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...

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Main Author: Campbell, Warren C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2018]
In: Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
Year: 2018, Volume: 27, Issue: 3, Pages: 205-234
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.
ISSN:1745-5286
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0951820718771237