This volume is a collection of the author`s studies on themes in Deuteronomic history, the lamentations, monotheism, and the prohibition of images. Besides methodological and hermeneutic elements, the essays explore issues related to reception history and theology. The book includes Frevel`s papers about all parts of the canon, including Gen. 34, Exod. 18, Deut. 34, Josh. 23, 2 Kings 17, Ps. 8, 95, 104, Lam. 1 and Lam. 3.

Im Lesen verstehen: Studien zu Theologie und Exegese (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 482) (German Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Frevel, Christian

Christian Books & Bibles

de Gruyter

The Documentary Hypothesis, which in the 20th century was the standard theory to explain the development of the Pentateuch, has been challenged from different angles. One important text corpus where new proposals have been brought into the debate is the Book of Numbers. The articles in this volume address the formation of the Book of Numbers from the earliest to the latest strata. They focus on topics like the source-source critical placement of the texts in Deuteronomy that retell events from Numbers and the status of the late priestly legal additions and their relation to prior texts of the Torah. Special attention is given to the composition of the final text of the Book of Numbers and its understanding of law and narrative. The authors of this volume partially contributed to a symposium on the topic "Torah in the Book of Numbers" at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, held on April 12-13, 2011.

Torah and the Book of Numbers (Forschungen Zum Alten Testament 2.Reihe)

Mohr Siebeck

Classical Pentateuch research mainly dealt with the books of Genesis, Exodus and Deuteronomy and it is only in recent decades that the literary and theological meanings of Moses' fourth book has been rediscovered. In this volume, Christian Frevel lets the interplay between narrative and legislative material - which is often not understood - emerge into new light, examining the texts of the Book of Numbers as inner-biblical interpretations and tradition-bound innovations. Cloaked in the Israelites' 40-year long sojourn in the desert, the Book of Numbers presents a tightly-woven fabric of texts which reflect the social and cultic orders, discuss questions of leadership and explore the meaning of the Promised Land to Israel's existence. The Book of Numbers is characterized in its entirety by transformations: for example, the exodus generation becomes the desert generation and leadership is transferred from Moses to Joshua, from Aaron to Eleazar. Important innovations such as the hierarchical organization of the cult, including the role of the Levites or the hereditary law concerning daughters, are cultivated within these transformations. The people's time in the desert (re)form their social frameworks and renders them sustainable for the existence in the Promised Land. Important themes such as community and cult organization, the enduring election of the Israelites, the meaning of the Promised Land for the collective identity, questions of hierarchical leadership and democratic participation, of collective guilt and individual liability, along with many other aspects, are dealt with in the texts. Without the literary traditions of the Book of Numbers, which were mostly set down around the 5th-4th centuries BCE, the formation of the Pentateuch as Torah would not have been conceivable. The studies of this volume reveal the thematic diversity of the book against a backdrop of its literary creation within the Penta- and Hexateuch.

Desert Transformations: Studies in the Book of Numbers (Forschungen Zum Alten Testament, 137)

Mohr Siebrek Ek

Einleitung in Das Alte Testament (Kohlhammer Studienbuecher Theologie, 1-1) (German Edition)

Fabry, Heinz-Josef

Zenger, Erich

Braulik, Georg

Hentschel, Georg

Kohlhammer Verlag

Dieses Studienbuch stellt die ""Geschichte Israels"" von den Anfängen bis zum Bar-Kochba-Aufstand 132-135 n. Chr. dar. Das f|r Exegese und Theologiestudium unverzichtbare Wissen vermittelt der Autor verständlich und vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Forschung. Er zieht f|r seine Darstellung alle verf|gbaren Quellen heran: Neben der Bibel finden archäologische Befunde, Inschriften und Bildwerke Ber|cksichtigung; exemplarisch wird aufgezeigt, wie diese Quellen zu interpretieren sind und wo die Grenzen der Rekonstruktion von Geschichte liegen. Dazu f|hrt er in den Stand der archäologischen und historischen Forschung ein und bezieht die Ergebnisse kritisch auf die biblische Darstellung. So entsteht ein Bild der Geschichte des antiken Israel im Kontext der s|dlichen Levante, das manches Mal vertraut, oft aber auch frisch und unerwartet daher kommt.

Geschichte Israels (Kohlhammer Studienbucher Theologie, 2) (German Edition)

History

World

English summary: This textbook illustrates the "history of Israel" from the beginnings until the Bar-Kochba insurgence 132-135 AD. The knowledge, which is indispensable for exegesis and theology studies, is passed on by the author as a matter of course and in light of current research. He uses all available sources for his illustrations: next to the bible, archaeological findings, inscriptions and artwork have been considered; it is shown by means of example how the sources are to be interpreted and where the boundaries of reconstructing history lie. For this purposes, he introduces the latest findings of archaeological and historic research and links the results to biblical interpretations in a critical manner. This produces an impression of the history of ancient Israel in the context of the Southern Levant, which is often familiar, but also fresh and unexpected. German description: Dieses Studienbuch stellt die "Geschichte Israels" von den Anfangen bis zum Bar-Kochba-Aufstand 132-135 n. Chr. dar. Das fur Exegese und Theologiestudium unverzichtbare Wissen vermittelt der Autor verstandlich und vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Forschung. Er zieht fur seine Darstellung alle verfugbaren Quellen heran; exemplarisch wird aufgezeigt, wie diese Quellen zu interpretieren sind und wo die Grenzen der Rekonstruktion von Geschichte liegen. Dazu fuhrt er in den Stand der archaologischen und historischen Forschung ein und bezieht die Ergebnisse kritisch auf die biblische Darstellung. So entsteht ein Bild der Geschichte des antiken Israel im Kontext der sudlichen Levante, das manches Mal vertraut, oft aber auch frisch und unerwartet daher kommt. Fur die Neuauflage wurden zahlreiche Abschnitte uberarbeitet und neueste Literatur erganzt. Der Charakter als Studienbuch wurde noch einmal methodisch reflektiert und verstarkt.

Neuer Stuttgarter Kommentar, Altes Testament, Bd.6, Das Buch Rut

Katholisches Bibelwerk

447p (Vandenhoeck &amp; Ruprecht 2014)

A 'Religious Revolution' in Yehûd?: The Material Culture of the Persian Period as a Test Case (Orbis Biblicus Et Orientalis) (English and German Edition)

Ancient Civilizations

Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht

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