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Ethnicity

Ethnicity. Dr Diana Edelman University of Sheffield. Emic: insider’s view Etic: outsider’s view An ethnic trait or marker can be anything that is used by a given group of people in their daily life or culture. Some typical ethnic traits: diet language clothing, hairstyles

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Ethnicity

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  1. Ethnicity Dr Diana Edelman University of Sheffield

  2. Emic: insider’s view • Etic: outsider’s view • An ethnic trait or marker can be anything that is used by a given group of people in their daily life or culture.

  3. Some typical ethnic traits: diet language clothing, hairstyles religion, ritual burial customs dance, music pottery forms and styles of decoration shared common history architecture

  4. Israel and Judah can designate: • geographical regions • political entities • people who are associated with a specific geographical region or political unit • Israel came also to designate a religious community that worshipped one god, Yahweh Elohim

  5. A diaspora is a community of displaced persons living apart from their place of origin. • Are diaspora communities primarily political or ethnic?

  6. Emic traits of ‘Israel’ given in the Hebrew Scriptures: • Kosher diet • Use of mezzuzot on doorposts of houses • Fringes on clothes • Use of tefillin • Attendance at 3 pilgrimage festivals: Passover, Feast of Weeks, Feast of Booths • Circumcision of male babies on 8th day after birth • Adherence to Torah as canonical body of texts

  7. Verifiable traits of monarchic era Judahites from HB texts: None Likely traits from HB texts: Attendance at religious festivals Circumcision of male children

  8. Archaeologically verified traits of Judahites: • Pottery forms and decorative styles • Diet • Dress (siege of Lachish) • Hebrew dialect • Burial in family tombs; no cremation • Worship of Yahweh and Asherah and pantheon; honoring of dead ancestors • architecture

  9. The Siege of Lachish from the Palace of Sennacherib (704-681 BCE) at Nineveh

  10. The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III (858-824 BCE) Found at Nimrud

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