Choosing brides for the crown-prince. Matrimonial politics in the Davidic dynasty

2006 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermann Michael Niemann
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Regional Context ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The Bible ◽  
History Of ◽  
Crown Prince ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractUntil now no one has outlined the matrimonial politics of the Davidic dynasty as a whole. A closer look reveals these policies to be a clear-cut means of stabilizing David's dynasty and expanding its territory and power. As far as we know, all of the marriages of Davidic crown-princes are comprehensible in the political and regional context of the time. In every case, choosing the bride for the crown-prince of Jerusalem and Judah was politically goal oriented. Selection of the royal bride throws light on the sometimes weaker, sometimes stronger (more independent) position of the kings as well as the possibilities and aims of Davidic politics. Mentioning the kings's mothers makes clear that the Bible can supply valuable information for the investigation of the history of Israel and Judah.

The Use and Misuse of Religious Language: Zionism and the Palestinians

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Wetherell
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Title Deed ◽  
History Of ◽  
Land Question

Every discipline which deals with the land question in Canaan-Palestine-Israel is afflicted by the problem of specialisation. The political scientist and historian usually discuss the issue of land in Israel purely in terms of interethnic and international relations, biblical scholars concentrate on the historical and archaeological question with virtually no reference to ethics, and scholars of human rights usually evade the question of God. What follows is an attempt, through theology and political history, to understand the history of the Israel-Palestine land question in a way which respects the complexity of the question. From a scrutiny of the language used in the Bible to the development of political Zionism from the late 19th century it is possible to see the way in which a secular movement mobilised the figurative language of religion into a literal ‘title deed’ to the land of Palestine signed by God.

Toward a Pastoral Reading of the Bible Not Confined to the Church

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 579-587
Author(s):  
Jorge Pixley
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Study ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Composition ◽  
The Church

AbstractUsing the experience of the network of popular biblical study groups in Latin America and the biblical scholars who accompany them, this article outlines the basic requirements for a pastoral reading of the Bible. Special emphasis is given to the need for using the history of composition, necessarily hypothetical, in order to recover the political dynamics of the texts. The resulting pastoral reading will serve a public as well as a church function.

Who were the ‘Viri Militares’?

1975 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 11-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brain Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Political History ◽  
The Political ◽  
History Of ◽  
Selection Of

It has become the accepted view that a certain group of ‘viri militares’ can be identified among the legates who governed the consular military provinces in the Roman empire. The question of these ‘specialist soldiers’ is relevant to the understanding of how appointments to military commands were made, and, more generally, to the political history of the empire. For it can be argued that ‘viri militares’ were important not only because they were responsible for the defence of the empire and could raise revolts with their armies, but also because, as a group, they were particularly influential with the emperor. And so Professor Sir Ronald Syme, to whose work we owe most for the concept of ‘viri militares’, speaks of a ‘paramount oligarchy’ that was ‘drawn in the main from the men who govern the armed provinces of Caesar’. Now, Syme recognized a wide variety of factors that might influence the selection of consular legates. However, his theory of ‘viri militares’ tends to be repeated without qualification as accepted doctrine, and in the hands of those who do not mark his caution lends itself to a rather schematic approach and mechanical solutions. This incurs the danger to which Syme himself has adverted: ‘Historians in all ages become liable through their profession to certain maladies or constraints. They cannot help making persons and events more logical than reality’.

scholarly journals Geographical aspects of the changes of Hungary’s deconcentrated state administration system between 1990 and 2012

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (20) ◽  
pp. 59-69
Author(s):  
Gábor Kozma ◽  
Attila Barta
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
County Level ◽  
Administration System ◽  
State Administration ◽  
Territorial Structure ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract One of the most important segments of the post-1990 transformation of territory-based administration in Hungary was the changing of the geographical structure of deconcentrated state administrative organisations. The study, on the one hand, provides a brief overview of the history of deconcentrated state administrative organisations in Hungary, and discusses the regional characteristics of the organisational transformations after the political changes, taking six moments in time (the middle of 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2012 respectively) as the basis. On the other hand, using the same six snapshots in time, it examines which settlements experienced favourable or unfavourable changes, and what factors influenced the selection of the seats for these institutions. The results of the survey indicated that the alignment of territorial structure of deconcentrated state administrative organizations to the planning-statistical, NUTS 2 regions has already begun at the end of the 1990s. The government formed in 2006 took significant steps in the area of aligning the spatial structure of the organizations with the planning-statistical regions; however, in the period after 2010 the significance of the county level increased again. In the period examined, no significant changes took place at the top and at the bottom of the list according to the number of seats: the largest settlements of the individual regions reinforced their leading positions.

He-Bibles and She-Bibles: Reflections On the Violence Done To Texts By Productions of English Translations of the Bible

1996 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-269
Author(s):  
Robert P. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Geneva Bible ◽  
English Translations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Biblical Translation

AbstractThe political nature of English Bibles (Geneva Bible, Douai-Rhemes, KingJames Bible) in the long history of biblical translation is often neglected in the analysis of Bibles as ideological weapons ofwar in the theopolitical struggles of the time of their production. The eventual triumph of the KJB centuries later inscribed ideological traces of partisan versions of those struggles in "the English Bible." Violence is done to the biblical text and by readers of the text in the perpetuation of such Bibles as translations. Some examples of these kinds of violence are discussed, with observations on the hermeneutic constraints built into such translations.

