Debating the late-dating of the Old Testament
In this paper several basic statements are made regarding the recent trend among some Old Testament scholars to assign a late (post-exilic) dating to the Old Testament as a whole. It is argued that this debate should be taken seriously and not merely be discarded or embraced, without accounting for...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1998
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| In: |
Old Testament essays
Year: 1998, Volume: 11, Issue: 3, Pages: 522-533 |
| Further subjects: | B
Post-exilic dating
B Christianity B Old testament-date B Old Testament |
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| Summary: | In this paper several basic statements are made regarding the recent trend among some Old Testament scholars to assign a late (post-exilic) dating to the Old Testament as a whole. It is argued that this debate should be taken seriously and not merely be discarded or embraced, without accounting for the religious or ideological stance of scholars as well as their socio-historical context. It is further argued that late-daters should be fair to the work done by traditional historical-critical scholars and account for their theory in terms of the archaeological record as well as giving a detailed exegesis of the individual texts of the Old Testament. |
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| ISSN: | 2312-3621 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Old Testament essays
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10520/AJA10109919_785 |