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Opening Israel's Scriptures
Contributor(s): Davis, Ellen F. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0190260548     ISBN-13: 9780190260545
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $136.50  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2019
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Bibles
- Religion | Christianity - General
- Religion | Judaism - Sacred Writings
Dewey: 221.7
LCCN: 2019286660
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" L (2.10 lbs) 464 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
- Religious Orientation - Jewish
Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Index
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
Opening Israel's Scriptures is a collection of thirty-six essays on the Hebrew Bible, from Genesis to Chronicles, which gives powerful insight into the complexity and inexhaustibility of the Hebrew Scriptures as a theological resource. Based on more than two decades of lectures on Old
Testament interpretation, Ellen F. Davis offers a selective yet comprehensive guide to the core concepts, literary patterns, storylines, and theological perspectives that are central to Israel's Scriptures. Underlying the whole study is the primary assumption that each book of the canon has literary
and theological coherence, though not uniformity.

In both her close readings of individual texts and in her broad demonstrations of the coherence of whole books, Davis models the best practices of contemporary exegesis, integrating the insights of contemporary scholars with those of classical theological resources in Jewish and Christian
traditions. Throughout, she keeps an eye to the experiences and concerns of contemporary readers, showing through multiple examples that the critical interpretation of texts is provisional, open-ended work--a collaboration across generations and cultures. Ultimately what she offers is an invitation
into the more spacious world that the Bible discloses, which challenges ordinary conceptions of how things really are.
 
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