The Hebrew Bible : : New Insights and Scholarship / / ed. by Frederick E. Greenspahn.
In April of 2001, the headline in the Los Angeles Times read, “Doubting the Story of the Exodus.” It covered a sermon that had been delivered by the rabbi of a prominent local congregation over the holiday of Passover. In it, he said, “The truth is that virtually every modern archeologist who has in...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Part I The Bible and History
- 1 Israel Without the Bible
- 2 Bible, Archaeology, and the Social Sciences: The Next Generation
- Part II New Approaches to the Bible
- 3 Literary Approaches to Biblical Literature: General Observations and a Case Study of Genesis 34
- 4 Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible
- Part III Ancient Practice
- 5 The Laws of Biblical Israel
- 6 The Study of Ritual in the Hebrew Bible
- Part IV Judaism and the Bible
- 7 By the Letter?/Word for Word? Scripture in the Jewish Tradition
- 8 From Judaism to Biblical Religion and Back Again
- 9 Jewish Biblical Theology
- Epilogue: Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom: Some Reflections on Reading and Studying the Hebrew Bible
- About the Contributors
- Index
- Index of Biblical Passages