Early Biblical Interpretation (Library of Early Christianity)
by James L. Kugel (Author), Rowan A. Greer (Author)
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This highly accessible book discusses how the early Jewish and Christian communities went about interpreting Scripture. The Library of Early Christianity is a series of eight outstanding books exploring the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts in which the New Testament developed.Tags
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James L. Kugel was Starr Professor of Hebrew at Harvard from 1982 to 2003.
Rowan A. Greer joined the faculty of the Yale Divinity School in 1966 as an assistant professor of New Testament. In 1975 he was appointed Professor of Anglican Studies and shifted his teaching responsibilities from the New Testament to patristic theology and to the history and theologies of Anglicanism. He retired in 1997. His books include show more Broken Lights and Mended Lives (1986) and Christian Hope and Christian Life (2001). show less
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- Original publication date
- 1986
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- The following essay is an attempt to review in concentrated form the main events of Jewish history from the sixth century B.C.E. to around the turn of the era, and to reconstruct from within them some of the elements that mig... (show all)ht have shaped Jewish interest in, and approaches to, sacred texts. [Preface]
The Hebrew Bible is not a single book but a collection of writings, a sacred library composed over a period of many centuries. [Chapter 1] - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)From the same point of departure we thus find two paths, strikingly similar in many of their presuppositions and methods, but finally divergent. [Epilogue]
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- Murphy, Roland E.; Levenson, Jon D.
- Original language
- English
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