In this thought-provoking volume, Robert A. Oden Jr. advocates stripping away the theological and historiographic biases that underlie modern biblical scholarship in order to arrive at a nontheological historical reading of the Bible. Oden calls into question a scholarly tradition that accepts biblical writers' views of themselves and their neighbors at face value and reproduces a view of Israelite religion as divinely guided and inherently superior. Using cross-cultural and interdisciplinary methodology, Oden investigates three biblical issues--the clothing of Adam and Eve, Jacob's name change to Israel, and ritual prostitution and Deuteronomy--in light of extra-biblical evidence. He also challenges scholars' assumptions of Scripture as monotheistic and proposes treating biblical narrative as myth rather than as historical fact.
Titel | The Bible Without Theology The Theological Tradition and Alternatives to It |
Auteur | Robert A. Oden |
Uitgever | University Of Illinois Press |
Jaar Verschenen | 1987 |
Taal | Engels |
Pagina's | pp. 208 |
ISBN13 | 9780252068706 |
Onderwerp | Julius Wellhausen |
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