Hebrews between cultures : group portraits and national literature / Meir Sternberg.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 673-686) and indexes.

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1. The Hebrews in the "Hebrew" Bible: culture-blindness, crosscultural romance, intercultural poetics -- who were the Hebrews? Reopening the question -- the forces for studied closure: a world in a grain of sand -- the Hebrew as Hab/piru: traffic across cultures -- source and discourse, sources as discourse -- fables of identity, or, poetic license in historical reconstruction -- Babelian confusion and translational mimesis: the Hebrewgram -- 2. Heterocultural (Mis) representation in inverted commas: outsiders at name-calling -- image and victimage -- polar cultures in contact, nations in total conflict: an interim outline -- de-nomi-nation as process -- the law of intercultural (de) nomination: a poetic microcosm -- from de-nomi-nation to re-nomi-notion: the Hebrew/Hamite master plot -- 3. Proteus in culture land: stereotypes, metastereotypes, and idolatry -- proteus principle vs. package dealing -- descriptive packaging: character traits misallied -- packaging for ideology: culture, nature, and their (sub) human correlates -- (de) stereotyping the stereotype -- otherness: restrictive vs. open-ended, polar vs. gradable, discriminatory vs. differential -- foreignness -- hamiteness -- ethnocentricity vs. ethnocentrism

4. The translated self in adverse encounter -- speaking like a foreigner: enforced self-designation -- maneuverable imagery: the Hebrewgram refined in theoretical and comparative light -- adaptable culture heroines and the rhetoric of pretended solidarity -- stiff-necked prophet, versatile God, mimicking villain: three forms of self-translation -- 5. Intergroup dramas in the secret life -- speech and thought -- expressive duplexity: ellipsis as mimesis -- abomination in High places: Joseph's feast between dietary taboo and state terrorism -- a champion miscast: Abram and Hebrew -- presence and absence: vocal stereotype, inner ear -- shuttling between identities: Moses' route to prophecy -- 6. Dissonant discourse, national discord: echoing outgroup parlance at in-fighting -- bicultural stigmatizing -- high art under low criticism -- high criticism, low historicity and narrativity -- the way to Hebrewgrammatic resolution -- a nation divided, a kingdom united

7. Slave law: outside parallel and internal process -- coming to terms with Hebrew bondage in Israel -- underprivileged class, privileged treatment: the (Il) logic of sociolegal synchronism -- displacing the Israelite from the Hebrew codes: Leviticus as national preserve -- The Nuzi connection: verbal co-portraits, legal co-privileges -- freedom limited in going free: quantifying a canonical absolute -- tales of diachronic distribution: how a class becomes a people in midcareer -- synchrony and diachrony among pattern-making universals -- an unbrotherly Pentateuch? -- the longest bridge, the deepest freeze -- checkpoint romances of identity change -- toward a fresh start in the reconstruction of legaliterary culture -- 8. In-group servitude between yes and no: the law's rhetoric of deterrence -- saving the texture -- green light, red backdrop -- license rebarbed -- bonds and bondage: loving unto perpetual servitude -- 9. Law, narrative, and the poetics of Genesis -- the source of discourse and the discourse of source: law as compound law-tale -- the image of diachrony in (lega) literature: Genesis mimeticized and canonized -- intergeneric composites -- law-speaking within the represented events -- law-telling among modal event-representations -- law-tale interacting with overall process and canon

Evolving a macro-lawtale: the Hebrew bondage series -- variance for persistence, variance for novelty: two evolutionary drives behind literary history -- exodus at bridging: the double covenant code, covenant/code -- rebridging with updating across distance -- the Sinai to Jordan to Jerusalem route: Post-Exodus exigencies -- longer intervals, stronger bridges: memory updated -- disclosure and development: narrative universals as generators of change -- from Exodus to Deuteronomy: Loci, Ranges, and Teleologies of variation -- unpacking the manifold of change -- poetic genesis of poetic justice -- from tact to bluntness: inherited scenarios newly focused without favor -- updating or outdating? The program of successive co-eternities -- systematizing legal communication -- pregnant silences, divergent ambiguities: between artful re-formation and material reformation -- from type enumerator to unitype generalizer: alternative coverages of the possible law-world -- from judgment to rejudgment: (D) evolution of and by conduct -- bidirectional motivation -- from Pentateuch codes to Jeremian Coda.

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