The Hebrew Bible : New Insights and Scholarship.

The Hebrew Bible : New Insights and Scholarship.

In April of 2001, the headline in the Los Angeles Times read, "Doubting the Story of the Exodus." It covered a sermon that had been delivered by the rabbi of a prominent local congregation over the holiday of Passover. In it, he said, "The truth is that virtually every modern archeolo...

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Main Author: Greenspahn, Frederick E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2007.
Series:Jewish Studies in the Twenty-first Century Series.
Subjects:
Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.
Bible. > Old Testament
RELIGION / Bible / General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations; Preface; Part I: The Bible and History; Israel Without the Bible; Bible, Archaeology, and the Social Sciences:The Next Generation; Part II: New Approaches to the Bible; Literary Approaches to Biblical Literature: GeneralObservations and a Case Study of Genesis 34; Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible; Part III: Ancient Practice; The Laws of Biblical Israel; The Study of Ritual in the Hebrew Bible; Part IV: Judaism and the Bible; By the Letter?/Word for Word? Scripture in theJewish Tradition; From Judaism to Biblical Religion and Back Again; Jewish Biblical Theology.
  • Epilogue: Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom:Some Reflections on Reading andStudying the Hebrew BibleAbout the Contributors; Index; Index of Biblical Passages.

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