TY  - BOOK
AU  - Butterfield,Robert A.
AU  - Westhelle,Vítor
TI  - Making sense of the Hebrew Bible
SN  - 9781532600418
AV  - BS1171.3 .B88 2016
U1  - 221.6 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Eugene, Oregon
PB  - Wipf & Stock
KW  - Bible
KW  - fast
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - History of contemporary events
KW  - History of Biblical events
KW  - RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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