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Sources and Authors: Assumptions in the Study of Hebrew Bible Narrative / Noel K. Weeks.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its ContextsPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (391 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781463200343
  • 9781463234027
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 221.6/6
LOC classification:
  • BS1182.3.W44 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Genesis -- 3. Judges -- 4. Samuel -- 5. History and Historiography -- 6. Kings and Chronicles -- 7. Historiography and History -- Bibliography -- Index of Scripture Passages
Summary: The foundational period of Hebrew Bible scholarship promulgated the assumption that the original “authors” were incapable of the sophisticated literary technique displayed in that work. Complexity was ascribed to a later stage. Yet in that later stage the supposedly more sophisticated redactors were unable to see blatant contradictions and redundancies. This work investigates Genesis, Judges, Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles looking at how the message conveyed has been misunderstood through assumptions about the capacities and intentions of original writers. It shows how retaining the assumptions about the inability of early writers inevitably leads to conclusions of a late provenance.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Genesis -- 3. Judges -- 4. Samuel -- 5. History and Historiography -- 6. Kings and Chronicles -- 7. Historiography and History -- Bibliography -- Index of Scripture Passages

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The foundational period of Hebrew Bible scholarship promulgated the assumption that the original “authors” were incapable of the sophisticated literary technique displayed in that work. Complexity was ascribed to a later stage. Yet in that later stage the supposedly more sophisticated redactors were unable to see blatant contradictions and redundancies. This work investigates Genesis, Judges, Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles looking at how the message conveyed has been misunderstood through assumptions about the capacities and intentions of original writers. It shows how retaining the assumptions about the inability of early writers inevitably leads to conclusions of a late provenance.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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