Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Israel and the Cosmological Empires of the Ancient Orient
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2021) 73–118
Keywords:
Moses
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Albright, William Foxwell,
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Voegelin, Eric,
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Voegelin, Eric, Criticism and interpretation
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Bible Historiography
Abstract:
The publication of Eric Voegelin’s Israel and Revelation in 1956 brought a wide range of reactions. Not only immediate colleagues in political science, but philosophers, theologians, and specialists in biblical studies and the ancient Near East produced reviews of the book in the following years. Arguably the most prominent among the latter specialists was the American William Foxwell Albright of the Johns Hopkins University. Like Vogelin, he was internationally renown, in his case for a strikingly diverse body of foundational studies in the history, archaeology, languages, texts, and religions of the ancient Near East. His extensive review of Israel and Revelation and part of the succeeding volume in Voegelin’s series, The World of the Polis, appeared in 1961 in the journal, Theological Studies, and Albright considered the review important enough in his own prolific scholarship to be reprinted in a volume of some of his opera minora of 1964, History, Archaeology, and Christian Humanism. This paper will look at Voegelin’s Israel and Revelation through Albright’s eyes, and Albright’s work of a similar kind, principally his From the Stone Age to Christianity (1940 with subsequent editions through 1957), through Voegelin’s. Both scholars, as we will see, attempted to write “big history”—history in a large framework, though from rather different perspectives and foci. One question that emerges: were their histories and their approaches to history contradictory or complementary?
DOI:
10.30965/9783846764879_004
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