This collection of essays covers the four major periods of Israel's history and explores the theological, literary, historical, and archaeological dimensions of each era.
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David M. Howard Jr. (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is dean of the Center for Biblical and Theological Foundations and professor of Old Testament at Bethel Seminary. He has published five books and numerous journal articles, book chapters, and essays.
Michael A. Grisanti (Ph.D., Dallas Theological Seminary) is associate professor of Old Testament at The Master's Seminary in Sun Valley, CA, a contributor to the New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis and Missions in a New Millennium, and the editor of The Bible Version Debate.
Michael A. Grisanti (Ph.D., Dallas Theological Seminary) is associate professor of Old Testament at The Master's Seminary in Sun Valley, CA, a contributor to the New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis and Missions in a New Millennium, and the editor of The Bible Version Debate.
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Diverse collection of essays on OT historical narrative,
This review is from: Giving the Sense: Understanding and Using Old Testament Historical Texts (Paperback)
This is truly a diverse collection of essays. The only thing they have in common is they all address Old Testament historical narrative literature, in one way or another, and the authors approach the text from a conservative perspective.Each chapter is written by a different scholar, and the depth and content varies from one to the next. The chapters are grouped into sections dealing with historical issues, archaeology, literary studies, and so forth. Although this probably reflects my own personal interests more than anything else, I found some of the chapters to be excellent, and others to be not so well-written. A few of the essays lacked clear organization of thought. In addition, some are cursory overviews of the material, while others make for more advanced reading. I especially enjoyed William Shea's chapter on the exodus pharaoh; Alan Ross's chapter on whether or not the Patriarchs knew the divine name; and Gordon Johnston's literary study of the book of Esther. Although Edwin Yamauchi's chapter is really not much more than an annotated bibliography, I always like reading his work. The contributions by Carl Rasmussen, Bryant Wood, and Eugene Merrill are also good, although maybe not as in-depth as I would have liked.
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numerical hyperbole, homiletical hermeneutic, longest quote, temporal overlay, patriarchal accounts, discourse criticism, patriarchal narratives, burn levels, central hill country, united monarchy, divided monarchy, pentateuchal narratives, extrabiblical evidence, deuteronomistic history, narrated time, biblical narrators, royal inscriptions, patriarchal stories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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numerical hyperbole, homiletical hermeneutic, longest quote, temporal overlay, patriarchal accounts, discourse criticism, patriarchal narratives, burn levels, central hill country, united monarchy, divided monarchy, pentateuchal narratives, extrabiblical evidence, deuteronomistic history, narrated time, biblical narrators, royal inscriptions, patriarchal stories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Testament, Grand Rapids, New York, Near Eastern, Iron Age, Hebrew Bible, Van Seters, Sheffield Academic Press, Winona Lake, John Knox, Eighteenth Dynasty, Philips Long, New Testament, Tell Dan, Late-Date Exodus, Oxford University Press, Downers Grove, Scholars Press, Eugene Merrill, Gerhard von Rad, Israel Finkelstein, Present Research, Proposed Reconstruction of Reality, After the Exile, Early-Date Exodus New!
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- Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: 10,000-586 B.C.E. (Anchor Bible Reference Library) by Amihai Mazar on 8 pages
- Persia and the Bible by Edwin M. Yamauchi on 7 pages
- Egypt of the Pharaohs: An Introduction (Galaxy Books Series Gb P) by Sir Alan H. Gardiner on 5 pages
- Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative by Adele Berlin on 5 pages
- Old Testament Theology: The Theology of Israel's Historical Traditions v. 1 by Gerhard Von Rad on 5 pages
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- Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible by John H. Walton on page 236
- Building Belief: Constructing Faith from the Ground Up by Chad V. Meister in Back Matter
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