The Vow and the 'Popular Religious Groups' of Ancient Israel
The Vow and the 'Popular Religious Groups' of Ancient Israel

Author: Jacques Berlinerblau

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1996-03-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0567407314

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Berlinerblau argues that in order to procure reliable historical information about 'popular religious groups' (such as women, non-privileged economic strata, heterodox elements) we must search for what he calls 'implicit evidence': mundane details regarding the vow which the biblical writers tacitly assumed and hence unknowingly bequeathed to posterity. By piecing together these strands of implicit evidence the author attempts to reconstruct the basic norms of the Israelite votive system. In so doing, he explains why certain 'popular religious groups' were attracted to this particular practice.

The New Literary Criticism and the Hebrew Bible
The New Literary Criticism and the Hebrew Bible

Author: J. Cheryl Exum

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1993-09-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0567472523

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The purpose of this original volume is to illustrate what has been happening recently in Hebrew Bible studies under the influence of developments in literary theory in the last couple of decades. The methods and practice of reader-response criticism and deconstruction, as well as of feminist, materialist and psychoanalytic approaches are represented here by essays from leading Hebrew Bible literary critics. Alice Bach, Robert Carroll, Francisco Garcia-Treto, David Jobling, Francis Landy, Stuart Lasine, Peter Miscall, Hugh Pyper, Robert Polzin, and Ilona Rashkow, together with the two editors, present distinctive and eclectic essays on particular biblical texts, introducing students and scholars to exciting new dimensions of biblical study.