Jewish Concepts of Scripture

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Berlin, and others. (In conversation, Greenberg has emphasized his kinship with
the literary approach of his Hebrew University colleague Meir Weiss, who was
interested in the text rather than its prehistory.)



  1. Greenberg, “Exegesis,” 367; Greenberg, Understanding Exodus, 87, 170;
    Greenberg, Anchor Bible: Ezekiel, 1:113, 139, 163, 221, 338, 396, 444, 502, 514, 589, 644.

  2. S.  R. Driver, An Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament (New
    York: Scribner, 1950), 296.

  3. Greenberg, Anchor Bible: Ezekiel, 2:498, 571.

  4. Greenberg, Jewish Bible Exegesis.

  5. Ibid., 138.

  6. Greenberg, Understanding Exodus, 405.

  7. Greenberg, introduction to Studies in the Bible and Jewish Th ought, xv.

  8. See the older survey of modern Jewish interpretation in Baruch A. Levine,
    Jacob Neusner, and Ernest S. Frerichs, eds., Judaic Perspectives on Ancient Israel
    (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987).

  9. Greenberg, “Response to Roland de Vaux’s ‘Method in the Study of Early
    Hebrew History,’ ” in Th e Bible in Modern Scholarship, ed. J. Philip Hyatt (Nashville,
    TN: Abingdon, 1965), 43.

  10. Marc Zvi Brettler, “Th e ‘Coherence’ of Ancient Texts,” in Gazing on the
    Deep, 411 – 19.

  11. Greenberg, “Commentator,” 241.

  12. Noam Zohar, Secrets of the Rabbinic Workshop: Redaction as a Key to Mean-
    ing (Jerusalem: Magnes, 2007; in Hebrew).

  13. Greenberg, “Faith-ful Critical Interpretation,” 212; Steven D. Fraade, “Sifre
    Deuteronomy 26 (ad Deut. 3:23): How Conscious the Composition?,” HUCA 54
    (1983): 245 – 301; the quotation is from 293.

  14. Greenberg, “Faith-ful Critical Interpretation,” 213.

  15. Greenberg, “Mankind, Israel, and the Nations in the Hebraic Heritage,” in
    Studies in the Bible and Jewish Th ought, 370; Greenberg, “Th e Relation between the
    Nation and Its Land in the Bible,” in On the Bible and Judaism, 110 (in Hebrew).

  16. Greenberg, Anchor Bible: Ezekiel, 2:57; Greenberg, “Th e Designs and
    Th emes of Ezekiel’s Program of Restoration,” Interpretation 38 (1984): 188.

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