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The Function of Exodus Motifs in Biblical Narratives
Charles David Isbell
其他書名
Theological Didactic Drama
出版E. Mellen Press, 2002
主題Religion / Biblical Biography / Old TestamentReligion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament
ISBN077346994X9780773469945
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zYIQAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In this work Dr. Isbell has thought long and well about the complexities of the Old Testament as it is rooted in history but surges always to new theological interpretation. Dr. Isbell's program of a drama that is at the same time didactic (intended for community formation) and theological (meaningful beyond historical questions) is exactly the right accent. He has a powerful sensitivity to the interpretive dynamism that the text evokes. Preface; Charles Isbell has thought long and well about the complexities of the Old Testament as it is rooted in history but surges always to new theological interpretation. His program of a drama that is at the same time didactic (intended for community formation) and theological (meaningful beyond historical questions) is exactly the right accent. Professor Isbell has a powerful sensitivity to the interpretive dynamism that the text evokes and shows how that dynamism is intrinsic to the very character of the text in its final form. Readers of this book will be given access to the Bible beyond the popular options of rigid scholasticism and thin historicism. In Isbell's hands the creativity of the canonizing tradition continues in the