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- Title: Building Houses and Planting Vineyards: The Early Inner-Biblical Discourse on an Ancient Israelite Wartime Curse.
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 236 KB
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Notions of building and planting have profound significance in the discourse of biblical literature. One important indication of this is the inner-biblical discourse of a wartime curse, which threatens Israel in the following words, "You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not harvest its fruit" (Deut 28:30). A survey of biblical literature reveals that this particular curse held an especially prominent place in the discourse of ancient Israel and early Judaism. (1) Over a dozen biblical texts contain formulations of, or allusions to, this particular curse and its imagery (Amos 5:11; 9:14; Isa 5:1-17; Zeph 1:13; Jer 6:9-15; 29:5, 28; 31:4; Deut 20:5-6; 28:30; Isa 62:6-9; 65:21; Ezek 28:26; 36:36). The following study traces the origins and early inner-biblical discourse of the curse in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E. (2) Placement of the early biblical occurrences of the curse against certain historical moments allows one to see the ways in which various historical processes influenced its different biblical formulations. A study of the historical motivations behind the curse's literary history also points to its attractiveness as a persistent motif in biblical literature. I. NEO-ASSYRIAN MILITARY TACTICS, SIEGE WARFARE, AND THE BACKGROUND OF THE CURSE IN BIBLICAL DISCOURSE