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The Changing Face of Form Criticism for the
Twenty-First Century Marvin A. Sweeny & Ehud Ben-Zvi (editors) |
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"This book on form
criticism appears at a significant moment. What has been on the way for a
generation is here set forth programmatically - namely, the difference
between past and new foundations for the field of form - critical study. This
book captures form criticism's transition from an original focus on the
realities behind the biblical literatures to a new focus on their own
realities... The time has passed when one might have stayed away from the
form criticism of the past. Avoiding form criticism now will only result in a
serious impairment of the whole of biblical interpretation." Rolf P. Knierim, |
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Marvin A. Sweeny is
professor of Hebrew Bible at the Claremont School of Theology and professor
of religion at the |