Margaret Barker

'The Unconquered Land' and Other Old Testament Essays (eBook, ePUB)

Selected Studies by Rudolf Smend
Redaktion: Ball, Edward

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This final book published in the series collects together for the first time in English translation a selection of essays on central themes and texts in Old Testament criticism and exegesis by Rudolf Smend, one of the world's most eminent senior scholars in the field. The essays are marked by penetrating exegetical and critical insight as well as by an unrivalled knowledge of the history of Old Testament scholarship. Their publication will serve to make the range and vitality of Smend's work more widely known to English-speaking readers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317012849
• Artikelnr.: 44815650

Autorenporträt

Edward Ball was Lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Nottingham, UK, until he died in January 2011. Margaret Barker is a past president of the Society for Old Testament Study.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: Rudolf Smend, John Barton
Moses as a historical figure
The Ten Commandments
The Covenant formula
Elements of historical thinking in the Old Testament
The unconquered land
The place of the state in the Old Testament
The Biblical and the historical Elijah' The Word of Yahweh to Elijah: thoughts on the composition of 1 Kings, 17-19
Amos's no
'The end has come': an Amos saying in the priestly code
Eating and drinking: a piece of worldliness in the Old Testament
Lowth in Germany
De Wette and the relationship between historical biblical criticism and philosophical system in the 19th century
Post-critical scriptural interpretation
Trends. Old Testament scholarship in the 20th century: a retrospect
Indexes.