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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... Criticism , interpretation , etc. I. Title . BS480.K53 2005 221.9'5 - dc22 2004017732 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence of Paper for ...
... Criticism 39 The Comparative Enterprise 48 The Need for Corroboration 52 The Contextual Method 53 Creating and Preserving a Tradition 58 The Oral Tradition . . . . . . . . 58 Qualifying the Oral 63 Poetry or Prose: The Importance of ...
... criticism , and archaeological method have made their contribution . The shift is thus far from limited to the subdiscipline of Israel's history but must be considered part of a long - observable change of perspective in historical ...
... criticized for its subjectivity and narrow choice of subject in a demand for a more positivistic – empirical ... critic of evidence is absolutely essential ” ( Robert P. Swierenga , " Social Science History : An Appreciative Critique ...
... criticism and biblical archaeology ) from a sociological perspective . Since then , an increasing number of scholars have questioned the usefulness of the biblical texts as a reliable source for the reconstruction. 15. The most important ...
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