Archive For The “Old Testament” Category
By Andrew Mein
ISBN-10: 0191516252
ISBN-13: 9780191516252
ISBN-10: 019929139X
ISBN-13: 9780199291397
Mein goals to set Ezekiel's ethics firmly within the social and historic context of the Babylonian Exile. Ezekiel's ethical matters and priorities, Mein indicates, are considerably formed by means of the social adventure of deportation and resettlement. additionally they symbolize an inventive reaction to the challenge, delivering major impetus for social solidarity and the upkeep of a distinctively Jewish neighborhood.
By S. Schechter
By Thomas B. Dozeman, Konrad Schmid, Thomas R. Mer
ISBN-10: 1589835425
ISBN-13: 9781589835429
The identity of literary works within the Pentateuch and the previous Prophets is a trademark of the trendy historical-critical interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. The theories of a Tetrateuch, a Hexateuch, or a Deuteronomistic heritage have performed a crucial position in improving the literary heritage of the Pentateuch and the previous Prophets. The breakdown of those methodologies in fresh study has compelled students to reevaluate the standards for picking out literary works within the formation of the Hebrew Bible. the current quantity explores anew, with no presupposition or exclusion, the factors wherein interpreters determine literary works in those books as a source for convalescing the composition background of the literature. It additionally brings North American and eu techniques to the subject right into a universal dialogue. The individuals are "Christoph Berner, Erhard Blum, Suzanne Boorer, David M. Carr, Thomas B. Dozeman, Cynthia Edenburg, Michael Konkel, Christoph Levin, Thomas R mer, Konrad Schmid, and Felipe Blanco Wi mann."
By Mirjam van der Vorm-Croughs
ISBN-10: 1589839781
ISBN-13: 9781589839786
Van der Vorm-Croughs focuses this translation examine at the techniques resulting in pluses and minuses together with linguistic and stylistic features (i.e., situations within which parts were further or passed over for the sake of a formal use of the Greek language), literary points (additions and omissions intended to brighten the Greek text), translation technical points (e.g., the avoidance of redundancy), and contextual and intertextual exegesis and harmonization. This paintings additionally covers the relation among the Greek Isaiah and its attainable Hebrew Vorlage to aim to figure out which pluses and minuses can have been the results of the translator’s use of a unique Hebrew textual content.
By M. Patrick Graham, Kenneth G. Hoglund, Steven L. McKenzie
ISBN-10: 1850756511
ISBN-13: 9781850756514
This quantity of essays, devoted to the overdue Raymond B. Dillard, addresses the query, 'Was the Chronicler a Historian?' It contains profiles of the various types of fabric present in Chronicles, and assesses their worth for the reconstruction of the historical past of old Israel. This assortment represents the easiest of contemporary scholarship on an issue that's producing excessive dialogue in biblical research.
By F C Conybeare
By Yvonne M. Sherwood
ISBN-10: 1850755817
ISBN-13: 9781850755814
The single consensus that has been reached on Hosea 1-3 is that it's a notoriously 'problematic' textual content. Sherwood unpicks this relatively imprecise assertion by means of interpreting the actual complexities of the textual content and frictions among the textual content and reader that conspire to supply any such disorientating influence. 4 dimensions of the 'problem' are thought of: the clash among textual content and reader over the 'improper' courting among Hosea and Gomer; the weird prophetic sign-language that conscripts humans right into a cosmic charade; the text's propensity to subvert its crucial theses; and the emergent tensions among the feminist reader and the textual content. Aiming to assemble literary feedback and biblical scholarship, this e-book presents lucid introductions to ideological feedback, semiotics, deconstruction and feminist feedback, and appears on the implications of those techniques not just for the e-book of Hosea yet for bible study in most cases.
By David Aberbach
ISBN-10: 041509500X
ISBN-13: 9780415095006
Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy is a notably new interpretation of prophetic poetry. utilizing greater than thirty new translations from the Hebrew Bible, it exhibits that this poetry is inseparable from imperialism, that every of the 3 significant waves of biblical prophecy that have survived within the outdated testomony happened in line with simultaneous waves of imperialist conquest.
By Craig C Broyles
ISBN-10: 9004109366
ISBN-13: 9789004109360
This quantity combines present methods that deal with the formation and early interpretation of the ultimate kind of the booklet of Isaiah with the extra traditional historical-critical tools that deal with using traditions through Isaiah's authors and editors. reviews examine: Isaiah's use of early sacred culture; the modifying and contextualization of oracles in the Isaianic culture itself; and the translation of the e-book of Isaiah in later traditions.
By Joel Weinberg
ISBN-10: 0567611116
ISBN-13: 9780567611116
Often operating below critically constrained educational and social stipulations, the Latvian student Joel Weinberg has made a special and critical contribution to religious study. inspired by means of Soviet paintings in historic close to japanese background, Weinberg's precise strategy is in discussion with scholarship in either japanese and Western eu traditions. This translation brings jointly seven essays initially released in Russian, then translated and extended through Weinberg into German. The essays shape the root of what was once initially Weinberg's dissertation. book of those essays in English won't in simple terms enable scholars and students more straightforward entry to Weinberg's proposal, yet will let students to judge the reviews jointly, and therefore facilitate the present discussion at the Babylonian exile, and the postexilic period.