The Merton Annual, Volume 13 (Volume 13)

George Kilcourse

Sheffield Academic+press

The Chronicler in His Age (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)...

The Chronicler in His Age (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)

Ackroyd, Peter R.

Religion & Spirituality

An investigation of the literary structure and rhetorical challenge that prompted the book's production. Moller argues that the book of Amos captures and presents the debate between Amos and his eighth-century audience. When read in the light of Israel's fall, the presentation of Amos struggling (and failing) to convince his contemporaries of the imminent divine punishment functions as a powerful warning to subsequent Judaean readers.

A Prophet in Debate: The Rhetoric of Persuasion in the Book of Amos (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)

Christian Books & Bibles

Möller, Karl

Worship & Devotion

The Old Testament, and biblical scholarship itself, distinguishes between mythical and historical. This book argues that only historical thing in the Bible is the Bible itself, a superb product of Jewish thought. What is narrated in the Bible is only myth. But this myth about Israel's past was still built with fragments of history, or rather with written traditions that were different from those expressed in the actual text, and obviously more ancient. These essays follow in the spirit of his controversial History and Ideology in Ancient Israel, which combine detailed philological reseaerch, a wide knowledge of ancient Near Eastern literature and Biblical Archaeology--and a radical way of understanding what the biblical text is really telling us. This is an erudite and thought-provoking book, which should not be ignored by anyone who finds the origin of the Bible a fascinating and still largely unknown phenomenon.

Myth and History in the Bible (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)

History

Garbini, Giovanni

Europe

This book examines, in greater detail than previously undertaken, the presence of Priestly and Deuteronomic language and concepts in the book of Ezekiel. It asks: what is the nature of the relationship between Ezekiel and the Priestly Source? What is the nature of the relationship between Ezekiel, Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History? Where does the book of Ezekiel stand in the evolution of Israelite history, theology and literature-specifically, what can Ezekiel teach us about the composition of the Torah?

A New Heart and a New Soul: Ezekiel, the Exile and the Torah (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)

Levitt Kohn, Risa

New, Easy and Complete Hebrew Course

David M. Carr

Richard D. Weis

Why do the books of Chronicles regard the performance of choral music as an integral part of the sacrificial ritual at the temple, despite the lack of sanction for it in the Pentateuch? And why do they stress that it must be synchronized with the presentation of the regular public burnt offering at the temple? These and other questions are answered in this challenging new volume. After an introductory chapter defining the scope of the study as an analysis of the ritual function and theological significance of sacred song, the author examines the divine institution and royal establishment of the Levitical choir in Jerusalem. This is followed by an examination of the components of the Lord's song in terms of its contents, location, times, instruments and performers. A chapter on the function of sacred song as determined by its place within the sacrificial ritual follows, and the fifth chapter deals with its theological significance as the proclamation of the Lord's presence with his people.

The Lord's Song: The Basis, Function and Significance of Choral Music in Chronicles (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)

Kleinig, John W.

The purpose of this work is to determine the place of the book of Ezekiel in the history of the Hebrew language, especially in relationship to the canonical books of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew of Ezekiel contains grammatical and lexical features that are characteristic of the postexilic and postbiblical periods, and should thus be distinguished from earlier Hebrew works of the classical period. It does not, however, contain as much late Hebrew as other canonical books deemed to be late. The book of Ezekiel should thus be regarded as the representative mediating link between pre-exilic and postexilic Biblical Hebrew.

Biblical Hebrew in Transition: The Language of the Book of Ezekiel (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)

Rooker, Mark F.

The nine essays in this volume originated in the discussions of the Psalms programme unit of the Society of Biblical Literature and a number were first presented as papers at the SBL meetings in 1989 and 1990. The volume documents the growing interest among scholars in understanding the book of Psalms not only as a collection of liturgical materials from ancient Israel and Judah but also as a coherent literary whole. Part I considers the nature and significance of this new approach; it contains essays by J.L. Mays, Roland E. Murphy, Walter Brueggemann, Gerald H. Wilson and David M. Howard, Jr. Part II illustrates the application of this approach and offers preliminary conclusions concerning the shape of the Psalter and its component books; it contains essays by Gerald H. Wilson, Patrick D. Miller, Jr, J. Clinton McCann, Jr. and David M. Howard, Jr.

The Shape and Shaping of the Psalter (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)

Fontaine explores the social roles of women as depicted within the book of Proverbs, as well as the character archetypes and patriarchal ideologies which undergird the sages' portrayal. Using feminist folklore methodologies and performance studies, the author explores an alternative paradigm for understanding women's relationship to wisdom traditions in the ancient Near East, using parallel texts, later midrash and extrabiblical representations of biblical women associated with wisdom. Fontaine is thus able to show that women were culturally authorized 'performers' of the familybased wisdom traditions of teaching, economic problemsolving, and caregiving, and that these roles provided them with a platform to use their acknowledged wisdom in public roles.

Smooth Words: Women, Proverbs and Performance in Biblical Wisdom (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)

Fontaine, Carole

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