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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... Old Testament scholars more or less independently had begun to question the methodological assumptions underlying both the Alt-Noth school and the Albright school reconstructions of the history of Israel as early as the 1960s, but what ...
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... Old Testament Historiography in Its Near Eastern Context ( ed . A. R. Millard , J. K. Hoffmeier , and D. W. Baker ; Winona Lake , Ind .: Eisenbrauns , 1994 ) 255–69 . 4. The term Hebrew Bible is employed for the sake of convenience and ...
... Old Testament scholars , 12 is the change in perspective of historical studies in general , initiated by the so - called Annales School in the late 1920s . When , at the turn of the century , the social sciences had developed into ...
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Text and History: Historiography and the Study of the Biblical Text Jens Bruun Kofoed Vista previa limitada - 2005 |
Text and History: Historiography and the Study of the Biblical Text Jens Bruun Kofoed Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |