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Research in Hebrew Bible

A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Theologies".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 3169

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Dr. Robert Wafawanaka

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School of Theology, Virginia Union University, Richmond, VA 23220, USA
Interests: poverty and wealth issues in the bible and in a global context; religions, ethics, and morality; social justice and peace studies; multiculturalism, ethnicity, race relations; postcolonial biblical interpretation; Africentric biblical interpretation; technology and online teaching and learning
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is an open issue that invites papers that deal with various research issues in the Hebrew Bible. Since the Hebrew Bible is a complex ancient text that scholars are still struggling to understand, writers are invited to focus on any issue of particular interest in the three distinct parts of the Hebrew Bible. The goal is to open up discussion of any and every aspect of the Hebrew Bible to provide a more broad-based issue that attracts many researchers and participants. The papers submitted should focus on all parts of the Hebrew Bible in its ancient Near Eastern historical context. Papers may address methodological issues or how the Hebrew Bible is formed and shaped by its geographical environment, history, religion, or culture, including the literary environment. Accepted papers may focus on such contextual matters using a variety of methodologies to explore these complex issues. Some papers may wish to investigate the use, reception, or function of the Hebrew Bible in the modern world. Other papers may wish to address the history of interpretation or the relevance of the Hebrew Bible in the twenty-first century. As an open issue, writers are encouraged to be creative and imaginative in their exploration of any research issue, ancient and contemporary, in the Hebrew Bible.

Dr. Robert Wafawanaka
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Religions is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Torah
  • Nevi’im
  • Ketuvim
  • methodology
  • ancient Near East
  • history
  • YHWH
  • Israel
  • Judah
  • religion
  • politics
  • reception
  • prophecy
  • context
  • literary
  • ethics
  • advocacy

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Hesed in Ruth: A Frail Moral Tool in an Inflexible Social Structure
by Gili Kugler and Ohad Magori
Religions 2023, 14(5), 604; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14050604 - 05 May 2023
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Scholars have paid much attention to the attribute of hesed in the book of Ruth, pinpointing it as a pivotal feature and the main message of the book. However, the protagonists in the tale do not seem to exhibit hesed out of free [...] Read more.
Scholars have paid much attention to the attribute of hesed in the book of Ruth, pinpointing it as a pivotal feature and the main message of the book. However, the protagonists in the tale do not seem to exhibit hesed out of free will or as part of their natural conduct. They rather resort to such a maneuver in order to survive and extricate themselves from dire predicaments. This article argues that the virtue of hesed attributed to the protagonists in the book of Ruth reflects a mechanism for surviving in the confining communal structure of the Judean patriarchal society, which allowed limited social mobility. While the actions exhibited in the story can be argued to be an amendment of the previous generations’ perversions, the story effectively accepts and preserves the common inflexible social system. Full article
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Is the Study of Hebrew Useless for Orthodox Theologians? A Response to Some Recent Assertions Put Forward by Jean-Claude Larchet
by Constantin Horia Oancea
Religions 2022, 13(11), 1058; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13111058 - 04 Nov 2022
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In one of his recent books, Jean-Claude Larchet argued that the study of Hebrew is useless for those doing research in the field of Orthodox theology, since the Church fathers used the Greek version of the Old Testament (Septuagint). There are at least [...] Read more.
In one of his recent books, Jean-Claude Larchet argued that the study of Hebrew is useless for those doing research in the field of Orthodox theology, since the Church fathers used the Greek version of the Old Testament (Septuagint). There are at least two reasons that might be advanced in order to prove the invalidity of Larchet’s thesis. First, fostering an attitude of ignorance as regards the Hebrew Bible might nurture anti-Judaic beliefs among Orthodox students, considering that such attitudes could be noticed in Romania during the interwar period. Second, the Fathers of the Church had a favorable attitude towards Hebrew, despite the fact that few of them actually knew that language. They held the belief that Hebrew was the primordial language through which God spoke to mankind in the beginning and through which the Old Testament was revealed. Both the Hebrew language and the Hebrew alphabet played a significant role in their theoretical considerations on the canon of the Holy Scripture. Since Larchet published his work in Romanian, his theses and their implications are discussed from the perspective and in the context of Romanian Orthodox theology. Full article
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