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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453180203321

Titolo

Text as pretext [[electronic resource] ] : essays in honour of Robert Davidson / / edited by Robert P. Carroll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, Eng., : JSOT Press, c1992

ISBN

1-281-80396-0

9786611803964

0-567-09138-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 138

Altri autori (Persone)

CarrollRobert P

DavidsonRobert

Disciplina

221

Soggetti

Hebrew language - Style

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Can a Biblical Theology also be Academic or Ecumenical?; Manipulating Moses: Exodus 2.10-15 in Egyptian Judaism and the New Testament; Ephesians 2.11-22: A Christian View of Judaism; The Discombobulations of Time and the Diversities of Text: Notes on the Rezeptionsgeschichte of the Bible; Mark 1.1: archeĢ„, 'Scriptural Lemma'; The Midst of the Years; Criticism and Tradition; A New Look at Job 41.1-4 (English 41.9-12); Could not the Universe Have Come into Existence 200 Yards to the Left? A Thematic Study of Job

The Two Theological Versions of the Passover Pericope in ExodusFrom Evidence to Edifice: Four Fallacies about the Sabbath; The End of Time: A Biblical Theme in Messiaen's Quartet; Story-patterning in Genesis; The Reader in Pain: Job as Text and Pretext; Towards a Biblical Theology: von Balthasar's The Glory of the Lord; Sins, Debts and Jubilee Release; A 'Farced Epistol' to a Sinking Sun of David. Ecclesiastes and Finnegans Wake: The Sinoptic View; Bibliography of Robert Davidson; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays in honour of Professor Robert Davidson celebrates a number of notable achievements of this outstanding



Scottish churchman and scholar. It is published for the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, but it also marks his retirement from full-time university teaching and nods in the direction of his having been the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (1990-91). The guiding principle governing this collection of essays is the notion of the Bible as the generator of other texts and cultural productions. The contributors are drawn from Davidson's wid