How Repentance Became Biblical: Judaism, Christianity, and the Interpretation of Scripture

ISBN-13: 9780190861155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 282 str.

David A. Lambert

Opis

How Repentance Became Biblical explores the rise of repentance as a concept within early forms of Judaism and Christianity and how it has informed the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament. It develops alternative accounts for many of the ancient phenomena identified as penitential.

Recenzje

Lambert aims to 'denaturalize' [repentance], while at the same time unearthing what scriptures really mean when they say at least what they ve been read as saying 'repent, repent'...in his provocative book.

O autorze

David Lambert is an assistant professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches courses on the Hebrew Bible and its history of interpretation. He received his undergraduate and graduate training at Harvard University in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.