Re-Reading the Scriptures: Essays on the Literary History of the Old Testament

ISBN-13: 9783161522079 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 319 str.

Christoph Levin

Opis

This volume contains 15 papers written by Christoph Levin between 2001 and 2011, four of them unpublished. One main focus is on the Pentateuch, mainly on the oldest comprehensive narrative source, the Yahwist, which was written at the beginning of the Jewish diaspora. A second focus is on the books of Kings, on their chronological structure as well as on the final two chapters 2 Kgs 24-25. Christoph Levin also deals with the Israelite religion in the time of the monarchy, the origins of biblical Covenant theology, and the Old Testament attitude to poverty. All the papers are based on a detailed investigation into the literary growth of the biblical text. The author shows that the Old Testament as we know it originated from a process of continual re-reading during the Second Temple period.

O autorze

Geboren 1950; 1998 bis zu seiner Emeritierung 2016 Professor an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Mitglied der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen und der Finnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; 2010-13 Präsident der International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT).