The Hebrew Bible and Its InterpretersWilliam Henry Propp, Baruch Halpern, David Noel Freedman Eisenbrauns, 1990 - 225 pages The first in a series of volumes coming out of programs at the Department of Biblical and Judaic Studies at the University of California, San Diego, this book contains a number of essays originally presented at the Fourth Conversation in Biblical Studies held at UCSD, as well as pieces by each of the editors. Future volumes in the series will include both monographs and, like this one, collected essays. |
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... ancient literature but only a recognition of the historical importance of these texts within the tradition . The modern theologian , however , is heir to more than one tradition . We are shaped by the rational humanism that underlies ...
... ancient literature but only a recognition of the historical importance of these texts within the tradition . The modern theologian , however , is heir to more than one tradition . We are shaped by the rational humanism that underlies ...
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... Ancient writers did not distinguish fact and fiction as sharply as we do . The biblical narratives include enough discrepancies and make enough use of folkloric and mythic themes to qualify the common assumption that " their religious ...
... Ancient writers did not distinguish fact and fiction as sharply as we do . The biblical narratives include enough discrepancies and make enough use of folkloric and mythic themes to qualify the common assumption that " their religious ...
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Contents
THE BOOK OF JOB | 33 |
INTERPRETING ORTHOGRAPHY | 53 |
THE BIBLE IN THE UNIVERSITY | 143 |
SECTUALLY EXPLICIT LITERATURE FROM QUMRAN | 167 |
EDEN SKETCHES | 189 |
PEOPLE AND HIGH PRIESTHOOD IN EARLY | 205 |
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Page 10 - Barr was among the first to proclaim this shift: "the long narrative corpus of the Old Testament seems to me, as a body of literature, to merit the title of story rather than that of history.
References to this book
Reading Ecclesiastes: Old Testament Exegesis and Hermeneutical Theory Craig G. Bartholomew No preview available - 1998 |