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Directed toward a synthesis of the history of the religion of
Israel, the essays in this volume address key aspects of Israelite
religious development. Frank Moore Cross traces the continuities
between early Israelite religion and the Caananite culture from
which it emerged, explores the tension between the mythic and the
historical in Israel's religious expression, and examines the
reemergence of Caananite mythic material in the apocalypticism of
early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
In "From Epic to Canon," Frank Moore Cross discusses specific
issues that illuminate central questions about the Hebrew Bible and
those who created and preserved it. He challenges the persistent
attempt to read Protestant theological polemic against law into
ancient Israel. Cross uncovers the continuities between the
institutions of kinship and of covenant, which he describes as
"extended kinship." He examines the social structures of ancient
Israel and reveals that beneath its later social and cultural
accretions, the concept of covenant--as opposed to codified
law--was a vital part of Israel's earliest institutions. He then
draws parallels between the expression of kinship and covenant
among the Israelites and that practiced by other ancient societies,
as well as in primitive societies.
Ancient Yahwistic Poetry is a particularly tempting field of study.
In this small body of literature are preserved the oldest and most
creative expressions of Israel's faith. this study of ancient
Yahwistic poetry by Frank Moore Cross Jr. and David Noel Freedman
untangles some of the serious textual difficulties and linguistic
obscurities that have been a challenge to students of the Hebrew
Bible for many generations.
The discovery of manuscripts in Qumran-the Dead Sea Scrolls-and
other sites in the Wilderness of Judah has stimulated a period of
unparalleled activity in the study of the biblical text. Students
and teachers in this field are overwhelmed with the thousands of
articles that have appeared in hundreds of journals in the last
thirty years. The older handbooks surveying biblical textual
criticism have become hopelessly obsolete. Frank Cross and
Shemaryahu Talmon have designed a collection of essays to help the
serious student find his way in this transformed field of research.
Some of the essays are general surveys, some propound new theories,
several publish manuscript data of revolutionary importance. The
editors have contributed previously unpublished papers suggesting
new approaches to the fundamental task of textual criticism. A list
of published manuscripts or manuscript fragments from the Judaean
Desert and a bibliography are included.
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