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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... possible and the foregoing research much like an “academic adventure.” It is no doubt my wife, Vivi, and my children, Line, Ditte, Nicolai, Mik- kel, and Emil, who have borne the most profound sacrifices over the last three years. And ...
... possible criteria for determining the epistemological and historiographical value of the texts . Changing Perspectives One of the main reasons for labeling the above - mentioned shift as a “ paradigm shift , ” as has become increasingly ...
... possible narratives can be generated by one set of data and that stories provide meaning by “emplotment,” that is, the way by which a sequence of events fash- ioned into a story is gradually revealed to be of a particular kind. Ac ...
... possible modes available for “ emplotment ” and that a series of ( usually subconscious ) factors is involved when the historian chooses his mode of emplotment . Development in liter- ary theory and genre research has shown that fact ...
... possible (White, “Historicism, History, and the Figurative Imagination,” History and Theory Sup- plement 14 [1975] 21). 54. Danto, Narration, 341. 55. Most noticeably expressed by a group of scholars who in 1996 gathered for the in ...
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