The Changing Face of Form Criticism for the Twenty-First Century,9780802860675

The Changing Face of Form Criticism for the Twenty-First Century

by Zvi, Ehud Ben
ISBN13: 9780802860675
ISBN10: 0802860672
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-06-01
Publisher(s): Eerdmans Pub Co
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Summary

The approach to biblical interpretation known as "form criticism" has changed markedly at the beginning of the twenty-first century. In this new volume front-ranking experts survey the contemporary landscape of form criticism and explore significant patterns and trends now emerging in the field. Together these essays point to the continuing dynamism and vitality of form-critical theory as a significant tool for reading the Bible.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(14)
Marvin A. Sweeney and Ehud Ben Zvi
PART I: THEORETICAL REFLECTION
Form Criticism's Future
15(17)
Antony F. Campbell, S.J.
Formgeschichte - A Misleading Category? Some Critical Remarks
32(14)
Erhard Blum
Recent Form Criticism Revisited in an Age of Reader Response
46(19)
Roy F. Melugin
Form Criticism, Wisdom, and Psalms 111-112
65(20)
Raymond C. Van Leeuwen
Form Criticism in Dialogue with Other Criticisms: Building the Multidimensional Structures of Texts and Concepts
85(22)
Hyun Chul Paul Kim
PART II: THE BIBLE AND ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN LITERATURE
Inscriptional Evidence and the Question of Genre
107(15)
Martin Rösel
Fear Not: A Study on an Ancient Near Eastern Phrase
122(40)
Martti Nissinen
Ezekiel Saw What He Said He Saw: Genres, Forms, and the Vision of Ezekiel 1
162(15)
Margaret S. Odell
Israelite Genres in Their Ancient Near Eastern Context
177(22)
Tremper Longman III
PART III: NARRATIVE LITERATURE
Kaleidoscopic Patterns and the Shaping of Experience
199(18)
Sue Boorer
The Exclusion of Moses from the Promised Land: A Conceptual Approach
217(23)
Won Lee
The Form-Critical Problem of the So-Called Deuteronomistic History
240(13)
Thomas Römer
Nehemiah 9 and the Problematic Concept of Context (Sitz im Leben)
253(16)
Bob Becking
PART IV: PROPHETIC LITERATURE
The Basic Forms of Prophetic Literature
269(7)
David L. Petersen
The Prophetic Book: A Key Form of Prophetic Literature
276(22)
Ehud Ben Zvi
Basic Trends in the Form-Critical Study of Prophetic Texts
298(14)
Michael H. Floyd
Toward Form Criticism as an Explication of Human Life: Divine Speech as a Form of Self Transcendence
312(14)
Martin J. Buss
Rhetorical Criticism and Beyond in Second Isaiah
326(9)
Patricia K. Tull
Zechariah's Debate with Isaiah
335
Marvin A. Sweeney

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