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The Hebrew Bible and Philosophy of Religion
ISBN: 9781589837089
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Society of Biblical Literature
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Philosophy and religion; God (Judaism); Jewish ethics -- Philosophy; Bible. O.T. -- Criticism interpretation etc.;

This study pioneers the use of philosophy of religion in the study of the Hebrew Bible. After identifying the need for a legitimate philosophical approach to Israelite religion, the volume traces the history of interdisciplinary relations and shows how descriptive varieties of philosophy of religion can aid the clarification of the Hebrew Bible's own metaphysical, epistemological, and moral assumptions. Two new interpretative methodologies are developed and subsequently applied through an introduction to what the biblical texts took for granted about the nature of religious language, the concept of deity, the properties of Yhwh, the existence of gods, religious epistemology, and the relation between religion and morality.