Ancient Israel
Subtitle: The Old Testament In Its Social Context
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Published: November 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780800637675
Subjects: Sociology, Biblical; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Congresses; Religion; Social scientific criticism; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General; Bible.; Biblical Studies - Old Testament; O.T.; Bible - Criticism  Interpretation - General
First sentence: It is now some thirty years since the thriving movement to explore Old and New Testaments using social-scientific insights began, even though, as far as the Old Testament is concerned, there are precedents for this going back to the nineteenth century (as Anselm Hagedorn and I demonstrate in chapter 2 of this volume).