The Reception Of Biblical War Legislation In Narrative Contexts

Author : Christoph Berner,Harald Samuel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110384130

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The Reception of Biblical War Legislation in Narrative Contexts by Christoph Berner,Harald Samuel Pdf

In the Hebrew Bible, war is a prominent topic which is dealt with in both legal and narrative texts. So far, the interplay between the two areas has received only little attention. This volume explores the impact of biblical war legislation on war accounts in the Hebrew Bible and in Early Jewish Literature. It provides case studies which show the importance of the topic and shed new light on redaction- and reception-historical developments.

Author : Christoph Berner,Harald Samuel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110349726

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The Reception of Biblical War Legislation in Narrative Contexts by Christoph Berner,Harald Samuel Pdf

In the Hebrew Bible, war is a prominent topic which is dealt with in both legal and narrative texts. So far, the interplay between the two areas has received only little attention. This volume explores the impact of biblical war legislation on war accounts in the Hebrew Bible and in Early Jewish Literature. It provides case studies which show the importance of the topic and shed new light on redaction- and reception-historical developments.

Author : Pamela Barmash
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199392674

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The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law by Pamela Barmash Pdf

Major innovations have occurred in the study of biblical law in recent decades. The legal material of the Pentateuch has received new interest with detailed studies of specific biblical passages. The comparison of biblical practice to ancient Near Eastern customs has received a new impetus with the concentration on texts from actual ancient legal transactions. The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law provides a state of the art analysis of the major questions, principles, and texts pertinent to biblical law. The thirty-three chapters, written by an international team of experts, deal with the concepts, significant texts, institutions, and procedures of biblical law; the intersection of law with religion, socio-economic circumstances, and politics; and the reinterpretation of biblical law in the emerging Jewish and Christian communities. The volume is intended to introduce non-specialists to the field as well as to stimulate new thinking among scholars working in biblical law.

Author : Katharine J. Dell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317392552

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The Biblical World by Katharine J. Dell Pdf

The Biblical World is a comprehensive guide to the contents, historical settings, and social context of the Bible. This new edition is updated with several new chapters as well as a new section on biblical interpretation. Contributions from leading scholars in the field present wide-ranging views not just of biblical materials and their literary and linguistic context, but also of the social institutions, history and archaeology, and religious concepts. New chapters cover topics such as the priesthood and festivals, creation and covenant, ethics, and family life, while a new section on biblical interpretation discusses Jewish and Christian bible translation and key thematic emphases, and modern reader-response and cultural approaches. This revised edition of The Biblical World offers an up-to-date and thorough survey of the Bible and its world, and will continue to be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament and their history and interpretation, as well as anyone working on the societies, religions, and political and cultural institutions that created and influenced these texts.

Author : George J. Brooke,Charlotte Hempel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567590220

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T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls by George J. Brooke,Charlotte Hempel Pdf

The Dead Sea Scrolls are one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the last century. They have great historical, religious, and linguistic significance, not least in relation to the transmission of many of the books which came to be included in the Hebrew Bible. This companion comprises over 70 articles, exploring the entire body of the key texts and documents labelled as Dead Sea Scrolls. Beginning with a section on the complex methods used in discovering, archiving and analysing the Scrolls, the focus moves to consideration of the Scrolls in their various contexts: political, religious, cultural, economic and historical. The genres ascribed to groups of texts within the Scrolls- including exegesis and interpretation, poetry and hymns, and liturgical texts - are then examined, with due attention given to both past and present scholarship. The main body of the Companion concludes with crucial issues and topics discussed by leading scholars. Complemented by extensive appendices and indexes, this Companion provides the ideal resource for those seriously engaging with the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004693296

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From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

Two millennia ago, the Jewish priest-turned-general Flavius Josephus, captured by the emperor Vespasian in the middle of the Roman-Jewish War (66–70 CE), spent the last decades of his life in Rome writing several historiographical works in Greek. Josephus was eagerly read and used by Christian thinkers, but eventually his writings became the basis for the early-10th century Hebrew text called Sefer Yosippon, reintegrating Josephus into the Jewish tradition. This volume marks the first edited collection to be dedicated to the study of Josephus, Yosippon, and their reception histories. Consisting of critical inquiries into one or both of these texts and their afterlives, the essays in this volume pave the way for future research on the Josephan tradition in Greek, Latin, Hebrew and beyond.

