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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