Inverted Hybridities: Reactions to Imperialism in Select Pseudepigraphic Ezra Materials
This article examines both 4 and 5 Ezra as two textual reactions to Roman imperialism utilizing Homi Bhabha's notion of hybridity'. The central argument offered here is that 4 and 5 Ezra both exemplify resistance to and affiliation with the discourse of dominance integral to imperial ideo...
| Published in: | Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2018]
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Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics HB Old Testament HD Early Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
4 Ezra
B Apocryphal books B Jewish History Bar Kokhba Rebellion, 132-135 B Bar Kokhba revolt B Imperialism B Homi Bhabha B 5 Ezra B EZRA (Biblical figure) B Imperialism History B Hybridity B Jewish History |
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| Summary: | This article examines both 4 and 5 Ezra as two textual reactions to Roman imperialism utilizing Homi Bhabha's notion of hybridity'. The central argument offered here is that 4 and 5 Ezra both exemplify resistance to and affiliation with the discourse of dominance integral to imperial ideology. Such reactions are, however, inverted. On the one hand, 4 Ezra primarily offers a theodicean resistance to the destruction of the Second Temple during the First Jewish Revolt (66-70 CE), but relies upon essentialized binaries integral to a colonial discourse of domination. On the other hand, 5 Ezra advances a notion of religious replacement in the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt (132-135 CE); an expression of dominance that is simultaneously a strategy of communal preservation arising from a position of proximity to a Jewish heritage. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5286 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0951820718771237 |