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The remarkable thing about the Old Testament is the persistence of its visions of a better humanity and a better world. Rather than seek to establish what people may or may not once have believed in ancient Israel, John W. Rogerson addresses the human condition in todays world, asking what interpreters are doing today when they invoke the biblical texts. He draws on the insights of modern thinkers, including Benjamin and Bloch, Adorno and Horkheimer, Assmann and Habermas, to explore the dynamics of cultural memory in human communication.

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The remarkable thing about the Old Testament is the persistence of its visions of a better humanity and a better world. Rather than seek to establish what people may or may not once have believed in ancient Israel, John W. Rogerson addresses the human condition in todays world, asking what interpreters are doing today when they invoke the biblical texts. He draws on the insights of modern thinkers, including Benjamin and Bloch, Adorno and Horkheimer, Assmann and Habermas, to explore the dynamics of cultural memory in human communication.
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John W. Rogerson is Professor of Biblical Studies Emeritus at the University of Sheffield and a Canon Emeritus of Sheffield Cathedral. His many books include Myth in Old Testament Interpretation (1974), Old Testament Criticism in the Nineteenth Century (1984), and The Bible and Criticism in Victorian Britain (1995), and (as editor) Introduction to the Bible (1999, 2nd ed. 2005), The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible (2001) and (with Judith M. Lieu) The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies (2006).