Author : Saul M. Olyan,Jacob L. Wright
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781946527066

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Supplementation and the Study of the Hebrew Bible by Saul M. Olyan,Jacob L. Wright Pdf

Explore the role supplementation played in the development of the Hebrew Bible This new volume includes ten original essays that demonstrate clearly how common, varied, and significant the phenomenon of supplementation in the Hebrew Bible is. Contributors examine instances of supplementation ranging from minor additions to aid pronunciation, to fill in abbreviations, or to clarify ambiguous syntax to far more elaborate changes, such as interpolations within a work of prose, in a prophetic text, or in a legal text. Scholars also examine supplementation by the addition of an introduction, a conclusion, or an introductory and concluding framework to a particular lyrical, legal, prophetic, or narrative text. Features: A contribution to the further development of a panbiblical compositional perspective Examples from Psalms, the pentateuchal narratives, the Deuteronomistic History, the Latter Prophets, and legal texts

Author : Baesick Choi
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532692246

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Leviticus and Its Reception in the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran by Baesick Choi Pdf

A large amount of Leviticus material has been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Yet there is surprisingly little secondary scholarly analysis of the role of Leviticus in this corpus. The book of Leviticus survives in several manuscripts; it also features in quotations and allusions, so that it seems to be a foundational source for the ideology behind the composition of some of the nonscriptural texts. Indeed this volume argues that the ideology of the Holiness Code persisted in the communities that collected the manuscripts and placed them in the Qumran Caves.

Author : Ido Koch
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781646022700

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From Nomadism to Monarchy? by Ido Koch Pdf

Author : Diana Edelman,Kåre Berge,Philippe Guillaume,Benedetta Rossi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110713411

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Deuteronomy in the Making by Diana Edelman,Kåre Berge,Philippe Guillaume,Benedetta Rossi Pdf

A number of long-standing theories concerning the production of Deuteronomy are currently being revisited. This volume takes a fresh look at the theory that there was an independent legal collection comprising chs 12-26 that subsequently was set within one or two narrative frames to yield the book, with ongoing redactional changes. Each contributor has been asked to focus on how the “core” might have functioned as a stand-alone document or, if exploring a theme or motif, to take note of commonalities and differences within the “core” and “frames” that might shed light on the theory under review. Some of the articles also revisit the theory of a northern origin of the “core” of the book, while others challenge de Wette’s equation of Deuteronomy with the scroll found during temple repairs under Josiah. With Deuteronomic studies in a state of flux, this is a timely collection by a group of international scholars who use a range of methods and who, in varying degrees, work with or challenge older theories about the book’s origin and growth to approach the central focus from many angles. Readers will find multivalent evidence they can reflect over to decide where they stand on the issue of Deuteronomy as a framed legal “core.”

Author : Mark G. Brett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198883050

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Indigenous Rights and the Legacies of the Bible by Mark G. Brett Pdf

