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The Hebrew Bible : new insights and scholarship
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The Hebrew Bible : new insights and scholarship

Author: Frederick E Greenspahn
Publisher: New York : New York University Press, ©2008.
Series: Jewish studies in the 21st century.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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 investigated the story of the exodus, with very few exceptions, agrees that the way the Bible describes the exodus is not  Read more...
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Genre/Form: études diverses
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Frederick E Greenspahn
ISBN: 9780814731871 0814731872 9780814731888 0814731880
OCLC Number: 144768059
Description: xiii, 231 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Israel without the Bible / Gary A. Rendsburg --
Bible, archaeology, and the social sciences: the next generation / Elizabeth Bloch-Smith --
Literary approaches to biblical literature: general observations and a case study of Genesis 34 / Adele Berlin --
Feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible / Esther Fuchs --
The laws of biblical Israel / Raymond Westbrook --
The study of ritual in the Hebrew Bible / David P. Wright --
By the letter?/word for word? Scripture in the Jewish tradition / Leonard Greenspoon --
From Judaism to biblical religion and back again / Ziony Zevit --
Jewish biblical theology / Marvin A. Sweeney --
Epilogue: Let a hundred flowers bloom: some reflections on reading and studying the Hebrew Bible / Peter Machinist.
Series Title: Jewish studies in the 21st century.
Responsibility: edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn.
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Fresh understandings concerning the Bible have not filtered down beyond specialists in university settings. This volume seeks to meet this need, with chapters describing how archeology, theology,  Read more...

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