Hebrews Between Cultures

The Poetics of Biblical Narrative, Sternberg's last book, established a new level of sophistication for biblical analysis. In Hebrews between Cultures, he shifts his focus from individual identity to the group, in this case the Hebrews. Sternberg's analysis of the development in the Bible of the Hebrew identity (and alternate identities) is brilliant, challenging, intellectually rigorous and unusual, and almost always unexpected and dramatic.

Meir Sternberg is author of The Poetics of Biblical Narrative and other books and numerous articles.

Preface

xi

The Hebrews in the ``Hebrew'' Bible: Culture-Blindness, Crosscultural Romance, Intercultural Poetics

1

(89)

Who Were the Hebrews? Reopening the Question

1

(10)

The Forces for Studied Closure: A World in a Grain of Sand

11

(20)

The Hebrew as Hab/piru: Traffic across Cultures

31

(19)

Source and Discourse, Sources as Discourse

50

(10)

Fables of Identity, or, Poetic License in Historical Reconstruction

60

(15)

Babelian Confusion and Translational Mimesis: The Hebrewgram

75

(15)

Heterocultural (Mis) Representation in Inverted Commas: Outsiders at Name-Calling

90

(65)

Image and Victimage

90

(16)

Polar Cultures in Contact, Nations in Total Conflict: An Interim Outline

106

(15)

De-nomi-nation as Process

121

(14)

The Law of Intercultural (De) Nomination: A Poetic Microcosm

135

(11)

From De-nomi-nation to Re-nomi-nation: The Hebrew/Hamite Master Plot

146

(9)

Proteus in Culture Land: Stereotypes, Metastereotypes, and Idolatry

155

(51)

Proteus Principle vs. Package Dealing

155

(5)

Descriptive Packaging: Character Traits Misallied

160

(8)

Packaging for Ideology: Culture, Nature, and Their (Sub) Human Correlates

168

(3)

(De) Stereotyping the Stereotype

171

(11)

Otherness: Restrictive vs. Open-Ended, Polar vs. Gradable, Discriminatory vs. Differential

182

(4)

Foreignness

186

(7)

Hamiteness

193

(3)

Ethnocentricity vs. Ethnocentrism

196

(10)

The Translated Self in Adverse Encounter

206

(73)

Speaking Like a Foreigner: Enforced Self-Designation

206

(10)

Maneuverable Imagery: The Hebrewgram Refined in Theoretical and Comparative Light

216

(16)

Adaptable Culture Heroines and the Rhetoric of Pretended Solidarity

232

(27)

Stiff-Necked Prophet, Versatile God, Mimicking Villain: Three Forms of Self-Translation

259

(20)

Intergroup Dramas in the Secret Life

279

(99)

Speech and Thought

279

(4)

Expressive Duplexity: Ellipsis as Mimesis

283

(3)

Abomination in High Places: Joseph's Feast between Dietary Taboo and State Terrorism

286

(22)

A Champion Miscast: Abram the Hebrew

308

(10)

Presence and Absence: Vocal Stereotype, Inner Ear

318

(6)

Shuttling between Identities: Moses' Route to Prophecy

324

(54)

Dissonant Discourse, National Discord: Echoing Outgroup Parlance at In-Fighting

378

(48)

Bicultural Stigmatizing

378

(6)

High Art under Low Criticism

384

(9)

High Criticism, Low Historicity and Narrativity

393

(6)

The Way to Hebrewgrammatic Resolution

399

(5)

A Nation Divided, a Kingdom United

404

(22)

Slave Law: Outside Parallel and Internal Process

426

(45)

Coming to Terms with Hebrew Bondage in Israel

426

(8)

Underprivileged Class, Privileged Treatment: The (II) Logic of Sociolegal Synchronism

434

(13)

Displacing the Israelite from the Hebrew Codes: Leviticus as national preserve

434

(4)

The Nuzi connection: Verbal co-portraits, legal co-privileges

438

(7)

Freedom limited in going free: Quantifying a canonical absolute

445

(2)

Tales of Diachronic Distribution: How a Class Becomes a People in Midcareer

447

(20)

Synchrony and diachrony among pattern-making universals

448

(5)

An unbrotherly Pentateuch?

453

(5)

The longest bridge, the deepest freeze

458

(2)

Checkpoint romances of identity change

460

(7)

Toward a Fresh Start in the Reconstruction of Legaliterary Culture

467

(4)

In-Group Servitude between Yes and No: The Law's Rhetoric of Deterrence

471

(49)

Saving the Texture

472

(9)

Green Light, Red Backdrop

481

(13)

License Rebarbed

494

(10)

Bonds and Bondage: Loving Unto Perpetual Servitude

504

(16)

Law, Narrative, and the Poetics of Genesis

520

(119)

The Source of Discourse and the Discourse of Source: Law as Compound Law-Tale

520

(19)

The image of diachrony in (lega) literature: Genesis mimeticized and canonized

521

(1)

Intergeneric composites

522

(3)

Law-speaking within the represented events

525

(5)

Law-telling among modal event-representations

530

(2)

Law-tale interacting with overall process and canon

532

(5)

Evolving a macro-lawtale: The Hebrew bondage series

537

(2)

Variance for Persistence, Variance for Novelty: Two Evolutionary Drives behind Literary History

539

(11)

Exodus at Bridging: The Double Covenant Code, Covenant/Code

550

(13)

Rebridging with Updating across Distance

563

(9)

The Sinai to Jordan to Jerusalem route: Post-Exodus exigencies

563

(1)

Longer intervals, stronger bridges: Memory updated

564

(4)

Disclosure and development: Narrative universals as generators of change

568

(4)

From Exodus to Deuteronomy: Loci, Ranges, and Teleologies of Variation

572

(24)

Unpacking the manifold of change

572

(6)

Poetic genesis as poetic justice

578

(8)

From tact to bluntness: Inherited scenarios newly focused without favor

586

(2)

Updating or outdating? The program of successive co-eternities

588

(8)

Systematizing Legal Communication

596

(21)

Pregnant silences, divergent ambiguities: Between artful re-formation and material reformation

596

(9)

From type enumerator to unitype generalizer: Alternative coverages of the possible law-world

605

(12)

From Judgment to Rejudgment: (D) evolution of and by Conduct

617

(9)

Bidirectional Motivation

626

(3)

From Pentateuch Codes to Jeremian Coda

629

(10)

Notes

639

(34)

Works Cited

673

(14)

Indexes

687

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