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How Repentance Became Biblical de David A. Lambert

How Repentance Became Biblical

Autor David A. Lambert
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 dec 2017

Analiza lui David A. Lambert pornește de la o problemă fundamentală de exegeză: modul în care proiectăm concepte moderne de interioritate asupra unor texte antice care operau cu alte cadre de referință. Remarcăm modul în care autorul deconstruiește practicile interpretative prin care noțiunea de pocăință a fost „citită înapoi” în Biblia Ebraică, transformând ritualuri externe, precum postul sau rugăciunea, în simple manifestări ale unui zbucium sufletesc interior. Această perspectivă pune sub semnul întrebării continuitatea directă dintre etosul Israelului antic și formele de disciplină penitențială apărute ulterior în iudaism și creștinism.

Ceea ce distinge acest volum, publicat de Oxford University Press, este rigoarea cu care identifică perioada elenistică drept momentul de geneză al pocăinței ca mecanism de control subiectiv. Cititorii familiarizați cu Repentance in Late Antiquity de Alexis C. Torrance vor aprecia modul în care Lambert completează tabloul istoric, concentrându-se pe tranziția de la textele profetice la literatura celui de-al Doilea Templu. În timp ce alte studii analizează pocăința ca pe o doctrină deja stabilită, How Repentance Became Biblical investighează procesul de formare a acestei „lentile” interpretative care ne domină și astăzi cultura occidentală.

Structura narativă a studiului urmărește evoluția termenilor ebraici, cum este îndemnul profetic de a „te întoarce la YHWH”, demonstrând că sensul original viza mai degrabă o reorientare națională și pedagogică decât o transformare psihologică individuală. Este o lucrare esențială pentru înțelegerea modului în care autonomia și virtutea au devenit pilonii centrali ai religiozității moderne, oferind în schimb modele alternative de interpretare ancorate în contextul autentic al antichității.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190861155
ISBN-10: 0190861150
Pagini: 282
Dimensiuni: 155 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților la teologie sau istoria religiilor care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile reale ale conceptului de pocăință. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care tradițiile occidentale au reinterpretat Biblia Ebraică. Este un instrument valoros pentru cei care vor să depășească clișeele interpretative moderne și să descopere mecanismele de putere și control care au modelat spiritualitatea timpurie.

Despre autor

David A. Lambert este un cercetător respectat în domeniul studiilor biblice, recunoscut pentru abordările sale inovatoare care combină filologia cu analiza istorică și sociologică a religiei. Prin volumul de față, publicat la Oxford University Press, Lambert a obținut recunoașterea internațională, fiind laureat al prestigiosului premiu oferit de American Academy of Religion în 2016. Activitatea sa academică se concentrează pe reconstrucția contextelor antice de gândire, provocând adesea consensul tradițional prin demonstrații riguroase despre modul în care s-au format conceptele fundamentale ale iudaismului și creștinismului.

Descriere

Winner of the AAR's 2016 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual StudiesHow Repentance Became Biblical tells the story of repentance as a concept. Many today, in both secular and religious contexts, assume it to be a natural and inevitable component of our lives. But, where did it originate? How did it become so prominent within Western religious traditions and, by extension, contemporary culture? What purposes does it serve? The book identifies repentance as a product of the Hellenistic period, where it was taken up within emerging forms of Judaism and Christianity as a mode of subjective control. It argues that, along with the rise of repentance, a series of interpretive practices, many of which remain in effect to this day, was put into place whereby repentance is read into the Bible and the Bible, especially the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament, comes to be seen as repentance's source. Ancient Israelite rituals, such as fasting, prayer, and confession, all of which are incorporated later on within various religious communities as forms of penitential discipline, are understood as external signs of internal remorse. Hebrew terms and phrases, such as the prophetic injunction to "return to YHWH," are read as ancient representations of the concept, repentance. Prophetic literature as a whole is seen as serving a pedagogical purpose, as aiming at the reformation of Israel as a nation. Furthermore, it is assumed that, on the basis of the Bible, sectarians living in the late Second Temple period, from the Dead Sea sect to the early Jesus movement, believed that their redemption depended upon their repentance. In fact, the penitential framework within which the Bible is interpreted tells us the most about our own interpretive tendencies, about how we privilege notions of interiority, autonomy, and virtue. The book develops other frameworks for explaining the biblical phenomena in their ancient contexts, based on alternative views of the body, power, speech, and the divine, and, thereby, offers a new account of repentance's origins.

Recenzii

there can be little doubt that this extremely impressive work will challenge the thinking of scholars of biblical and related literatures for quite some time.
Examining the language of sin, prayer, and fasting in diverse parts of the canon, Lambert finds that the apparent language of repentance does not mean what we think it means. The pervasive idea of the interiority of the penitential self says more about us than it does about the biblical texts. It s not only the Bible that needs to be historicized, but 'also its readers.'
David Lambert...has done a great service to the field of biblical studies with his substantial volume, How Repentance Became Biblical: Judaism, Christianity, and the Interpretation of Scripture...Lambert s volume offers an impressive resource to scholars of ancient texts and to those interested in the concept of repentance. This is a fine work that raises beneficial questions about an important theological idea.
It has taken until Lambert s book properly to identify the semantic and historical range of the word 'repentance'...Lambert has done us a great service in helping us to repent with linguistic and cultural sensitivity.
Groundbreaking...David Lambert s work has the potential to become integral to the forward motion of biblical studies.
How Repentance Became Biblical is an intellectually disturbing book in the best sense of the term. In this careful work of intellectual and cultural history Lambert demonstrates the extent to which readers, including scholars, have misunderstood critical aspects of the biblical worldview, culture, and practices by reading the concept of repentance into texts where it is not present. Biblical studies will be grappling with the implications of this transformative work for a long time.
In this methodologically sophisticated, profoundly learned, and lucidly written book, David Lambert problematizes the idea of 'repentance,' arguing that it fully emerges not in the Hebrew Bible but in the Judaism of the last centuries BCE. This is an important work for students of the Hebrew Bible no less than for students of formative Judaism and Christianity.
In this sophisticated study, David Lambert argues that the Hebrew Bible did not originally contain the idea of repentance as now understood. Repentance is a creation of the Hellenistic age, found in Philo and Ben Sira, and later read back into the Hebrew Bible. Based on meticulous exegesis, this convincingly revisionist account deserves to be read by everyone interested in the theology and ethical practice of ancient Israel.
The invigorating discussion and innovative analysis holds potential to significantly impact the field of biblical studies... highly recommended.
Lambert aims to 'denaturalize' [repentance], while at the same time unearthing what scriptures really mean when they say at least what they ve been read as saying 'repent, repent'...in his provocative book.

Notă biografică

David Lambert is an assistant professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches courses on the Hebrew Bible and its history of interpretation. He received his undergraduate and graduate training at Harvard University in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.