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Focusing Biblical Studies: The Crucial Nature of the Persian and Hellenistic Periods: Essays in Honor of Douglas A. Knight: No. 544
Author(s): Alice Hunt (Author, Editor), Jon L. Berquist
- Publisher: T & T Clark International
- Publication Date: 20 Dec. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 0567628949
- ISBN-13: 9780567628947
Book Description
This volume makes a positive intervention into maximalist/minimalist debates about Israelite historiography by pointing to the events that happened during the Persian and Hellenistic periods. During this historical epoch, traditions about Israel and Judah’s founding became fixed as markers of ethnic identity, and much of the canonical Hebrew Bible came into its present form. Concentrating on these events, a clearer historical picture emerges.
The entire volume is set within the context of Doug Knight’s contributions, which have encouraged a rigorous social-scientific and tradition-historical approach to the Hebrew Bible and ancient Israel in general. Many scholars have pursued how the social scientific method, first used to analyze early monarchic Israel, can shape the understanding of these later historical periods. Knight’s methods, teachings, writings, and scholarly interventions have pointed the contributors of this volume to fresh considerations of the Persian and Hellenistic periods. The concluding essay will examine the future directions in which such sociological and historical investigation can go forward.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“The totality of the list of contributors – which includes Job Berquist, Robert Wilson, Norman Gottwald, James Crenshaw, and many others – is immediately impressive … The sum of the volume is most definitely useful for bringing readers up to speed on some of the central currents in critical scholarship. The contributors have shaped and continued to shape their respective niches and the field as a whole. That point is beyond dispute.” –R. Michael Fox, Ecclesia College, Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament
About the Author
Alice Hunt is President of Chicago Theological Seminary.
