Failed Methods and Ideology in Canonical Interpretation of Biblical Texts (Copenhagen International Seminar)

Cover\nHalf Title\nSeries\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nPreface\nAcknowledgements\nEditorial Note\nList of Abbreviations\nIntroduction\nPart 1 Status Quaestionis\n	1 Undesirable Developments in Biblical Studies (Old Testament): A Continuously Self Falsifying Discipline\nPart 2 Methods\n	2 The Gods of the Fathers: Criticism of Albrecht Alt’s ‘Vätergott’-Hypothesis\n	3 A Methodological Alternative to the Present Study of the Old Testament. Otto Plöger’s 65th Birthday\n	4 “You Cannot Prove It, but It Is a Fact that . . .” Figure of Speech Instead of Method in Critical Studies of the Old Testament\n	5 Some Comments on John Van Seters’ Methodological Sketch: ‘The Yahwist as Historian, Part I and II’\n	6 Since When Did “Jenes Israel” (Martin Noth) Exist? Comments on ‘Israel’ as an Ecclesiological Body in the TNK (Biblia Hebraica et Aramaica)\nPart 3 History and Ideology\n	7 The Orientation of Jerusalem’s Temple and the ‘Sacred Orientation’ of Early Christian Churches\n	8 The Function of the So-called ‘Torah Niche’ in the Ancient Synagogue of Dura Europos Reconsidered\n	9 Cultural-political Globalization Efforts in Antiquity and Their Significance for the Texts of the Bible\nPart 4 Texts and Canon\n	10 The Function of the Canonical Corpus of Texts in Judaism in Pre-Christian Times. Considerations of Canon-criticism\n	11 The Role of the Mesopotamian ‘Exilic Community’ (gālût) and Its Theological Imprint on the Jewish Bible\n	12 A Rough Outline of a Torah-hypothesis\nPart 5 Torah\n	13 Genesis 17 as the Centre of a Pesach Cycle of the Torah\n	14 Wayyashav ’Avraham ( וישב אברהם ): Why Is Abraham Returning to His Servants from One of the Mountains in the Land of Moriah Without Isaac?\nPart 6 Nevi’im\n	15 The Inventio of the ספר התורה in 2 Kings 22: The Structure, Intention, and Function of Legends of Discovery\n	16 The Correspondence Between Isa 56:1–8 and 66:18–24 and the Prophetic Surpassing of the Torah: Yad wa-Shem\nPart 7 Ketuvim\n	17 “At the Rise of Dawn”: Hotheaded Jonah’s Annoyance with the Crimson Worm\n	18 Ecclesiological Aspects of a Canonical Hermeneutics of the Hebrew Bible (TNK)\nIndex\nIndex of Sources\nCopenhagen International Seminar Series