From Epic to Canon: History and Literature in Ancient IsraelIn From Epic to Canon, Frank Moore Cross discusses specific issues that illuminate central questions about the Hebrew Bible and those who created and preserved it. He challenges the persistent attempt to read Protestant theological polemic against law into ancient Israel. Cross uncovers the continuities between the institutions of kinship and of covenant, which he describes as "extended kinship." He examines the social structures of ancient Israel and reveals that beneath its later social and cultural accretions, the concept of covenant -- as opposed to codified law -- was a vital part of Israel's earliest institutions. He then draws parallels between the expression of kinship and covenant among the Israelites and that practiced by other ancient societies, as well as in primitive societies. |
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Kinship and Covenant in Ancient Israel | 3 |
Traditional Narrative and the Reconstruction of Early Israelite | 22 |
Sacral Traditions | 53 |
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4QLam Albright ancient Aramaic archaic Ba'l Bêt Biblical bicola bicolon Canaan Canaanite canon century B.C.E. chiastic Chronicler's Chronicles CMHE cola colon covenant cult cultic cultus cycle David Deuteronomistic divine early edition Edom elements Elyāšîb epic epic cycle Esdras evidence Ezra F. M. Cross formulae genealogy gods governor Greek Hebrew Bible Hebrew poetry high priest Israel Israelite Jerusalem Jewish Josephus Judah king kinship Lamentations language late league manuscripts Midian Midianite mnḥm Moab Moses names narrative Nehemiah oral pair Palestinian Papyri parallelism Pe'or Pentateuch Persian Phoenician poetic Priestly Priestly Source prose Psalm Qumrân Rabbinic Recension reading reconstruction Reuben Samaria Samaritan Samaritan Pentateuch Sanballat Sanballat III sanctuary Scholars Press script scroll sequence Shechem shrine Sinai Solomon Song sources structure Studies Tabernacle Tadmor temple tent textual theogony tion tradition treaty tribal tribes triplet typological Ugaritic University Press variant verse Yaddûa Yahweh Yahwist yhwh Yôḥānān Zerubbabel