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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... evidence of this decline is not so much the permanent state of crisis in which it seems to have settled , or the lack of a new consensus to replace the great works of Eichrodt or von Rad . Rather the decline is evident in the fact that ...
... evidence of this decline is not so much the permanent state of crisis in which it seems to have settled , or the lack of a new consensus to replace the great works of Eichrodt or von Rad . Rather the decline is evident in the fact that ...
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... evidence . The evidence , whatever its strength or weakness , cannot be cast aside or overruled for dogmatic , a priori reasons . Wrede's view of biblical theology was , in effect , indistinguishable from the history of the religion ...
... evidence . The evidence , whatever its strength or weakness , cannot be cast aside or overruled for dogmatic , a priori reasons . Wrede's view of biblical theology was , in effect , indistinguishable from the history of the religion ...
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... evidence . Historical criticism , unlike traditional faith , does not provide for certainty but only for relative degrees of probability . Many of the convictions most dearly cherished by biblical theologians were challenged by ...
... evidence . Historical criticism , unlike traditional faith , does not provide for certainty but only for relative degrees of probability . Many of the convictions most dearly cherished by biblical theologians were challenged by ...
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... evidence and argu- ments . This openness to revision is the trademark that distinguishes critical method from dogmatism of any sort . Consequently , historical criticism has proven itself highly adaptable in accommodating the new ...
... evidence and argu- ments . This openness to revision is the trademark that distinguishes critical method from dogmatism of any sort . Consequently , historical criticism has proven itself highly adaptable in accommodating the new ...
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... evidence that supports it ( Harvey 1966 : 123 , citing John Locke ) . The demand for evidence and reasoned calculation of probability is precisely what enables the critical method to serve as a forum for dialogue between people of ...
... evidence that supports it ( Harvey 1966 : 123 , citing John Locke ) . The demand for evidence and reasoned calculation of probability is precisely what enables the critical method to serve as a forum for dialogue between people of ...
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 |