The Lost and Longed-for Home in the Exilic Literature of the Hebrew Bible (A02)

• Subject Area: Protestant Theology
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 517096657

This subproject examines how the exilic and postexilic writings of the Hebrew Bible conceptualize the „Land of Israel“ as the homeland of the „People of Israel“ and what significance these modellings of home possessed for the literary self-understandings of ancient Israel, especially in times of crisis. The findings from redaction-critical analysis of the biblical texts are correlated with recent archaeological findings concerning settlement patterns as well as recently published or newly interpreted extrabiblical texts from the circles of exiles (texts from āl-Yāḫūdu and Bīt Našar).

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1671: Home(s): Phenomena, Practices, Representations
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Jan Christian Gertz