Philip R Davies

Rethinking Biblical Scholarship

Changing Perspectives 4

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Produktbeschreibung

"Rethinking Biblical Scholarship" brings together seminal essays to provide readers with an assessment of the archaeological and exegetical research which has transformed the discipline of biblical studies over the last two decades.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 569g
• ISBN-13: 9781844657278
• ISBN-10: 1844657272
• Artikelnr.: 40115273

Autorenporträt

Philip R. Davies is Emeritus Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Niels Peter Lemche
PART I: METHOD
1. Do Old Testament Studies Need a Dictionary?
2. Whose History? Whose Israel? Whose Bible? Biblical Histories, Ancient and Modern
3. What Is 'Minimalism', and Why Do So Many People Dislike It?
4. 'House of David' Built on Sand: The Sins of the Biblical Maximizers
PART II: HISTORY
5. The Origin of Biblical Israel
6. God of Cyrus, God of Israel: Some Religio-Historical Reflections on Isaiah 40-55
7. Scenes from the Early History of Judaism
8. Josiah and the Law Book
9. Judaeans in Egypt: Hebrew and Greek Stories
PART III: PROPHECY AND APOCALYPTIC
10. Amos, Man and Book
11. Pen of Iron, Point of Diamond' (Jer 17:1): Prophecy as Writing
12. Reading Daniel Sociologically
13. And Enoch Was Not, for Genesis Took Him
14. 'Divination', 'Apocalyptic' and Sectarianism in Early Judaism
PART IV: CANON
15. What Is a Bible?
16. The Jewish Scriptural Canon in Cultural Perspective