Voices from the ruins: theodicy and the fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Questions of Method -- 1 Justification, Doubt, and Protest in Sixth-Century Biblical Literature -- 1.1. Theodicy: Justification of a Just God -- 1.2. Protest and Doubt: Essential Co...
| Summary: | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Questions of Method -- 1 Justification, Doubt, and Protest in Sixth-Century Biblical Literature -- 1.1. Theodicy: Justification of a Just God -- 1.2. Protest and Doubt: Essential Components of the Theological Discourse -- 1.3. Between Justification and Protest: Toward a Framework of Theodicy as Discourse -- 2 Studying Religious Thought -- 2.1. From Biblical Theology to Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) Theology -- 2.2. Six Distinguishing Criteria in Biblical/Hebrew Bible Theology -- 2.3. Creating a Distinctive Descriptive (Non-Christian and Non-Jewish) Hebrew Bible Theology -- 3 Multiplicity of Voices and Diversity of Thought -- 3.1. Binary Categories of Distinction in Ancient Israelite Religion: Some Challenges -- 3.2. Alternatively: Religious Discourse among Equals -- 3.3. Theological Crisis in the Sixth Century: Modern and Postmodern Scholarly Perspectives -- 3.4. "Checks and Balances" for the Study of Theological Diversity -- 4 Summary and a Proposal -- Part 2: Theodicy as Discourse in the Face of Destruction -- 5 God as King -- 5.1. The Conception of God and Anthropomorphism as Metaphor -- 5.2. Anthropomorphism in the Hebrew Bible: The Great Paradox and the Scholarly Challenges -- 5.3. Anthropomorphic Metaphors for God -- 5.4. God as King: A Pervasive Metaphor -- 5.5. Summary -- 6 God as Warrior -- 6.1. Divine and Human Roles in War: The Victory and the Defeat -- 6.2. Explanations for Victory in War -- 6.3. Explanations for Defeat in War -- 6.4. Appendix: Theological Perspectives on Jeremiah 21:1-10 -- 7 God Is Called Upon to Fight for His People -- 7.1. Protest: "O God, My King from of Old" (Psalm 74) -- 7.2. The People's Doubts: Quotations in Jeremiah and Fragmentary Communal Laments (Jeremiah 8:19-20, 21-23 -- 14:7-9). |
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| ISBN: | 1467461873 |