Orientalism and Hebrew Bible ScholarshipThe standard version of Orientalism as a pernicious regime of power/knowledge is simplistic and somewhat grotesque. It entails the negation of the very possibility of philological knowledge and critical scholarship of ancient Middle Eastern texts, including the Hebrew Bible.
See also Genesis 1-11: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Yale University Press, 2024).
By Ronald Hendel University of California, Berkeley October 2024
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