IMHICIHU   13380
INSTITUTO MULTIDISCIPLINARIO DE HISTORIA Y CIENCIAS HUMANAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
What Does «Israel» Refer To? Ethnogenesis, Socio-Political Organization and Identity
Autor/es:
EMANUEL PFOH
Lugar:
Viena
Reunión:
Congreso; International Society of Biblical Literature / European Association of Biblical Studies, Vienna 6th-10th July 2014; 2014
Institución organizadora:
SBL / EABS / University of Vienna
Resumen:
If ?Israel? refers to a particular people around 1200 BCE, considering its naming in the famous Victory Stele of Pharaoh Merneptah, can we know about the ethnicity of this people? When addressing ?Israel? as a kingdom in the Iron Age: what kind of kingdom, of socio-political organization is this? A ?national state?? A patrimonial kingdom? Something else? Does this kingdom share a socio-cultural background with the kingdom of Judah? This last question is key to find out how both kingdoms are related in the biblical narrative (why Judah is identified with Israel?) but also outside of it, in the realia of the history of ancient Palestine. This is the kind of problematizing questions through which the historiography of ?ancient Israel? advances and formulates new visions and perspectives on the remains, archaeological and textual, of an ancient past. The key to any of these approaches and questions rests not on the nature of the data under analysis and interpretation but rather on the different epistemological grounds on which our historical reconstructions can be based: how we understand the Bible as related to history, and therefore, ancient Israel, and how we use it for history-writing. Debating such epistemological issues could certainly enhance our understanding of the historical referents of «Israel» in first-millennium BCE Palestine.