Moses in the Qur'an and Islamic Exegesis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moses in the Qur'an and Islamic Exegesis write by Brannon M. Wheeler. This book was released on 2013-01-11. Moses in the Qur'an and Islamic Exegesis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Relating the Muslim understanding of Moses in the Qur'an to the Epic of Gilgamesh, Alexander Romances, Aramaic Targums, Rabbinic Bible exegesis, and folklore from the ancient and medieval Mediterranean, this book shows how Muslim scholars authorize and identify themselves through allusions to the Bible and Jewish tradition. Exegesis of Qur'an 18:60-82 shows how Muslim exegetes engage Biblical theology through interpretation of the ancient Israelites, their prophets, and their Torah. This Muslim use of a scripture shared with Jews and Christians suggests fresh perspectives for the history of religions, Biblical studies, cultural studies, and Jewish-Arabic studies.
The Book of Job as Sceptical Literature
The Book of Job as Sceptical Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of Job as Sceptical Literature write by Katharine J. Dell. This book was released on 2013-03-25. The Book of Job as Sceptical Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.
Witnessing a Prophetic Text in the Making
Witnessing a Prophetic Text in the Making - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Witnessing a Prophetic Text in the Making write by Noam Mizrahi. This book was released on 2017-10-23. Witnessing a Prophetic Text in the Making available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book of Jeremiah poses a challenge to biblical scholarship in terms of its literary composition and textual fluidity. This study offers an innovative approach to the problem by focusing on an instructive case study. Building on the critical recognition that the prophecy contained in Jer 10:1-16 is a composite text, this study systematically discusses the various literary strands discernible in the prophecy: satirical depictions of idolatry, an Aramaic citation, and hymnic passages. A chapter is devoted to each strand, revealing its compositional development—from the earliest recoverable stages down to its late reception. A range of pertinent evidence—culled from the literary, text-critical, and linguistic realms—is examined and sets within broader perspectives, with an eye open to cultural history and the development of theological outlook. The investigation of a particular text has important implications for the textual and compositional history of Jeremiah as a whole. Rather than settling for the common opinion that Jeremiah developed in two main stages, reflected in the MT and LXX respectively, a nuanced supplementary model is advocated, which better accords with the complexity of the available evidence.
On Stone and Scroll
On Stone and Scroll - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Stone and Scroll write by James Keltie Aitken. This book was released on 2011. On Stone and Scroll available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume will appeal to those interested in the biblical text and its place within the wider archaeological and ancient near eastern context. It will appeal to those wishing to understand the diversity of historical approaches to the Bible, and to those utilising the evidence of archaeology, inscriptions, theology and linguistics to the interpretation of the Bible.
Dimensions of Yahwism in the Persian Period
Dimensions of Yahwism in the Persian Period - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dimensions of Yahwism in the Persian Period write by Gard Granerød. This book was released on 2016-07-25. Dimensions of Yahwism in the Persian Period available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What was Judaean religion in the Persian period like? Is it necessary to use the Bible to give an answer to the question? Among other things the study argues that • the religion practiced in the 5th c. BCE Elephantine community and which is reflected in the so-called Elephantine documents represent a well-attested manifestation of lived Persian period Yahwism, • as religio-historical sources, the Elephantine documents reveal more about the actual religious practice of the Elephantine Judaeans than what the highly edited and canonised texts of the Bible reveal about the religious practice of the contemporary Yahwistic coreligionists in Judah, and • the image of the Elephantine Judaism emerging from the Elephantine documents can revise the canonised image of Judaean religion in the Persian period (cf. A. Assmann). The Elephantine Yahwism should not be interpreted within a framework dependent upon theological, conceptual and spatial concepts alien to it, such as biblical ones. The study proposes an alternative framework by approaching the Elephantine documents on the basis of N. Smart’s multidimensional model of religion. Elephantine should not be exotified but brought to the very centre of any discussion of the history of Judaism.
