{"title":"Editing the Bible: Assessing the Task, Past and Present, J.S. Kloppenborg & J.H. Newman (Eds.) : book review","authors":"E. Wendland","doi":"10.5860/choice.50-2403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.50-2403","url":null,"abstract":"John Kloppenborg is Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto and Judith Newman is Associate Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto. In this volume of essays they include a select group of scholarly contributors who offer a variety of considered opinions on various issues that concern the \"editing\" of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures (LXX and NT). Many of the collected ideas and insights offered, which derive from a 2007 Conference on Editorial Problems (University of Toronto), are innovative in the fields of textual criticism and canon composition, and several proposals may also be rather controversial in their claims and implications. However, all of the essays are thought-provoking and helpful for enabling one to better understand some of the salient questions, complexities, and difficulties that confront those who research and write about these subjects. There may be those in the field of biblical studies who tend to take such matters for granted, but that is not a constructive policy if one wishes to delve more deeply into the composition, transmission, and publication of the very Scripture texts that one desires to better understand, analyze, and/or discourse about.","PeriodicalId":40966,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages","volume":"129 1","pages":"134-138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71140052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is there any historiography in the Hebrew bible? A Hebrew - Greek comparison","authors":"J. V. Seters","doi":"10.5325/j.ctv1bxgws8.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/j.ctv1bxgws8.16","url":null,"abstract":"E W Nicholson has challenged the view that there is any historiography in the Hebrew Bible and disputed the published comparisons of the author between the Hebrew \"histories\" of Genesis to 2 Kings and the histories of Herodotus and other early Greek historians. In particular, he understands Greek historiography to be a form of narrative about the recent past that is based only on direct observation and the critical appraisal of historical evidence and rational causes without any consideration of divine causation of historical events. By contrast the biblical writings are only \"story\". The following essay attempts to show that this understanding of Greek historiography is quite misleading and that there is indeed much that is similar in the Hebrew Bible and the Greek histories such that the biblical writings deserve to be called histories every bit as much as those of ancient Greece.","PeriodicalId":40966,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages","volume":"28 1","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70839401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}