The Solomonic Fantasy

The Political Unconscious of the Imperialized Yehudites
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-16-161104-9
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 232 mm

Reihe: Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wong, Sonia Kwok

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

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