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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... reasons for the decline of biblical theology are manifold , but one of the most deep - rooted is the perennial tension between biblical theology and the historical critical method , with which its history has been closely intertwined ...
... reasons for the decline of biblical theology are manifold , but one of the most deep - rooted is the perennial tension between biblical theology and the historical critical method , with which its history has been closely intertwined ...
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... reasons . Wrede's view of biblical theology was , in effect , indistinguishable from the history of the religion . He made no apology for that fact : " But in what should the specifically theological type of treatment consist ...
... reasons . Wrede's view of biblical theology was , in effect , indistinguishable from the history of the religion . He made no apology for that fact : " But in what should the specifically theological type of treatment consist ...
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... reasons why anyone should adopt this approach to the text unless they happen to share his view of Christian faith . The canonical approach then fails to provide a context for dialogue with anyone who does not accept it as a matter of ...
... reasons why anyone should adopt this approach to the text unless they happen to share his view of Christian faith . The canonical approach then fails to provide a context for dialogue with anyone who does not accept it as a matter of ...
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... reasons . The most telling of these critiques have been directed against the pretence of value - free objectivity ... reason . Without a tradition ( a " text " in Ricoeur's terms ) no understanding is possible . George Lindbeck has ...
... reasons . The most telling of these critiques have been directed against the pretence of value - free objectivity ... reason . Without a tradition ( a " text " in Ricoeur's terms ) no understanding is possible . George Lindbeck has ...
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... reason , since it provides a broad framework for scholarly dialogue . My purpose here has been to explore the implications of accepting historical criticism as a basis for biblical theology . It is my thesis that there is a legitimate ...
... reason , since it provides a broad framework for scholarly dialogue . My purpose here has been to explore the implications of accepting historical criticism as a basis for biblical theology . It is my thesis that there is a legitimate ...
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 |