The Solomonic Fantasy

The Political Unconscious of the Imperialized Yehudites

Sonia Kwok Wong (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

440 Seiten

2025
Mohr Siebeck (Verlag)
978-3-16-161104-9 (ISBN)

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This study takes on a historical-critical approach to the analysis of the Solomonic narrative (1 Kings 1:1-12:24) within the larger Deuteronomistic (Hi)Story (DH) by employing a postcolonial-psychoanalytic reading strategy. Sonia Wong argues that the DH is a cumulative, composite text which originated in the late fourth-century-BCE Persian Yehud. Through a Freudian model of fantasy as a disguised fulfillment for a repressed wish, Wong argues that the Solomonic Kingdom is a cultural fantasy that reflects the imperialized Yehudites' ambivalent wish to take the dominant, privileged position of the Persian imperializer through a pacifist mode of domination and to critique the imperializer's oppressive traits. The study provides a detailed textual analysis of the fantasy-thoughts, traces the fantasy-sources to the Persian context, and describes the psychic mechanisms involved in the fantasy-work.

Born 1973; 2008 MDiv; 2013 M.A.; 2017 PhD in Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University; assistant professor in Hebrew Bible at CUHK.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.1.2025
Reihe/Serie	Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe
Verlagsort	Tübingen
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 232 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
Schlagworte	Deuteronomistic History • Persian Empire • Postcolonial Study • Psychoanalysis • Solomonic Kingdom
ISBN-10	3-16-161104-7 / 3161611047
ISBN-13	978-3-16-161104-9 / 9783161611049
Zustand	Neuware