Israel and Empire A Postcolonial History of Israel and Early Judaism

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Major considerations in the Analysis of imperial Rule and Postcolonial Criticism .............5 What is postcolonialism criticism ? Postcolonial historiography and Biblical Interpretation..........5 The subaltern and Economic Exploitation ...........7 Racism in the ideology and practice of Imperialism ...........8 Orientalism : The sbverting of Western Stereotypes of the East ...........9 The location of Culture ..........15 Can the Subaltern Speack ......19 Postcolonial historiography .........22 The imperial Metanarrative ..............30 Colonial Resistance ..........32 The diaspora ...........33 2. The assyrian Empire, the Conquest of Israel, and the Colonization of Judah ............37 Historical Introduction .....37 The Metanarrative of the Assyrian Empire.........40 Israel/Judah and the Assyrian Empire: The example of Hosea .........49 The colonization of Judah and assyrian Domination ............63 3. Judah under the neo-Babylonian Empire ...........69 HIstorical Introduction ...........69 The babylonian Metanarrative of Empire ..........72 Jewish communities during the exile ........76 The prophetic Resistance to the Empires: Jeremiah and second Isaiah ..........87 4. The persian empire and the Colony of Judah ...........107 Historical Introduction .........107 Persian culture and the imperial Metanarrative .....109 Judah as a Persian Colony .........117 Conclusion : Unity and diversity in Judaism in the persian empire .......127 5. Judea/Israel Under the Greek Empire ...............129 Alexander the macedonian ......................135 Ptolemaic rule and judea/Israel ..............147 Seleucid rule of Judea/Israel .........172 Antiochus IV epiphanes ......184 Post-164 BCE Rededication of the Temple and Independence ..............210 6. Judea/Israel under the Roman Empire ............217 Historical Introduction ........2223 The metanarrative of the Roman Empire ........227 Rome and Judea: Roman Religious acts and imperial cult observance .............235 Imperial and Provincial rule ........241 Economics ......251 Judean /Israelite Religion........263 Material Culture ..........273 Decolonizing the mind ..........279