context, thereby changing the meaning of the new, in addition to the source texts.

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