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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Schriftgelehrte Traditionsliteratur: Fallstudien zur innerbiblischen Schriftauslegung im Alten Testament
Die neuere Forschung zum Alten Testament hat deutlich gemacht, dass dessen Bücher über weite Strecken hin Text und Kommentar in einem sind. Die Schriftwerdung des Alten Testaments lässt sich als ein differenzierter Prozess innerbiblischer Schriftauslegung interpretieren, der überkommenes Textgut jeweils auf neue historische Situationen hin aktualisiert hat. Erst die Kanonsgrenze hat Text und Kommentar dann dauerhaft voneinander getrennt. Der vorliegende Band vereinigt verschiedene Studien von Konrad Schmid, in denen er sich der Rekonstruktion der Schriftkultur und des Literaturbetriebs im antiken Israel zuwendet, mehrere Fallstudien innerbiblischer Exegese im Alten Testament vorstellt und schließlich die theologische Bedeutung dieser Befunde thematisiert. Das von der neueren alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft gezeichnete Bild des Alten Testaments als schriftgelehrter Traditionsliteratur erweist sich dabei als Grundlage einer historisch differenzierten und theologisch dynamischen Wahrnehmung der Bibel.
£117.98
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) The Post-Priestly Pentateuch: New Perspectives on its Redactional Development and Theological Profiles
Today agreement regarding the formation of the Pentateuch is no longer as widespread as it was when the documentary hypothesis was first proposed. Numerous scholars find that more recent periods of Israelite history - the exilic and post-exilic periods - are more likely to have been behind important sections of the Pentateuch. This has resulted in a major shift in scholarship: no longer is the remote past of Israelite history the only era, or even the primary era, during which the Pentateuch came into formation. Rather, the development of the Pentateuch continued down into the Persian and Hellenistic periods. During these centuries, the post-exilic community brought together the texts of their own cultural heritage and blended these ancient stories with ex novo additions that reflected their current historical situation. The result was the Pentateuch as we know it today. This volume focuses on these final redactions included in the biblical text after the Priestly materials. The purpose of these final additions was to complete that which was deemed necessary to recount, as well as to update, reorient, and, sometimes, to correct older materials containing ideas that were no longer compatible with the post-exilic time of the editors.
£127.40
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Beyond Eden: The Biblical Story of Paradise (Genesis 2-3) and Its Reception History
The biblical story of paradise (Genesis 2-3) is probably one of the best known texts in world literature. It has had a rich reception history over many centuries. Genesis 2-3 formulates fundamental premises and problems of human self-understanding in the Western world. The biblical text of Genesis 2-3 itself has almost been buried under its traditional interpretations. In the Christian realm, it is commonly known as the story of Adam, Eve, the apple, the fall and the punishment of humankind with mortality. However, only Eve is really present in the biblical text, all the other elements are the result of a productive history of reception in later periods. The forbidden fruit is never identified in terms of botany. It was the Latin reception history that transformed it into an apple (malum), because evil (malum) came into the world through it. The so-called fall is not described in terms of sin in Genesis 2-3, since sin is mentioned for the first time in the Bible in Genesis 4:6-7, and the first human beings are made mortal from the very beginning, as their formation out of dust and the formulation of Gen. 2:16-17 as a traditional legal sentence implying death penalty indicate. Thus the penalty for eating from the forbidden fruit is death, not mortality. However, the meaning of the story has been substantially transformed in this point throughout the centuries, and it is claimed that mortality is the result of the fall. The authors of this volume explain both the theological profiles of the biblical text and its consequences. Its contributions stem from the fields of Biblical Studies, Religious Studies, Art History, Jewish Studies, Classical Studies, the History of Christianity and Philosophy.
£76.02
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Laws of Heaven - Laws of Nature / Himmelsgesetze - Naturgesetze: Legal Interpretations of Cosmic Phenomena in the Ancient World / Rechtsförmige ... Et Orientalis
Text in English & German. Das wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Gedächtnis des Abendlandes erkennt die Urspr|nge der Idee von Naturgesetzen' bei den Vorsokratikern, Platon und der Stoa. Die rechtsförmige Interpretation kosmischer Phänomene reicht jedoch in den Alten Orient zur|ck und hat auch Eingang in die alttestamentliche Literatur gefunden. Der vorliegende Band erschlieát und analysiert die entsprechenden Texte und formuliert so einen neuen Zugang zur Vorstellung von Naturgesetzen' in der Antike.
£57.99
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Deuteronomy in the Pentateuch, Hexateuch, and the Deuteronomistic History
The earlier consensus concerning the Pentateuch and the Deuteronomistic History has been significantly challenged in recent scholarship. Because of its canonical placement, the book of Deuteronomy plays an important role in these discussions. The earlier consensus was that the D source in the Pentateuch was primarily (if not only) found in Deuteronomy and that Deuteronomy was the founding source for the Deuteronomistic History. Recently, however, some scholars are once again talking about the D source in books before and after Deuteronomy, while others are questioning the centrality of the D source for the formation of the so-called Deuteronomistic History. This volume brings together various voices in these recent debates concerning the role of Deuteronomy in the larger literary works incorporating material before and after the book of Deuteronomy. Contributors include Reinhard Kratz, Jeffrey Stackert, Sandra Richter, Christophe Nihan, Cynthia Edenburg, Juha Pakkala, and Konrad Schmid.
£53.10
Harvard University Press The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture
“A landmark…If you have time to read only one book on the Bible this year, make sure that it is this one.”—Katherine J. Dell, Church Times“Excellent…With a sure touch, the authors lead the reader through the geopolitical context of the Hebrew Bible and the setting and background of the New Testament, finding something to say about practically every book’s origins and development.”—John Barton, The Tablet“A remarkable deep dive into foundational books whose origins are often taken for granted.”—Publishers WeeklyIn this revelatory account of the making of the foundational text of western civilization, a world-renowned scholar of the Hebrew scriptures joins a noted authority on the New Testament to reconstruct Jewish and Christian scriptural histories and reveal the underappreciated contest between them.The New Testament, they show, did not develop in the wake of an Old Testament set in stone. The two evolved in parallel, often in conversation with each other, ensuring a continuing mutual influence of Jewish and Christian traditions. A remarkable synthesis of the latest Old and New Testament scholarship, The Making of the Bible is the most comprehensive history yet of the long, transformative journeys of these texts on route to inclusion in the holy books, revealing their buried lessons and secrets.
£19.56
Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Jahrbuch fÃ"r Biblische Theologie
£52.99