[Rezension von: Schmid, Konrad, 1965-, A historical theology of the Hebrew Bible]
An excellent overview of the state of the field regarding questions of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible theology, religion, and history, past and present. Schmid leans towards late dating and an emphasis on the canonical shaping of biblical material. He is cautious of early dating and original historical...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Contributors: | |
| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Oxford University Press
2021
|
| In: |
The journal of theological studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 72, Issue: 2, Pages: 884-885 |
| Review of: | A historical theology of the Hebrew Bible (Grand Rapids : Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2019) (Dell, Katharine)
A historical theology of the Hebrew Bible (Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2019) (Dell, Katharine) A historical theology of the Hebrew Bible (Grand Rapids : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2019) (Dell, Katharine) |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
|
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | An excellent overview of the state of the field regarding questions of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible theology, religion, and history, past and present. Schmid leans towards late dating and an emphasis on the canonical shaping of biblical material. He is cautious of early dating and original historical contexts, preferring to see later writers as shaping the past in retrospective mode. This perspective dominates his decisions over dating and the relationships between different texts within the canon.The range of discussion is impressive, delving into areas such as the history of interpretation, but, despite its 450 pages, there are times when breadth sacrifices depth. There is a taster of many approaches and of many perspectives in the relatively short sections in which the book is divided up, giving it the feel of more of a reference book into which one can dip than a continuous read. But there is also, perhaps because of its ambitious remit , a lack of overall argument to the book and of distinctive direction. His scope however is very impressive, from premodern conceptions of biblical theology, through the Reformation period to the division of Old and New Testament theology and subsequent Romantic devaluation of the concept of theology. Then onto the concept of theology within Judaism before moving on to neo-orthodox and twentieth-century developments. The bringing in of Judaism and its developments is of particular interest. Issues of canon arise, as do questions of history of Israelite religion versus the discipline of ‘Old Testament theology’. Schmid deals with hermeneutics, with ethics, and even with systematic theology. He also gives us a historical timeline of the traditioning processes and literary history of the Hebrew Bible and a thematic, genre-based overview. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flab093 |