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How to Read the Bible
For these reasons, several scholars understand the story as a separate novella-, 21 in any case, we may certainly speak of the Joseph story.
from How to Read the Bible by Marc Zvi Brettler PhD
Justin Reidy added 5mo ago
Rather, all biblical texts changed during their transmission. They were updated, expanded, and made to fit their broader context.21
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Justin Reidy added 5mo ago
As we have seen, the name Tanahh reflects a three-part ("tripartite") organization of the Bible; for Jews, this is the standard division of the Bible.
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Justin Reidy added 5mo ago
The historical-critical method makes two assumptions: that biblical society is discontinuous with our society, and that the Bible should be read according to its original social context, not anachronistically The Bible must instead be understoodonly after its ancient conventions and genres are understood, but because there is so much discontinuity,
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from approximately the twelfth century B.C.E. (the Song of Deborah in Judges 5) through the second century B.C.E. (the Book of Daniel).'
from How to Read the Bible by Marc Zvi Brettler PhD
Justin Reidy added 5mo ago
we would run a strong risk of being misled if we simply opened a history book and believed everything we read there.
from How to Read the Bible by Marc Zvi Brettler PhD
Justin Reidy added 5mo ago
Although prophets play an important role in these narrative books, they dwell on far more than prophecies.
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Justin Reidy added 5mo ago
We have no informants from ancient Israel, so we must use other, less reliable criteria to determine whether we are reading the ancient texts correctlys
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Justin Reidy added 5mo ago
My interest, however, is in reading the Bible like an ancient Israelite,2 what is often called reading the Bible from a historical-critical perspective.
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