The Hebrew Bible : a comparative approach

Christopher D. Stanley
Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2010
xvi, 544 p. ; 24 cm.
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  • In this work, Christopher D. Stanley provides a Hebrew Bible textbook which approaches the Bible through the categories of comparative religion. It carefully distinguishes the religion of ancient Israel from the religion represented in the Bible.
  • What is Scripture?
  • Hebrew Bible or Old Testament?
  • What's in the Hebrew Bible?
  • Where did the Hebrew Bible come from?
  • Academic study of the Hebrew Bible
  • The importance of geography
  • Everyday life in Biblical times
  • The grand narrative
  • Narrative and history
  • The Hebrew Bible as a religious text
  • The nature of the universe
  • The supernatural world
  • On being human
  • The ideal society
  • Stories and faith
  • Stories of origins
  • Ancestral narratives
  • The Exodus narrative
  • The Deuteronomistic narrative : overview
  • The Deuteronomistic narrative : individual stories
  • Postexilic narratives
  • The laws of Torah
  • Purity laws
  • Social laws
  • Encountering the holy
  • Family religion
  • Community religion
  • State religion
  • The sacrificial system
  • Worship in the Psalms
  • The world of the prophets
  • The early preexilic prophets
  • The later preexilic prop
  • ill. (chiefly col.)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  • Fortress Press
  • 0800663470
  • 9780800663476
  • text
  • volume
  • unmediated
  • https://cms.trccloud.hk/opac/bib/ALgq