Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament

The Sixty-Nine Weeks of Daniel, Chapter 9 examines the positions of Sir Robert Anderson and Harold Hoehner, as well as dates suggested by Frederick Larson in his DVD titled The Star of Bethlehem regarding the date of the command to rebuild Jerusalem and the date of Christ's birth and crucifixion.

The sixty-nine week prophecy is one of the most amazing prophecies in Scripture, and the dates presented by Christian authors differ considerably. There are, however, dates that can be substantiated biblically, historically, and astronomically. These are presented, with the case...

Im Jahre 2010 jahrte sich das Erscheinen des "Hebraisch-deutschen Handworterbuches" von Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1842) zum 200. Male. Es gibt kaum wissenschaftliche Werke, die einen so intensiven und nachhaltigen Einflu auf die alttestamentliche Bibelexegese, die hebraische Lexikographie und die semitistische Sprachwissenschaft ausgeubt haben wiedieses Worterbuch. Nach Gesenius' Tod zeichneten seit der 5. Auflage 1857 neue und wechselnde Bearbeiter fur die Neuausgaben verantwortlich, und so ist das seit 1810 in bisher 18 Auflagen erschienene Gesenius-Worterbuch nicht nur eine Quelle, sondern...

Essays exploring and explaining how 'queer' reading makes a difference to biblical exegesis. As with feminism, theoretical questions arise such as whether such readings are characterized by certain questions or can only legitimately be done by gay or lesbian readers. The contributors are drawn from a range of backgrounds and a variety of interests--Jewish, Christian, agnostic, male, female, heterosexual, gay and lesbian--and mostly concentrate on individual passages and books. But the volume also contains some theoretical reflections, and it ends with three +critical responses' from...

Die samaritanischen Uberlieferungen finden in der Bibelwissenschaft nach wie vor zu wenig Beachtung. Der vorliegende Band mit Beitragen eines 2010 in Zurich abgehaltenen Symposiums stellt daher die Geschichte der Samaritaner und die Uberlieferungen uber sie in den biblischen Quellen einerseits und die Perspektiven auf die biblische, fruhjudische und fruhchristliche Geschichte in den samaritanischen Quellen andererseits gegenuber. Die Beitrage reichen von der Bedeutung des Samaritanischen Pentateuchs und dem Verhaltnis des Garizim-Tempels zum Jerusalemer Tempel uber die wechselseitigen...

This monograph re-evaluates the literary development of 2 Kings 9-10 within the context of the Deuteronomistic History. This undertaking opens with a thorough text and literary critical examination of the pericope, arriving at the conclusion that the narrative of 2 Kings 9-10 represents neither an insertion into the Deuteronomistic corpus, nor an independent literary tradition. Rather, when considering the Greek textual traditions of the biblical narrative (most especially B and Ant.), one can appreciate the narrative of Jehu's revolution within the literary context of an extensive...

Lester Grabbe is probably the most distinguished, and certainly the most prolific of historians of ancient Judaism, the author of several standard treatments and the founder of the European Seminar on Historical methodology. He has continued to set the bar for Hebrew Bible scholarship.

In this collection some thirty of his distinguished colleagues and friends offer their reflections on the practice and theory of history writing, on the current controversies and topics of major interest. This collection provides an opportunity for scholars of high caliber to consider groundbreaking...

The biblical motif of a land divinely-promised and given to Abraham and his descendants is argued to be an ideological reflex of post-monarchic, territorial disputes between competing socio-religious groups. The important biblical motif of a Promised Land is founded upon the ancient Near Eastern concept of ancestral land: hereditary space upon which families lived, worked, died and were buried. An essential element of concept of ancestral land was the belief in the post-mortem existence of the ancestors, who were venerated with grave offerings, mortuary feasts, bone rituals and standing...