Debating Authority
Subtitle: Concepts of Leadership in the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets
Publisher: De Gruyter, Inc.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9783110540703
Subjects: Leadership, religious aspects
Description: The volume presents 20 articles of renowned European scholars on human leadership in the Hebrew Bible. Concepts like "priest", "prophet", "judge" and "king" are examined in a literary, historical, and theological perspective with special emphasis on coneptual changes and developments. It contributes to biblical theology as well as to the ocmplex interplay between history of ancient Israel and literary history of the Hebrew Bible.