Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Biblical Biography - Old Testament

The Pentateuch (or the Torah) consists of the first five books of the Bible and is a foundational scripture for millions of people, both Jews and Christians. In this book Paula Gooder and Brad Anderson provide a clear and accessible introduction for those beginning Bible study. Key themes such as creation and the flood, exodus and liberation, as well as covenant and law are presented and analyzed. These themes are explored in their ancient context and from the standpoint of contemporary concerns such as liberation theology, gender issues and ecology.

For this new edition introductory...

This book conducts an in-depth study on the ideas about future salvation in Zechariah 9-10. In accommodation of the allusive character of the text, Lee uses the methodology of intertextual analysis to examine the markers in the text. Having established the moments of intertextuality, Lee investigates the sources and their contexts, analyzing how the intertexts are used in the new context of the host and exploring how the antecedents shape the reading of the later text.

Thus, Lee argues that Zechariah 9-10 leverages earlier biblical material in order to express its view on...

In the first half of the 20th century there was immense scholarly interest in the biography of the prophet Jeremiah as the background for understanding the development of the book of Jeremiah. Around the turn of the century this interest disappeared, but it has now resurfaced in a transformed configuration as work seeking to analyze the creation of the literary persona, Jeremiah the prophet.

This volume examines the construction of Jeremiah in the prophetic book and its afterlife, presenting a wide range of scholarly approaches spanning the understanding of Jeremiah from Old...

Weder mit emanzipatorischem Impuls noch als Integrationsgeschichte ist das Ruthbuch recht verstanden.Vielmehr legt sich die Geschichte selbst aus. Intendierte literarische Bezugnahmen und Anspielungen in Versen, die das bisher Erzahlte deuten, pragen das inhaltlich-strukturelle Profil des Ruthbuches und verleihen ihm theologische Tiefenscharfe. Eine Analyse dieser Querbezuge nach Kriterien, die auf deren Einbindung in eine historisch-kritische Auslegung zielen, und eine literarische Analyse des Ruthbuches erhellen dessen inhaltliches und theologisches Profil und lassen Ruckschlusse auf...

We present a comparative epistemological analysis of the wisdom motifs in Psalms 1, 73, 90, and 107. These texts were selected on the basis of their epistemological content (each confronts the relationship between virtue and prosperity), and their canonical placement within the Psalter (each begins one of the Psalter's five "Books"). We explore the implications of their respective epistemological features for our understanding of the canonical structure of the Psalter.
After developing a diagnostic method for the identification and analysis of the epistemological features within a...

Did Zechariah really see visions? This question cannot be definitely answered, so the idea must remain a hypothesis. Here, Tiemeyer shows that this hypothesis is nonetheless reasonable and instrumental in shedding light on matters in Zechariah's vision report that are otherwise unclear.

Tracking through each verse of the text, the key exegetical problems are covered, including the topics of the distinction between visions and dreams, dream classification, conflicting sources of evidence for dream experiences, and rhetorical imagery as opposed to dream experience. Further attention...

Im Zentrum steht ein in der Forschung kaum berucksichtigtes Motiv der Daviderzahlungen: der bedrohte und gefahrdete Emporkommling und Herrscher. Dabei wird gezeigt, dass sich weder synchron eine Steigerung der Bedrohung festmachen lasst, noch dass diachron die Bedrohung Davids einem bestimmten Autor oder Redaktor zugewiesen werden kann. Vielmehr findet sich das Motiv der Bedrohung in den gesamten Daviderzahlungen und wurde in unterschiedlichen Zeiten aufgenommen und erweitert. Eben dieses Motiv wurde dann auch in der fruhen Neuzeit aufgegriffen und vielfaltig rezipiert. Herrscher...