Introduction to the Old TestamentThis volume, a part of the Old Testament Library series, provides an introduction to the Old Testament. The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO THE HEBREW BIBLE | 3 |
THE CANON | 13 |
HAGGAI | 26 |
TEXTUAL AND HISTORICAL CRITICISM | 32 |
DESCRIPTION OF THE HEBREW BIBLE 1 The Hebrew Bible as a history book | 40 |
CHRONICLES | 42 |
For the synagogue and the church the Bible is also the inspired Word of | 43 |
MYTH LEGEND AND HISTORY | 50 |
Prophets and politics | 264 |
Prophets and social problems | 266 |
The prophets and history | 270 |
116 | 275 |
ZECHARIAH | 277 |
AMOS 1 Person and origins | 282 |
Divisions and principal problems of the book | 284 |
Deuteronomistic redaction | 285 |
Myth | 53 |
Legend | 54 |
Fable and fairytale | 56 |
Legend and historiography | 57 |
15 | 59 |
THE PRELITERARY DEVELOPMENT OF THE BIBLICAL MATERIAL THE GENRES 1 The thirteenth to tenth centuries and their importance | 63 |
Oral tradition | 64 |
The genres | 68 |
Genres in poetry | 71 |
20 | 73 |
Remains of ancient Hebrew poetry | 78 |
Genres in prose | 79 |
Ancient legal texts | 83 |
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PART TWO THE PENTATEUCH AND THE FORMER PROPHETS | 89 |
THE PENTATEUCH | 93 |
36 | 94 |
Introduction 2 The tradition of authorship 3 History of the literary criticism of the Pentateuch | 95 |
Wellhausen and his school | 97 |
Developments of the documentary hypothesis | 99 |
The study of the genres The history of tradition | 101 |
The compatibility between the documentary hypothesis and the history of tradition | 105 |
Questions of dating the earliest sources | 108 |
THE YAHWIST AND THE ELOHIST 91 92 95 97 99 ΙΟΙ 105 108 1 Characteristics of the Yahwist | 114 |
Reasons for the collection | 116 |
Date and composition | 117 |
Characteristics of the Elohist | 118 |
DEUTERONOMY | 122 |
COVENANT OR OBLIGATION | 137 |
DEUTERONOMIC | 143 |
EZRA AND NEHEMIAH | 152 |
ISRAELITE | 164 |
114 | 176 |
THE DEUTERONOMISTIC HISTORY WORK | 178 |
JOSHUA | 187 |
JUDGES | 198 |
THE BOOKS OF SAMUEL | 209 |
THE BOOKS OF KINGS | 224 |
THE PROPHETS OF ISRAEL | 237 |
The periods in which the prophets were active | 251 |
Characteristics of the prophetic ministry and unsolved problems | 256 |
Prophets and cult | 261 |
117 | 288 |
HOSEA 1 The person and his time | 290 |
His marriage | 291 |
Divisions and text | 293 |
Hosea Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomist | 294 |
ISAIAH 1 The book and its problems | 299 |
The prophet and his age | 300 |
Divisions and content | 302 |
Thought | 311 |
MICAH 1 The name and the man | 318 |
Content | 319 |
Thought | 321 |
NAHUM HABAKKUK AND ZEPHANIAH 1 Nahum | 325 |
Habakkuk | 327 |
Zephaniah | 330 |
JEREMIAH 1 Life and work | 334 |
The text | 340 |
The LXX text | 343 |
Jeremiah and contemporary sources | 344 |
Jeremiah the thinker | 345 |
118 | 349 |
Thought | 367 |
Text | 396 |
DEUTEROZECHARIAH | 405 |
JONAH | 414 |
THE PSALMS | 423 |
INTRODUCTION TO WISDOM | 438 |
PROVERBS | 445 |
RUTH LAMENTATIONS | 458 |
General Bibliography on the DeuteroCanonical Books | 500 |
JUDITH | 508 |
THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON | 517 |
ECCLESIASTICUS OR THE WISDOM | 523 |
BARUCH AND THE EPISTLE OF JEREMIAH | 532 |
PALESTINE INSCRIPTIONS FROM | 551 |
MANUSCRIPT DISCOVERIES FROM | 564 |
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Common terms and phrases
accepted already Alten Testament Amos ancient Near East appears Assyrian attested attributed authentic Babylon beginning biblical bibliography book of Joshua BZAW Canaan Canaanite canon century BCE chapter character chronology commentary complex composition concept considered context Covenant criticism cult David Decalogue Deuteronomistic history Deuteronomistic redaction divine documentary hypothesis elements episode exile Exodus Ezekiel fact faith G.Fohrer Hebrew Bible Hosea important Isaiah Israel Israelite Jehoiakim Jeremiah Jerusalem Jesaja Joshua Josiah's reform Judah Judges kingdom of Israel Kings later literary genres Massoretic text material mentioned Micah millennium BCE monarchy Moses myth narrative Old Testament oracles original parallel particular passages Pentateuch period political possible post-exilic preaching present probably problem prophecy Propheten prophets pseudepigraphical Qumran recently redactors relationship religion religious Samuel sanctuary Saul scholars seems seen situation songs sources temple term theme theology theory tradition translation Ugaritic words Yahwistic YHWH