A Christian imagination of colonial discovery permeated the early modern world, but legal histories developed in very different ways depending on imperial jurisdictions. Indigenous Rights and the Legacies of the Bible: From Moses to Mabo explores the contradictions and ironies that emerged in the interactions between biblical warrants and colonial theories of Indigenous natural rights. The early debates in the Americas mutated in the British colonies with a range of different outcomes after the American Revolution, and tracking the history of biblical interpretation provides an illuminating pathway through these historical complexities. A ground-breaking legal judgment in the High Court of Australia, Mabo v. Queensland (1992), demonstrates the enduring legacies of debates over the previous five centuries. The case reveals that the Australian colonies are the only jurisdiction of the English common law tradition within which no treaties were made with the First Nations. Instead, there is a peculiar development of terra nullius ideology, which can be traced back to the historic influences of the book of Genesis in Puritan thought in the seventeenth century. Having identified both similarities and differences between various colonial arguments, and their overt dependence on early modern theological reasoning, Mark G. Brett examines the paradoxical permutations of imperial and anti-imperial motifs in the biblical texts themselves. Concepts of rights shifted over the centuries from theological to secular frameworks, and more recently, from anthropocentric assumptions to ecologically embedded concepts of Indigenous rights and responsibilities. Bearing in mind the differences between ancient and modern notions of indigeneity, a fresh understanding of this history proves timely as settler colonial states reflect on the implications of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007). Brett's illuminating insights in this detailed study are particularly relevant for the four states which initially voted against the Declaration: the USA, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

Author : Stephen C. Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199361885

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The King and the Land by Stephen C. Russell Pdf

This work maps unexplored dimensions of royal power in the biblical world by examining archaeological and textual evidence for royal control of privately-held lands, religious buildings, collectively-governed towns, and urban water systems.

Author : Bill T. Arnold
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467462938

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The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapters 1–11 by Bill T. Arnold Pdf

“The book of Deuteronomy can rightly be called a compendium of the most important ideas of the Old Testament.” So begins this commentary on the book of Deuteronomy, which Bill Arnold treats as the heart of the Torah and the fulcrum of the Old Testament—crystallizing the themes of the first four books of the Bible and establishing the theological foundation of the books that follow. After a thorough introduction that explores these and other matters, Arnold provides an original translation of the first eleven chapters of Deuteronomy along with verse-by-verse commentary (with the translation and commentary of the remaining chapters following in a second volume). As with the other entries in the New International Commentary on the Old Testament, Arnold remains rooted in the book’s historical context while focusing on its meaning and use as Christian Scripture today. Ideal for pastors, students, scholars, and interested laypersons, this commentary is an authoritative yet accessible companion to the book of Deuteronomy.

Author : Joel S. Baden,Jeffrey Stackert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191039751

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The Oxford Handbook of the Pentateuch by Joel S. Baden,Jeffrey Stackert Pdf

Featuring contributions from internationally-recognized scholars in the study of the Pentateuch, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of key topics and issues in contemporary pentateuchal scholarship. The Oxford Handbook of the Pentateuch considers recent debates about the formation of the Pentateuch and their implications for biblical scholarship. At the same time, it addresses a number of issues that relate more broadly to the social and intellectual worlds of the Pentateuch. This includes engagements with questions of archaeology and history, the Pentateuch and the Samaritans, the relation between the Pentateuch and other Moses traditions in the Second Temple period, the Pentateuch and social memory, and more. Crucially, the Handbook situates its discussions of current developments in pentateuchal studies in relation to the field's long history, one that in its modern, critical phase is now more than two centuries old. By showcasing both this rich history and the leading edges of the field, this collection provides a clear account of pentateuchal studies and a fresh sense of its vitality and relevance within biblical studies, religious studies, and the broader humanities.

Author : Matthew L. Walsh
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161553035

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Angels Associated with Israel in the Dead Sea Scrolls by Matthew L. Walsh Pdf

A well-known characteristic of the sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls are their assertions that membership in the Qumran movement included present and eschatological fellowship with the angels, but scholars disagree as to the precise meaning of these claims. To gain a better understanding of angelic fellowship at Qumran, Matthew L. Walsh utilizes the early Jewish concept that certain angels were closely associated with Israel. Moreover, these angels, which included guardians and priests, were envisioned within apocalyptic worldviews that assumed that realities on earth corresponded to those of the heavenly realm. A comparison of non-sectarian texts with sectarian compositions reveals that the Qumran movement's lofty assertions of communion with the guardians and priests of heavenly Israel would have made a significant contribution to their identity as the true Israel.