Theology from the Beginning: Essays on the Primeval History and its Canonical Context
Cover -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Image of God -- Made in the "Image of God": The Concepts of Divine Images in Gen 1-3 -- 1. Images versus Idols -- 2. "Image" and "Likeness" -- 2.1 Statue or Person -- 2.2 The Making of an Image -- 3. The Im...
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Tübingen
Mohr Siebeck
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Schüle, Andreas, 1968-, Theology from the Beginning] (2018) (Grafius, Brandon R.)
[Rezension von: Schüle, Andreas, Theology from the Beginning: Essays on the Primeval History and Its Canonical Context] (2018) (Chambers, Nathan) |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series/Journal: | Forschungen zum Alten Testament
v.113 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Urgeschichte (Bible)
/ Idea of God
B Old Testament / Exegesis / Theology |
| IxTheo Classification: | FA Theology |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Theology, Doctrinal B Electronic books |
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Print version: Schüle, Andreas: Theology from the Beginning : Essays on the Primeval History and its Canonical Context. - Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck,c2017. - 9783161539978 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Image of God -- Made in the "Image of God": The Concepts of Divine Images in Gen 1-3 -- 1. Images versus Idols -- 2. "Image" and "Likeness" -- 2.1 Statue or Person -- 2.2 The Making of an Image -- 3. The Image and the Other -- 4. More than an Image? -- The Reluctant Image: Theology and Anthropology in Gen 1-3 -- 1. Introduction: Aitia and Telos -- 2. The Dissenting Trajectory: Human Sociality and the Divine Image -- 3. God's Intention to let the Divine Image rule (Gen 1:1-2:3) -- 4. The Image in the Garden (Gen 2:4-25) -- 5. Eve as the Reluctant Image -- The Dignity of the Image: A Re-reading of the Priestly Prehistory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Royal Dignity of Human Beings as Key to the Image of God? -- 2.1 Rule - what for? -- 2.2 Image and Similarity -- 3. Personal Formation of the Human Being as the Imago Dei -- 4. The Endangered World and the Commission to "Rule" -- 5. Conclusion -- The Notion of Life: Nefesh and Ruach in the Anthropological Discourse of the Primeval History -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Cultic World and the Role of the Nefesh -- 3. The Persian Period and the Loss of "World Certainty" -- 4. Ruᵅch as Life-force and "Spirit" -- 4.1. Ruᵅch in the "Primeval History" -- 4.2. Ruᵅch as the Spirit of Life -- Transformed into the Image of Christ: Identity, Personality, and Resurrection -- 1. Modernity's Loss of Death Awareness -- 2. Resurrection and the Eschatological Validity of Past, Present, and Future Life -- 3. Identity and Resurrection -- 4. Personal Resurrection versus Objective Immortality -- 5. Psychological Mechanisms (Peter Berger) -- 6. Objective Immortality (A.N. Whitehead and D. Parfit) -- 7. Personhood versus Identity -- 2. Evil -- "And Behold, It Was Very Good … And Behold, the Earth Was Corrupt" (Genesis 1:31, 6:12): The Prehistoric Discourse about Evil. 1. Introduction -- 2. The Flood Myth and the Question of Evil -- 3. The Biblical Flood Myth -- 3.1 The Violent Temperament of the Creatures -- 3.2 The Human Heart -- 3.3 Evil in the Flood Narrative - A Conclusion -- 4. Sin at the Doorstep (Gen 4:7) -- 5. Conclusion -- The Divine-Human Marriages: Genesis 6:1-4 and the Greek Framing of the Primeval History -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Text -- 3. The Text in its Literary Context -- 4. The Mythic Elements of Gen 6:1-4 -- Evil from the Heart: Qoheleth's Negative Anthropology and its Canonical Context -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Qoheleth's Assessment of the Human Heart -- 2.1 What does the Heart desire and by what is it affected? -- 2.2 The Heart as a Wisdom-seeking and Knowledge-seeking Organ -- 2.3 What God lays into the Human Heart -- 2.4 The Evil Heart -- 3. Qoheleth's Reference to the Primeval History (Gen 