The Bible After Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age

כריכה קדמית
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 15 בנוב׳ 2005 - 201 עמודים
Biblical scholars today often sound as if they are caught in the aftermath of Babel -- a clamor of voices unable to reach common agreement. Yet is this confusion necessarily a bad thing? Many postmodern critics see the recent profusion of critical approaches as a welcome opportunity for the emergence of diverse new techniques. In The Bible after Babel noted biblical scholar John J. Collins considers the effect of the postmodern situation on biblical, primarily Old Testament, criticism over the last three decades. Engaging and even-handed, Collins examines the quest of historical criticism to objectively establish a text's basic meaning. Accepting that the Bible may no longer provide secure "foundations" for faith, Collins still highlights its ethical challenge to be concerned for "the other" -- a challenge central both to Old Testament ethics and to the teaching of Jesus.
 

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Historical Criticism and Its Postmodern Critics
1
The Crisis in Historiography
27
Exodus and Liberation in Postcolonial Perspective
53
The Impact of Feminist and Gender Studies
75
Israelite Religion The Return of the Goddess
99
Is a Postmodern Biblical Theology Possible?
131
Bibliography
162
Index of Names
193
Index of Ancient Literature
198
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מידע על המחבר (2005)

John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School and a recognized expert in early Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls. His many other works include The Apocalyptic Imagination, Beyond the Qumran Community, The Scepter and the Star, and (with Daniel C. Harlow) The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism.

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