The Bible as a human witness to divine revelation : hearing the Word of God through historically dissimilar traditions / edited by Randall Heskett and Brian Irwin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heskett, Randall, editor.

Irwin, Bryan, editor.

Series:

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 469.

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies ; 469

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (394 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London, [England] : T & T Clark International, 2010.

Summary:

This work represents the attempts of several major scholars to respond to the historical problems presented throughout the biblical testimony and their description of what this means for reading scripture. Walter Brueggemann, for example, has written a wonderful article on various historical problems within the book of Genesis, beginning with Von Rad's and Noth's use of source criticism and his own understanding of how historically dissimilar texts can function within scripture. This book honors the work and life of Gerald Sheppard, who broke ground in biblical studies by describing what it means to read the Bible as Jewish and Christian Scripture. It distinguishes between the original historical dimensions of the text or mere redaction levels of tradition history and what Sheppard regarded as the "Scriptural Form" of the biblical testimony. It provides new and fresh ways for describing scripture as both a human testimony and also divine revelation. The Bible as a Human Witness to Divine Revelation provides examples of how major scholars have responded to the limits of the older-modern criticisms within the framework of still applying a variety of historical criticisms and paying attention to the later formation and context of the biblical book. It also helps readers understand how to hear "the word of God" through biblical text that are filled with historical dissimilarities or even contradictions. The book shows scholarly examples that respond to crises of both the pre-modern and modern eras as unfinished projects because pre-modernity tended to ignore the human dimensions of scripture and modernity tended to limit its inquiry only to that single dimension

Contents:

Priests for the kingdom : two priesthoods for two regimes / Walter Brueggemann

"If you listen to my voice

" (Exodus 19:5) : the mystery of revelation / Erich Zenger

Deuteronomy 29-34 and the formation of the Torah / Randall Heskett

Jehoiachin and Joseph : hope at the close of the Deuteronomistic history / John E. Harvey

Seams in the Book of Isaiah : looking for answers / Paul D. Wegner

Scribal culture and the composition of the Book of Isaiah / Robert R. Wilson

An interpretation of the death of Isaiah's servant / Stephen L. Cook

Micah 7:8-20 : re-evaluating the identity of the enemy / James D. Nogalski

Social drama in the psalms of individual lament / Norman K. Gottwald

Are individual complaint psalms really prayers? : recognizing social address as characteristic of individual complaints / W. Derek Suderman

God as the object of anger in the Psalms / David John C. Zub

The contribution of Ecclesiastes to biblical theology / Peter Enns

The Daniel and Qohelet epilogues : a similar editorial activity? (Qohelet 12:8-14 and Daniel 12:1-13) / Pedro Zamora

Justification by faith : a case of hearing the one gospel through historically dissimilar traditions / Frank D. Macchia

Divine action and biblical interpretation : how the ordinary words of men and women become the living word of God in scripture / Michael T. Dempsey

"Cold dead hands upon our threshold" : Josephine Butler's reading of the story of the Levite's concubine, Judges 19-21 / Marion Ann Taylor

The portrayal of Assyria in the Books of Kings / Marvin A. Sweeney

Speaking or smouldering lips in Song of Songs 7:10 (Eng. 9)? / Jennifer Pfenniger

Ancient Near Eastern apocalypticism and the origins of the New Testament canon of scripture / David G. Meade

In the bosom of the beloved disciple : the Fourth Gospel's narrative openness to readers / Robert C. Fennell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780567237293

056723729X

9780567092038

0567092038