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"Empirical models based on ancient Near Eastern literature and variations between different textual traditions have been used to lend credibility to the identification of the sources behind biblical literature and the different editorial layers. In this volume, empirical models are used to critique the exaggerated results of identifying sources and editorial layers by demonstrating that, even though much of ancient literature had such complex literary histories, our methods are often inadequate for the task of precisely identifying sources and editorial layers"--

Classical literature --- History and criticism. --- Bible --- Criticism, Redaction --- History.

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The last five chapters of the book of Judges (chs. 17-21) contain some shocking and bizarre stories, and precisely how these stories relate to the rest of the book is a major question in scholarship on the book. Leveraging work from literary studies and hermeneutics, Beldman reexamines Judges 17-21 with the aim of discerning the ""strategies of ending"" that are at work in these chapters. The author identifies and describes a number of strategies of ending in Judges 17-21, including the strategy of completion, the strategy of circularity, and the strategy of entrapment. The temporal configurat.

Bible. --- Criticism, Redaction. --- RELIGION --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Biblical Studies --- Old Testament.

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In this book the author attempts to unravel the original narratives which underlie the biblical Book of Esther. She reconstructs the contents of three non-Jewish narratives: A wedding story, in which the foreign beauty (Esther) takes the place of the disobedient queen, and two court narratives, telling the story of the rivalry between two courtiers at the Persian court. In exilic and postexilic times these basic narratives were merged into one topical and literarily well developed narrative, which expressed the problems connected with Jewish life in the diaspora. The author shows that this text has been redactionally revised once more, in an attempt to adjust Palestinian Judaism to the Jewish communities that flourished in the diaspora. This redaction bears the hallmarks of Judaism’s clash with Hellenised political forces; Purim emerges as a succesful defense.

Bible --- Criticism, Redaction --- 222.8 --- Tobit. Judit. Ester. Esther --- Bible. --- Criticism, Redaction. --- Ester (Book of the Old Testament) --- Esther (Book of the Old Testament) --- Megilat Aḥashṿerosh --- Megilat Ester --- מגילת אסתר

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The essays in this volume address the conundrum of how Jewish believers in the divine character of the Sinaitic revelation confront the essential questions raised by academic biblical studies. The first part is an anthology of rabbinic sources, from the medieval period to the present, treating questions that reflect a critical awareness of the Bible. The second part is a series of twenty-one essays by contemporary rabbis and scholars on how they combine their religious beliefs with their critical approach to the Bible.

Bible. --- Jewish studies. --- Old Testament. --- Sinaitic revelation. --- rabbis. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Criticism, Redaction. --- Tradition (Judaism) --- Faith (Judaism) --- Theology & Religion --- biblical criticism --- Bible --- Jewish Studies

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Die Studie untersucht das Phänomen der innerbiblischen Schriftauslegung am Beispiel der Heilsprophetien in Ez 34-39. In einer redaktionsgeschichtlichen Gesamtanalyse dieser Kapitel wird das literarische Wachstum unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Schriftauslegung in den Blick genommen, indem für jede Stufe der redaktionsgeschichtlichen Rekonstruktion nach vorgegebenen Texten im Buch selbst wie außerhalb des Buches gefragt wird. Dabei wird zuerst ein differenziertes Entstehungsmodell der Kapitel Ez 34-39 vorgelegt, das nicht nur die abweichende Kapitelanordnung des griechischen Textzeugen Pap. 967 berücksichtigt, sondern auch neues Licht auf die Genese des Buches als Ganzes wirft. Weiterhin kann in der literatur- und theologiegeschichtlichen Entwicklung eine Entwicklung der Schriftauslegung als hermeneutisches Prinzip nachgewiesen werden, die hier zum ersten Mal beschrieben wird. In seiner "Schriftgelehrsamkeit" erweist sich das Ezechielbuch als Kompendium prophetischer Überlieferung und ist insbesondere auf die Überbietung und Erfüllung des Jeremiabuches hin angelegt.

Altes Testament. --- Biblical Exegesis. --- Ezechiel. --- Ezekiel. --- Old Testament. --- Redaction History. --- Redaktionsgeschichte. --- Schriftauslegung. --- RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament. --- Ezekiel --- Ezechiel --- Ezekiel, --- Bible. --- Criticism, Redaction.