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The Formation of the Hebrew Bible: A New Reconstruction

In The Formation of the Hebrew Bible David Carr rethinks either the equipment and old orientation issues for study into the expansion of the Hebrew Bible into its current shape. development on his previous paintings, Writing at the pill of the center (Oxford, 2005), he explores either the chances and bounds of reconstruction of pre-stages of the Bible. the tactic he advocates is a ''methodologically modest'' research of these pre-stages, using standards and versions derived from his survey of documented examples of textual revision within the old close to East. the result's a brand new photograph of the formation of the Hebrew Bible, with insights at the preliminary emergence of Hebrew literary textuality, the advance of the 1st Hexateuch, and the ultimate formation of the Hebrew Bible.

the place a few have recommended relationship the majority of the Hebrew Bible in one interval, no matter if particularly early (Neo-Assyrian) or past due (Persian or Hellenistic), Carr uncovers particular proof that the Hebrew Bible includes texts relationship throughout Israelite background, even the early pre-exilic interval (10th-9th centuries). He lines the effect of Neo-Assyrian imperialism on 8th and 7th century Israelite textuality. He makes use of reports of collective trauma to spot marks of the reshaping and selection of traditions in accordance with the destruction of Jerusalem and Babylonian exile. He develops an image of various Priestly reshaping of narrative and prophetic traditions within the moment Temple interval, together with the movement towards eschatological and apocalyptic issues and genres. And he makes use of manuscript proof from Qumran and the Septuagint to discover clues to the ultimate literary shaping of the proto-Masoretic textual content, most likely lower than the Hasmonean monarchy.

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The Jews of Islam (Princeton Classics)

By Bernard Lewis

This landmark ebook probes Muslims' attitudes towards Jews and Judaism as a distinct case in their view of alternative spiritual minorities in predominantly Muslim societies. With authority, sympathy and wit, Bernard Lewis demolishes competing stereotypes: the Islamophobic photo of the fanatical Muslim warrior, sword in a single hand and Qur'?n within the different, and the overly romanticized depiction of Muslim societies as interfaith utopias.

Featuring a brand new creation via Mark R. Cohen, this Princeton Classics variation units the Judaeo-Islamic culture opposed to a brilliant historical past of Jewish and Islamic background. For these wishing a concise review of the lengthy interval of Jewish-Muslim family members, The Jews of Islam is still a necessary beginning point.

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"Non-canonical" Religious Texts in Early Judaism and Early Christianity (Jewish and Christian Text)

This quantity attracts cognizance to historic non secular texts, in particular the so-called 'non-canonical' texts, by means of concentrating on how they have been used or functioned in Early Judaism and Early Christianity. The members are biblical students who've selected a number of Jewish or Christian apocryphal or pseudepigraphical texts, with the purpose of describing their historical capabilities of their rising social settings. those convey the fluidity of the proposal of scripture within the early centuries of the Church and in Judaism of overdue antiquity, yet in addition they convey the price of studying the traditional spiritual texts that weren't incorporated within the Jewish or Christian biblical canons. those chapters express that there's a lot that may be realized from interpreting and evaluating those texts with canonical literature and comparing them of their social context. No old textual content was once created in a vacuum, and the non-canonical writings reduction in our interpretation not just of many canonical writings, but in addition shed massive gentle at the context of either early Judaism and early Christianity.

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