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Reading Other Peoples' Texts: Social Identity and the Reception of Authoritative Traditions - Brown, Ken S (Editor), and Vayntrub, Jacqueline (Editor), and Joseph, Alison L (Editor)
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This volume draws together eleven essays by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Greco-Roman religion and early Judaism, to address the ways that conceptions of identity and otherness shape the interpretation of biblical and other religiously authoritative texts. The contributions explore how interpreters of scriptural texts regularly assume or assert an identification between their own communities and those described in the text, while ignoring the cultural, social, and religious differences between themselves and ...

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Reading Other Peoples' Texts: Social Identity and the Reception of Authoritative Traditions 2022, T&T Clark, New York

ISBN-13: 9780567705204

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Reading Other Peoples' Texts: Social Identity and the Reception of Authoritative Traditions 2020, T&T Clark, New York

ISBN-13: 9780567687333

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