Gericke, Jaco2015-11-122015-11-122014Gericke, J. 2014. Is there philosophy in the Hebrew Bible? Some recent affirmative perspectives. Journal for Semitics/Tydskrif vir Semitistiek, 23(2):583-898. [http://www.sasnes.org.za/SASNES_Journal_for_Semitics.htm]1013-8471http://hdl.handle.net/10394/15059This article discusses a selection of the most recent examples from both biblical scholarship and Jewish philosophy of the construction of the Hebrew Bible as a philosophical resource. By way of a descriptive overview of the relevant ideas in the writings of exemplars such as Davies, Hazony, Gericke, Glouberman and Sekine, the study reveals a neglected albeit radical trend in the contemporary attempted return of philosophy to Hebrew Bible interpretation and vice-versa. These new developments are labelled "philosophical maximalism", involving as they do the classification of the entire corpus of the Hebrew Bible as philosophical literature, in one sense or anotherenArticle