The Deuteronomistic History and the Name Theology: leshakken shemo sham in the Bible and the Ancient Near East

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 14 ¾.¤. 2014 - 258 ˹éÒ

This monograph is a comparative, socio-linguistic reassessment of the Deuteronomic idiom, leshakken shemo sham, and its synonymous biblical reflexes in the Deuteronomistic History, lashum shemo sham, and lihyot shemo sham. These particular formulae have long been understood as evidence of the Name Theology - the evolution in Israelite religion toward a more abstracted mode of divine presence in the temple. Utilizing epigraphic material gathered from Mesopotamian and Levantine contexts, this study demonstrates that leshakken shemo sham and lashum shemo sham are loan-adaptations of Akkadian shuma shakanu, an idiom common to the royal monumental tradition of Mesopotamia. The resulting retranslation and reinterpretation of the biblical idiom profoundly impacts the classic formulation of the Name Theology.

 

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I Introduction
1
B The Deuteronomistic History the Name Theology
7
C Whence the Name Theology?
11
1 Nominal Realism
14
2 Julius Wellhausen and the Evolution of Israelite Religion
22
3 Wellhausens Disciples
24
4 Modern Reconstructions of the Name Theology
26
D A New Paradigm
36
C Classifying the Inscriptions
136
2 Triumphal Texts
139
3 Building Inscriptions
142
4 Foundation Deposits
144
5 Clay Nails
148
D šuma šakānu and the Monumental Corpus
153
2 Gudea and šuma šakānu
158
3 The Victory Stelae of the Amanus Mountains or Journey to the Cedar Forest and šuma šakānu
160

II The lešakkēn šemô šām Formula in Its Biblical Context
41
A The Distribution of the lešakkēn šemô šām Formula and Its Synonymous Reflexes lāśûm šemô šām and lihyôṯ šemô šām
43
B The Biblical Occurrences of the Deuteronomic Formula
53
2 The Deuteronomistic History
63
3 2 Samuel 7 1 Kings 8
68
4 Jeremiah Ezra Nehemiah
91
5 Conclusions
95
C The Translation of the Deuteronomic Formula
96
1 The verb škn in its Biblical Occurrences
98
2 The verb škn in Semitic
105
3 Conclusions
118
D Could Deuteronomys lešakkēn be borrowed into Biblical Hebrew?
121
III The lešakkēn šemô šām Formula in Its ANE Context
127
šumu + šakānu
128
The Royal Monumental Inscriptions of Mesopotamia
130
4 Building Inscriptions and šuma šakānu
170
5 Correspondence and šuma šakānu
174
6 šuma šakānu as a Metaphor for Acquiring Fame
179
7 Conclusions
182
E šuma šaṭra šakānu and the Monumental Corpus
184
2 Foundation Deposits and šuma šaṭra šakānu
188
3 Wallsikkātu and šuma šaṭra šakānu
194
4 Conclusions
198
F šuma šakānu in the Levant
199
G The Relationship Between šuma šakānu and Deuteronomy
204
The Meaning of the lešakkēn šemô šām Formula in the Deuteronomistic History
207
Bibliography
219
Index of Texts
243
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The author is presently an Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary.

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