Mieke Ba I (Hg.in), Anti-Covenant. Counter-Reading Women's Lives in the Hebrew Bible (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 81; Bible and Literature Series 22), Sheffield (Amond Press) 1989, 243 S.

The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) provides limited information about women's lives in ancient Israel, but various other sources are available that can be used to reconstruct aspects of women's everyday activities and their roles in important lifecycle events. In this article I present two different case studies—brewing beer and childbirth—in order to show how much we can learn about Israelite women's lives using archaeology, iconography, ethnography, and ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian textual sources along with passages from the Hebrew Bible.

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Philosophical Reduction(ism) in Meta-Language Reconstructions of Yhwh as Religious Object

Journal for Semitics ◽

10.25159/1013-8471/3673 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Jaco W Gericke

Keyword(s):

Old Testament ◽

Hebrew Bible ◽

A Priori ◽

Research Problem ◽

Second Order ◽

Unified Theory ◽

Ontological Status ◽

Introductory Overview ◽

Theory Of Everything ◽

Interpretative Approach

In Hebrew Bible/Old Testament scholarship, one encounters a variety of reductive perspectives on what exactly Yahweh as religious object is assumed to be. In this article, a clarification of the research problem is followed by an introductory overview of what is currently available on this topic as is attested in the context of various interpretative methodologies and their associated meta-languages. It is argued that any attempt to describe the actual metaphysical nature and ontological status of the religious object in the jargon of a particular interpretative approach is forever prone to committing the fallacy of reductionism. Even so, given the irreducible methodological perspectivism supervening on heuristic specificity, reductive accounts as such are unavoidable. If this is correct, then it follows a fortiori that a unified theory (of everything Yahweh can be said to be) and an ideal meta-language (with which to perfectly reconstruct the religious object within second-order discourse) are a priori impossible.

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The Reception of the Writings and Their Place in the Biblical Canon

The Oxford Handbook of the Writings of the Hebrew Bible ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190212438.013.4 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 396-413

Author(s):

Lee Martin McDonald

Keyword(s):

Old Testament ◽

Hebrew Bible ◽

Early Christianity ◽

First Century

This chapter explores the origin and order of the Writings along with their emergence from the larger corpus of prophets included in the Hebrew Bible. It focuses also on the somewhat mixed reception of some of those texts in Judaism and early Christianity as well as the tripartite structure of the Hebrew Bible compared with the quadripartite structure of the Christian Old Testament, as well as the question of whether the latter was a Christian innovation or derived from an element of Judaism in the first century ce before Christians separated from Judaism. The recent questions about the significance of the order of the Christian Old Testament canon will also be examined below.

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Hearing the ‘Voice’ of the Niphal: A Response to Ellen van Wolde

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament ◽

10.1177/0309089220916506 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 45 (3) ◽

pp. 291-308

Author(s):

Ethan C. Jones

Keyword(s):

Old Testament ◽

Hebrew Bible ◽

External Argument ◽

Middle Voice ◽

External Agent ◽

The Voice ◽

Previous Volume

This article responds to the innovative and stimulating research by Ellen van Wolde in a previous volume of Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. She claims that the Niphal is middle voice and can be passive, ‘if (and only if) an external argument, coded as an external Agent, is present’. My research however, demonstrates that such a description of the passive is both inadequate in view of the world’s languages and incongruent with Niphal. In addition, my response lays bare how such a prescription of the middle voice to the Niphal in the Hebrew Bible is circulus probando and unconvincing.

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Imagination: A Hermeneutical Tool for the Study of the Hebrew Bible

Biblical Interpretation ◽

10.1163/092725609x12586198053057 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 114-136

Author(s):

Izaak de Hulster

Keyword(s):

New Testament ◽

Old Testament ◽

Hebrew Bible ◽

Moral Imagination ◽

Related Literature ◽

Systematic Application ◽

Ancient People ◽

The New Testament ◽

Old Testament Studies

AbstractBiblical scholars use the word 'imagination' more and more often, but in different cases 'imagination' covers different concepts. In order to reach a more systematic application of 'imagination' in hermeneutics and Old Testament Studies in general, there is a need to explore the possible uses of 'imagination'. This article comprises: 1) a theoretical introduction extending what Barth and Steck wrote in their classical primer on exegetical methods; 2) a section on imagination and history; 3) a heuristic classifying survey of Brueggemann's use of the word 'imagination'; 4) a reflection on how imagination is restricted by parameters of time and place. The article distinguishes between imagination of ancient people and of people nowadays, but deals with the interplay of both as well. It further reflects on the informed, controlled use of imagination in hermeneutics. After a brief comment on "moral imagination," a survey and mapping of the uses of imagination in hermeneutics rounds off the article. This will make clear how the different notions referred to with the word 'imagination' are related and why it is important to consider them as interdependent concepts. Although the majority of the examples will be taken from the Hebrew Bible, the thoughts expressed here are applicable to the study of the New Testament as well and some more specific New Testament issues and related literature will be referred to.

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