Deuteronomistic History and the Name Theology (Beiheft Zur Zeitschrift Fur Die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: September 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9783110173765
Subjects: Biblical studies, criticism & exegesis; Books of the Old Testament; Christian theology; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Religion; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament; Biblical Studies - Old Testament; Bible - Criticism  Interpretation - Old Testament
First sentence: Jon D. Levenson has written of the tendency in the theological study of the Hebrew Bible to continue to evaluate the central institutions of ancient Israel in a biased and pre-modern fashion "either by ignoring the new data or awkwardly fitting them into the inherited structures."1