The Shape of the Writings / / ed. by Timothy J. Stone, Julius Steinberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Barton, John,; Brandt, Peter,; Chapman, Stephen B.,; Dempster, Stephen,; Eskenazi, Tamara Cohn,; Hossfeld, Frank-Lothar,; Koorevaar, Hendrik J.,; Kynes, Will,; Seitz, Christopher R.,; Steinberg, Julius,; Steins, Georg,; Stone, Timothy J.,; Warhurst, Amber,; Zenger, Erich,
• HerausgeberIn: Steinberg, Julius,; Stone, Timothy J.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures ; 16
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

Are the Writings a miscellaneous collection of books, as is so often asserted, or do they have a purposeful design or arrangement? Over the past 35 years, there has been a significant amount of scholarly interest in the shape of the Law, Former Prophets, Twelve Minor Prophets and the Psalms, while examinations of the shape of the Writings were almost nonexistent until very recently. The 11 essays in this volume explore this often-neglected issue from a variety of critical perspectives-reader-centered approaches, canonical, structural-canonical, and redactional-made more robust by the mix of German- and English-language scholarship on this question, including 4 articles translated from German into English. Essays range from the historical development of the collection, to analysis of the collection's different arrangements, to the relationship of books and subcollections within the Writings, to the reception of the collection in Jewish and Christian sources. Every book in the Writings is discussed, with particular attention given to Job, Ruth, and 1 and 2 Chronicles. The volume closes with 3 critical responses from John Barton, Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, and Christopher Seitz.