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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... literary criticism on the one hand and sociological criticism on the other . Not only is theology no longer queen of the sciences in general , its place even among the biblical sciences is in doubt . The reasons for the decline of ...
... literary criticism on the one hand and sociological criticism on the other . Not only is theology no longer queen of the sciences in general , its place even among the biblical sciences is in doubt . The reasons for the decline of ...
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... literary and hermeneutical methods with which it has some affinities , but which construe the text as a human product ( 1979 : 77 ) . Childs's work has been widely reviewed and the main criticisms are by now well - known ( Barr 1983 ...
... literary and hermeneutical methods with which it has some affinities , but which construe the text as a human product ( 1979 : 77 ) . Childs's work has been widely reviewed and the main criticisms are by now well - known ( Barr 1983 ...
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... literary theory of " new critic- ism , " which cannot be dismissed as coincidental , whether he acknowledges them or not ( Barton 1984 ) . The Task of a Critical Theology The principles of critical method identified by Troeltsch are ...
... literary theory of " new critic- ism , " which cannot be dismissed as coincidental , whether he acknowledges them or not ( Barton 1984 ) . The Task of a Critical Theology The principles of critical method identified by Troeltsch are ...
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... literary critic Robert Alter that biblical " sacred history " should be read as " prose fiction " ( 1980 : 23-46 ) . This shift , of course , has not gone unchallenged . Meir Sternberg accuses Alter and his admirers of " a category ...
... literary critic Robert Alter that biblical " sacred history " should be read as " prose fiction " ( 1980 : 23-46 ) . This shift , of course , has not gone unchallenged . Meir Sternberg accuses Alter and his admirers of " a category ...
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... literary character of the text . David Kelsey contrasted Wright with Karl Barth's construal of scripture as " rendering an agent . " In Barth's usage , " Narrative is taken to be the authoritative aspect of scripture " ; it " is taken ...
... literary character of the text . David Kelsey contrasted Wright with Karl Barth's construal of scripture as " rendering an agent . " In Barth's usage , " Narrative is taken to be the authoritative aspect of scripture " ; it " is taken ...
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 |