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Symposia - Dialogues Concerning the History of Biblical Interpretation (Paperback)
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Symposia - Dialogues Concerning the History of Biblical Interpretation (Paperback)
Series: BibleWorld
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By bringing the key people in the history of biblical studies to
life in a series of short stories, this book provides an
alternative introduction to and engagement with Hebrew Bible
studies. It seeks to explain, contextualise and critique key
moments in the history of these studies. However, in contrast to
the usual dry textbook, it does so by means of an approach that
will engage, entertain and hopefully excite students over against
the usual dry textbook. The model for the stories is the ancient
Greek idea of the symposium, a sitting down together for the
purpose of drinking. In Platos writings, the symposium becomes a
genre of writing with Socrates at its centre, a character who
perpetually questions in order to develop the pursuit of knowledge.
This is the model I follow in this book, where some of the main
figures of biblical studies become the central characters in the
stories. Here we find people such as Julius Wellhausen, Hermann
Gunkel, Martin noth, Brevard Childs, Norman Gottwald, Phyllis
Trible and the Bible and Culture Collective engaged in various
discussions with a range of other characters who seek to bring out
the essential arguments, contexts, contributions and problems of
their innovations in biblical studies.
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