The Hebrew Bible a comparative approach

In this work, Christopher D. Stanley provides a Hebrew Bible textbook which approaches the Bible through the categories of comparative religion. It carefully distinguishes the religion of ancient Israel from the religion represented in the Bible.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Stanley, Christopher D. (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Castellano
Publicado: Minneapolis : Fortress Press c2010.
Materias:
Ver en Catálogo Colectivo de las Bibliotecas Agustinianas de España:http://catalogo.bibliotecasagustinianas.es/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=375022
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is Scripture?
  • Hebrew Bible or Old Testament?
  • What's in the Hebrew Bible?
  • Where did the Hebrew Bible come from?
  • Academic study of the Hebrew Bible
  • The importance of geography
  • Everyday life in Biblical times
  • The grand narrative
  • Narrative and history
  • The Hebrew Bible as a religious text
  • The nature of the universe
  • The supernatural world
  • On being human
  • The ideal society
  • Stories and faith
  • Stories of origins
  • Ancestral narratives
  • The Exodus narrative
  • The Deuteronomistic narrative : overview
  • The Deuteronomistic narrative : individual stories
  • Postexilic narratives
  • The laws of Torah
  • Purity laws
  • Social laws
  • Encountering the holy
  • Family religion
  • Community religion
  • State religion
  • The sacrificial system
  • Worship in the Psalms
  • The world of the prophets
  • The early preexilic prophets
  • The later preexilic prophets
  • The exilic prophets
  • The postexilic prophets
  • The rise of Apocalyptic-- The way of wisdom
  • Other paths to wisdom.