Research Catalog

Title

The Hebrew Bible : new insights and scholarship / edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn.

Publication

New York : New York University Press, [2008], ©2008.

Supplementary Content

• Publisher description
• Contributor biographical information

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Details

Additional Authors

Greenspahn, Frederick E., 1946-

Description

xiii, 231 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Jewish studies in the 21st century

Uniform Title

Jewish studies in the 21st century.

Subjects

• Bible > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish
• Bible > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Pt. I. The Bible and History -- 1. Israel Without the Bible / Gary A. Rendsburg -- 2. Bible, Archaeology, and the Social Sciences: The Next Generation / Elizabeth Bloch-Smith -- Pt. II. New Approaches to the Bible -- 3. Literary Approaches to Biblical Literature: General Observations and a Case Study of Genesis 34 / Adele Berlin -- 4. Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible / Esther Fuchs -- Pt. III. Ancient Practice -- 5. The Laws of Biblical Israel / Raymond Westbrook -- 6. The Study of Ritual in the Hebrew Bible / David P. Wright -- Pt. IV. Judaism and the Bible -- 7. By the Letter?/Word for Word? Scripture in the Jewish Tradition / Leonard Greenspoon -- 8. From Judaism to Biblical Religion and Back Again / Ziony Zevit -- 9. Jewish Biblical Theology / Marvin A. Sweeney -- Epilogue: Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom: Some Reflections on Reading and Studying the Hebrew Bible / Peter Machinist.

ISBN

• 9780814731871 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0814731872 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780814731888 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0814731880 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2007023840
• 99932628584
• 40015384679

OCLC

• 144768059
• SCSB-5405810

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries