Judah and Jerusalem: Reflections on the Relationship between Tribe and City and the Role of Jerusalem in Judah
Was Jerusalem a capital of Judah in the sense that its central place status was accepted by the surrounding tribal groups of the Judahite mountains? Was Jerusalem integral to the tribe of Judah? The coupling of "Jerusalem and Judah" (and vice versa) suggests a link between the two terms wh...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Harrassowitz
2019
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Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins
Year: 2019, Volume: 135, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-31 |
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| Summary: | Was Jerusalem a capital of Judah in the sense that its central place status was accepted by the surrounding tribal groups of the Judahite mountains? Was Jerusalem integral to the tribe of Judah? The coupling of "Jerusalem and Judah" (and vice versa) suggests a link between the two terms while maintaining the difference between the two entities. Jerusalem was no more than a relatively modest residence of the House of David for at least two centuries. Even after its rise to metropolis at the end of the 8th cent. B.C.E., the city remained apart from the clans of the Judahite mountains until the demise of the Davidic state. The clans in turn remained distant from Jerusalem, sporadically exercising their influence to change a ruler. The term "tribe of Judah" or the image of a "royal tribe" (Gen 49:8 - 12) seems to be a creation of Davidic integrative state ideology. It was aimed at uniting the clans of the Judahite mountains and binding them to the "House of David". This was necessary, because the Davidic dynasty originated from the Ephrath clan in Benjamin and was more closely connected to the region north of Jerusalem. It is doubtful whether a tribe of Judah existed outside the royal ideology in monarchic times. The role that Jerusalem played in relation to Judah corresponds structurally and functionally to the role Samaria played in Israel. Samaria was also a residence of the military leaders of the northern tribes since the time of Omri, outside the tribal territories and independent of them. |
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| ISSN: | 2747-4534 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Deutscher Verein zur Erforschung Palästinas, Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins
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