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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956647703321

Autore

Ratheiser Gershom Manfred Hubert <1966->

Titolo

Mitzvoth ethics and the Jewish Bible : the end of Old Testament theology / / Gershom M.H. Ratheiser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : T & T Clark, c2007

ISBN

1-283-27086-2

9786613270863

0-567-07276-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (424 p.)

Collana

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; ; 460

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Disciplina

221.601

Soggetti

Jewish ethics

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; Introductory Thoughts and Preliminaries; Chapter 1 ANALYSIS OF APPROACHES TO THE JEWISH BIBLE; Chapter 2 AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH: THE PARADIGM OF EXAMPLES; Chapter 3 JOSHUA THE EXEMPLARY WARRIOR; Summary and Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

Ratheiser's study provides the framework for a non-confessional, mitzvoth ethics-centered and historical-philological approach to the Jewish Bible and deals with the basic steps of an alternative paradigmatic perspective on the biblical text. The author seeks to demonstrate the ineptness of confessional and historical approaches to the Jewish Bible. Based on his observations and his survey of the history of interpretation of the Jewish Bible, Ratheiser introduces an alternative hermeneutical-exegetical approach to the Jewish Bible: the paradigm of examples. His study concludes that the biblica