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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... human interests . Childs's refusal to reckon with the ideological aspects of biblical texts as human products seems naive and superficial and weakens the credibility of his theological affirmations . The effect of Childs's proposal is ...
... human interests . Childs's refusal to reckon with the ideological aspects of biblical texts as human products seems naive and superficial and weakens the credibility of his theological affirmations . The effect of Childs's proposal is ...
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... human capacities for thought , action and feeling . Similarly , so the argument goes , to become religious involves becoming skilled in the language , the symbol system of a given religion ( 1984 : 34 ) . The critical ideal of autonomy ...
... human capacities for thought , action and feeling . Similarly , so the argument goes , to become religious involves becoming skilled in the language , the symbol system of a given religion ( 1984 : 34 ) . The critical ideal of autonomy ...
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... human side and insists on the epistemological ques- tions : how do we control our evidence , and what warrants do we have for the assertions we make ? Obviously these questions become acute when we are dealing with assertions about God ...
... human side and insists on the epistemological ques- tions : how do we control our evidence , and what warrants do we have for the assertions we make ? Obviously these questions become acute when we are dealing with assertions about God ...
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... human expression . The implications of Gunkel's linguistic turn for biblical theology were largely obscured in the heyday of the Biblical Theology Movement , at least in North America . In recent years the issue has again come to the ...
... human expression . The implications of Gunkel's linguistic turn for biblical theology were largely obscured in the heyday of the Biblical Theology Movement , at least in North America . In recent years the issue has again come to the ...
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... human imagination , drawing on the ingredients of human experience . It does not lay claim to logical necessity in the manner of a philosophical system — a point already emphasized in the biblical theology movement . Neither does it ...
... human imagination , drawing on the ingredients of human experience . It does not lay claim to logical necessity in the manner of a philosophical system — a point already emphasized in the biblical theology movement . Neither does it ...
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 |