History, Politics and the Bible from the Iron Age to the Media Age
Title | History, Politics and the Bible from the Iron Age to the Media Age PDF eBook |
Author | James G. Crossley |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 246 |
Release | 2016-12-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567670619 |
As biblical studies becomes increasingly fragmented, this collection of essays brings together a number of leading scholars in order to show how historical reconstruction, philology, metacriticism, and reception history can be part of a collective vision for the future of the field. This collection of essays focuses more specifically on critical questions surrounding the construction of ancient Israel(s), 'minimalism', the ongoing significance of lexicography, the development of early Judaism, orientalism, and the use of the Bible in contemporary political discourses. Contributors include John van Seters, Niels Peter Lemche, Ingrid Hjelm, and Philip R. Davies.
History, Politics and the Bible from the Iron Age to the Media Age
Title | History, Politics and the Bible from the Iron Age to the Media Age PDF eBook |
Author | James G. Crossley |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 166 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Bible and politics |
ISBN | 9780567670625 |
"As biblical studies becomes increasingly fragmented, this collection of essays brings together a number of leading scholars in order to show how historical reconstruction, philology, metacriticism, and reception history can be part of a collective vision for the future of the field. This collection of essays focuses more specifically on critical questions surrounding the construction of ancient Israel(s), 'minimalism', the ongoing significance of lexicography, the development of early Judaism, orientalism, and the use of the Bible in contemporary political discourses. Contributors include John van Seters, Niels Peter Lemche, Ingrid Hjelm, and Philip R. Davies."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
History, Politics and the Bible from the Iron Age to the Media Age
Title | History, Politics and the Bible from the Iron Age to the Media Age PDF eBook |
Author | James G. Crossley |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2016-12-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567670600 |
As biblical studies becomes increasingly fragmented, this collection of essays brings together a number of leading scholars in order to show how historical reconstruction, philology, metacriticism, and reception history can be part of a collective vision for the future of the field. This collection of essays focuses more specifically on critical questions surrounding the construction of ancient Israel(s), 'minimalism', the ongoing significance of lexicography, the development of early Judaism, orientalism, and the use of the Bible in contemporary political discourses. Contributors include John van Seters, Niels Peter Lemche, Ingrid Hjelm, and Philip R. Davies.
T&T Clark Handbook of Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible
Title | T&T Clark Handbook of Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible PDF eBook |
Author | Emanuel Pfoh |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 577 |
Release | 2022-12-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567704769 |
This handbook presents an overview of the main approaches from social and cultural anthropology to the Hebrew Bible. Since the late 19th century, biblical scholarship has addressed issues and themes related to biblical stories from a perspective which could now be considered socio-anthropological. It is however only since the 1960s that biblical scholars have started to produce readings and incorporate analytical models drawn directly from social anthropology to widen the interpretive scope of the social and historical data contained in the biblical sources. The handbook is arranged into two main thematic parts. Part 1 assesses the place of the Bible in social anthropology, examines the contribution of ethnoarchaeology to the recovery of the social world of Iron Age Palestine and offers insights from the anthropology of the Mediterranean for the interpretation of the biblical stories. Part 2 provides a series of case studies on anthropological themes arising in the Hebrew Bible. These include kinship and social organisation, death, cultural and collective memory, and ritualism. Contributors also examine how the biblical stories reveal dynamics of power and authority, gender, and honour and shame, and how socio-anthropological approaches can reveal these narratives and deepen our knowledge of the human societies and cultural context of the texts. Bringing together the expertise of scholars of the Hebrew Bible and Biblical Archaeology, this ethnographic introduction prompts new questions into our understanding of anthropology and the Bible.
Biblical Narratives, Archaeology and Historicity
Title | Biblical Narratives, Archaeology and Historicity PDF eBook |
Author | Emanuel Pfoh |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 2019-11-14 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567686574 |
This volume collects essays from an international body of leading scholars in Old Testament studies, focused upon the key concepts of the question of historicity of biblical stories, the archaeology of Israel/Palestine during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and the nature of biblical narratives and related literature. As a celebration of the extensive body of Thomas L. Thompson's work, these essays enable a threefold perspective on biblical narratives. Beginning with 'method', the contributors discuss archaeology, cultural memory, epistemology, and sociology of knowledge, before moving to 'history, historiography and archaeology' and close analysis of the Qumran Writings, Josephus and biblical rewritings. Finally the argument turn to the narratives themselves, exploring topics including the possibility of invented myth, the genre of Judges and the depiction of Moses in the Qu'ran. Presenting an interdisciplinary analysis of the historical issues concerning ancient Israel/Palestine, this volume creates an updated body of reference to fifty years' worth of scholarship.
Archaeology, History, and Identity Formation in Ancient Israel
Title | Archaeology, History, and Identity Formation in Ancient Israel PDF eBook |
Author | Filip Čapek |
Publisher | Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 2024-07-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 8024654172 |
When did Israel begin? The origins of ancient Israel are shrouded in mystery and those hoping to explore the issue must utilize resources from three different fields – archaeology, epigraphy, and biblical texts – and then examine their interrelations, while keeping in mind that the name Israel was not used to describe just one state but referred to numerous entities at different times. This book attempts to provide a critical reading of Israel’s history. It is neither a harmonizing reading, which takes the picture painted by texts as a given fact, nor a reading supporting biblical texts with archaeological and epigraphic data; instead, it offers the reader multiple options to understand biblical narratives on a historical and theological level. In addition to presenting the main currents in the field, the book draws upon the latest discoveries from excavations in Israel to offer new hypotheses and reconstructions based on the interdisciplinary dialogue between biblical studies, archaeology, and history.
The Nordic Bible
Title | The Nordic Bible PDF eBook |
Author | Marianne Bjelland Kartzow |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2023-09-04 |
Genre | Bibles |
ISBN | 3110686007 |