Interpreting Ancient Israelite History, Prophecy, and Law
by John H. Hayes, edited by Brad E. Kelle
Paperback (No longer our product)
(April 2017)
ISBN: 9780227176511
5.98 x 9.02 inches
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A challenging selection of essays from a prominent Old Testament scholar on the interpretation of biblical texts in their historical context.
For more than five decades, John Hayes’s scholarship has had a decisive influence on scholars and students in the field of Hebrew Bible study. This collection of ten essays, written between 1968 and 1995, displays his remarkable and thought-provoking elucidation of Israelite history, prophecy, and law. These essays make significant contributions that challenge the mainstream scholarship establishment with their daring interpretations and explanations, along with their bold, innovative theories. The way in which Hayes approaches the study of seminal figures, biblical texts, and historical reconstructions, combined with his analysis of specific methods, will have lasting implications for contemporary scholarship. He argues that biblical texts must be understood as being embedded within the particular historical, social, cultural, and political matrices from which they emerged. Whether exploring the social formation of early Israel, the final years of Samaria, or the social concept ofcovenant, he demonstrates a textually focussed and exegetically based approach. Hayes’s essays provide valuable insights that help contextualise developments within mid- to late-twentieth-century interpretation, thereby granting scholars glimpsesof key moments in the evolution of particular methods, trends, and models that have given shape to current research approaches. Familiarity with Hayes’s writings thus allows contemporary interpreters to envisage new avenues and perspectives in critical discussion of the Hebrew Bible.
- By (author) John H Hayes
- Edited by Brad E Kelle
"Hayes's work in these studies encourages both present and future scholars to be candid and courageous, to undertake their task with a healthy, gadflylike scepticism toward taken-for-granted settlements and consensuses, and to offer boldly new ideas that, at times, go against the mainstream of scholarly opinion."Brad E. Kelle, Professor of Old Testament, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego
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