Hebrews between cultures : group portraits and national literature

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1. The Hebrews in the "Hebrew" Bible: culture-blindness, crosscultural romance, intercultural poetics

who were the Hebrews? Reopening the question

the forces for studied closure: a world in a grain of sand

the Hebrew as Hab/piru: traffic across cultures

source and discourse, sources as discourse

fables of identity, or, poetic license in historical reconstruction

Babelian confusion and translational mimesis: the Hebrewgram

2. Heterocultural (Mis) representation in inverted commas: outsiders at name-calling

image and victimage

polar cultures in contact, nations in total conflict: an interim outline

de-nomi-nation as process

the law of intercultural (de) nomination: a poetic microcosm

from de-nomi-nation to re-nomi-notion: the Hebrew/Hamite master plot

3. Proteus in culture land: stereotypes, metastereotypes, and idolatry

proteus principle vs. package dealing

descriptive packaging: character traits misallied

packaging for ideology: culture, nature, and their (sub) human correlates

(de) stereotyping the stereotype

otherness: restrictive vs. open-ended, polar vs. gradable, discriminatory vs. differential

foreignness

hamiteness

ethnocentricity vs. ethnocentrism 4. The translated self in adverse encounter

speaking like a foreigner: enforced self-designation

maneuverable imagery: the Hebrewgram refined in theoretical and comparative light

adaptable culture heroines and the rhetoric of pretended solidarity

stiff-necked prophet, versatile God, mimicking villain: three forms of self-translation

5. Intergroup dramas in the secret life

speech and thought

expressive duplexity: ellipsis as mimesis

abomination in High places: Joseph's feast between dietary taboo and state terrorism

a champion miscast: Abram and Hebrew

presence and absence: vocal stereotype, inner ear

shuttling between identities: Moses' route to prophecy

6. Dissonant discourse, national discord: echoing outgroup parlance at in-fighting

bicultural stigmatizing

high art under low criticism

high criticism, low historicity and narrativity

the way to Hebrewgrammatic resolution

a nation divided, a kingdom united 7. Slave law: outside parallel and internal process

coming to terms with Hebrew bondage in Israel

underprivileged class, privileged treatment: the (Il) logic of sociolegal synchronism

displacing the Israelite from the Hebrew codes: Leviticus as national preserve

The Nuzi connection: verbal co-portraits, legal co-privileges

freedom limited in going free: quantifying a canonical absolute

tales of diachronic distribution: how a class becomes a people in midcareer

synchrony and diachrony among pattern-making universals

an unbrotherly Pentateuch?

the longest bridge, the deepest freeze

checkpoint romances of identity change

toward a fresh start in the reconstruction of legaliterary culture

8. In-group servitude between yes and no: the law's rhetoric of deterrence

saving the texture

green light, red backdrop

license rebarbed

bonds and bondage: loving unto perpetual servitude

9. Law, narrative, and the poetics of Genesis

the source of discourse and the discourse of source: law as compound law-tale

the image of diachrony in (lega) literature: Genesis mimeticized and canonized

intergeneric composites

law-speaking within the represented events

law-telling among modal event-representations

law-tale interacting with overall process and canon Evolving a macro-lawtale: the Hebrew bondage series

variance for persistence, variance for novelty: two evolutionary drives behind literary history

exodus at bridging: the double covenant code, covenant/code

rebridging with updating across distance

the Sinai to Jordan to Jerusalem route: Post-Exodus exigencies

longer intervals, stronger bridges: memory updated

disclosure and development: narrative universals as generators of change

from Exodus to Deuteronomy: Loci, Ranges, and Teleologies of variation

unpacking the manifold of change

poetic genesis of poetic justice

from tact to bluntness: inherited scenarios newly focused without favor

updating or outdating? The program of successive co-eternities

systematizing legal communication

pregnant silences, divergent ambiguities: between artful re-formation and material reformation

from type enumerator to unitype generalizer: alternative coverages of the possible law-world

from judgment to rejudgment: (D) evolution of and by conduct

bidirectional motivation

from Pentateuch codes to Jeremian Coda