Hebrews Between Cultures: Group Portraits And National Literature

Book Summary


The Poetics of Biblical Narrative, Sternberg's last book, established a new level of sophistication for biblical analysis. In Hebrews between Cultures, the author shifts his focus from individual identity to the group, in this case the Hebrews. His analysis of the development in the Bible of the Hebrew identity (and alternate identities) is challenging and intellectually rigorous. Once again Sternberg elucidates the Bible's many complexities, and in the process proves himself to be an acute and original thinker. The Poetics of Biblical Narrative, Sternberg's last book, established anew level of sophistication for biblical analysis. In Hebrews between Cultures, heshifts his focus from individual identity to the group, in this case the Hebrews.Sternberg's analysis of the development in the Bible of the Hebrew identity (andalternate identities) is brilliant, challenging, intellectually rigorous andunusual, and almost always unexpected and dramatic.

Book Details


Book Name Hebrews Between Cultures: Group Portraits And National Literature
Author Meir Sternberg
Publisher Indiana University Press (Apr 1999)
ISBN 9780253334596
Pages 760
Language English
Price 2445
 
 

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