Mitzvoth Ethics and the Jewish Bible

The End of Old Testament Theology
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-567-02962-1
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, Band No: 460, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 798 g

Reihe: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies

Ratheiser's study provides the framework for a non-confessional, mitzvoth ethics-centered and historical-philological approach to the Jewish bible and deals with the basic steps of an alternative paradigmatic perspective on the biblical text.

- New addition to Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
- Offers fresh new hermeneutical approaches to study of the Hebrew Bible.

Ratheiser's study provides the framework for a non-confessional, mitzvoth ethics-centered and historical-philological approach to the Jewish bible and deals with the basic steps of an alternative paradigmatic perspective on the biblical text. The author seeks to demonstrate the ineptness of confessional and historical approaches to the Jewish bible. Based on his observations and his survey of the history of interpretation of the Jewish bible, Ratheiser introduces an alternative hermeneutical-exegetical approach to the Jewish bible: the paradigm of examples. His study concludes that the biblical text is a collection of writings designed and formed from a specifically ethical-ethnic outlook. In other words, he regards the Jewish bible to be written as an etiology of ancient instruction by ancient Jews to Jews and for Jews. As such, it serves as a religious-ethical identity marker that provides ancient Jews and their descendants with an etiology of Jewish life. Ratheiser regards this religious-ethical agenda to have been the driving force in the minds of the final editors/compilers of the biblical text as we have it today.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Post-graduates

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ratheiser, Gershom M. H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Analysis of Approaches to the Jewish Bible
Chapter 3: An Alternative Approach: The Paradigm of Examples
Chapter 4: Joshua The Exemplary Warrior

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Gershom M.H. Ratheiser is Lecturer/docent at Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, Germany, and Director of the Euregional Centre for Jewish History & Cultuur, Enschede, the Netherlands.