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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... reflects their notion of scientific detachment , their de- sire to accumulate ' facts , ' their urge to establish laws of development , ” and she concludes with a reflection on two things : The first is that , in a sense , Péguy's ...
... reflect the time of the writers ; the refinement is that the term writers is no longer understood as the various JEDP sources with their conventional dat- ings but as the author ( s ) responsible for the final collection and redac- tion ...
... reflected in it , so that one may freely resort to any biblical evidence from any genre or period for the ... reflects a fundamental problem in the 59. Also called the comparative method “ on the grand scale , ” that is , “ comparisons ...
... reflects problems involved in the applica- tion of the typological comparative approach and its delineation from the historical comparative approach ( see above ) . As far as the latter is concerned , Malul notes , importantly , that ...
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