Copenhagen International Seminar
Changing Perspectives 1: Studies in the History, Literature and Religion of Biblical Israel
1st Edition
By John Van Seters
June 30, 2020
The volume brings together forty years of agenda-setting scholarship in Israelite and Judean history. The historical essays gathered here were among the first to raise serious questions about the "patriarchal age", the exodus from Egypt and the conquest of Canaan, and the temple of Solomon. The ...
Argonauts of the Desert: Structural Analysis of the Hebrew Bible
1st Edition
By Philippe Wajdenbaum
December 12, 2019
'Argonauts of the Desert' presents a revolutionary new commentary on the Bible and its origins, arguing that most biblical stories and laws were inspired by Greek literature. From Genesis to Kings, the books of the Bible may have been written by a single author, a Hellenized Judean scholar who used...
Biblical Interpretation Beyond Historicity: Changing Perspectives 7
1st Edition
Edited
By Ingrid Hjelm, Thomas Thompson
December 12, 2019
Biblical Interpretation beyond Historicity evaluates the new perspectives that have emerged since the crisis over historicity in the 1970s and 80s in the field of biblical scholarship. Several new studies in the field, as well as the ‘deconstructive’ side of literary criticism that emerged from ...
Biblical Narrative and Palestine's History: Changing Perspectives 2
2nd Edition
By Thomas L. Thompson
December 12, 2019
Modern biblical scholarship's commitment to the historical-critical method in its efforts to write a history of Israel has created the central and unavoidable problem of writing an objective and critical history of Palestine through the biblical literature with the methods of Biblical Archaeology. ...
Biblical Studies and the Failure of History: Changing Perspectives 3
1st Edition
By Niels Peter Lemche
December 12, 2019
Until the 1970s biblical studies belonged to the historical-critical school and had reached a point where all problems were believed to have been solved. Then all assumptions began to be turned on their head. Previously, historical studies constituted the backbone of biblical studies; now, every ...
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 ...
Representing Zion: Judgement and Salvation in the Old Testament
1st Edition
By Frederik Poulsen
December 12, 2019
The prophetic books of the Old Testament offer a fascinating collection of oracles, poetic images, and theological ideas. Among the most prominent themes are those of judgment and salvation, especially concerning the fate of Zion. This place, where the people of God dwell, is alternately presented ...
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 Bible and Hellenism: Greek Influence on Jewish and Early Christian Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas L. Thompson, Philippe Wajdenbaum
December 12, 2019
Did the Bible only take its definitive form after Alexander conquered the Near East, after the Hellenisation of the Samaritans and Jews, and after the founding of the great library of Alexandria? The Bible and Hellenism takes up one of the most pressing and controversial questions of Bible Studies ...