The Shape of the Writings
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The Shape of the Writings

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The Shape of the Writings

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Are the Writings a miscellaneous collection of books, as is so often asserted, or do they have a purposeful design or arrangement? Over the past 35 years, there has been a significant amount of scholarly interest in the shape of the Law, Former Prophets, Twelve Minor Prophets and the Psalms, while examinations of the shape of the Writings were almost nonexistent until very recently. The 11 essays in this volume explore this often-neglected issue from a variety of critical perspectivesā€”reader-centered approaches, canonical, structural-canonical, and redactionalā€”made more robust by the mix of German- and English-language scholarship on this question, including 4 articles translated from German into English. Essays range from the historical development of the collection, to analysis of the collection's different arrangements, to the relationship of books and subcollections within the Writings, to the reception of the collection in Jewish and Christian sources. Every book in the Writings is discussed, with particular attention given to Job, Ruth, and 1 and 2 Chronicles. The volume closes with 3 critical responses from John Barton, Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, and Christopher Seitz.

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Information

Publisher
Eisenbrauns
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781575063737
eBook ISBN
9781575063744
Topic
History
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Chapter 1: The Historical Formation of the Writings in Antiquity
  4. Chapter 2:: Final Forms of the Writings :The Jewish and Christian Traditions
  5. Chapter 3: A Wandering Moabite: Ruthā€”A Book in Search of a Canonical Home
  6. Chapter 4: Thoughts on the ā€œDavidizationā€of the Psalter
  7. Chapterr 5: Reading Job following the Psalms
  8. Chapter 6: The Place of Wisdom Literature in an Old Testament Theology
  9. Chapter 7: The Search for Order: The Compilational History of Ruth
  10. Chapter 8; The Associative Effects of Daniel in the Writings
  11. Chapter 9: Chronicles as the Intended Conclusion to the Old Testament Canon
  12. Chapter 10: Torah-Binding and Canon Closure On the Origin and Canonical Function of the Book of Chronicles
  13. Chapter 11: ā€œA Threefold Cord Is Not Quickly Brokenā€Interpretation by Canonical Division in Early Judaism and Christianity
  14. Index