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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... seems to have settled , or the lack of a new consensus to replace the great works of Eichrodt or von Rad . Rather the decline is evident in the fact that an increasing number of scholars no longer regard theology as the ultimate focus ...
... seems to have settled , or the lack of a new consensus to replace the great works of Eichrodt or von Rad . Rather the decline is evident in the fact that an increasing number of scholars no longer regard theology as the ultimate focus ...
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... seems to have realized . Again , the internal contradictions of the so - called Biblical Theology Movement in America have often been rehearsed ( Childs 1970 ) . G. E. Wright insisted that biblical theology must start from the ...
... seems to have realized . Again , the internal contradictions of the so - called Biblical Theology Movement in America have often been rehearsed ( Childs 1970 ) . G. E. Wright insisted that biblical theology must start from the ...
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... seem to be an inherent contradiction between theology so conceived and historical criticism , as understood by Wrede and Troeltsch . One of the basic principles formulated by Troeltsch was the principle of criticism , by which any ...
... seem to be an inherent contradiction between theology so conceived and historical criticism , as understood by Wrede and Troeltsch . One of the basic principles formulated by Troeltsch was the principle of criticism , by which any ...
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... seems naive and superficial and weakens the credibility of his theological affirmations . The effect of Childs's proposal is to isolate biblical theology from much of what is vital and interesting in biblical studies today . Such a ...
... seems naive and superficial and weakens the credibility of his theological affirmations . The effect of Childs's proposal is to isolate biblical theology from much of what is vital and interesting in biblical studies today . Such a ...
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... seems , as the case of Helen Keller and of supposed wolf children vividly illustrate , that unless we acquire language of some kind we cannot actualize our specifically human capacities for thought , action and feeling . Similarly , so ...
... seems , as the case of Helen Keller and of supposed wolf children vividly illustrate , that unless we acquire language of some kind we cannot actualize our specifically human capacities for thought , action and feeling . Similarly , so ...
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 |