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The Oxford handbook of the historical books of the Hebrew Bible / edited by Brad E. Kelle and Brent A. Strawn.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Kelle, Brad E., 1973- editor.
Strawn, Brent A., editor.
Series:
Oxford handbooks online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Bible. Historical Books--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.
Bible. Historical Books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (616 pages).
Other Title:
Historical books of the Hebrew Bible
Place of Publication:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
System Details:
text file
Summary:
The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible offers thirty-six essays on the so-called "Historical Books": Joshua, Judges, 1-2 Samuel, 1-2 Kings, Ezra-Nehemiah, and 1-2 Chronicles. The essays are organized around four nodes: contexts, content, approaches, and reception. Each essay takes up two questions: (1) what does the topic/area/issue have to do with the Historical Books? and (2) how does this topic/area/issue help readers better interpret the Historical Books? The essays engage traditional theories and newer updates to the same, and also engage the textual traditions themselves which are what give rise to compositional analyses.
Contents:
Joshua in Reception History / Zev I. Farber
New Perspectives on the Exile in Light of Cuneiform Texts / Laurie Pearce
New Perspectives on the Return from Exile and Persian-Period Yehud / Mary Joan Winn Leith
Yahwistic Religion in the Persian Period / Melody D. Knowles
A Theological Comparison of the Deuteronomistic History and Chronicles / Matthew J. Lynch
Politics and Kingship in the Historical Books, with Attention to the Role of Political Theory in Interpretation / Geoffrey Parsons Miller
The Distinctive Roles of the Prophets in the Deuteronomistic History and the Chronicler's History / Marvin A. Sweeney
The Various Roles of Women in the Historical Books / Mercedes L. García Bachmann
David in Reception History / Dominik Markl
The Historical Books in the New Testament / Steve Moyise
The Deuteronomistic History as Literature of Trauma / David Janzen
Reading the Historical Books as Part of the Primary History / Richard S. Briggs
Synthetic and Literary Readings of Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah / Steven J. Schweitzer
Deborah in Reception History / Joy A. Schroeder
The Rise and Fall of the So-Called Chronicler's History and the Current Study of the Composition of Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah / Ralph W. Klein
Synchronic Readings of Joshua-Kings / Serge Frolov
Yahwistic Religion in the Assyrian and Babylonian Periods / Richard S. Hess
Divine and Human Violence in the Historical Books / Douglas S. Earl
Feminist and Postcolonial Readings of the Historical Books / Cameron B. R. Howard
Solomon in Reception History / Sara M. Koenig
The So-called Deuteronomistic History and Its Theories of Composition / Thomas Römer
Saul in Reception History / Barbara Green
The Role of Orality and Textuality, Folklore and Scribalism in the Historical Books / Susan Niditch
Early Israel's Origins, Settlement, and Ethnogenesis / Ann E. Killebrew
Text-Critical Issues with Samuel and Kings / Julio Trebolle Barrera, Eugene Ulrich
Text-Critical Issues in Ezra-Nehemiah and 1 Esdras / Lisbeth S. Fried
The Later Monarchy in History and Biblical Historiography / Paul S. Evans
Israelite and Judean Society and Economy / Roger S. Nam
Exogamy and Divorce in Ezra and Nehemiah / Herbert R. Marbury
1 Esdras: Structure, Composition, and Significance / Kristin de Troyer
Ezra and Nehemiah in Reception History / Armin Siedlecki
Introduction / Brad E. Kelle, Brent A. Strawn
Assyrian and Babylonian Sources / Martti Nissinen
Achaemenid Political History and Sources / Amélie Kuhrt
Historiography and History Writing in the Ancient World / Richard D. Nelson
Israelite State Formation and Early Monarchy in History and Biblical Historiography / Walter Dietrich
Samson in Reception History / Kelly J. Murphy.
Notes:
Also issued in print: 2021.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 2, 2020).
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ISBN:
9780190261184
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