ISBN:
9780190261160
Language:
English
Pages:
xx, 589 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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26 cm
Year of publication:
2020
Series Statement:
Oxford handbooks
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Bibel
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Bible / Historical Books / Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible / Historical Books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Bibel Altes Testament
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Geschichtsbücher
Abstract:
"The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible offers 36 essays on the so-called 'Historical Books': Joshua, Judges, 1-2 Samuel, 1-2 Kings, Ezra-Nehemiah, and 1-2 Chronicles. The essays are organized around four nodes: contexts, content, approaches, and reception. Each essay takes up two questions: (1) what does the topic/area/issue have to do with the Historical Books? and (2) how does this topic/area/issue help readers better interpret the Historical Books? The essays engage traditional theories and newer updates to the same, and also engage the textual traditions themselves which are what give rise to compositional analyses. Many essays model approaches that move in entirely different ways altogether, however, whether those are by attending to synchronic, literary, theoretical, or reception aspects of the texts at hand. The contributions range from text-critical issues to ancient historiography, state formation and development, ancient Near Eastern contexts, society and economy, political theory, violence studies, orality, feminism, postcolonialism, and trauma theory-among others. Taken together, these essays well represent the variety of options available when it comes to gathering, assessing, and interpreting these particular biblical books"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Part I contexts : sources, history, texts -- Part II content : themes, concepts, issues -- Part III approaches : composition, synthesis, theory -- Part IV reception : literature, traditions, figures
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