Benjamin D Sommer
Biographic Data
| ID | 690041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin D Sommer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin D |
| FAMILY NAME | Sommer |
| SIGNATURE | SOMMER B D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jewish Theological Seminary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity
Diversity and Relationality
JQR, Wissenschaft, and Biblical Theology
The Jewish Quarterly Review (Fall 2020) Copyright © 2020 Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. All rights reserved. T H E J E W I S H Q U A R T E R LY R E V I E W, Vol. 110, No. 4 (Fall 2020) 613–620 JQR, Wissenschaft, and Biblical Theology BENJAMIN D. SOMMER IT IS A COMMO N PL A C E that until recently Jews were not interested in biblical theology. That field was long the exclusive bailiwick of Christian scholars. When the Wiss…
Nature, Revelation, and Grace in Psalm 19
Does biblical criticism have anything to contribute to a theologically engaged study of Scripture? The answer implicitly provided by many scholars, both within the guild of modern biblical scholarship and outside it, is clear: The biblical critic's findings are irrelevant to constructive projects. These findings may be the product of intensive philological, comparative, and historical work, but they are no more connected to the tasks of the moder…
Hedgehog and Fox
To sin or transgress, according to one dictionary definition, is to go beyond a limit, to cross what is supposed to be a clear border. In this sense, one can say that Gary Anderson has succeeded in writing a very sinful book. Like Sennacherib as the rabbis describe him, Anderson is (he “erases boundaries between nations”)—only I use this phrase to describe Anderson in rather a more positive sense than the rabbis intended it when they applied it t…
Two Introductions to Scripture
Two Introductions to Scripture:James Kugel and the Possibility of Biblical Theology Benjamin D. Sommer (bio) Keywords Benjamin D. Sommer, James L. Kugel, How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now, Bible, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Hermeneutics James L. Kugel . How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now. New York: Free Press, 2007. Pp. xiv þ 819. There are few scholars of whom one can say that they have fundam…
Functional Interpretation and Biblical Theology
Functional Interpretation and Biblical Theology:Reflections on Judaism as a Civilization in Relation to Scriptural Hermeneutics Benjamin D. Sommer (bio) In the twenty-sixth chapter of Judaism as a Civilization, Mordecai M. Kaplan lays out a program for what he calls the "functional interpretation" of the Bible and other classic Jewish texts. The issues with which Kaplan wrestles in this chapter, and in other passages in this work that contain dis…
Functional Interpretation and Biblical Theology
Functional Interpretation and Biblical Theology:Reflections on Judaism as a Civilization in Relation to Scriptural Hermeneutics Benjamin D. Sommer (bio) In the twenty-sixth chapter of Judaism as a Civilization, Mordecai M. Kaplan lays out a program for what he calls the "functional interpretation" of the Bible and other classic Jewish texts. The issues with which Kaplan wrestles in this chapter, and in other passages in this work that contain dis…
The Neo-Babylonian Empire and Babylon in the Latter Prophets . David Stephen Vanderhooft
Exodus 1-18
A Prophet Reads Scripture
Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism
Your Voice like a Ram's Horn
Revelation at Sinai in the Hebrew Bible and in Jewish Theology
Rhetorical Criticism
The Book Called Isaiah
The Opponents of Third Isaiah
The Servant of YHWH and Cyrus
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The Servant of YHWH and Cyrus
The Book Called Isaiah
The Opponents of Third Isaiah
Rhetorical Criticism
Your Voice like a Ram's Horn
Revelation at Sinai in the Hebrew Bible and in Jewish Theology
A Prophet Reads Scripture
Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism
Exodus 1-18
The Neo-Babylonian Empire and Babylon in the Latter Prophets . David Stephen Vanderhooft
Functional Interpretation and Biblical Theology
Functional Interpretation and Biblical Theology:Reflections on Judaism as a Civilization in Relation to Scriptural Hermeneutics Benjamin D. Sommer (bio) In the twenty-sixth chapter of Judaism as a Civilization, Mordecai M. Kaplan lays out a program for what he calls the "functional interpretation" of the Bible and other classic Jewish texts. The issues with which Kaplan wrestles in this chapter, and in other passages in this work that contain dis…
Functional Interpretation and Biblical Theology
Functional Interpretation and Biblical Theology:Reflections on Judaism as a Civilization in Relation to Scriptural Hermeneutics Benjamin D. Sommer (bio) In the twenty-sixth chapter of Judaism as a Civilization, Mordecai M. Kaplan lays out a program for what he calls the "functional interpretation" of the Bible and other classic Jewish texts. The issues with which Kaplan wrestles in this chapter, and in other passages in this work that contain dis…
Hedgehog and Fox
To sin or transgress, according to one dictionary definition, is to go beyond a limit, to cross what is supposed to be a clear border. In this sense, one can say that Gary Anderson has succeeded in writing a very sinful book. Like Sennacherib as the rabbis describe him, Anderson is (he “erases boundaries between nations”)—only I use this phrase to describe Anderson in rather a more positive sense than the rabbis intended it when they applied it t…
Two Introductions to Scripture
Two Introductions to Scripture:James Kugel and the Possibility of Biblical Theology Benjamin D. Sommer (bio) Keywords Benjamin D. Sommer, James L. Kugel, How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now, Bible, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Hermeneutics James L. Kugel . How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now. New York: Free Press, 2007. Pp. xiv þ 819. There are few scholars of whom one can say that they have fundam…
Nature, Revelation, and Grace in Psalm 19
Does biblical criticism have anything to contribute to a theologically engaged study of Scripture? The answer implicitly provided by many scholars, both within the guild of modern biblical scholarship and outside it, is clear: The biblical critic's findings are irrelevant to constructive projects. These findings may be the product of intensive philological, comparative, and historical work, but they are no more connected to the tasks of the moder…
JQR, Wissenschaft, and Biblical Theology
The Jewish Quarterly Review (Fall 2020) Copyright © 2020 Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. All rights reserved. T H E J E W I S H Q U A R T E R LY R E V I E W, Vol. 110, No. 4 (Fall 2020) 613–620 JQR, Wissenschaft, and Biblical Theology BENJAMIN D. SOMMER IT IS A COMMO N PL A C E that until recently Jews were not interested in biblical theology. That field was long the exclusive bailiwick of Christian scholars. When the Wiss…
Diversity and Relationality
A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity
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