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 |
