Interpreting Exile

Brad E. Kelle is Professor of Old Testament at Point Loma Nazarene University. He is the author of Hosea 2: Metaphor and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective (Society of Biblical Literature), co-author of Biblical History and Israel’s Past: The Changing Study of the Bible and History (Eerdmans), and co-editor of Writing and Reading War: Rhetoric, Gender, and Ethics in Biblical and Modern Contexts (Society of Biblical Literature).

Frank Ritchel Ames is Professor of Medical Informatics and Director of Library Services at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is a contributor to and co-editor of Writing and Reading War: Rhetoric, Gender, and Ethics in Biblical and Modern Contexts and Foster Biblical Scholarship: Essays in Honor of Kent Harold Richards (both from Society of Biblical Literature).

Jacob L. Wright is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. He is the author of Rebuilding Identity: The Nehemiah Memoir and Its Earliest Readers (de Gruyter), which won a 2008 Templeton prize.

Contents
Abbreviations
Foreword
Rainer Albertz
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Exile
Brad E. Kelle

Part 1: Archaeology and History
An Anthropological Model for the Investigation of the Archaeology of Refugees in Iron Age Judah and Its Environs
Aaron A. Burke
Shedding New Light on the Dark Years of the “Exilic Period”: New Studies, Further Elucidation, and Some Questions Regarding the Archaeology of Judah as an “Empty Land”
Oded Lipschits
Deportation and Demography in Sixth-Century b.c.e. Judah
Avraham Faust
The Deportation of Jerusalem’s Wealth and the Demise of Native Sovereignty in the Book of Kings
Jacob L. Wright
Assyrian Representations of Booty and Tribute as a Self-Portrayal of Empire
Marian H. Feldman
A Fragmented History of the Exile
Bob Becking

Part 2: Sociology and Identity
The Cascading Eff ects of Exile: From Diminished Resources to New Identities
Frank Ritchel Ames
Lost Space and Revived Memory: From Jerusalem in 586 b.c.e. to New Orleans in 2009
Christl M. Maier
Rebuilding Th at Wicked City: How the Destruction, Exile, and Restoration of New Orleans Elucidates Judah in the Sixth and Fift h Centuries b.c.e.
Michael M. Homan
Imagining Hope and Redemption: A Salvation Narrative among the Displaced in Sudan
M. Jan Holton
The Impact of War on Children: Th e Psychology of Displacement and Exile
Hugo Kamya

Part 3: Psychology and Trauma
Reading War and Trauma: Suggestions Toward a Social-Psychological Exegesis of Exile and War in Biblical Texts
Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Deuteronomy 7 in Postcolonial Perspective: Cultural Fragmentation and Renewal
William Morrow
Reading into the Gap: Refractions of Trauma in Israelite Prophecy
David M. Carr
A Vocabulary of Trauma in the Exilic Writings
David G. Garber Jr.
Reversing Fortune: War, Psychic Trauma, and the Promise of Narrative Repair
Janet L. Rumfelt

Part 4: Texts and Comparison
The Prose and Poetry of Exile
Samuel E. Balentine
Sites of Conflict: Textual Engagements of Dislocation and Diaspora in the Hebrew Bible
Carolyn J. Sharp
The Emasculation of Exile: Hypermasculinity and Feminization in the Book of Ezekiel
T. M. Lemos
Daughter Zion as Homo Sacer: Th e Relationship of Exile, Lamentations, and Giorgio Agamben’s Bare Life Figure
Amy Meverden
Exiling in America: The American Myth and the Spectral Christ
Shelly Rambo
“There Was No Place for Cholly’s Eyes to Go”: (Black-on-Black) Crime and (Black Male) Displacement in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
Nghana Lewis

Contributors
Index of Primary Texts
Index of Modern Authors