Changing Perspectives 1: Studies in the History, Literature and Religion of Biblical Israel

ISBN-13: 9781845539016 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 426 str.

John Van Seters; J. Van Seters

Opis

This volume contains a collection of articles written over a 40 year period, from 1964 onwards. They are revisionist in character and address major issues in the understanding of Israelite and Judean history, the literary-critical analysis of the Pentateuch and historical books, and the nature of biblical religion.

Spis treści

1. A Date for the 'Admonitions' in the Second Intermediate Period  2. The Problem of Childlessness in Near Eastern Law  3. Jacob's Marriages and Ancient Near East Customs: A Reexamination  4. The Terms 'Amorite' and 'Hittite' in the Old Testament  5. Joshua's Campaign of Canaan and Near Eastern Historiography  6. Solomon's Temple: Fact and Ideology in Biblical and Near Eastern Historiography  7. The Chronicler's Account of Solomon's Temple-Building: A Continuity Theme  8. The Geography of the Exodus Literary Critical Studies The Pentateuch  9. Confessional Reformulation in the Exilic Period  10. The Conquest of Sihon's Kingdom, A Literary Examination  11. Once Again--The Conquest of Sihon's Kingdom  12. Recent Studies on Pentateuchal Criticism: A Crisis in Method  13. The So-called Deuteronomistic Redaction of the Pentateuch  14. The Deuteronomistic Redaction of the Pentateuch: The Case Against it  15. The Theology of the Yahwist, A Preliminary Sketch  16. In the Babylonian Exile with J: Between Judgment in Ezekiel and Salvation in Second Isaiah  17. Divine Encounter at Bethel (Gen 28:10-22) in Recent Literary-Critical Study The Historical Books  18. Problems in the Literary Analysis of the Court History of David  19. Love and Death in the Court History of David  20. The Deuteronomistic History: Can It Avoid Death by Redaction?  21. On Reading the Story of the Man of God from Judah in 1 Kings 13  22. Creative Imitation in the Hebrew Bible Comparative Studies in Religion and Culture  23. The Religion of the Patriarchs in Genesis  24. The Primeval Histories of Greece and Israel Compared  25. The Creation of Man and the Creation of the King  26. Myth and History: The Problem of Origins  27. Tradition and History: History as National Tradition  28. From Child Sacrifice to Pascal Lamb: A Remarkable Transformation

O autorze

John Van Seters is Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina.