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Story as Torah Reading Old Testament Narrative Ethically ~ Renowned scholar Gordon Wenham offers Story as Torah a succinct monograph demonstrating how Old Testament narratives can indeed function as Torah informing ones ethical choices He uses the books of Genesis and Judges as test cases working with texts that offer clear moral guidance as well as those in which the ethical teaching is at first glance dubious
Story as Torah Reading Old Testament Narrative Ethically ~ In some cases narrative portions of the Bible include ethical commentary This may be a rebuke of a king by a prophet or a summary statement about a kings reign describing him as good or evil However a significant amount of narrative in the Bible merely describes what happened without making an explicit ethical judgment
Story as Torah Reading Old Testament Narrative Ethically ~ Renowned scholar Gordon J Wenham offers Story as Torah a succinct monograph demonstrating how Old Testament narratives can indeed function as “Torah” informing one’s ethical choices Wenham examines how certain narrative phenomena—such as the repetition of key words or themes the overall rhetorical purpose of a book intertextual correspondence and key contextual indictors of mood—provide clues to the ethical message of the implied author
Story As Torah Book Review – Theologizings ~ In Story As Torah Reading Old Testament Narrative Ethically Wenham seeks to help those interested in the Old Testament navigate the ethical implications of the historical narrative contained in its pages The Hebrew Bible of course can be ethically straightforward in many places
Story as Torah Reading Old Testament Narrative Ethi ~ Renowned scholar Gordon Wenham offers Story as Torah a succinct monograph demonstrating how Old Testament narratives can indeed function as Torah informing ones ethical choices He uses the books of Genesis and Judges as test cases working with texts that offer clear moral guidance as well as those in which the ethical teaching is at
Story as Torah Reading Old Testament Narrative Ethically ~ Renowned scholar Gordon J Wenham offers Story as Torah a succinct monograph demonstrating how Old Testament narratives can indeed function as “Torah” informing one’s ethical choices Wenham examines how certain narrative phenomena—such as the repetition of key words or themes the overall rhetorical purpose of a book intertextual correspondence and key contextual indictors of mood—provide clues to the ethical message of the implied author
Story as Torah Reading Old Testament Narrative Ethically ~ Story as Torah written by Gordon Wenham makes the difficult task of discovering ethical principles from the narratives of Scripture a primary consideration attempting to help the reading audience discover the higher moral ethics of life embedded in the narratives This major thrust of the work is highlighted with the idea that laws provide a minimum standard of behavioral expectations while the stories exhibit the loftier ethical concerns the Biblical author wishes to communicate
Gordon Wenham’s Story as Torah Reading the Old Testament ~ Gordon J Wenham Story as Torah Reading Old Testament Narrative Ethically Edinburgh TT Clark 2000 17–18 Now at last this is a far more helpful approach than what we read in many modern commentaries — in that it seeks to interpret the meaning of the canonical text regardless of what source materials may have been used by Moses to compose it
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