6-8) -- 4. The Evil Heart Remains. Qoheleth and Gen 6-8 as a Criticism of the Prophetic Line of Tradition -- 5. A God of Grace? Similarities and Differences between Gen 6-8 and Qoheleth in their respective Views of God -- 6. Ethos and Cult -- 3. Law and Forgiveness: Elements of Priestly Theology -- The "Eternal Covenant" in the Priestly Pentateuch and the Major Prophets -- 1. Covenant in the Priestly Code -- 2. The "Eternal Covenant" in Exilic/Postexilic Prophecy -- 3. The Divine Speeches in the Priestly Flood Narrative (Gen 8:15-17 -- 9:1-17) -- The Primeval History as an Etiology of Torah -- 1. Introduction: Creation and Flood in the Priestly Primeval History -- 2. The Divine Speech after the Flood (Gen 9:1-17) -- 3. The Laws to Protect Life (Gen 9:4-6) -- 4. Individual Responsibility -- 5. Covenant and Law -- At the Border of Sin and Forgiveness: Salaḥ in the Old Testament -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Cultic Function of סלח -- 3. Forgiveness and Communal Events 3.1 The Prayer for the Dedication of the Temple -- 3.2 Is there a Specific Deuteronomistic Term for Forgiveness? -- 3.3 Forgiveness and the New Covenant in Jeremiah -- 3.4 Forgiveness and Covenant Faithfulness -- 4. Conclusion -- "On Earth as it is in Heaven": Eschatology and the Ethics of Forgiveness -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Old Testament Traditions -- 3. The Hodayot of Qumran -- 4. Returning to Matthew -- 4. God -- The Challenged God: Reflections on the Motif of God's Repentance in Job, Jeremiah, Jonah, and the Non-Priestly Flood Narrative -- 1. Introduction: the Book of Job as a Heuristic Point of Entry -- 2. The Challenged God in the Individual Laments -- 2.1. The Lament toward God as Savior -- 2.2 The Lament against God as Creator -- 3. The Confessions of Jeremiah: the Rejected Lamentation -- 4. The Conclusion of the Book of Jonah: Justice versus Mercy -- 5. The Non-Priestly Flood Narrative: The Challenge to God as the Creator of All Life -- 6. Conclusion -- "Have you any Right to be angry?": The Theological Discourse surrounding the Conclusion to the Book of Jonah (Jonah 3:6-4:11) -- 1. Introduction: The Theological Profile of the Book of Jonah -- 2. God as Compassionate Judge (Jonah 3:6-10) -- 3. The Prophetic Protest against God (Jonah 4:1-4) -- 4. The Creator Values the Creation (Jonah 4:5-11) -- The God who Creates: A Contribution to the Theology of the Old Testament -- 1. Creation as the Theme of Old Testament Theology - a Controversial Question -- 2. Cosmos, Cult, and Vitality: Creation Theology in the Cultic Psalms -- 3. Deutero-Isaiah -- 4. The Story of Creation (Gen 1:1-2:3) -- 5. Psalm 104: God as the Giver of All Life -- 6. The Divine Speeches of the Book of Job (Job 38-41): Creation Theology as Critique of Human Understanding and as Relativization of the Concept of Humanity as the Goal of Creation -- 5. Ethics The Ethics of Genesis: A Contribution to Biblical Humanism -- 1. Introduction: Two Types of Ethics -- 2. Frame and Foundation: The Value of Life in Genesis -- 3. Ethical Realism and the Encounter with God -- "For He is Like You": A Translation and Understanding of the Old Testament Commandment to Love in Lev 19:18 -- 1. Right Observations and Wrong Conclusions: The Debate over Buber's Understanding of Lev 19:18 -- 2. Philological Analysis of Lev 19:18 -- 2.1 כ + Suffix as Adverbial Usage -- 2.2 The falsely assumed Synonymy between כמוך and כנפשך -- 2.3 The Syntagma of Preposition + Suffix in Status Attributions -- 3. Targum and Peshitta -- 4. Mt 5:24 in the Tradition of Lev 19:18 -- 5. The Meaning of the Commandment to Love in the Context of Lev 19 -- 6. Conclusion -- Sharing and Loving: Love, Law and the Ethics of cultural Memory in the Pentateuch -- 1. The Modern Understanding of Love as "Intimacy" -- 2. Love as a Commandment in Biblical Traditions -- 3. Love and Law -- 4. Love and Cultural Memory in Deuteronomy -- 5. "Love Thy Neighbor" (Lev 19:18) -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Biblical Passages -- Old Testament -- New Testament -- Authors -- Subject Index |
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| ISBN: | 3161549481 |