Why EDOM? On the hostility towards Jacob's brother in prophetic sources

Vetus Testamentum

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-20

  Assis, Elie ^a  

^a NONE   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.1163/156853306775465144     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. See M. Haller, “Edom im Urteil der Propheten”, in K. Budde (ed.), Vom Alten Testament (Karl Marti zum Siebzigsten Geburtstage; BZAW 41; Giessen, 1925), pp. 109-117;
2. B. C. Cresson, “The Condemnation of Edom in Postexilic Judaism”, in J. M. Efird (ed.), The Use of the Old Testament in the New and Other Essays: Studies in Honor of William Franklin Stinespring (Durham, 1972), p. 142.
3. E. Ben Zvi, A Historical-Critical Study of the Book of Obadiah (BZAW 242; Berlin, 1996), pp. 232-237.
4. J. M. Myers, “Edom and Judah in the Sixth-Fifth Centuries B.C.”, in H. Goedicke (ed.), Near Eastern Studies in Honor of William Foxwell Albright (Baltimore and London, 1971), p. 377;
5. J. Liver, “The Wars of Israel and Edom”, in J. Liver (ed.), The Military History of the Land of Israel in Biblical Times (Tel Aviv, 1964), p. 190 (Hebrew).
6. See e.g. J. Blenkinsopp, Isaiah 1-39 (AB; New York, 2000), p. 450;
7. B. S. Childs, Isaiah (OTL; Louisville, 2001), p. 253.
8. See e.g. W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel 2 (trans. J. D. Martin, Hermeneia-A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible; Philadelphia, 1983), p. 234
9. I generally agree with the opinion that Joel belongs to the post destruction period, after 587 BCE. See e.g.: J. L. Crenshaw, Joel (AB; New York, 1995), pp. 23-29.
10. A. Weiser, The Psalms, A Commentary (OTL, trans. H. Hartwell; London, 1962), p. 794.
11. M. Löhr, Die Klagelieder des Jeremias (HZAT; Göttingen, 1906), pp. xiv-xv.
12. See e.g. J. M. P. Smith, The Book of Malachi (ICC; Edinburgh, 1912), pp. 5-6;
13. W. Cannon, “Israel and Edom: The Oracle of Obadiah”, Theology 15 (1927), pp. 129-140, 191-200
14. Myers, “Edom and Judah in the Sixth-Fifth Centuries B.C.”, pp. 377-387;
15. Cresson, “The Condemnation of Edom”, The Use of the Old Testament, p. 143.
16. M. Cogan, Obadiah (Mikra Leyisrael; Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv, 1992), p. 12 (Hebrew).
17. J. R. Bartlett, “Edom and the Fall of Jerusalem, 587 B.C.”, PEQ 114 (1982), pp. 13-24.
18. B. Glazier-McDonald, “Edom in the Prophetical Corpus”, D. V. Edelman (ed.), You Shall Not Abhor an Edomite for He is Your Brother: Edom and Seir in History and Tradition (Archaeology and Biblical Studies 3; Atlanta, 1995), p. 24;
19. B. Dicou, Edom, Israel's Brother and Antagonist: The Role of Edom in Biblical Prophecy and Story (JSOTSup 169; Sheffield, 1994), pp. 186-187.
20. Cresson, “The Condemnation of Edom”, The Use of the Old Testament, pp. 134-140;
21. Myers, “Edom and Judah in the Sixth-Fifth Centuries B.C.”, pp. 387-392;
22. Glazier-McDonald, “Edom in the Prophetical Corpus”, pp. 23-32.
23. S. Klein, Eretz Yehudah (Tel Aviv, 1939), pp. 3, 251-252 (Hebrew).
24. See e.g. W. F. Albright, “A Brief History of Judah From the Days of Josiah to Alexander the Great”, BA 9 (1946), [pp. 1-20] p. 6;
25. Y. Aharoni, “Arad: Its Inscriptions and Temple”, BA 31 (1968), [pp. 2-32] pp. 17-18;
26. B. Mazar, T. Dotan and I. Dunayevsky, “En-Gedi: The First and Second Seasons of Excavations 1961-1962”, 'Atiqot: English series 5 (1966), pp. 3-4;
27. Y. Aharoni, Arad Inscriptions (Jerusalem, 1981), pp. 46, 149-151;
