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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... discussion , there- 3. R. Gordon , “ Who Made the Kingmaker ? Reflections on Samuel and the Institution of the Monarchy , ” in Faith , Tradition and History : Old Testament Historiography in Its Near Eastern Context ( ed . A. R. Millard ...
... discussion of this is presented in chap . 2. Fur- thermore , I argue that the tendency to focus on structural and con- junctural factors needs to be balanced by a “ rehabilitation ” of the human factor — a renewed consciousness about ...
... discussion on the historiographical method of the “ Copenhagen School . ” Thomas Thompson ( Early History , 406 ) uses the term spectrum studies approach for his own and his colleague Niels Peter Lemche's approach to the reconstruction ...
... discussion of Charles Péguy's (1873–1914) distinction between “historian” and “chronicler,” describes how Pé- guy favors the “chronicler” because he is “the one who touches some- thing of true human significance in his recounting of the ...
... discussion of method— make most of us scholars so uncomfortable is a sure sign that the posi- tivism Péguy was combating is not as dead and gone as the currency of the term “ postmodernism ” might lead us to believe . The second con ...
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