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Author Buss, Martin J.

Title Biblical form criticism in its context / Martin J. Buss
Published Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (512 pages) : illustrations
Series Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 274
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 274.
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: RECOGNIZING FORMS; Chapter 2 BIBLICAL PATTERNS; Chapter 3 GRAECO-ROMAN THEORIES OF FORM; Chapter 4 EARLY AND MEDIAEVAL ANALYSES; Chapter 5 POSTMEDIAEVAL EXAMINATIONS OF FORM; Chapter 6 FORMAL ANALYSIS DURING THE REIGN OF HISTORIOGRAPHY (c. 1775-1875); Chapter 7 'FORM' AFTER 1875 OUTSIDE BIBLICAL STUDIES; Chapter 8 JEWISH ANALYSES OF FORM, c. 1875-1965; Chapter 9 ROMAN CATHOLIC VIEWS OF LITERARY FORM, c. 1875-1965; Chapter 10 THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE: PROTESTANT ANALYSES LARGELY BY OR FOR NONSPECIALISTS, c. 1875-1965
Summary This magnum opus is not another catalogue of the forms of biblical literature, but a deeply reflected account of the significance of form itself. Buss writes out of his experience in Western philosophy and the intricate involvement of biblical criticism in philosophical history. Equally, biblical criticism and the development of notions of form are related to social contexts, whether from the side of the aristocracy (tending towards generality) or of the bourgeois (tending towards particularity) or of an inclusive society (favouring a relational view). Form criticism, in Buss's conception, is
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-488) and indexes
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SUBJECT Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013617
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, Form
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible -- Criticism, Form. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013616
Bible -- Criticism, Form -- History
Bible fast
Bible. Old Testament fast
Subject Bible as literature.
Direct discourse in the Bible.
RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament.
Direct discourse in the Bible
Bible as literature
Bijbel.
Vormkritiek.
Genre/Form History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780567148230
0567148238