Homi K. Bhabha and the “bene yisrael”: Postcolonial Probings into the Chronicler’s Construction of Northern Israelian Cultural Identity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Old Testament scholars have long noticed that the Chronicler alternately views the inhabitants of northern Israel as “brothers” to the South and portrays them as apostate rebels. This tension has been widely commented upon but hitherto unresolved. The postcolonial theory of Homi Bhabha is a helpful analytical tool to apply to this problem, as it elucidates the valuable purpose played by ambiguity and tension in constructions of the Other. Understood in this framework, the articulation of cultural identity is always an exercise carried out in the context of comparison with a deficient culture, and thus happens in an “in-between” space. Therefore, the Other of northern Israel has to be placed in continuity with Judah before it can be understood as a defective version of Judah. Additionally, the various signifiers of Judahite authority (throne and cultus) have an unclear relationship that serves to mask Judahite power for the end purpose of making it all the more difficult to identify or challenge.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.031 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".