Entre o fim e a continuidade: a memória norte-israelita do exílio de Samaria, história, tradição e literatura

• Autor(a) principal: Toseli, Cecilia
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/2253
• topic: Samaria; Exílio; História; Tradição; Literatura; Trauma; Memória cultural; Samaria; Exile; History;Tradition; Literature; Trauma; Cultural memory; CIENCIAS HUMANAS

This research proposes to present the North-Israelite memory of the Exile from Samaria, after the Assyrian conquest, in the context of the province of Samaria, from the analysis of the books of Amos and Hosea. The use of the term Exile refers to the cultural memory arising from the Assyrian deportations and the final fall of the North-Israelite monarchy at the end of the 8th century B.C.E. Thus, it involves the decisive historical events that led to the end of the kingdom of Israel and, above all, the way in which they were remembered by the Samarians in order to deal with the traumatic effects of the catastrophe, in the context of the province of Samaria and the diaspora linked to it. In the first chapter, the historical context of the kingdom of Israel, and particularly Samaria, in the 8th century B.C.E. is presented. Through comparing Assyrian textual sources (royal inscriptions and administrative and commercial documents), the biblical text (2 Kings 17), and archaeological reports the historical continuity of the inhabitants of the extinct kingdom of Israel in the province of Samaria and in the central region of Assyria is made evident. The effects of the Assyrian conquest varied in the different geographical areas of Northern Israel, but the remaining population was predominantly North-Israelite. And the deported Samarians remained gathered in families in the places where they were resettled and some of them prospered. In this sense, the research result contradicts the usual historical understanding resulting from the interpretation of 2Rs 17. The text of 2Kgs 17 was instrumental in consolidating the idea of a total deportation of the population of Samaria and its replacement by foreigners. And he established, therefore, that the fall of the kingdom of Israel would have determined the end of Northern Israelite traditions and literary activity in the province of Samaria. In the second and third chapter, what constitutes the core of this thesis is presented, namely, the elements that make up the North-Israelite memory of the Exile of Samaria and its possible contextualization in the province of Samaria, from the analysis of the books of Amos and Hosea. Through an active reading of the pointed biblical texts, tradition criticism, and studies of trauma theory and Jan Assamann's cultural memory theory, it is considered that the North-Israelite memory of the Exile of Samaria reveals at its core the long-term reconfiguration of traditions already existing in the kingdom of Israel in the 8th century B.C.E., such as the tradition of Yahweh's covenant, the tradition of the Exodus-Desert, the tradition of Yahweh's marriage, and the tradition of Ephraim's death and return to life. Thus it is proposed that the so-called "literary additions" in Amos and Hosea do not stem solely and exclusively from Judaite scribes after the fall of Samaria from Jerusalem. After all, between the end and the continuity, the North-Israelite memory of the Exile of Samaria reveals history, tradition, and literature in the context of the province of Samaria. And it opens the potential of biblical studies to the possibility of recognizing other literary contributions from the Samarian province to the composition of the First Testament (AU)