商品簡介
"Rethinking Biblical Scholarship" brings together seminal essays to provide readers with an assessment of the archaeological and exegetical research which has transformed the discipline of biblical studies over the last two decades. The essays focus on history and historiography, exploring how scholarly constructs and ideologies mould historical, literary and cultural data and shape scholarly discourse. Most of the essays illustrate the development of what has been called a "minimalist" methodology. Among the many central topics examined are the formation of the Jewish scriptural canon and how the concepts of "prophecy" and "apocalypse" illuminate the emergence of Judaism in the late Persian and Hellenistic periods.
作者簡介
Philip R. Davies is Emeritus Professor of Biblical Studies at University of Sheffield. His most recent books include On the Origins of Judaism (Acumen, 2011), The Origins of Biblical Israel (T&T Clark, 2007), and co-author of The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Thames and Hudson, 2011) and Opening the Books of Moses (Acumen, 2012).