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9780801865336 Academic Inspection Copy

From Epic to Canon

History and Literature in Ancient Israel
  • ISBN-13: 9780801865336
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Frank Moore Cross
  • Price: AUD $69.99
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  • Local release date: 14/12/2000
  • Format: Paperback 280 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Religion & beliefs [HR]
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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 among the Israelites and that practiced by other ancient societies, as well as in primitive societies.

""In the study of the Old Testament, perhaps no one has been a better and more stimulating scholar in the past half century than Frank Moore Cross, emeritus professor at Harvard, editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls and author of salient books and articles. Cross is one of the few who commands the whole range of the biblical field, from the second millenium BCE to the Roman period. He has embodied the model of the scholar, who is, as Shakespeare puts it in Henry VIII 'Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading. To those men who sought him sweet as summer.'.""

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