Shimon Gesundheit: 11 books

Book cover of Biblical View of Man
by Leo Adler, Daniel Schwartz, Shimon Gesundheit
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015

The Biblical View of Man argues cogently that the Bible is more about human beings than about God and insists that, in the biblical view, what human beings need is not so much wisdom or grace but rather their own free will to fulfill the obligations that a loving God has bestowed upon them in order...
Book cover of Exodus 1-15
by Helmut Utzschneider, Wolfgang Oswald, Walter Dietrich
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014

On the one hand, the commentary interprets the final form of the traditional Hebrew text "synchronically" by means of form criticism and modern literary methods. On the other hand, it "diachronically" reconstructs the predecessors of the final form, from its origins in an exodus...
Book cover of Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah
by Walter Dietrich, Walter Dietrich, David M. Carr
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016

The distinctiveness of this commentary lies in its consistent rotation between synchronic and diachronic views. This double perspective is directed toward the three prophetic books as a single entity, toward each individual book, and toward the interpretation of each pericope. The result is a sophisticated...
Book cover of Esther
by Jean-Daniel Macchi, Walter Dietrich, David M. Carr
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019

The Book of Esther is one of the five Megillot. It tells the story of a Jewish girl in Persia, who becomes queen and saves her people from a genocide. The story of Esther forms the core of the Jewish festival of Purim. The commentary presents a literary analysis of the text, taking into account the...
Book cover of 1 Kings 16 - 2 Kings 16
by Steve McKenzie, Walter Dietrich, David M. Carr
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018

This volume makes use of diverse methods and approaches to offer fresh treatments of 1 Kings 16 - 2 Kings 16 both synchronically and diachronically. Among its major contributions are a detailed text-critical analysis that frequently adopts readings of the Old Greek and Old Latin and, at the same time,...
Book cover of 1 Esdras
by Dieter Böhler, Walter Dietrich, David M. Carr
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016

1 Esdras is an alternative version of the book of Ezra-Nehemiah in the Septuagint. Most Eastern Orthodox churches accord the book canonical status. This is the first commentary on 1 Esdras based on the critical text of the Göttingen Septuagint edition. It understands 1 Esdras not simply as a fragment...
Book cover of 1 Esdras
by Dieter Böhler, Walter Dietrich, David M. Carr
Language: German
Release Date: March 4, 2015

1 Esdras ist eine alternative Fassung zum Buch Esra-Nehemia in der Septuaginta. In den meisten Ostkirchen genießt es kanonischen Status, in der Vulgata und der King-James-Bibel wurde es in die Apokryphen aufgenommen. Dieser Kommentar ist seit Jahrzehnten der erste in deutscher Sprache, und überhaupt...
Book cover of Nahum Habakuk Zefanja
by Walter Dietrich, Walter Dietrich, David M. Carr
Language: German
Release Date: September 25, 2014

Die Kommentierung hat ihre Besonderheit im konsequenten Wechsel zwischen synchroner und diachroner Sichtweise. Diese doppelte Perspektive richtet sich auf die drei Prophetenschriften insgesamt, auf jede einzelne von ihnen und auf jeden auszulegenden Abschnitt. So entsteht ein differenziertes Bild...
Book cover of Sacharja 9-14
by Paul L. Redditt, Walter Dietrich, David M. Carr
Language: German
Release Date: February 13, 2014

Der Kommentar legt dar, dass Sacharja 9-14 aus vier Sammlungen eschatologischer Hoffnungstexte (9,1-17; 10,3b-12; 12,1-4a.5.8-9; und 14:1-13.14b-21) besteht. Die ersten drei Sammlungen gehen auf die erste Hälfte der persischen Epoche zurück, die vierte (Kap. 14) scheint jüngeren Ursprungs und ist...
Book cover of Weisheit
by Luca Mazzinghi, Walter Dietrich, David M. Carr
Language: German
Release Date: July 25, 2018

Erstmals führt der vorliegende Kommentar alle Aspekte zusammen, die für die Interpretation dieser Spätschrift des Alten Testaments relevant sind: Textkritik, philologische und literarische Analyse; der zweifache historische Kontext mit der Verbindung zur griechisch-hellenistischen Umwelt einerseits...
Book cover of Exodus 1-15
by Helmut Utzschneider, Wolfgang Oswald, Shimon Gesundheit
Language: German
Release Date: March 27, 2013

Der Kommentar umfasst den ersten Teil des Buches Exodus, Kapitel 1,1-15,21. Er nimmt einerseits den überlieferten hebräischen Text in den Blick und legt ihn "synchron" nach literaturwissenschaftlichen Methoden aus. Andererseits werden "diachron" die literargeschichtlichen Vorgänger-Kompositionen...
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