This volume by the late Bernd J. Diebner presents an anthology of studies previously published only in German from 1971 to 2020 on a range of topics in biblical studies. Of interest to Anglophone scholars of biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies.
This volume by the late Bernd J. Diebner presents an anthology of studies previously published only in German from 1971 to 2020 on a wide range of topics in biblical studies.
The 18 essays in this collection offer profound insight into the works of German scholarship which have strongly influenced biblical studies and related research in the 20th century. Being an important, but lesser recognized member of the Copenhagen school, Diebner voiced serious criticism of contemporary biblical scholarship which is discussed in the first seven chapters. The remaining chapters offer challenging new perspectives on well-known themes, narratives, and compositions related to history, ideology, and archaeology, on the one hand, and text and canon, on the other, as alternatives to traditional historicalcritical approaches.
Now published in English for the first time, this volume makes these essays available to Anglophone students and scholars of biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies.
Introduction - Thomas L. Thompson; Part 1 Status Quaestionis; 1
Undesirable Developments in Biblical Studies (Old Testament): A Continuously
Self Falsifying Discipline; Part 2 Methods; 2 The Gods of the Fathers:
Criticism of Albrecht Alts Vätergott-Hypothesis; 3 A Methodological
Alternative to the Present Study of the Old Testament. Otto Plögers 65th
Birthday; 4 "You Cannot Prove It, but It Is a fact that" Figures of Speech
Instead of Method in Critical Studies of the Old Testament; 5 Some Comments
on John Van Seters Methodological Sketch: The Yahwist as Historian, Parts I
and II; 6 Since When Did "Jenes Israel" (Martin Noth) Exist? Comments on
Israel as an Ecclesiological body in the TNK (Biblia Hebraica et Aramaica);
Part 3 History and Ideology; 7 The Orientation of Jerusalems Temple and the
Sacred Direction of Early Christian Churches; 8 The Function of the
So-called Torah Niche in the Antique Synagogue of Dura Europos
Reconsidered; 9 Cultural-political Globalization Efforts in Antiquity and
Their Significance for the Texts of the Bible; Part 4 Texts and Canon; 10 The
Function of the Canonical Corpus of Texts in Judaism in Pre-Christian times.
Considerations of Canon-criticism; 11 The Role of the Mesopotamian Exile
Community (glūt) and Its Theological Imprint on the Jewish Bible; 12 A
Rough Outline of a Torah-hypothesis; Part 5 Torah; 13 Genesis 17 as the
Centre of a Pesach Cycle of the Torah; 14 Wayyashav Avraham ( ):
Why Is Abraham Returning to His Servants from One of the Mountains in the
Land of Moriah Without Isaac?; Part 6 Neviim; 15 The Inventio of the
in 2 Kings 22: The Structure, Intention, and Function of Legends of
Discovery; 16 The Correspondence between Isa 56:1-8 and 66:18-24 and the
Prophetic Surpassing of the Torah: Yad wa-Shem; Part 7 Ketuvim; 17 "At the
Rise of Dawn": Hotheaded Jonahs Annoyance with the Crimson Worm; 18
Ecclesiological Aspects of a Canoncal Hermeneutics of the Hebrew Bible.
Bernd J. Diebner (died 2023) was Hon.-Prof. of the Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany; and a theologian (pastor, biblical studies, and church history), archaeologist (early Byzantine Studies), and orientalist (Coptic Studies). As founder and editor of DBAT, he has since 1972 authored and promoted an ongoing discussion and criticism of methods and ideology in the fields of ancient history, biblical interpretation, and theology. He is the author of Heilsgeschichte und Schriftprinzip (1989), Zephanjas Apokalypsen (2003), and Seit wann gibt es "jenes Israel" (2011), and co-editor of Vom Iteru-Mass bis zu Miriam bei March Chagal (2020).
Ingrid Hjelm is Associate Professor Emerita, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; former Director of the Palestine History and Heritage Project (201417); and general editor of CIS since 2011. She is the author of The Samaritans and Early Judaism (2000) and Jerusalems Rise to Sovereignty (2004); co-author of The Ever Elusive Past (2019); and co-editor of Myths of Exile (2015), Changing Perspectives 6 and 7 (2016), and A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine (2019).
Thomas L. Thompson is Professor Emeritus, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 19932009; Research Fellow for the Tübinger Atlas des vorderen Orients, 19691976; and founder and general editor of CIS, 19962016. He has produced more than 20 books as author, co-author, and co-editor, six of which have been translated into Arabic. He is the author of The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives (1974), The Settlement of Palestine in the Bronze Age (1979), The Early History of the Israelite People (1992), The Bible in History (1999), The Messiah Myth (2005), and Biblical Narrative and Palestines History (2013).
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