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The Gibeonites’ Migration and Resettlement in Persian Yehud in Light of the Korean Historical Context Through the Lens of Postcolonialism

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King, State, Empire in the Hebrew Bible
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Abstract

This study explores the relationship between the Gibeonites, who lived among the Benjaminites, and the Golah returnees from Babylon in the Persian-period colony of Yehud. Employing seven key postcolonial concepts—compradors, subalterns, stereotyping, ambivalence, hybridity, mimicry, and diaspora—it critically examines the colonial dynamics at work. These concepts are applied to analyze the political and ideological tensions between the returnees, acting as colonial compradors, and the indigenous population, including the Benjaminites who remained in Benjamin during the Babylonian and Persian periods. The study also draws analogies between early Persian Yehud and postliberation Korea under the U.S. Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK) and the Soviet Civil Administration (SCA), following the end of Japanese imperial rule. It investigates the repatriates’ stereotyping and ambivalence toward the Gibeonites as subalterns, the Gibeonites’ assimilation into the Golah group, and their diasporic experiences shaped by hybridity and mimicry, comparing colonial Yehud with postliberation Korea. This postcolonial lens highlights previously overlooked dimensions in the narratives of Josh 9 and 2 Sam 21, offering new interpretive insights.

Abstract

This study explores the relationship between the Gibeonites, who lived among the Benjaminites, and the Golah returnees from Babylon in the Persian-period colony of Yehud. Employing seven key postcolonial concepts—compradors, subalterns, stereotyping, ambivalence, hybridity, mimicry, and diaspora—it critically examines the colonial dynamics at work. These concepts are applied to analyze the political and ideological tensions between the returnees, acting as colonial compradors, and the indigenous population, including the Benjaminites who remained in Benjamin during the Babylonian and Persian periods. The study also draws analogies between early Persian Yehud and postliberation Korea under the U.S. Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK) and the Soviet Civil Administration (SCA), following the end of Japanese imperial rule. It investigates the repatriates’ stereotyping and ambivalence toward the Gibeonites as subalterns, the Gibeonites’ assimilation into the Golah group, and their diasporic experiences shaped by hybridity and mimicry, comparing colonial Yehud with postliberation Korea. This postcolonial lens highlights previously overlooked dimensions in the narratives of Josh 9 and 2 Sam 21, offering new interpretive insights.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Contents VII
  4. List of Abbreviations
  5. Introduction 1
  6. Part I: Torah
  7. “United we stand, divided we fall”?: A Postcolonial Reading of Gen 11:1–9 7
  8. “The Land That Devours People”: Struggles Against Colonial Ideology in the Bible (Ezek 36; Num 13) and Christianity in Korea 27
  9. The “Anti”-Royal Theology in the Priestly Writings? 51
  10. Part II: Nevi’im
  11. Conflicting Memories in Post-Colonial Textual Traditions: Remembering the Story of Nob (1 Sam 21:1–9; 22:6–23) 70
  12. A Postcolonial Reading of Sheba’s Revolt (2 Sam 19:41–20:22) 101
  13. Literary Historiography as a Method for State-Building: Competing Traditions and Trans-historical Memories of Saul and David’s Kingship 121
  14. The Gibeonites’ Migration and Resettlement in Persian Yehud in Light of the Korean Historical Context Through the Lens of Postcolonialism 139
  15. Otherizing Violence: Dismemberment and Remembrance of Jezebel 169
  16. YHWH and Babylon in the Book of Jeremiah 197
  17. Understanding Two Jonahs in the Reader’s Context 217
  18. Part III: Ketuvim
  19. Davidic Resurgence in the Shadows of Empire: A Postcolonial Reading of Books 3–5 of the Psalms and Related Hebrew Texts 237
  20. Secrecy and Subversion in Esther 259
  21. Geography as Destiny in Achaemenid Ideology and Ezra-Nehemiah 279
  22. Subject Index
  23. Scripture Index
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111707341-008

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Contents VII
  4. List of Abbreviations
  5. Introduction 1
  6. Part I: Torah
  7. “United we stand, divided we fall”?: A Postcolonial Reading of Gen 11:1–9 7
  8. “The Land That Devours People”: Struggles Against Colonial Ideology in the Bible (Ezek 36; Num 13) and Christianity in Korea 27
  9. The “Anti”-Royal Theology in the Priestly Writings? 51
  10. Part II: Nevi’im
  11. Conflicting Memories in Post-Colonial Textual Traditions: Remembering the Story of Nob (1 Sam 21:1–9; 22:6–23) 70
  12. A Postcolonial Reading of Sheba’s Revolt (2 Sam 19:41–20:22) 101
  13. Literary Historiography as a Method for State-Building: Competing Traditions and Trans-historical Memories of Saul and David’s Kingship 121
  14. The Gibeonites’ Migration and Resettlement in Persian Yehud in Light of the Korean Historical Context Through the Lens of Postcolonialism 139
  15. Otherizing Violence: Dismemberment and Remembrance of Jezebel 169
  16. YHWH and Babylon in the Book of Jeremiah 197
  17. Understanding Two Jonahs in the Reader’s Context 217
  18. Part III: Ketuvim
  19. Davidic Resurgence in the Shadows of Empire: A Postcolonial Reading of Books 3–5 of the Psalms and Related Hebrew Texts 237
  20. Secrecy and Subversion in Esther 259
  21. Geography as Destiny in Achaemenid Ideology and Ezra-Nehemiah 279
  22. Subject Index
  23. Scripture Index
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