Hidden Riches: A Sourcebook for the Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East - Softcover

Hays, Christopher B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0664237010 ISBN 13: 9780664237011

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 2014

Synopsis

Key Selling Points:

• Shows how the Hebrew Bible was shaped by Ancient Near East texts, addressing literary, historical, and cultural contexts
  
  
• Offers Hebrew Bible texts with side-by-side comparison to Ancient Near East texts
  
  
• Ideal for introductory courses in Hebrew Bible
  
  

About this title

About the Author

Christopher B. Hays is D. Wilson Moore Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is the author of Hidden Riches: A Sourcebook for the Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East; The Origins of Isaiah 24–27: Josiah's Festival Scroll for the Fall of Assyria; and Death in the Iron Age II and in First Isaiah, which won the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise in 2013. Hays has written the Isaiah commentary in the New Oxford Bible Commentary and translated the book of Isaiah for the Common English Bible. Hays is ordained in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

"The Scriptures are exceedingly "respiratory": They breathe in the culture of their times, and breathe it back out in a different form. To the reader who learns to breathe the same air--the one who becomes familiar with the context--it is increasingly hard to believe that he or she once read the Bible without it. Reading the Hebrew Scriptures in context is an intoxicating high, like breathing pure oxygen: Everything is clearer and sharper, and the energy is immeasurably higher."--from the introduction

Edition details

• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0664237010
• ISBN 13: 9780664237011
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 452