Lambert, How Repentance Became Biblical

NEW BOOK FROM OUP:

How Repentance Became Biblical

Judaism, Christianity, and the Interpretation of Scripture

David A. Lambert

• Spells out the early history of repentance as a concept
  
• Identifies a broad-based scholarly tendency to read repentance into the Bible.
  
• Shows how that tendency relates to the broader history of interiority and the self.
  
• Redescribes a range of key religious practices and central texts in the Bible.
  
• Integrates a critical study of biblical texts with a study of post-biblical literature.

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