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How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought

Autor: Joshua A. Berman

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Joshua Berman engages the text of the Hebrew Bible from a novel perspective - as a document of socia...

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Autor

Joshua A. Berman

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engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2008

Pagini

264

EAN

9780195374704

ISBN

0195374703

Enbook ID

04518648

Editura

Oxford University Press Inc

Greutate

506

Dimensiuni

243 x 164 x 24

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Joshua Berman engages the text of the Hebrew Bible from a novel perspective - as a document of social and political thought. He proposes that the Pentateuch can be read as the earliest prescription on record for the establishment of an egalitarian polity. The blueprint that emerges is that of a society that would stand in stark contrast to the social orders found in the surrounding cultures of the ancient Near East - Egypt, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, and the Hittite Empire - where the hierarchical structure of the polity was centered on the figure of the king and his retinue. Berman shows that the Pentateuch's egalitarian ideal is articulated in comprehensive fashion and is expressed in its theology, politics, economics, use of technologies of communication, and in its narrative literature. Throughout, he invokes parallels from the modern period as heuristic devices to illuminate the ancient developments under study. Thus, for example, the constitutional principles in the Book of Deuteronomy are examined in the light of principles espoused by Montesquieu, and the rise of the novel in 18th-century England serves to illuminate the advent of new modes of storytelling in biblical narrative.

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