On the way to the postmodern [[electronic resource] ] : Old Testament essays, 1967-1998 . Volume 1 / / David J.A. Clines

• Autore: Clines David J. A
• Pubblicazione: Sheffield, England, : Sheffield Academic Press, c1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (464 p.)
• Disciplina: 221.6
• Soggetto topico: Postmodernism - Religious aspects - Christianity
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Volume 1; Abbreviations; Introduction; METHOD; 1 Reading Esther from Left to Right: Contemporary Strategies for Reading a Biblical Text; 2 Methods in Old Testament Study; 3 Possibilities and Priorities of Biblical Interpretation in an International Perspective; 4 Beyond Synchronic/Diachronic; 5 Nehemiah 10 as an Example of Early Jewish Biblical Exegesis; 6 Ethics as Deconstruction, and, The Ethics of Deconstruction; 7 Varieties of Indeterminacy; 8 The Pyramid and the Net: The Postmodern Adventure in Biblical Studies ; 9 From Salamanca to Cracow: What Has (and Has Not) Happened at SBL International Meetings10 From Copenhagen to Oslo: What Has (and Has Not) Happened at Congresses of the IOSOT; LITERATURE; 11 Story and Poem: The Old Testament as Literature and as Scripture; 12 X, X benY, benY: Personal Names in Hebrew Narrative Style; 13 Form, Occasion and Redaction in Jeremiah 20; 14 'You tried to persuade me' and 'Violence! Outrage!' in Jeremiah 20.7-8; 15 Hosea 2: Structure and Interpretation; 16 The Parallelism of Greater Precision: Notes from Isaiah 40 for a Theory of Hebrew Poetry ; 17 The Significance of the 'Sons of God' Episode (Genesis 6.1-4) in the Context of the 'Primaeval History' (Genesis 1-11)18 The Force of the Text: A Response to Tamara C. Eskenazi's 'Ezra-Nehemiah: From Text to Actuality'; HISTORY; 19 The Evidence for an Autumnal New Year in Pre-exilic Israel Reconsidered; 20 Regnal Year Reckoning in the Last Years of the Kingdom of Judah; 21 New Year; 22 In Quest of the Historical Mordecai
• Sommario/riassunto: For these two volumes, the author has selected 50 articles and papers, ten of them not previously published, from his work as an Old Testament scholar over the last 30 years. Some of the papers, like 'The Evidence for an Autumnal New Year in Pre-exilic Israel Reconsidered', are far from postmodern in their outlook. But there is ample evidence here that the postmodern is indeed the direction in which his mind has been moving. The essays are organized in eight sections (Method, Literature, History, Theology, Language, Psalms, Job-and, for entertainment, Divertimenti). They include 'Reading Esthe
• Titolo autorizzato: On the way to the postmodern
• ISBN: 1-281-81426-1; 9786611814267; 0-567-34307-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452976903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies