The Diversity of Canons (Used in Different Communities)

Introduction

James A. Sanders argues that to truly understand the power of the Tanach and to appreciate its value in our society today we must use the exegesis and hermeneutics in particular to: leave the "boxes and circles that as human beings so that we can regain the excitement and power of reading the Bible on their own terms ... Using the tools of the Enlightenment helps readers understand and make his or her "Boxes and Circles' under control in a reflection of the amazing depths of literature powerful ... (Sanders, 31)

Aspects of interest

Once you can read "the Bible in their own words" that are able to liberate the Tanach to ours and that is relevant to today's society while keeping the mind beyond the Tanakh and the multiple interpretations that have emerged from it over the centuries in Christian and Jewish communities. Sanders makes this clear in its interpretation of the story of Job and God to rebuke Job's friends when they used the Torah and other stories of the past actions of God (rightly) to interpret what God was doing in Job Present:

The hat of the meaning of God's enigmatic response should be seen [w] as ... has worked well to explain the wonders of God in the early history of Israel and Judah cannot simply apply to the new situation of individual worth and responsibility, the former must be re-signified and adapted to new circumstances. (Sander, 128)

To help illustrate this point in the book that is presented by:

Explain how the Torah and what is in it and the way it was written and edited over time,

Then it's on form and meaning of the prophecy and how the prophets restored their sense of the Torah, and

In explaining how writers and editors at the paper "wisdom literature, and the stories of Job and Chronic helped to reinterpret the meaning of the Torah to the communities they were talking to give answers difficult questions Communities sought (especially after the destruction of Israel and Judah second).

While there are some cases where I think Sanders can stretch real historical authority of the Tanakh a bit much, as when he describes Josiah rent his clothes like a real historical event (Sanders, 38), this is only a minor distraction as the main point that the book is less a historical account of events in the Tanakh, but rather an account of how the Tanach has interacted with Jewish and Christian communities throughout the centuries and in turn how interact and reset and re-interpret the Tanach to meet their own needs.

In this vain Sanders achieved quite successful, first explain how the Torah was created and then (most importantly) how communities were following the Torah in its own context that ultimately leads to the other written in the Tanakh, as the books of the Prophets and the books of Scripture.

Sanders shows us how the prophets, through their circles and triangles hermeneutics, interprets the Torah and the way new way not only ...