Das Bild des Juden in den Märchen der Brüder Grimm

2011 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-249
Author(s):  
Gerd Bockwoldt
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
Brothers Grimm ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
History Of ◽  
Wilhelm Grimm ◽  
Linguistic Characterization ◽  
Christian Society ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThis article analyzes whether anti-Judaism, which was widespread during the German Romantic period and which was evident in organizations such as the "Christlich deutsche Tischgesellschaft" (a German Christian Society), and here especially in Achim von Arnim, also included the Brothers Grimm. One could conclude so when considering mainly the publishing history of their collection of fairy tales, which since its third edition (1837) has been appended. The same was already true for the previously published selection of tales for children (1825). However, a closer look reveals the stylistic nature of these appendixes, which provided a linguistic characterization for the tales' character types (Jew, farmer, soldier, etc.). The actual problem that the Brothers Grimm – especially Wilhelm Grimm – did not recognize and/or ignored is evident in the breaches of law as depicted in the fairy tales "Der gute Handel" and "Der Jude im Dorn." Thus, while one cannot accuse the Brothers Grimm of clear-cut anti-Judaism, one can fault them for their careless handling of problematic texts, which still causes irritation today.

scholarly journals Perebutan Panggadereng di Kerajaan LOkal di Jazirah Sulawesi Selatan Abad XV-XVII

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahri Bahri
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
Xvii Century ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
History Of ◽  
Two Kingdoms ◽  
Selection Of

This study aims to determine the history of the struggle for Panggadereng in United Local, South Sulawesi XV-XVII century. The method that the researchers used in the writing of this history is a research method according Kuntowijoyo. The stages of historical research by Kuntowijoyo has five stages, the selection of topics, heuristics, verification, interpretation, and writing.Gowa and Bone kingdom are two forces that are very influential in the political constellation in Jasirah South Sulawesi in the kingdom. The power struggle between the two kingdoms not only occur during the reign of Sultan Hasanuddin in Gowa and reign in the kingdom Palakka White Bone, but long before the two kingdoms have been involved in the struggle pangadereng in the region. This lasted until after the treaty of bongaja which has also been involved in a contradiction that VOCs. Keywords: Power struggle, Local Kingdom, South Sulawesi.

Theosophical Luciferianism and Feminist Celebrations of Eve

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Faxneld
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
World View ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Elizabeth Cady Stanton ◽  
Genesis 3 ◽  
The Devil ◽  
Selection Of

Chapter 4 deals with Theosophical Lucifierianism and its feminist implications. The argument is that Helena Petrovna Blavatsky’s explicit sympathy for the Devil should be understood not only as part of an esoteric world view, but that we must also consider the political—primarily feminist—implications of such ideas. Several feminists, it would appear, drew on Blavatsky’s Satanic counter-myth to attack the patriarchal use of traditional Bible readings to keep women in their place. Blavatsky’s counter-reading of the Bible is here related to a selection of nineteenth-century feminist texts treating Genesis 3, in particular those from The Woman’s Bible (2 vols., 1895, 1898), edited by the leading American suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902), a project on which several female Theosophists were among the collaborators.

Joseph Scaliger

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk van Miert
Keyword(s):  
The Bible ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Hugo Grotius ◽  
Private Correspondence ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Historical Methods ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Selection Of

Chapter 1 shows that in Leiden around 1600 the type of philology that undermined the stability of the biblical text was kept indoors or was restricted to private correspondence. The independently minded Joseph Scaliger focused on chronology and history, and the history of the Bible was part of his studies, although it did not stand at the centre of his attention. Scaliger was reluctant to publish his philological annotations on the Bible. He adopted different levels of openness, depending on the medium. Scaliger observed that the text of the Bible was often not stable and irretrievably lost. He inculcated his textual-critical, linguistic and historical methods in his students Daniel Heinsius and Hugo Grotius. He exerted a profound influence on antiquarians such as Selden and Saumaise, not through a published work or an organized selection of biblical annotations, but through a number of methods and themes, which the next generation developed.

Martin Luther's Political Interpretation of the Song of Songs

2011 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-467
Author(s):  
Jarrett A. Carty
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Song Of Songs ◽  
The Political ◽  
Conjugal Love ◽  
Biblical Commentary ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Gift ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Interpretation

AbstractMartin Luther argued that the Hebrew Bible's Song of Songs was “an encomium of the political order,” a praise and thanksgiving to God for the gift of temporal government. Luther's political interpretation of this book was unique in his age, and remains so in the history of biblical commentary. This paper offers an account of Luther's peculiar interpretation, as well as its place in his interpretation of the Bible and in the history of biblical commentary, by arguing that it exhibits the foundational idea of his political thought that secular authority is a precious gift from God, and that the Song of Songs, as a praise of conjugal love, provides for political authority a fitting biblical encomium.

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