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From Epic to Canon: History and Literature in Ancient Israel
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by Frank Moore Cross

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Winner of the Centennial Book Award from the Tuttleman Family Foundation of Gratz College

In From Epic to Canon, Frank Moore Cross discusses specific issues that illuminate central questions about the Hebrew Bible and those who created and preserved it. He challenges the persistent attempt to read Protestant theological polemic against law into ancient Israel. Cross uncovers the continuities between the institutions of kinship and of covenant, which he describes as "extended kinship." He examines the social structures of ancient Israel and reveals that beneath its later social and cultural accretions, the concept of covenant--as opposed to codified law--was a vital part of Israel's earliest institutions. He then draws parallels between the expression of kinship and covenant among the Israelites and that practiced by other ancient societies, as well as in primitive societies.

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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LANGUAGE OF KINSHIP IN WEST Semitic tribal societies and the language of covenant in such groups has been little studied in recent years and is poorly understood.

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  • Title From Epic to Canon: History and Literature in Ancient Israel
  • Author Frank Moore Cross
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition John Hopkins Pap
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2000-11-21
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780801865336 / 0801865336
  • Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.12 x 0.65 in (23.47 x 15.54 x 1.65 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Category History - General History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 221.6

About the author

Frank Moore Cross is the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages (Emeritus) in the Department of Near Eastern Languages at Harvard University. His many books include The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic, and, as editor, the Hermeneia series of Old Testament commentaries and Qumran and the History of Biblical Text. In addition, he has received several honorary degrees and prizes, including the William Foxwell Albright Award in Biblical Scholarship, the Israel Museum's Percia Schimmel Prize in Archaeology, and the Medalla de Honor of the University of Madrid.

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