The Hebrew Bible: new insights and scholarship

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Preface

Part I. The Bible and History

1. Israel Without the Bible

2. Bible, Archaeology, and the Social Sciences: The Next Generation

Part II. New Approaches to the Bible

3. Literary Approaches to Biblical Literature: General Observations and a Case Study of Genesis 34

4. Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible

Part III. Ancient Practice

5. The Laws of Biblical Israel

6. The Study of Ritual in the Hebrew Bible

Part IV. Judaism and the Bible

7. By the Letter?/Word for Word? Scripture in the Jewish Tradition

8. From Judaism to Biblical Religion and Back Again

9. Jewish Biblical Theology

Epilogue: Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom: Some Reflections on Reading and Studying the Hebrew Bible

About the Contributors

Index

Index of Biblical Passages