Carsten Vang

Independent Researcher · Biblical Studies

Mens Bibelen 2020 rummer mange eksempler på gode og rammende oversættelser af dele af Gammel Testamente, rummer den desværre også en lang række forskydninger og fejltolkninger. Beskrivelsen af Gud gøres almenreligiøst, Guds eget navn er stort set fraværende, GTs Gud ses nu som overhoved i et gudepantheon, og i bestræbelserne på at gøre teksten alme...

In the study of inner-biblical quotations in Old Testament narrative literature, much insight can be gleaned from the scholarly endeavour in the last twenty years of defining and interpreting allusions and quotations in the prophetic literature. Author-intended quotations from a precursor text should be distinguished from stock phrases and the use...

Most scholars interpret the metallurgical imagery of כּוּר הַבַּרְזֶל in Deut 4:20 and parallels as a reference to an iron-smelting furnace describing the harsh realities of Israel's slavery in Egypt. A consideration of the Hebrew mode of expression however leads to the conclusion that the metaphor refers to a crucible made of the hardest metal gen...

One of the most evident shared themes between the books of Hosea and Deuteronomy is the theme of God's love for Israel. The usual scholarly explanation goes that Hosea fathered this notion which later was taken up in the Deuteronomy tradition. A close scrutiny of this theme in Hosea and Deuteronomy establishes that the lexical and structural agreem...

Modern Deuteronomy research has a tendency to reduce the extent of Ur-Deuteronomium, and a still greater part of the present Deuteronomy is ascribed to several Deuteronomistic redactions. In this article it will be argued that Deut 1-3 do function as an introduction to the admonitions in chapters 4-30, but not as a prelude to the so-called Deuteron...