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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... book on the books of Kings. The first set of markers, those of source-critical value, will be dis- cussed in chaps. 2, 3, and 4—markers that can help us determine a possible terminus ad quem for the composition of the text(s) of the books ...
... books of Kings are cast in the tragic mode, it is a matter of fact that some “Great Story” has been operative and that some mode of emplotment has been deployed in the composition and collection of the Hebrew Bible. Hurowitz, Halpern ...
... books of Kings. Other important points of departure are that the creation of the extant text may very well have served contemporary religious and/or sociopolitical interests (anything else would be odd) and that knowl- edge about the ...
... books of Kings. If, for ex- ample, the text in its present form and content can be shown to be a “creatio ex nihilo” (that is, a more or less coherent text based on newly invented material) from the time of the oldest extant Hebrew manu ...
... books of Kings , the critical edition of the Masoretic Text in K. Elliger and W. Rudolph ( eds . ) , Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia ( Stuttgart : Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft , 1967 ) will be used for the sake of convenience . Ambiguity ...
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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 |