Biblical Interpretation Beyond Historicity

Ingrid Hjelm, Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen and Director of the Palestine History and Heritage Project. Author of The Samaritans and Early Judaism (2000) and Jerusalem’s Rise to Sovereignty (2004) in addition to a considerable number of articles within the field of Samaritan studies, the history of ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible. Her latest book, co-edited with Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme is Myths of Exile (2015). Thomas L. Thompson, Professor Emeritus, University of Copenhagen and author of some 130 articles and ca. 20 books, including The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives (1974), The Early History of the Israelite People (1992), The Bible in History: How Writers Create a Past (1999) and Biblical Narrative and Palestine’s History (2013), currently working as Project Developer on the Palestine History and Heritage Project.

Introduction

Part I: Beyond Historicity






A New ‘Biblical Archaeology’
Philip R. Davies




Old and New Ways of Interpreting Isaiah 40-55
Frederik Poulsen




Sociolinguistic Perspectives on the Hebrew Bible as Memory Work: Seeing Redactional Work as Entextualization
Trine Bjørnung Hasselbach

Part II: Greek Connections




Is the Old Testament Still a Hellenistic Book?
Niels Peter Lemche




From Plato to Moses: Genesis-Kings as a Platonic Epic
Philippe Wajdenbaum




Greek Genres and the Hebrew Bible
Russel Gmirkin




When the Septuagint Came in from the Cold
Mogens Müller

Part III: Reception




Of Qumran, the Canon and the History of the Bible Text
Fred Cryer




Deconstructing the Continuity of Qumran Ib and II with Implications for Stabilizing the Biblical Texts
Gregory Doudna




Canon Formation, Canonicity and the Qumran library
Jesper Høgenhaven




New Children of Abraham in Greenland—The Creation of a Nation
Flemming A. J. Nielsen




Whose Mythic, Rhythmic, Theological and Cultural Memory is it Anyway?

Jim West