Author : Robert Polzin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 1993-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253114273
"[Polzin's] book... will profoundly affect biblical scholarship for at least a generation." -- Frank Kermode "[A] suggestive and rich book, written in a clear and witty style." -- Marc Z. Brettler, The Journal of Religion "Literary commentary at its best." -- Adele Berlin
Author : Cynthia Edenburg
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 49,27 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1589836391
The book of Samuel tells the story of the origins of kingship in Israel in what seems to be an artistically structured, flowing narrative. Yet it is also marked by an inconsistent outlook, divergent styles, and breaks in the narrative. According to Noth’s Deuteronomistic History hypothesis, the Deuteronomistic historian constructed the narrative by piecing together early sources and generally refrained from commenting in his own voice. Recent studies have called into question the extent of Samuel’s sources and their redaction history, as well as the textual growth of the book as a whole. The essays in this book, representing the latest scholarship on this subject, reexamine whether the book of Samuel was ever part of a Deuteronomistic History. The contributors are A. Graeme Auld, Hannes Bezzel, Philip R. Davies, Walter Dietrich, Cynthia Edenburg, Jeremy M. Hutton, Jürg Hutzli, Ernst Axel Knauf, Reinhard Müller, Richard D. Nelson, Christophe Nihan, K. L. Noll, Juha Pakkala, and Jacques Vermeylen.
Author : Martin Noth
Publisher :
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780905774251
Author : Robert Alter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0393070255
"A masterpiece of contemporary Bible translation and commentary."—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books of 1999 Acclaimed for its masterful new translation and insightful commentary, The David Story is a fresh, vivid rendition of one of the great works in Western literature. Robert Alter's brilliant translation gives us David, the beautiful, musical hero who slays Goliath and, through his struggles with Saul, advances to the kingship of Israel. But this David is also fully human: an ambitious, calculating man who navigates his life's course with a flawed moral vision. The consequences for him, his family, and his nation are tragic and bloody. Historical personage and full-blooded imagining, David is the creation of a literary artist comparable to the Shakespeare of the history plays.
Author : Robert Polzin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,44 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780253345547
Author : Gary N. Knoppers
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Bible
ISBN : 157506037X
Author : Brian Neil Peterson
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451487460
Peterson engages the identities and provenances of the authors of the various “editions” of the Deteronomistic History. Peterson asks where we might locate a figure with both motive and opportunity to draw up a proto-narrative including elements of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and the first part of 1 Kings. Peterson identifies a particular candidate in the time of David qualified to write the first edition. He then identifies the particular circle of custodians of the Deuteronomistic narrative and supplies successive redactions down to the time of Jeremiah.
Author : David T. Lamb
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 2007-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0199231478
David T. Lamb examines not only the dynasty of Jehu within the narrative of 2 Kings, but also the broader context of the dynasties of Israel and Judah in the books of Kings and Samuel. Lamb discusses religious aspects of kingship (such as anointing, divine election, and prayer) in both the Old Testament and in the literature of the ancient Near East. He concludes that the Deuteronomistic editor, because of a deep concern that leaders be divinely chosen and obedient to Yahweh, soughtto subvert the monarchical status quo by shaping the Jehuite narrative to emphasize that dynastic succession disastrously fails to produce righteous leaders.
Author : Martin Noth
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567038025
Martin Noth's study of the Chronicler's History may not be so widely known as his celebrated Deuteronomistic History (published by JSOT Press in English translation in 1981). However, as Williamson argues in his introduction, written specially to accompany this translation, it was a most significant contribution to the study of Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah, and a translation of it has been long overdue. In view of the recent revival of interest in this body of literature, it is important that English-speaking readers should have first-hand access to one of the seminal studies in this field.
Author : Raymond F. Person
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1589835174
This volume reexamines and reconstructs the relationship between the Deuteronomistic History and the book of Chronicles, building on recent developments such as the Persian -period dating of the Deuteronomistic History, the contribution of oral traditional studies to understanding the production of biblical texts, and the reassessment of Standard Biblical Hebrew and Late Biblical Hebrew. These new perspectives challenge widely held understandings of the relationship between the two scribal works and strongly suggest that they were competing historiographies during the Persian period that nevertheless descended from a common source. This new reconstruction leads to new readings of the literature.
