Empirical Models Challenging Biblical Criticism

2016-09-21 Religion

Author : Raymond F. Person
Release : 2016-09-21
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book Empirical Models Challenging Biblical Criticism written by Raymond F. Person. This book was released on 2016-09-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting edge reflections on biblical text formation Empirical models based on ancient Near Eastern literature and variations between different textual traditions have been used to lend credibility to the identification of the sources behind biblical literature and the different editorial layers. In this volume, empirical models are used to critique the exaggerated results of identifying sources and editorial layers by demonstrating that, even though much of ancient literature had such complex literary histories, our methods are often inadequate for the task of precisely identifying sources and editorial layers. The contributors are Maxine L. Grossman, Bénédicte Lemmelijn, Alan Lenzi, Sara J. Milstein, Raymond F. Person Jr., Robert Rezetko, Stefan Schorch, Julio Trebolle Barrera, Ian Young, and Joseph A. Weaks. Features: Evidence that many ancient texts are composite texts with complex literary histories Ten essays and an introduction cover texts from Mesopotamia, the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Empirical Models for Biblical Criticism

2005-10-21 Religion

Author : Jeffrey H. Tigay
Release : 2005-10-21
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book Empirical Models for Biblical Criticism written by Jeffrey H. Tigay. This book was released on 2005-10-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern critical scholarship has concluded that the books of the Hebrew Bible have not reached us in their original form but are the products of lengthy evolution. Many of these books are thought to combine the works of more than one author or age and to have undergone considerable revision. Tigay and the other contributors use comparisons of various texts from ancient Mesopotamia and post-exilic Israel. Such comparisons show that the sort of development of biblical literature that nineteenth-century critics were led to postulate from close study of the texts alone is characteristic of many ancient Near Eastern texts. 'Empirical Models for Biblical Criticism' is of value to scholars interested in the Old Testament, as well as religion, theology, Jewish studies, Near Eastern studies, and comparative literature.

The Nature of Biblical Criticism

2007-01-01 Religion

Author : John Barton
Release : 2007-01-01
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book The Nature of Biblical Criticism written by John Barton. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biblical criticism faces increasing hostility on two fronts: from biblical conservatives, who claim it is inherently positivistic and religiously skeptical, and from postmodernists, who see it as driven by the falsities of objectivity and neutrality. In this magisterial overview of the key factors and developments in biblical studies, John Barton demonstrates that these evaluations of biblical criticism fail to do justice to the work that has been done by critical scholars over many generations. Traditional biblical criticism has had as its central concern a semantic interest: a desire to establish the "plain sense" of the biblical text, which in itself requires sensitivity to many literary aspects of texts. Therefore, he argues, biblical criticism already includes many of the methodological approaches now being recommended as alternatives to it and, further, the agenda of biblical studies is far less fragmented than often thought.

Scribal Memory and Word Selection

2023-07-21 Religion

Author : Raymond F. Person Jr.
Release : 2023-07-21
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book Scribal Memory and Word Selection written by Raymond F. Person Jr.. This book was released on 2023-07-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What were ancient scribes doing when they copied a manuscript of a literary work? This question is especially problematic when we realize that ancient scribes preserved different versions of the same literary texts. In Scribal Memory and Word Selection: Text Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Raymond F. Person Jr. draws from studies of how words are selected in everyday conversation to illustrate that the same word-selection mechanisms were at work in scribal memory. Using examples from manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, Person provides new ways of understanding the cognitive-linguistic mechanisms at work during the composition/transmission of texts. Person reveals that, while our modern perspective may consider textual variants to be different literary texts, from the perspective of the ancient scribes and their audiences, these variants could still be understood as the same literary text.

Inconsistency in the Torah

2017-06-12 Religion

Author : Joshua A. Berman
Release : 2017-06-12
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book Inconsistency in the Torah written by Joshua A. Berman. This book was released on 2017-06-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inconsistency in the Torah

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