Myth and History in the Bible - Couverture rigide

Garbini, Giovanni

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 082646260X ISBN 13 : 9780826462602

Editeur : Continuum International Publishing Group - Sheffie, 2003

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Old Testament, and biblical scholarship itself, distinguishes between mythical and historical. This book argues that only historical thing in the Bible is the Bible itself, a superb product of Jewish thought. What is narrated in the Bible is only myth. But this myth about Israel's past was still built with fragments of history, or rather with written traditions that were different from those expressed in the actual text, and obviously more ancient. These essays follow in the spirit of his controversial History and Ideology in Ancient Israel, which combine detailed philological reseaerch, a wide knowledge of ancient Near Eastern literature and Biblical Archaeology--and a radical way of understanding what the biblical text is really telling us. This is an erudite and thought-provoking book, which should not be ignored by anyone who finds the origin of the Bible a fascinating and still largely unknown phenomenon.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Giovanni Garbini is Lecturer of Semitic Philology at the University Di Roma ""La Sapienza.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Continuum International Publishing Group - Sheffie
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 082646260X
• ISBN 13: 9780826462602
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192