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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... for carrying the most substantial financial burden of my research. All translations of quotations from non-English modern sources are mine. Copenhagen June 2003 Abbreviations ANE BH com. DHW DSS fem. HB IH LBH x Preface.
... sources . Only twenty years ago , it was still considered main- stream scholarship to base a ( political ) history ... source for a reconstruction of ancient Israel's history , ( b ) move away from political and personal history toward a ...
... Sources : Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East ( Leiden : Brill , 1992 ) , 423 pages ; idem , The Bible in History , 397 pages ; Niels Peter Lemche , Die Vorgeschichte Israels : Von den Anfängen bis zum Ausgang des 13 ...
... sources and subsequently discuss the 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 ...
... sources may be different, the methods may vary, but in many respects the Annales approach, which prospered in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, represents nothing more than a revised and im- proved edition of traditional German historiography ...
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Text and History: Historiography and the Study of the Biblical Text Jens Bruun Kofoed Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |