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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ratheiser, Gershom Manfred Hubert, 1966-

Series:

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 460.

T & T Clark library of biblical studies.

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 460

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish ethics.

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : T & T Clark, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-27086-2

9786613270863

0-567-07276-2

OCLC:

741690654