The Bible without theology
Subtitle: the theological tradition and alternatives to it
By: Robert A. Oden, Jr.
Edition: 1st Illinois pbk. ed.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Urbana, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Description: "In this volume, Robert A. Oden Jr. advocates stripping away the theological and historiographic biases that underlie modern biblical scholarship in order to arrive at a nontheological historical reading of the Bible. Oden calls into question a scholarly tradition that accepts biblical writers' views of themselves and their neighbors at face value and that reproduces a view of Israelite religion as divinely guided and inherently superior.".

"Using cross-cultural and interdisciplinary methodology, Oden investigates three biblical issues - the clothing of Adam and Eve, Jacob's name chance to Israel, and ritual prostitution and Deuteronomy - in light of extra-biblical evidence. He also challenges scholars' assumptions of Scripture as monotheistic and proposes treating biblical narrative as myth rather than as historical fact."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-193) and indexes.
Originally published: San Francisco, CA : Harper & Row, c1987.