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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... Linguistic Differentiation . . . . . . . . . Linguistic Differentiations 113 Synchronic Explanations 126 Dialect 128 Sociolect, Idiolect, Colloquialisms, and Technical Language 136 Archaisms 138 Determining “Late” and “Early” in ...
... linguistics, and literary theory—the so- called “end of history movement.” Whereas the Annales School, with its roots in empiricism and positivism (and its later proponents in the “Copenhagen School”) must be described as a development ...
... linguistic , and literary aspects of historical theory published by the philosopher Arthur C. Danto and the histori- ans Hayden White and Robert F. Berkhofer may serve as an excellent illustration of the impact of this “ agenda ” on the ...
... linguistic, and literary questions that must be addressed before a more thorough- going assessment of his (and Berkhofer's) theories can be reached.39 The truly controversial issues in White's theory of emplotment as well as in ...
... linguistics and hermeneutics is , of course , the movement from diachronic to synchronic readings and a shift in per- spective from author - centered via text - centered to reader - oriented approaches to texts . To sum up : Berkhofer ...
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Text and History: Historiography and the Study of the Biblical Text Jens Bruun Kofoed Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |