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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... position between inspired writings and historical documents " ( Wrede 1973 : 69 ) . Equally : " It is impossible to con- tinue to maintain the dogmatic conception of the canon , " since canonical status is not intrinsic to the biblical ...
... position between inspired writings and historical documents " ( Wrede 1973 : 69 ) . Equally : " It is impossible to con- tinue to maintain the dogmatic conception of the canon , " since canonical status is not intrinsic to the biblical ...
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... position was undermined by the tension between his view that the theologian's task was to testify to the biblical salvation history and his acceptance , as a historian , of the quite different reconstruc- tion of that history by ...
... position was undermined by the tension between his view that the theologian's task was to testify to the biblical salvation history and his acceptance , as a historian , of the quite different reconstruc- tion of that history by ...
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... positions of critical scholarship differ from those of traditional Christianity , then some biblical theologians suggest that we should refashion the pre- suppositions of scholarly method and replace the " hermeneutic of suspicion ...
... positions of critical scholarship differ from those of traditional Christianity , then some biblical theologians suggest that we should refashion the pre- suppositions of scholarly method and replace the " hermeneutic of suspicion ...
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... position is the recognition that all interpretation is a media- tion of past and present " ( Tracy 1981 : 99 ) . It cannot be a mere recital of sacred history or submission to a canonical text . The point here is not just that the ...
... position is the recognition that all interpretation is a media- tion of past and present " ( Tracy 1981 : 99 ) . It cannot be a mere recital of sacred history or submission to a canonical text . The point here is not just that the ...
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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 |