Israelites should conquer Israel: the hidden polemic of the first creation narrative
The analysis in this paper suggests that one of the chief rationales of the first Creation narrative was to describe the creation of the land of Israel, mandating that it be populated and conquered after the Babylonian exile. It thus foreshadows the second Creation narrative, which implies that the...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
2006
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Revue biblique
Year: 2006, Volume: 113, Issue: 2, Pages: 161-180 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Genesis
/ Promised Land
/ Creation
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. Genesis 1,1-2,3
B Bible. Chronicle 2. 26,23 B Creation B Temple B Bible. Genesis 2,4-3,24 B Exile |
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| Summary: | The analysis in this paper suggests that one of the chief rationales of the first Creation narrative was to describe the creation of the land of Israel, mandating that it be populated and conquered after the Babylonian exile. It thus foreshadows the second Creation narrative, which implies that the Garden of Eden is like Jerusalem and the narrative of the Primal Sin that foreshadows the destruction of the first Temple. It also implies that the Hebrew bible is rounded with an inclusion, the topos of the first Creation narrative being the same as that of the last chapter of Chronicles where Cyrus commands the Judeans to return to Judea to build the Temple. |
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| ISSN: | 0035-0907 |
| Contains: | In: Revue biblique
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