From Epic to Canon History and Literature in Ancient Israel

Name: From Epic to Canon History and Literature in Ancient Israel
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ISBN: 9780801865336

ISBN-10: 0801865336

ISBN-13: 9780801865336

Edition: 1999 (Reprint)

Authors: Frank Moore Cross

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In From Epic to Canon, Frank Moore Cross discusses specific issues that illuminate central questions about the Hebrew Bible and those who created and preserved it. He challenges the persistent attempt to read Protestant theological polemic against law into ancient Israel. Cross uncovers the continuities between the institutions of kinship and of covenant, which he describes as "extended kinship." He examines the social structures of ancient Israel and reveals that beneath its later social and cultural accretions, the concept of covenant -- as opposed to codified law -- was a vital part of Israel's earliest institutions. He then draws parallels between the expression of kinship and covenant…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 11/21/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Frank Moore Cross is Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, Emeritus, Harvard University.



List of Illustrations


Preface and Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations



Epic Traditions of Early Israel



Kinship and Covenant in Ancient Israel



Traditional Narrative and the Reconstruction of Early Israelite Institutions



Reuben, the Firstborn of Jacob: Sacral Traditions and Early Israelite History



Priestly Lore and its Near Eastern Background



The "Olden Gods" in Ancient Near Eastern Creation Myths and in Israel



The Priestly Tabernacle and the Temple of Solomon



Studies in the Structure of Hebrew Verse



The Prosody of Lamentations 1 and the Psalm of Jonah



Toward a History of Hebrew Prosody



Return to Zion



A Reconstruction of the Judaean Restoration



Samaria and Jerusalem in the Era of the Restoration



Qumran and the History of the Biblical Text



The Fixation of the Text of the Hebrew Bible



The Stabilization of the Canon of the Hebrew Bible



Typology and Historical Method



Alphabets and Pots: Reflections on Typological Method in the Dating of Artifacts


Index of Biblical Citations


Index of Technical Terms


Index of Authors


General Index