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The Bible Without Theology: The Theological Tradition and Alternatives to It
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The Bible Without Theology: The Theological Tradition and Alternatives to It Paperback - 1999

by Robert A. Oden


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In this thought-provoking volume, Robert A. Oden Jr. advocates stripping away the theological and historiographic biases that underlie modern biblical scholarship in order to arrive at a nontheological historical reading of the Bible. Oden calls into question a scholarly tradition that accepts biblical writers' views of themselves and their neighbors at face value and reproduces a view of Israelite religion as divinely guided and inherently superior. Using cross-cultural and interdisciplinary methodology, Oden investigates three biblical issues--the clothing of Adam and Eve, Jacob's name change to Israel, and ritual prostitution and Deuteronomy--in light of extra-biblical evidence. He also challenges scholars' assumptions of Scripture as monotheistic and proposes treating biblical narrative as myth rather than as historical fact.

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When the intellectual history of the twentieth century comes to be written, the following will loom large among the noteworthy discoveries of the latter half of this century: the discovery of the surprisingly revealing and broadly applicable conclusions that can result from the study of individual traditions of learning.

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  • Title The Bible Without Theology: The Theological Tradition and Alternatives to It
  • Author Robert A. Oden
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago
  • Date December 1, 1999
  • ISBN 9780252068706 / 025206870X
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.18 x 5.48 x 0.6 in (20.78 x 13.92 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Academic
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99033950
  • Dewey Decimal Code 221.601
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