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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... questions and distorted to fit dogmatic categories . Consequently , unorthodox biblical ideas were sup- pressed , and the Bible was not heard in its own right . For Wrede , Biblical Theology has to investigate something from given ...
... questions and distorted to fit dogmatic categories . Consequently , unorthodox biblical ideas were sup- pressed , and the Bible was not heard in its own right . For Wrede , Biblical Theology has to investigate something from given ...
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... question as to whether Wright's reconstruction of the history was unduly colored by his conviction that " in Biblical faith everything depends on whether the central events actually occurred " ( 1952 : 126 ) , it is clear that his ...
... question as to whether Wright's reconstruction of the history was unduly colored by his conviction that " in Biblical faith everything depends on whether the central events actually occurred " ( 1952 : 126 ) , it is clear that his ...
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... questions become acute when we are dealing with assertions about God . If biblical theology is to be based on critical ... Question of Genre The primary contribution of historical criticism to biblical theology , in my opinion , lies in ...
... questions become acute when we are dealing with assertions about God . If biblical theology is to be based on critical ... Question of Genre The primary contribution of historical criticism to biblical theology , in my opinion , lies in ...
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... question here is whether any of these biblical accounts can now be accorded any explanatory value ; whether any of the biblical world views can be said to be true as well as useful . The problem is that we lack any acceptable yardstick ...
... question here is whether any of these biblical accounts can now be accorded any explanatory value ; whether any of the biblical world views can be said to be true as well as useful . The problem is that we lack any acceptable yardstick ...
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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 |