Rethinking Biblical Scholarship : Changing Perspectives 4 (Hardcover)

Introduction, Niels Peter Lemche; PART I: METHOD; 1. Do Old Testament Studies Need a Dictionary?; 2. Whose History? Whose Israel? Whose Bible? Biblical Histories, Ancient and Modern; 3. What Is 'Minimalism', and Why Do So Many People Dislike It?; 4. 'House of David' Built on Sand: The Sins of the Biblical Maximizers; PART II: HISTORY; 5. The Origin of Biblical Israel; 6. God of Cyrus, God of Israel: Some Religio-Historical Reflections on Isaiah 40-55; 7. Scenes from the Early History of Judaism; 8. Josiah and the Law Book; 9. Judaeans in Egypt: Hebrew and Greek Stories; PART III: PROPHECY AND APOCALYPTIC; 10. Amos, Man and Book; 11. Pen of Iron, Point of Diamond' (Jer 17:1): Prophecy as Writing; 12. Reading Daniel Sociologically; 13. And Enoch Was Not, for Genesis Took Him; 14. 'Divination', 'Apocalyptic' and Sectarianism in Early Judaism; PART IV: CANON; 15. What Is a Bible?; 16. The Jewish Scriptural Canon in Cultural Perspective