How Repentance Became Biblical
Lambert, David A. Spells out the early history of repentance as a concept~Identifies a broad-based scholarly tendency to read repentance into the Bible.~Shows how that tendency relates to the broader history of interiority and the self.~Redescribes a range of key religious practices and central texts in the Bible.~Integrates a critical study of biblical texts with a study of post-biblical literature.