Text and History: Historiography and the Study of the Biblical TextEisenbrauns, 2005 - 298 páginas During the past two or three decades, the value of the text of the Hebrew Bible as a testimony to the history of Israel has come under siege. As the date of the final form of the text has been pushed later and later, often into the Hellenistic era, the text has been devalued accordingly: what is "late" is viewed as having less value. At the same time, the connection between the text and extratextual information, particularly from archaeology, has been rendered less and less clear by both archaeological investigation itself and an increasing inability to connect text and artifact, or to do so compellingly. Some of the foremost scholars who have argued that the biblical text contributes little to historical research have come from Copenhagen. Now, from Copenhagen, Jens Bruun Kofoed steps forward to address the methodological issues that must lie behind the use of the biblical text and its validation as a source for historical information. In this volume, he sets out the methodological stepping stones necessary to an honest use of the biblical text and, through discussion of presuppositions underlying various methodologies and by evaluating specific test cases, shows (among other things) that "lateness" of the extant text by itself is not a charge that reduces the text's value as a source of historical information; that taking modern genre research and authorial intent into account opens new vistas for evaluating the historiographical reliability of ancient texts; and that a way forward from the current impasse is possible." |
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... ancient Israelite history writing began in Copenhagen in more than one sense ... Israel as early as the 1960s, but what had happened after I left the academy ... ancient Israel's history, they had established what has been called the ...
... Israel European Seminar on Historical Methodology History of the Ancient Near East Studies Handbuch der Orientalistik Harvard Semitic Monographs Harvard Semitic Studies Hebrew Union College Annual International Critical Commentary Israel ...
... , Florida (2000). 2. Lewis Carroll, The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (New York: Wings, 1995) 90–91. The writers of ancient Israel knew little or nothing about 1 Chapter 1.
... ancient Israel's history . The older paradigms of Alt and Albright , for reasons that will be discussed below , have been deconstructed to such an extent that the history of Israel has been almost concealed from us , and though we ...
... Israel” have had to be discarded. The patriarchs of Genesis were not historical. The assertion that “Israel” was ... ancient Israel does not fit in but is contrary to any image of ancient Palestinian society that can be established on ...
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