Biblical Interpretation Beyond Historicity

Changing Perspectives 7

Ingrid Hjelm, Thomas Thompson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-87312-7 (ISBN)

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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. This volume analyses the consequences of the question: "If the Bible is not history, what is it then?" and features essays from a range of highly regarded scholar

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 of the Bible more as literary narratives than as sources for a history of Israel. Increased interest in archaeological and anthropological studies in writing the history of Palestine and the ancient Near East leads to the need for an evidence-based history of Palestine.

This volume analyses the consequences of the question: "If the Bible is not history, what is it then?" The editors, Hjelm and Thompson are members of the Copenhagen School, which was formed in the light of this question and the commitment to a new approach to both the history of Palestine and the Bible’s place in ancient history. This volume features essays from a range of highly regarded scholars, and is divided into three sections: "Beyond Historicity", which explores alternative historical roles for the Bible, "Greek Connections", which discusses the Bible’s context in the Hellenistic world and "Reception", which explores extra-biblical functions of biblical studies.

Offering a unique gathering of scholars and challenging new theories, Biblical Interpretation beyond Historicity is invaluable to students in the field of Biblical and East Mediterranean Studies, and is a crucial resource for anyone working on both the archaeology and history of Palestine and the ancient Near East, and the religious development of Europe and the Near East.

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.

Introduction

Part I: Beyond Historicity

A New ‘Biblical Archaeology’

Philip R. Davies

Old and New Ways of Interpreting Isaiah 40-55

Frederik Poulsen

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

Trine Bjørnung Hasselbach

Part II: Greek Connections

Is the Old Testament Still a Hellenistic Book?

Niels Peter Lemche

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

Philippe Wajdenbaum

Greek Genres and the Hebrew Bible

Russel Gmirkin

When the Septuagint Came in from the Cold

Mogens Müller

Part III: Reception

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

Fred Cryer

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

Gregory Doudna

Canon Formation, Canonicity and the Qumran library

Jesper Høgenhaven

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

Flemming A. J. Nielsen

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

Jim West

Erscheinungsdatum	16.12.2019
Reihe/Serie	Copenhagen International Seminar
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-367-87312-5 / 0367873125
ISBN-13	978-0-367-87312-7 / 9780367873127
Zustand	Neuware