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Historical and Biblical Israel
At the center of this book lies a fundamental yet unanswered question: under which historical and sociological conditions and in what manner the Hebrew Bible became an authoritative tradition, that is, holy scripture and the canon of Judaism as well as Christianity. Reinhard G. Kratz answers this very question by distinguishing between historical and biblical Israel. This foundational and, for the arrangement of the book, crucial distinction affirms that the Israel of biblical tradition, i.e. the sacred history (historia sacra) of the Hebrew Bible, cannot simply be equated with the history of Israel and Judah. Thus, Kratz provides a synthesis of both the Israelite and Judahite history and th...
Biblical Lexicology: Hebrew and Greek
Lexicography, together with grammatical studies and textual criticism, forms the basis of biblical exegesis. Recent decades have seen much progress in this field, yet increasing specialization also tends to have the paradoxical effect of turning exegesis into an independent discipline, while leaving lexicography to the experts. The present volume seeks to renew and intensify the exchange between the study of words and the study of texts. This is done in reference to both the Hebrew source text and the earliest Greek translation, the Septuagint. Questions addressed in the contributions to this volume are how linguistic meaning is effected, how it relates to words, and how words may be translated into another language, in Antiquity and today. Etymology, semantic fields, syntagmatic relations, word history, neologisms and other subthemes are discussed. The main current and prospective projects of biblical lexicology or lexicography are presented, thus giving an idea of the state of the art. Some of the papers also open up wider perspectives of interpretation.
International Review of Biblical Studies, Volume 54 (2007-2008)
Formerly known by its subtitle “Internationale Zeitschriftenschau für Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete”, the International Review of Biblical Studies has served the scholarly community ever since its inception in the early 1950’s. Each annual volume includes approximately 2,000 abstracts and summaries of articles and books that deal with the Bible and related literature, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, Pseudepigrapha, Non-canonical gospels, and ancient Near Eastern writings. The abstracts – which may be in English, German, or French - are arranged thematically under headings such as e.g. “Genesis”, “Matthew”, “Greek language”, “text and textual criticism”, “exegetical methods and approaches”, “biblical theology”, “social and religious institutions”, “biblical personalities”, “history of Israel and early Judaism”, and so on. The articles and books that are abstracted and reviewed are collected annually by an international team of collaborators from over 300 of the most important periodicals and book series in the fields covered.
International Review of Biblical Studies / Internationale Zeitschriftenschau Fur Bibelwissenschaft Und Grenzgebiete
Formerly known by its subtitle "Internationale Zeitschriftenschau für Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete", the International Review of Biblical Studies has served the scholarly community ever since its inception in the early 1950's. Each annual volume includes approximately 2,000 abstracts and summaries of articles and books that deal with the Bible and related literature, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, Pseudepigrapha, Non-canonical gospels, and ancient Near Eastern writings. The abstracts - which may be in English, German, or French - are arranged thematically under headings such as e.g. "Genesis", "Matthew", "Greek language", "text and textual criticism", "exegetical methods and approaches", "biblical theology", "social and religious institutions", "biblical personalities", "history of Israel and early Judaism", and so on. The articles and books that are abstracted and reviewed are collected annually by an international team of collaborators from over 300 of the most important periodicals and book series in the fields covered.
Seeking the Favor of God: The origins of penitential prayer in Second Temple Judaism
Paperback edition available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).
Alte Welten, neue Bilder
Jüdische Intellektuelle prägten das Denken des 20. Jahrhunderts tiefgreifend, darunter Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, Paul Celan, Franz Rosenzweig, Jacques Derrida und George Steiner. Bis heute stehen diesen Autoren jedoch überwiegend nichtjüdische Leser gegenüber, die die jüdischen Aspekte des jeweiligen Werks oft nicht ermessen oder diese verdrängen, die Rezeption aber maßgeblich bestimmen. Moshe Idel, der gegenwärtig wichtigste Forscher zur jüdischen Mystik, setzt dem eine andere Perspektive entgegen. Er arbeitet die mannigfaltigen Spuren der kabbalistischen und chassidischen Tradition heraus und verdeutlicht dadurch die überragende Bedeutung des mystischen Denkens für wichtige jüdische Autoren des vergangenen Jahrhunderts. Er ermöglicht dadurch eine neue Sicht auf das Verhältnis von Judentum und Moderne.
The Concept of Exile in Ancient Israel and its Historical Contexts
In ancient Israelite literature Exile is seen as a central turning point within the course of the history of Israel. In these texts “the Exile” is a central ideological concept. It serves to explain the destruction of the monarchic polities and the social and economic disasters associated with them in terms that YHWH punished Israel/Judah for having abandoned his ways. As it develops an image of an unjust Israel, it creates one of a just deity. But YHWH is not only imagined as just, but also as loving and forgiving, for the exile is presented as a transitory state: Exile is deeply intertwined with its discursive counterpart, the certain “Return”. As the Exile comes to be understood as a necessary purification or preparation for a renewal of YHWH’s proper relationship with Israel, the seemingly unpleasant Exilic conditions begin, discursively, to shape an image of YHWH as loving Israel and teaching it. Exile is dystopia, but one that carries in itself all the seeds of utopia. The concept of Exile continued to exercise an important influence in the discourses of Israel in the Second Temple period, and was eventually influential in the production of eschatological visions.
Gottes Wahrnehmungen
Der Titel "Gottes Wahrnehmungen" reprasentiert ein zentrales Forschungsgebiet Helmut Utzschneiders, namlich die asthetische Theologie. Nach seiner Uberzeugung manifestieren sich Glaube und Religion nicht zuletzt in sinnlichen Wahrnehmungen und "Wort-Inszenierungen", die durch das Medium der biblischen Literatur vermittelt werden. Vor allem die prophetischen Texte versteht er als dramatisch inszenierende Rede, deren Dramatik allerdings nicht von einer Auffuhrungspraxis abhangt. Der Titel "Gottes Wahrnehmungen" ist aber noch in einem andern Sinn zu verstehen. Die biblischen Texte lassen sich auch daraufhin befragen, inwieweit und in welcher Form hier Gottes Wahrnehmung von menschlicher Welt und Geschichte beschrieben wird. "Wahrnehmung" wird so zu einem wechselseitigen Geschehen zwischen Gott und Mensch.
Echoes from the Caves: Qumran and the New Testament
In spite of the amount of literature on the relationship between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, no consensus among the scholars has emerged as yet on how to explain both the similarities and the differences among the two corpora of religious writings. This volume contains a revised form of the contributions to an “experts meeting” held at the Catholic University of Leuven on December 2007 dedicated to explore the relationship among the two corpora and to understand both the commonalities and the differences between the two corpora from the perspective of the common ground from which both corpora have developed: the Hebrew Bible.
