Here is yet another book about the Bible, this one about interpreting the great book. How can a volume on exegesis present a method that unfolds the revealed love of God?
The ancient Israelites believed things that the writers of the Bible wanted them to forget: myths and legends from a pre-biblical world that the new monotheist order needed to bury, hide, or reinterpret.
Diane Sharon uses the tools of structuralist literary criticism to uncover social and theological patterns in biblical literature. She provides a brief framework for understanding the approach used in her study, then demonstrates that the notion of destiny, specifically the ideas of establishment / foundation and condemnation / doom, are embedded in narrative that includes an eating and drinkin…
The books constituting the Old Testament, or Hebrew Bible, have a complex history of authorship, resulting in a variety of styles, perspectives, and meanings. The authors and editors of the books that became the Bible lived through the political vicissitudes of a region that was a cultural crossroads, subject to successive waves of invasion, settlement, and influence by a variety of civilizations.
Making Men identifies and elaborates on a theme in the Hebrew Bible that has largely gone unnoticed by scholars-the transition of a male adolescent from boyhood to manhood. Wilson locates five examples of the male coming-of-age theme in the Hebrew Bible. The protagonists of these stories include the well-known biblical heroes Moses, Samuel, David, and Solomon.
Shadow on the Steps considers the various sources and assesses each on its own terms. The path-breaking approach in this volume brings together material on biblical calendars and on the chronology of the kings and systematically uses one (calendars) to inform the other (chronology), laying the foundation both for a closer inspection of biblical approaches to history and for a foray into ancient…
No development in biblical studies over the last century has been more important than the study of the many texts and artifacts from the ancient world that have been unearthed to shed light on the past and provoke new thinking about the bible. Uppermost among these discoveries are the Qumran scrolls, but they are only among the best known.
Perjanjian Lama yang kita kenal pada masa modern ini sesungguhnya merupakan kumpulan tulisan dari berbagai kelompok. Namun, berdasarkan penelitiannya, Morton Smith memperlihatkan ada banyak lapisan di dalam tulisan-tulisan tersebut. Dengan demikian pada dasarnya tulisan-tulisan itu merupakan hasil penyuntingan, perevisian, dan penulisan ulang, yang dilakukan oleh bermacam-macam kelompok, dengan…
This comprehensive survey offers an exemplary guide to the fertile literary environment from which the canonical writings sprung. The Hebrew Bible represents no mere collection of books but a stunning array of literary genres. To fully illuminate the history and culture of the Old Testament, it is necessary to compare these ancient writings to similar texts written concurrently by Israel’s ne…
This book was written with the generous and much appreciated support of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Amherst College.