03258cam a2200577Mi 4500 ocn980225823 OCoLC 20200709060536.0 m d cr |n||||||||| 170406s2016 oru ob 000 0 eng d YDX eng YDX OCLCO EBLCP YDX MERUC VGM N$T 980522992 980830977 9781532600418 (electronic bk.) 1532600410 (electronic bk.) 1532600402 9781532600401 1490813 (N$T) (OCoLC)980225823 (OCoLC)980522992 (OCoLC)980830977 BS1171.3 .B88 2016 REL 006210 bisacsh REL 040040 bisacsh 221.6 23 MAIN Butterfield, Robert A. (Robert Alan), author. Making sense of the Hebrew Bible [electronic resource] / Robert A. Butterfield ; foreword by Vitor Westhelle. Eugene, Oregon : Wipf & Stock, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource. Understanding the Hebrew Bible has never been easy. Even great scholars have had to be content with understanding only bits and pieces of it. The main reason was the lack of hard evidence about Israel's history. Without such evidence, one could only guess about why and when a text was written, and if one couldn't really explain even one text, how could one explain the whole collection? Thanks to recent archaeology, however, it is now possible to paint a factually reliable history of Israel and make strong connections between texts and actual events. These connections, in turn, permit one to se. In the beginning -- Stringing stories together with metaphors -- Israel's real history -- More about structure -- Messianic expectation -- Socio-religious origins of Jesus of Nazareth -- Jewish ethics and the ethics of Jesus of Nazareth -- Role of festivals in postexilic Israel -- Some practical implications -- Destruction/re-creation in the New Testament. Added to collection customer.56279.3 - Master record variable field(s) change: 072, 630 Bible. fast (OCoLC)fst01356024 Bible. Old Testament. fast (OCoLC)fst01808092 Bible. Old Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible History of contemporary events. Bible History of Biblical events. History of Biblical events. fast (OCoLC)fst01865053 History of contemporary events. fast (OCoLC)fst01865054 RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament bisacsh RELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings bisacsh Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635 Electronic books. Westhelle, Vítor, 1952- author of introduction. Print version: 1532600402 9781532600401 (OCoLC)964931736 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1490813 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL4831912 YBP Library Services YANK 13860430 EBSCOhost EBSC 1490813 92 N$T 57282 57282