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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Page 10
... story " in biblical theology ( Stendahl 1977 : 4-5 ; Frei 1974 ) . James 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 ...
... story " in biblical theology ( Stendahl 1977 : 4-5 ; Frei 1974 ) . James 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 ...
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... story in Exodus 1-15 was assumed , in ancient Israel , to be historically reliable . Nonetheless , it also served , and was intended to serve other functions . It served as the basis for the covenantal law and as the motivation for ...
... story in Exodus 1-15 was assumed , in ancient Israel , to be historically reliable . Nonetheless , it also served , and was intended to serve other functions . It served as the basis for the covenantal law and as the motivation for ...
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... stories that render a character , that offer an identity description of an agent . . . " ; and it is " like the patterns in a realistic novel or short story to which a literary critic might draw attention when he tries to analyze ...
... stories that render a character , that offer an identity description of an agent . . . " ; and it is " like the patterns in a realistic novel or short story to which a literary critic might draw attention when he tries to analyze ...
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... story and " the living god " or the power that moves the universe ( Wismer 1983 : 187-253 ) . This distinction is not especially novel : virtually all strands of biblical theology have em- phasized the transcendence of God in the Hebrew ...
... story and " the living god " or the power that moves the universe ( Wismer 1983 : 187-253 ) . This distinction is not especially novel : virtually all strands of biblical theology have em- phasized the transcendence of God in the Hebrew ...
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... stories to the apocalypse . The proposals are diverse . The God of Job is appreciably different from the God of the Deuteronomist , and either from the God of Daniel . The question here is whether any of these biblical accounts can now ...
... stories to the apocalypse . The proposals are diverse . The God of Job is appreciably different from the God of the Deuteronomist , and either from the God of Daniel . The question here is whether any of these biblical accounts can now ...
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 |