The Hebrew Bible : New Insights and Scholarship / ed. by Frederick E. Greenspahn.
Berlin, Adele, contributor.; Bloch-Smith, Elizabeth, contributor.; Fuchs, Esther, contributor.; Greenspahn, Frederick E., editor.; Greenspoon, Leonard, contributor.; Machinist, Peter, contributor.; Rendsburg, Gary A., contributor.; Sweeney, Marvin A., contributor.; Westbrook, Raymond, contributor.; Wright, David P., contributor.; Zevit, Ziony, contributor.
2007
BS1171.3 .H43 2008
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Title The Hebrew Bible : New Insights and Scholarship / ed. by Frederick E. Greenspahn.
ISBN 9780814733080
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814733080.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2007]
Copyright ©2007
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814733080.001.0001 doi
Call Number BS1171.3 .H43 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 221.6
Summary In April of 2001, the headline in the Los Angeles Times read, "Doubting the Story of the Exodus." It covered a sermon that had been delivered by the rabbi of a prominent local congregation over the holiday of Passover. In it, he said, "The truth is that virtually every modern archeologist who has investigated the story of the exodus, with very few exceptions, agrees that the way the Bible describes the exodus is not the way it happened, if it happened at all." This seeming challenge to the biblical story captivated the local public. Yet as the rabbi himself acknowledged, his sermon contained nothing new. The theories that he described had been common knowledge among biblical scholars for over thirty years, though few people outside of the profession know their relevance.New understandings concerning the Bible have not filtered down beyond specialists in university settings. There is a need to communicate this research to a wider public of students and educated readers outside of the academy. This volume seeks to meet this need, with accessible and engaging chapters describing how archeology, theology, ancient studies, literary studies, feminist studies, and other disciplines now understand the Bible.
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Added Author Berlin, Adele, contributor.
Bloch-Smith, Elizabeth, contributor.
Fuchs, Esther, contributor.
Greenspahn, Frederick E., editor.
Greenspoon, Leonard, contributor.
Machinist, Peter, contributor.
Rendsburg, Gary A., contributor.
Sweeney, Marvin A., contributor.
Westbrook, Raymond, contributor.
Wright, David P., contributor.
Zevit, Ziony, contributor.
Series Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century ; ; 4
In New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780814731871
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Frontmatter
Contents
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Preface
Part I The Bible and History
1 Israel Without the Bible
2 Bible, Archaeology, and the Social Sciences: The Next Generation
Part II New Approaches to the Bible
3 Literary Approaches to Biblical Literature: General Observations and a Case Study of Genesis 34
4 Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible
Part III Ancient Practice
5 The Laws of Biblical Israel
6 The Study of Ritual in the Hebrew Bible
Part IV Judaism and the Bible
7 By the Letter?/Word for Word? Scripture in the Jewish Tradition
8 From Judaism to Biblical Religion and Back Again
9 Jewish Biblical Theology
Epilogue: Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom: Some Reflections on Reading and Studying the Hebrew Bible
About the Contributors
Index
Index of Biblical Passages

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