28. M. Kochavi, “The First Season of Excavations at Tell Malhata”, Qadmoniot 3, 1 (1970), pp. 22-24
29. I. Beit Arieh, “The Edomites in Cisjordan”, D. V. Edelman (ed.), You Shall Not Abhor an Edomite for He is Your Brother: Edom and Seir in History and Tradition (Archaeology and Biblical Studies 3; Atlanta, 1995), pp. 33-40.
30. M. Noth, The History of Israel (New-York, 1958), pp. 324-325.
31. Myers, “Edom and Judah in the Sixth-Fifth Centuries B.C.”, p. 387;
32. A. Kasher, Jews, Idumaeans, and Ancient Arabs: Relations of the Jews in Eretz-Israel with the Nations of the Frontier and the Desert during the Hellenistic and Roman Era (332 BCE-70 CE), (Tübingen, 1988), p. 3.
33. See e.g. H. J. Katzenstein, “Philistines”, ABD vol. 5 (New York, 1992), p. 328.
34. U. Kellermann, Israel und Edom: Studien zum Edomhass Israels im 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Münster, 1975), p. 228.
35. See also G. S. Ogden, “Prophetic Oracles against Foreign Nations and Psalms of Communal Lament: The Relationship of Psalm 137 to Jeremiah 49:7-22 and Obadiah”, JSOT 24 (1982), pp. 89-97.
36. E.g. Cresson, “The Condemnation of Edom”, p. 144.
37. Ben Zvi, A Historical-Critical Study of the Book of Obadiah, pp. 230-246.
38. Ben Zvi, A Historical-Critical Study of the Book of Obadiah, pp. 239-240.
39. Ben Zvi, A Historical-Critical Study of the Book of Obadiah, p. 242.
40. J. Blenkinsopp, Isaiah 1-39 (AB; New York, 2000), p. 451.
41. 2 (Westminster Commentary; London, 1929), pp. 215-216.
42. See Wade, The Book of the Prophet Isaiah, p. 394.
43. See e.g. J. Renkema, Obadiah (Historical Commentary on the Old Testament; Leuven, 2003), p. 39.
44. Regarding the question of when the concept of brotherhood between Edom and Israel developed see J. R. Bartlett, “The Brotherhood of Edom”, JSOT 4 (1977), pp. 2-27.
45. See e.g. B. S. Childs, Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture (Philadelphia, 1979), p. 596.
46. See e.g. M. Greenberg, Ezekiel 21-37 (AB; New York, 1997), pp. 744-746.
47. See e.g. W. McKane, Jeremiah, vol. II (ICC; Edinburgh, 1996), pp. 863-864.
48. See e.g. J. N. Oswalt, The Book of Isaiah: Chapters 40-66 (NICOT; Grand Rapids and Cambridge, 1998), p. 9.
49. See W. Eichrodt, Theology of the Old Testament, vol. 1 (trans. J. A. Baker; London, 1961), pp. 256-257;
50. E. Jenni, “to love”, Theological Lexicon of the Old Testament, vol. 1 (Peabody, 1997), p. 52.
51. W. Rudolph, Haggai-Sacharja 1-8-Sacharja 9-14-Maleachi (KAT XIII/4; Stuttgart, 1976), p. 255.
52. W. L. Moran, “The Ancient Near Eastern Background of the Love of God in Deuteronomy”, CBQ 25 (1963), pp. 77-87.
53. See e.g. G. A. Cooke, The Book of Ezekiel (ICC; Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 381-382.
54. Y. Hoffmann, The Prophecies Against Foreign Nations in the Bible (Tel-Aviv, 1977), pp. 151-152 (Hebrew).
55. See e.g. W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel 2 (Hermeneia, trans. J. D. Martin; Philadelphia, 1983), p. 234.
56. D. R. Hillers, Lamentations (AB; New York, 1972), pp. 92-93.
57. For various formulations of this concept, see L. Waterman, “Jacob the Forgotten Supplanter”, AJSL 55 (1938), pp. 25-43;
58. J. Gray, “The God YW in the Religion of Canaan”, JNES 12 (1953), pp. 280-81;
59. J. Gray, “The desert sojourn of the Hebrews and the Sinai-Horeb tradition”, VT 4 (1954), pp. 148-154;
60. M. Rose, “Yahweh in Israel-Qaus in Edom?”, JSOT 4 (1977), pp. 28-34;
61. J. R. Bartlett, Edom and the Edomites (JSOTSup 77; Sheffield, 1989), pp. 194-200;