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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... idem , The Bible in History , 397 pages ; Niels Peter Lemche , Die Vorgeschichte Israels : Von den Anfängen bis zum Ausgang des 13. Jahrhunderts v.Chr . ( Biblische Enzyklopädie ; Stutt- gart : Kohlhammer , 1996 ) , 224 pages . be ...
... idem , “ Epistemology , Historiography , and the ' Copenhagen School , " in Win- dows into Old Testament History : Evidence , Argument , and the Crisis of “ Biblical Israel ” ( ed . V. Philips Long , David W. Baker , and Gordon J ...
... ( idem , Greek Historiography , 20 ) . 36. Arthur C. Danto , Narration and Knowledge ( New York : Columbia University Press , 1985 ) especially 95 ; Berkhofer , Beyond the Great Story . Danto goes a step further and shows in a similar way ...
... (idem, “Some Points of Contact between History and Natural Science,” in Philosophy and History [ed. Raymond Klibansky and H. J. Paton; Oxford: Clarendon, 1936] 257–58). For a similar approach to the archaeology of “the holy land,” see ...
... idem , Is There a Meaning in This Text ? ( Leicester : Apol- los , 1998 ) . 47. See the discussion on “ embellishment ” in medieval sources for early Islamic his- tory in Jacob Lassner , “ ' Doing ' Early Islamic History : Brooklyn ...
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Text and History: Historiography and the Study of the Biblical Text Jens Bruun Kofoed Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |