Rethinking Biblical Scholarship: Changing Perspectives 4"Rethinking Biblical Scholarship" brings together seminal essays to provide readers with an assessment of the archaeological and exegetical research which has transformed the discipline of biblical studies over the last two decades. The essays focus on history and historiography, exploring how scholarly constructs and ideologies mould historical, literary and cultural data and shape scholarly discourse. Most of the essays illustrate the development of what has been called a "minimalist" methodology. Among the many central topics examined are the formation of the Jewish scriptural canon and how the concepts of "prophecy" and "apocalypse" illuminate the emergence of Judaism in the late Persian and Hellenistic periods. |
Contents
What is minimalism and why do so many people dislike | |
House of David built on sand The sins of the biblical maximizers | |
History 5 The origin of biblical Israel | |
Prophecy and apocalyptic | |
Amos man and book | |
1 Prophecy as writing | |
Reading Daniel sociologically | |
And Enoch was not for Genesis took | |
Canon | |
What is a bible? | |
The Jewish scriptural canon in cultural perspective | |
God of Cyrus God of Israel Some religiohistorical reflections on Isaiah 4055 | |
Scenes from the early history of Judaism | |
Josiah and the law book | |
Judaeans in Egypt Hebrew and Greek stories | |
Bibliography | |
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