Bible Among Ruins - Time, Material Remains, and the World of the Biblical Writers

"This book offers the first study of ruination in the Hebrew Bible. Drawing on scholarship in biblical studies, archaeology, contemporary historical theory, and philosophy, he demonstrates how the ancient experience of ruins differed radically from that of the modern era"--

List of contents

1. On ruins, then and now; 2. Shiloh and the ruins of memory; 3. The ruins of the Rachel's tomb and the presence of the past; 4. Jerusalem and the ruins of tomorrow; 5. Conclusion.

About the author

Daniel Pioske is assistant professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota. He is the author of David's Jerusalem: Between Memory and History (2015) and Memory in a Time of Prose: Studies in Epistemology, Hebrew Scribalism, and the Biblical Past (2018).

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Pioske, Daniel (University of St Thomas Pioske
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.10.2023
• EAN: 9781009412605
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0941260-5
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; BIBLES / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Bibles, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE