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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... , Gabler's insistence on the historical , descriptive nature of the discipline contained from the outset the seeds of later tension between biblical theology and the history 1 IS A CRITICAL BIBLICAL THEOLOGY POSSIBLE? John J Collins.
... , Gabler's insistence on the historical , descriptive nature of the discipline contained from the outset the seeds of later tension between biblical theology and the history 1 IS A CRITICAL BIBLICAL THEOLOGY POSSIBLE? John J Collins.
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... later . Critical historiography , as it de- veloped in the nineteenth century , had its own principles , without deference to the expectations of theologians . Among theologians these principles received their classic formulation from ...
... later . Critical historiography , as it de- veloped in the nineteenth century , had its own principles , without deference to the expectations of theologians . Among theologians these principles received their classic formulation from ...
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... later , but he had correctly perceived a fundamental opposition between historical method and dogmatics . Criticism cannot offer assured facts , but it offers degrees of probability , based on evidence . The evidence , whatever its ...
... later , but he had correctly perceived a fundamental opposition between historical method and dogmatics . Criticism cannot offer assured facts , but it offers degrees of probability , based on evidence . The evidence , whatever its ...
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... later historical events could be interpreted , notably the Babylonian exile in Second Isaiah ( Isa 40 : 3-5 , 51 : 9-11 ) . Ultimately , it served as a formulation of Jewish identity in the festival of the Passover , so that everyone ...
... later historical events could be interpreted , notably the Babylonian exile in Second Isaiah ( Isa 40 : 3-5 , 51 : 9-11 ) . Ultimately , it served as a formulation of Jewish identity in the festival of the Passover , so that everyone ...
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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 |