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Biblical Interpretation Beyond Historicity: Changing Perspectives 7 book cover

1st Edition

Biblical Interpretation Beyond Historicity Changing Perspectives 7

Edited By Ingrid Hjelm, Thomas Thompson Copyright 2016
224 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge
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Biblical Interpretation beyond Historicity evaluates the new perspectives that have emerged since the crisis over historicity in the 1970s and 80s in the field of biblical scholarship. Several new studies in the field, as well as the ‘deconstructive’ side of literary criticism that emerged from writers such as Derrida and Wittgenstein, among others, lead biblical scholars today to view the texts... Read more

Introduction



Part I: Beyond Historicity







  1. A New ‘Biblical Archaeology’




    2. Philip R. Davies





  2. Old and New Ways of Interpreting Isaiah 40-55




    3. Frederik Poulsen





  3. Sociolinguistic Perspectives on the Hebrew Bible as Memory Work: Seeing Redactional Work as Entextualization




    4. Trine Bjørnung Hasselbach



    Part II: Greek Connections





  4. Is the Old Testament Still a Hellenistic Book?




    5. Niels Peter Lemche





  5. From Plato to Moses: Genesis-Kings as a Platonic Epic




    6. Philippe Wajdenbaum





  6. Greek Genres and the Hebrew Bible




    7. Russel Gmirkin





  7. When the Septuagint Came in from the Cold




    8. Mogens Müller



    Part III: Reception





  8. Of Qumran, the Canon and the History of the Bible Text




    9. Fred Cryer





  9. Deconstructing the Continuity of Qumran Ib and II with Implications for Stabilizing the Biblical Texts




    10. Gregory Doudna





  10. Canon Formation, Canonicity and the Qumran library




    11. Jesper Høgenhaven





  11. New Children of Abraham in Greenland—The Creation of a Nation




    12. Flemming A. J. Nielsen





  12. Whose Mythic, Rhythmic, Theological and Cultural Memory is it Anyway?




Jim West

Biography

Ingrid Hjelm, Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen and Director of the Palestine History and Heritage Project. Author of The Samaritans and Early Judaism (2000) and Jerusalem’s Rise to Sovereignty (2004) in addition to a considerable number of articles within the field of Samaritan studies, the history of ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible. Her latest book, co-edited with Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme is Myths of Exile (2015).



Thomas L. Thompson, Professor Emeritus, University of Copenhagen and author of some 130 articles and ca. 20 books, including The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives (1974), The Early History of the Israelite People (1992), The Bible in History: How Writers Create a Past (1999) and Biblical Narrative and Palestine’s History (2013), currently working as Project Developer on the Palestine History and Heritage Project.

The confidence in the historicity of the Hebrew Bible has collapsed over the last three decades. In this remarkable book, fourthteen writers brilliantly steer the debate away from historical positivism and beyond the deconstruction of the old myth-narratives of the Bible. The collection offers highly original and diverse perspectives on the syncretic traditions of the biblical stories. A work of enormous significance, it shows how new paradigms have come to view key texts of the Hebrew Bible are the product of the Hellenistic era.

- Professor Nur Masalha, SOAS, University of London, UK

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