Hebrew Bible / Old Testament. The History of Its Interpretation: Volume III: From Modernism to Post-Modernism (The Nineteenth and Twentieth ... The History of Its Interpretation, 3) - Hardcover

Magne Saebo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3525540213 ISBN 13: 9783525540213

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013

Synopsis

The long and complex history of reception and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament through the ages, described in the HBOT Project, is in the penultimate part volume III/1 pursued to the nineteenth century s special situation with its new methods and problems. Due to an increased historical knowledge in many fields and an expanding cultural context, the phenomenon of history became the object of an as yet unsurpassed fascination; history was the new key concept partly in form of a historicism . With regard to biblical studies in general and the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in particular a decisive historical-critical approach came into focus, which generated tension between this new method and the traditional scriptural interpretation of the Church and in turn also relatively severe controversies between opposing fronts.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. theol. Magne Sæbø is Professor emer. for Old Testament Studies at the MF Norwegian School of Theology and former President of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (1995 1998).

Review:

"Saebo's book gives us access to insights like these, which should fuel our continued quest to understand the sources and their history, so that we might understand the theological or literary distinctiveness of the Bible on its own terms rather than simply assert what we assume it to be." --The Marginalia Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 3525540213
• ISBN 13: 9783525540213
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 830