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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... Thompson, had moved to the department of Biblical Studies at the University of Copenhagen. By the time I was teaching my first course on ancient Israel's history, they had established what has been called the Copenhagen School. In a ...
... Thompson at the department of Biblical Studies, Univer- sity of Copenhagen, and (without making any participants responsible for the outcome of my research!) I appreciate the opportunities pro- vided there to discuss the matters dealt ...
... Thompson , and N. P. Lemche can hardly be said to represent the mainstream in current scholarship , their assertions are nevertheless typical of a strong tendency to ( a ) discard the texts of the Hebrew Bible as an un- reliable source ...
... Thompson, The Bible in History: How Writers Create a Past (London: Jona- than Cape, 1999). 8. Niels Peter Lemche, “On the Problem of Reconstructing Pre-Hellenistic Israelite (Palestinian) History,” JHS 3 Article 1 (2000) 10 (http://www ...
... Thompson , Early History of the Israelite People from the Written and Archaeological Sources : Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East ( Leiden : Brill , 1992 ) , 423 pages ; idem , The Bible in History , 397 pages ; Niels Peter ...
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Text and History: Historiography and the Study of the Biblical Text Jens Bruun Kofoed Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |