Biblical Philosophy: A Hebraic Approach to the Old and New Testaments

ISBN-13: 9781108831307 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 325 str.

Dru Johnson

Opis

Biblical literature is as philosophically savvy as any ancient intellectual tradition, using story, law, and poetry to reason with us.

Recenzje

'Johnson tackles issues of composition, interpretation, and scriptural message for contemporary times ... The tightly argued chapters cover history, geography, culture, language, literature, personalities, philosophy, and religion ... Recommended.' Z. Garber, CHOICE

Spis treści

Part I. Philosophical Styles: 1. What counts as philosophy; 2. Philosophy before the Greeks: the Ancient Near Eastern intellectual context; Part II. Hebraic Philosophy: The Hebraic Philosophical Style: 3. The Hebraic philosophical style; 4. Mapping philosophy in story, law, and poetry; Part III. Persistence in Hellenistic Judaism: 5. The philosophical styles of Hellenistic Judaism; 6. Hebraic philosophical style in the Gospels; 7. Paul in stoic garments; Part IV: Prototypes of Hebraic Philosophical Argument: 8. Hebraic and scientific epistemology; 9. Biblical truth and human logic; 10. Pictures of justification.