The So-called Deuteronomistic History: A Sociological, HIstorical and Literary Introduction

In contrast to the Torah/Pentateuch, the Deuteronomistic History is not recognised by Jewish or Christian tradition as a separate collection and the term itself is an invention of modern biblical scholarship. In this detailed investigation of the Deuteronomistic History, Thomas Romer provides students and scholars of the Old Testament with a complete guide to this important subject. Romer briefly outlines the content of biblical books relevant to the study of Deuteronomistic History - Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges and Samuel-Kings. He then defines the concept of Deuteronomistic History, surveying the evolution and history of the debate with particular emphasis on the work of Martin Noth. Romer then provides a sociological, historical and literary approach to the books from Deuteronomy to Kings. He examines questions such as: Why and how did Deuteronomism rise as a 'school' under Assyrian hegemony? What role did propaganda play in the composition of these books? What happened on an ideological and sociological level during the Exile and Persian period? Is the so-called Deuteronomistic literature properly understood as crisis literature? And what influence did the Deuteronomistic History have on the identity of the Second Temple period.

The So-Called Deuteronomistic History: A Sociological, Historical and Literary Introduction

Religion & Spirituality

Römer, Thomas

Christian Books & Bibles

T&T Clark

Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas Römer seeks to answer these questions about the deity of the great monotheisms―Yhwh, God, or Allah―by tracing Israelite beliefs and their context from the Bronze Age to the end of the Old Testament period in the third century BCE.
That we can address such enigmatic questions at all may come as a surprise. But as Römer makes clear, a wealth of evidence allows us to piece together a reliable account of the origins and evolution of the god of Israel. Römer draws on a long tradition of historical, philological, and exegetical work and on recent discoveries in archaeology and epigraphy to locate the origins of Yhwh in the early Iron Age, when he emerged somewhere in Edom or in the northwest of the Arabian peninsula as a god of the wilderness and of storms and war. He became the sole god of Israel and Jerusalem in fits and starts as other gods, including the mother goddess Asherah, were gradually sidelined. But it was not until a major catastrophe―the destruction of Jerusalem and Judah―that Israelites came to worship Yhwh as the one god of all, creator of heaven and earth, who nevertheless proclaimed a special relationship with Judaism.
A masterpiece of detective work and exposition by one of the world’s leading experts on the Hebrew Bible, The Invention of God casts a clear light on profoundly important questions that are too rarely asked, let alone answered.

The Invention of God

History

Ancient Civilizations

Harvard University Press

Treats the question of interpreting difficult texts of the Bible that seem to shock our modern understanding of God and religious ideas.

Dark God: Cruelty, Sex, and Violence in the Old Testament

Paulist Press

For many years it has been recognized that the key to explaining the production of the Bible lies in understanding the profession, the practice and the mentality of scribes in the ancient Near East, classical Greece and the Greco-Roman world. In many ways, however, the production of the Jewish literary canon, while reflecting wider practice, constitutes an exception because of its religious function as the written "word of God", leading in turn to the veneration of scrolls as sacred and even cultic objects in themselves. "Writing the Bible" brings together the wide-ranging study of all major aspects of ancient writing and writers. The essays cover the dissemination of texts, book and canon formation, and the social and political effects of writing and of textual knowledge. Central issues discussed include the status of the scribe, the nature of 'authorship', the relationship between copying and redacting, and the relative status of oral and written knowledge. The writers examined include Ilimilku of Ugarit, the scribes of ancient Greece, Ben Sira, Galen, Origen and the author of Pseudo-Clement.

Writing the Bible: Scribes, Scribalism and Script

Literature & Fiction

DAVIES, Philip

History & Criticism

Routledge

Writing the Bible: Scribes, Scribalism and Script (Bibleworld)

For many years it has been recognized that the key to explaining the production of the Bible lies in understanding the profession, the practice and the mentality of scribes in the ancient Near East, classical Greece and the Greco-Roman world. In many ways, however, the production of the Jewish literary canon, while reflecting wider practice, constitutes an exception because of its religious function as the written "word of God," leading in turn to the veneration of scrolls as sacred and even cultic objects in themselves. Writing the Bible brings together the wide-ranging study of all major aspects of ancient writing and writers. The essays cover the dissemination of texts, book and canon formation, and the social and political effects of writing and of textual knowledge. Central issues discussed include the status of the scribe, the nature of "authorship," the relationship between copying and redacting, and the relative status of oral and written knowledge. The writers examined include Ilimilku of Ugarit, the scribes of ancient Greece, Ben Sira, Galen, Origen and the author of Pseudo-Clement.

Davies, Philip R.

Acumen Publishing

Dans le paysage religieux de l’humanité, le judaïsme est considéré comme la plus ancienne religion monothéiste, confessant qu’il n’existe qu’un seul dieu, qui est à la fois le dieu spécifique du peuple d’Israël et le dieu de tout l’univers. Cette idée d’un dieu unique s’est ensuite propagée à travers le christianisme et l’islam. Le dieu auquel se réfèrent, de manières différentes, les trois religions monothéistes, semble régner seul de toute éternité sur le ciel et la terre. À y regarder de plus près, on trouve cependant dans les différents textes bibliques des indices qui attestent que les anciens Israélites vénéraient d’autres dieux à côté de Yahvé. De fait, contrairement à ce que certains théologiens continuent d’affirmer, il ne fait pas de doute que le dieu de la Bible n’a pas été « unique » depuis toujours.En analysant les textes bibliques comme n’importe quel document de l’Antiquité et en confrontant les méthodes exégétiques aux plus récentes découvertes de l’archéologie et de l’épigraphie, cette enquête passionnante retrace l’histoire de ce dieu de l’orage et de la guerre depuis ses origines jusqu’à sa « victoire » sur les autres dieux et déesses, son installation comme dieu national en Israël et en Juda et, enfin, l’affirmation de son unicité et de sa transcendance.

L'Invention de Dieu

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

SEUIL

Aux origines de la Torah. Nouvelles rencontres, nouvelles perspectives

Finkelstein, Israël

Judaism

BAYARD ADULTE

Le lecteur de l’Ancien Testament désireux d’accéder au texte hébreu est confronté à l’édition de la « Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia » et à son système complexe de signes critiques et de notes. Ce petit guide permet d’identifier et de comprendre la signification de toutes ces indications marginales. Par ailleurs, les auteurs précisent les méthodes habituellement utilisées par les chercheurs pour examiner les variantes et juger lesquelles se rapprochent le plus vraisemblablement du texte primitif.

Guide de la Bible hébraïque: La critique textuelle dans la Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia

Macchi, Jean-Daniel

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