Copenhagen International Seminar
History, Archaeology and The Bible Forty Years After Historicity: Changing Perspectives 6
1st Edition
Edited
By Ingrid Hjelm, Thomas L. Thompson
December 12, 2019
In History, Archaeology and the Bible Forty Years after "Historicity", Hjelm and Thompson argue that a ‘crisis’ broke in the 1970s, when several new studies of biblical history and archaeology were published, questioning the historical-critical method of biblical scholarship. The crisis formed the ...
Myths of Exile: History and Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible
1st Edition
By Anne Katrine Gudme, Ingrid Hjelm
December 12, 2019
The Babylonian exile in 587-539 BCE is frequently presented as the main explanatory factor for the religious and literary developments found in the Hebrew Bible. The sheer number of both ‘historical’ and narrative exiles confirms that the theme of exile is of great importance in the Hebrew Bible. ...
Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible
1st Edition
By Russell E. Gmirkin
December 12, 2019
Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible for the first time compares the ancient law collections of the Ancient Near East, the Greeks and the Pentateuch to determine the legal antecedents for the biblical laws. Following on from his 2006 work, Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus, Gmirkin ...
Rewriting Peter as an Intertextual Character in the Canonical Gospels
1st Edition
By Finn Damgaard
December 12, 2019
Peter is a fascinating character in all four canonical gospels, not only as a literary figure in each of the gospels respectively, but also when looked at from an intertextual perspective. This book examines how Peter is rewritten for each of the gospels, positing that the different portrayals of ...
Syria-Palestine in The Late Bronze Age: An Anthropology of Politics and Power
1st Edition
By Emanuel Pfoh
December 12, 2019
Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age presents an explicitly anthropological perspective on politics and social relationships. An anthropological reading of the textual and epigraphic remains of the time allows us to see how power was constructed and political subordination was practised and ...
The Emergence of Israel in Ancient Palestine: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
1st Edition
By Emanuel Pfoh
February 29, 2016
Taking advantage of critical methodology for history-writing and the use of anthropological insights and ethnographic data from the modern Middle East, this study aims at providing new understandings on the emergence of Israel in ancient Palestine and the socio-political dynamics at work in the ...
Japheth ben Ali's Book of Jeremiah: A Critical Edition and Linguistic Analysis of the Judaeo-Arabic Translation
1st Edition
By Joshua A. Sabih
January 20, 2016
This volume deals with three themes: medieval Judaism, Arabic and Hebrew sociolinguistics, and Arabic Bible translation. Within Medieval Judaism, the Karaite Jews became a prosperous community under the banners of Islam. One of the most salient signs of the Karaite community's strength and internal...
The Origin Myths and Holy Places in the Old Testament: A Study of Aetiological Narratives
1st Edition
By Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spano, Jacek Laskowski
January 20, 2016
'Origin Myths and Holy Places in the Old Testament' examines the biblical narratives which describe the origins of holy places. It argues for the Hellenistic origin or redaction of most of these narratives. Three central questions are addressed: are there common features in biblical accounts about ...
Is This Not The Carpenter?: The Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas L. Thompson, Thomas S. Verenna
August 21, 2014
The historicity of Jesus is now widely accepted and hardly questioned by most scholars. But this assumption disarms biblical texts of much of their power by privileging an historical interpretation which effectively sweeps aside much theological speculation and allusion. Furthermore, the assumption...
The Expression Son of Man and the Development of Christology: A History of Interpretation
1st Edition
By Mogens Muller
August 08, 2014
'Son of Man' is practically the only self-designation employed by Jesus himself in the gospels, but is used in such a way that no hint is left of any particular theological significance. Still, during the first many centuries of the church, the expression as it was reused was given content, first ...