Ezekiel and Israelite Literary Traditions
This chapter argues, following Pickering’s notion of material agency, that literary devices are material agents, with which humans collaborate. This accords with the traditum–traditio distinction employed by Fishbane, a dialectic in which tradents seek to appropriate divine authority and power in ma...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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| In: |
The Oxford handbook of Ezekiel
Year: 2020 |
| Further subjects: | B
native / foreign
B traditum / traditio B literary variants B material agency B Genre |
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| Summary: | This chapter argues, following Pickering’s notion of material agency, that literary devices are material agents, with which humans collaborate. This accords with the traditum–traditio distinction employed by Fishbane, a dialectic in which tradents seek to appropriate divine authority and power in managing the vital significance of tradition. The chapter applies this model initially to Ezekiel’s image of “not good” laws given by Yahweh, suggesting that the prophet and his editors present these laws as emblematic of an ongoing dialectic they perceived in the management of the Israelite traditum, the community’s complement of devices for living successfully. The chapter argues that the array of scholarly interpretations of the laws supports this assessment and provides an optic for considering the relationship of the entire book to the Israelite traditum and the ways scholarship has engaged it. These include questions regarding non-native ‘foreign’ elements; genre and design features; literary variants; and the adaptation of existing material. |
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| ISBN: | 0190634545 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Oxford handbook of Ezekiel
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190634513.013.2 |