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Biblical Text and Exegetical Culture

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In this wide-ranging collection, Michael Fishbane investigates the complex and diverse relationships between the 'biblical text' and 'exegetical culture.' The author demonstrates the multiple literary dimensions and interpretative strategies that came to form the Hebrew Bible in the context of the ancient Near East, the Dead Sea Scrolls in the context of an emergent biblical-Jewish culture, and the classical rabbinic Midrash in the context of an emergent rabbinic civilization in late antiquity. Within each study, and in the collection as a whole, the author shows a broad range of creative methods, always with a scholarly concern to illuminate the religious ideas of Scripture as it was perceived through diverse hermeneutical lenses and exegetical methodologies. The studies range from the purely literary to the highly analytic, from myth to law, and from studies of symbols to the study of exegetical methods.

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ISBN: 9783161520495
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Author: Michael Fishbane
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 640 pages
Series: Forschungen Zum Alten Testament
Genres: Old Testaments
Religious ethics
History of religion
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
Philosophy of religion
Ancient Greek religion and mythology
Roman religion and mythology
Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts
Theology
Religion: general
Ancient history
Judaism

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