The Oxford Handbook of the Pentateuch

The Oxford Handbook of the Pentateuch
Author: Joel S. Baden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 589
Release: 2021-04-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0191039756

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.

The Birth Report Genre in the Hebrew Bible

The Birth Report Genre in the Hebrew Bible
Author: Timothy D. Finlay
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2005
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9783161487453

"Timothy D. Finlay conducts a comprehensive analysis of all birth reports in the Hebrew Bible. These passages include genealogies, stories of annunciation to barren women and prophetic narratives. The birth reports may be short but they contribute greatly to the plot."--BOOK JACKET.

The State of the Pentateuch

The State of the Pentateuch
Author: Damian J. Wynn-Williams
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2014-11-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 311083040X

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

The First World War and the Mobilization of Biblical Scholarship

The First World War and the Mobilization of Biblical Scholarship
Author: Andrew Mein
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-02-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567685799

This fascinating collection of essays charts, for the first time, the range of responses by scholars on both sides of the conflict to the outbreak of war in August 1914. The volume examines how biblical scholars, like their compatriots from every walk of life, responded to the great crisis they faced, and, with relatively few exceptions, were keen to contribute to the war effort. Some joined up as soldiers. More commonly, however, biblical scholars and theologians put pen to paper as part of the torrent of patriotic publication that arose both in the United Kingdom and in Germany. The contributors reveal that, in many cases, scholars were repeating or refining common arguments about the responsibility for the war. In Germany and Britain, where the Bible was still central to a Protestant national culture, we also find numerous more specialized works, where biblical scholars brought their own disciplinary expertise to bear on the matter of war in general, and this war in particular. The volume's contributors thus offer new insights into the place of both the Bible and biblical scholarship in early 20th-century culture.

1 Samuel as Christian Scripture

1 Samuel as Christian Scripture
Author: Stephen B. Chapman
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467445169

This work by Stephen Chapman offers a robustly theological and explicitly Christian reading of 1 Samuel. Chapman’s commentary reveals the theological drama at the heart of that biblical book as it probes the tension between civil religion and vital religious faith through the characters of Saul and David.