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The Motif of Generational Change in the Old Testament: A Literary and Lexicological Study - Hardcover
This book makes an investigation into the DOR (emblematic generations) and theme of generational change as narrative tools playing an important role in biblical history writing. The book raised this issue for the first time in biblical studies and examines it from an historiographical and literary point of view.
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About the Author:
Dr Paola Mollo is a specialist and an independent researcher in Biblical Languages and Old Testament Studies. She completed her Ph.D. in Oriental and Hebrew Studies at the University of Pisa, Italy. The theme of generational change is quite recurrent in the Old Testament, both in the accounts of primeval times, and in the first-stages of the history of Israel. Emblematic "generations", which are entitled DOR in Hebrew, demarcate specific historical periods in biblical narrative from Genesis to Judges, and their cyclical death and renewal contributes to shape the flow of history according to different epochs and different political settings. The present book raises this issue for the first time in biblical studies, and examines it from an historiographical and literary point of View Consequently, this generational change is first investigated as a thought pattern, formed by recurring conceptual elements and both similar and quite dissimilar phrasal wording. Second, it is studied as a conventional and topical theme throughout biblical literature.
Review:
"Paola Mollo offers some interesting reflections on historical responsibility. In the early period of Israel's history down until the time of Judges, the collective responsibility of the people is most frequently enhanced, where as the Books of Samuel and Kings will underlie the individual responsibility of the kings. This would explain why the word dor ("generation") disappears from the texts after the Book of Judges." - Jean Louis Ska, Professor of Old Testament Exegesis, Pontifical Biblical Institute - Rome. "This book contributes to scholarship in that it creates and describes a new notion within Biblical Studies, the theme of generational change, paving the way for further research studies and discussion within the flourishing field of Biblical historiography and history writing. Dr Mollo's work offers a new and intriguing interpretation of several biblical narratives from the Book of Genesis to Judges, reading them in relation with the theme of generational change which is shared to varying degrees by all." - Corrado Martone, Associate Professor Hebrew, University of Turin.
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- PublisherEdwin Mellen Pr
- Publication date1708
- ISBN 10 1495504417
- ISBN 13 9781495504419
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages185
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