Israels Exil in Juda. Untersuchungen zur Entstehung der Schriftprophetie (original) (raw)

The historical conditions are examined under which the early prophetic literature preserved in the bible could arise. I understand all references to „Israel“ to point to former inhabitant of the Israelite Kingdom, who after 722 BCE took refuge as exiles in Judah, and their children and grandchildren too. I analyze the subsequent development of the biblical concept of „Israel“. The concept’s literary-historical starting-point is explained in terms of an „insider literature“ produced by the Israelite exiles living in post-722 Judah, whose anonymous audience can still be recognized in coherently preserved units of speech in the prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible.