The Blackwell Companion to the Hebrew Bible by Leo G. Perdue

By Leo G. Perdue

This entire The Blackwell significant other to the Hebrew Bible bargains a large evaluate and survey of outdated testomony research. It comprises newly commissioned articles from a magnificent diversity of most sensible overseas outdated testomony students, from the united kingdom, Europe, Israel, Canada and the US.
Explores the historical past, archaeology, theology, sociology, and historical close to jap context of the Hebrew Bible Addresses questions of method, interpretation, and the tutorial learn of the previous testomony incorporates a worthy advent that offers an outline of the self-discipline, and a consultant to the interconnections among person articles bargains a fantastic instrument for college students, not only to be used on one path, yet over a number of years of research

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Exegese als Literaturwissenschaft: Entwurf einer alttestamentlichen Literaturtheorie und Methodologie (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1971). , “Not Literalist After All: A Response to Paul Badham,” Expository Times, 111 (1999), 17–18. 18 ANTONY F. , Old Testament Criticism in the Nineteenth Century: England and Germany (London: SPCK, 1984). , Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992). , “The Bible in the Making: The Scriptures at Qumran,” in E. Ulrich and J.

Editing” is appropriate to the partial or total reworking of a text; it can be operative at any stage in a document’s history, from early to middle to late – but it presumes the existence of a text. Editors can piece together components to form extensive documents (so the editors termed RJE and RJEP in the Pentateuch or the editors of prophetic collections and prophetic books); naturally, they can also do smaller editing jobs. Some study of a text’s editing history (as for its tradition history) might be described in terms of intertextuality.

These considerations should not deflect attention from the complementary roles of the biblical text: to arouse feeling, fire imagination, and fuel faith. It may also be helpful to realize that we approach texts in much the same way as we approach people. Mutual communication requires us to sort out languages and accents; the influence of cultural origins may be important; at some stage we become aware of whether someone has their act together or can, for example, PREPARATORY ISSUES IN APPROACHING BIBLICAL TEXTS 5 be subject to unexpected emotions; over time, we come to know something of people’s early history and later influences.

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