Books by Martien Halvorson-Taylor
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Who wrote Great Expectations? That’s easy: Charles Dickens. Who’s the author of Beloved? Toni Morrison, of course. Now how about the Old Testament?
You’d think for a book as widely known, studied, and distributed as the Bible, the question of authorship would have been sorted out by now. But the question is more complex (and fascinating) than it seems. Why? Because asking it is to challenge everything we might assume about the Bible’s identity as a book, about what “writing” and “authorship” really mean, and about how a written text could become sacred to Jews and Christians, both in the ancient world and today.
In Writing the Bible: Origins of the Old Testament, work through these fascinating questions (and their related assumptions) in the company of biblical expert Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor of the University of Virginia. As you chase down answers, you’ll travel back in time to explore how oral traditions — ancient songs and stories — shaped the identity of an emerging nation, Israel, and how those traditions came to be written down, reinterpreted, and gathered into a collection of books that resonate with us even now.
The Old Testament reflects the profundity and timelessness of human experience. It has the power to shape our sense of our own lives, to frame our fears, and to inspire our ultimate hopes. What could be more interesting than finding out who, exactly, we should thank for that?
Articles & Essays by Martien Halvorson-Taylor
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In the Shadow of Empire: Israel and Judah in the Long Sixth Century BCE, 2021
The literary images of Israel and Judah's defeat are stirring, if not potent views onto the influ... more The literary images of Israel and Judah's defeat are stirring, if not potent views onto the influences of empires and the theologizing of defeat. How these similes, metaphors, and exilic tropes developed, insofar as we can perceive this growth diachronically, reflects Judean thinking in response to the bearing down of empires, especially as that thought changed over time. It has been our habit to attempt to illuminate those changes by examining and comparing the redactional layers in the bundles of traditions that become associated with a named prophet. In cases where we can discern redaction, biblical scholars trace how images of coming and certain destruction were supplemented, extended, and perhaps even supplanted by images of restoration, often in the period of the Babylonian exile and following. We find this kind of reshaping of words of woe into more extended messages of hope, for example, in Jeremiah's Book of Consolation and in much of Second Isaiah. The image, to take just one, of the battered woman, a metaphor for the defeat of the Judeans, is transformed into the image of the woman restored. The image of a battered woman was not only potent but flexible because it could communicate the shame and violation of defeat but also offer hope through the transformation of the image of a woman healed, restored, and praised. These transformations, then, are a source for discerning thinking about exile, at least as it was interpreted by postexilic exegetes. There are, roughly speaking, several different strategies that guide such a diachronic exercise. Based on language, allusions, the history of ideas, and sometimes the rare reference to specific events and places, scholars have made their cases for one or another approach to prophetic materials. Some will take both the materials on destruction and the mate-97-This e-offprint is provided for the author's own use; no one else may post it online.
Images of Exile in the Prophetic Literature: Copenhagen Conference Proceedings 7–10 May 2017 , 2019
In the Hebrew and Greek canonical versions of her book, Esther, the beautiful Jewish orphan, is t... more In the Hebrew and Greek canonical versions of her book, Esther, the beautiful Jewish orphan, is taken with all the beautiful young virgins into the Persian king's harem. Mordecai, her cousin and foster father, has commanded Esther not to reveal her people and her kin, and the text assures us twice that she did not (MT/LXX 2:10, 20). Of all those taken into the harem, Esther wins the favor of the king-and only in the final scenes of the book does she reveal to him her relationship to Mordecai and that she is a Jew.
Reviews by Martien Halvorson-Taylor
Public Scholarship by Martien Halvorson-Taylor
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Books by Martien Halvorson-Taylor
Audio Books by Martien Halvorson-Taylor
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www.WritingTheBible.org or
www.martienhalvorsontaylor.com/writing-the-bible
Publisher's Summary:
Who wrote Great Expectations? That’s easy: Charles Dickens. Who’s the author of Beloved? Toni Morrison, of course. Now how about the Old Testament?
You’d think for a book as widely known, studied, and distributed as the Bible, the question of authorship would have been sorted out by now. But the question is more complex (and fascinating) than it seems. Why? Because asking it is to challenge everything we might assume about the Bible’s identity as a book, about what “writing” and “authorship” really mean, and about how a written text could become sacred to Jews and Christians, both in the ancient world and today.
In Writing the Bible: Origins of the Old Testament, work through these fascinating questions (and their related assumptions) in the company of biblical expert Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor of the University of Virginia. As you chase down answers, you’ll travel back in time to explore how oral traditions — ancient songs and stories — shaped the identity of an emerging nation, Israel, and how those traditions came to be written down, reinterpreted, and gathered into a collection of books that resonate with us even now.
The Old Testament reflects the profundity and timelessness of human experience. It has the power to shape our sense of our own lives, to frame our fears, and to inspire our ultimate hopes. What could be more interesting than finding out who, exactly, we should thank for that?
Articles & Essays by Martien Halvorson-Taylor
Reviews by Martien Halvorson-Taylor
Public Scholarship by Martien Halvorson-Taylor
https://www.bit.ly/WTBcourse for Amazon access
https://tinyurl.com/yck8ctvr for Audible access
or search for Writing the Bible on Amazon.com or Audible.com
to view the accompanying website:
www.WritingTheBible.org or
www.martienhalvorsontaylor.com/writing-the-bible
Publisher's Summary:
Who wrote Great Expectations? That’s easy: Charles Dickens. Who’s the author of Beloved? Toni Morrison, of course. Now how about the Old Testament?
You’d think for a book as widely known, studied, and distributed as the Bible, the question of authorship would have been sorted out by now. But the question is more complex (and fascinating) than it seems. Why? Because asking it is to challenge everything we might assume about the Bible’s identity as a book, about what “writing” and “authorship” really mean, and about how a written text could become sacred to Jews and Christians, both in the ancient world and today.
In Writing the Bible: Origins of the Old Testament, work through these fascinating questions (and their related assumptions) in the company of biblical expert Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor of the University of Virginia. As you chase down answers, you’ll travel back in time to explore how oral traditions — ancient songs and stories — shaped the identity of an emerging nation, Israel, and how those traditions came to be written down, reinterpreted, and gathered into a collection of books that resonate with us even now.
The Old Testament reflects the profundity and timelessness of human experience. It has the power to shape our sense of our own lives, to frame our fears, and to inspire our ultimate hopes. What could be more interesting than finding out who, exactly, we should thank for that?