Biblical Interpretation Beyond Historicity: Changing Perspectives 7

ISBN-13: 9780367873127 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 208 str.

Ingrid Hjelm; Thomas Thompson

Opis

Biblical Interpretation beyond Historicity evaluates the new perspectives that have emerged since the crisis over historicity in the 1970s and 80s in the field of biblical scholarship. This volume analyses the consequences of the question: "If the Bible is not history, what is it then?" and features essays from a range of highly regarded scholar

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Introduction

Part I: Beyond Historicity

1. A New ‘Biblical Archaeology’







Philip R. Davies









2. Old and New Ways of Interpreting Isaiah 40-55







Frederik Poulsen









3. Sociolinguistic Perspectives on the Hebrew Bible as Memory Work: Seeing Redactional Work as Entextualization







Trine Bjørnung Hasselbach





Part II: Greek Connections









4. Is the Old Testament Still a Hellenistic Book?







Niels Peter Lemche









5. From Plato to Moses: Genesis-Kings as a Platonic Epic







Philippe Wajdenbaum









6. Greek Genres and the Hebrew Bible







Russel Gmirkin









7. When the Septuagint Came in from the Cold







Mogens Müller





Part III: Reception









8. Of Qumran, the Canon and the History of the Bible Text







Fred Cryer









9. Deconstructing the Continuity of Qumran Ib and II with Implications for Stabilizing the Biblical Texts







Gregory Doudna









10. Canon Formation, Canonicity and the Qumran library







Jesper Høgenhaven









11. New Children of Abraham in Greenland—The Creation of a Nation







Flemming A. J. Nielsen









12. Whose Mythic, Rhythmic, Theological and Cultural Memory is it Anyway?

Jim West

O autorze

Ingrid Hjelm, Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen and Director of the Palestine History and Heritage Project. Author of The Samaritans and Early Judaism (2000) and Jerusalem’s Rise to Sovereignty (2004) in addition to a considerable number of articles within the field of Samaritan studies, the history of ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible. Her latest book, co-edited with Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme is Myths of Exile (2015).

Thomas L. Thompson, Professor Emeritus, University of Copenhagen and author of some 130 articles and ca. 20 books, including The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives (1974), The Early History of the Israelite People (1992), The Bible in History: How Writers Create a Past (1999) and Biblical Narrative and Palestine’s History (2013), currently working as Project Developer on the Palestine History and Heritage Project.