Disloyalty and Destruction
«I am grateful to have had the opportunity to read this thoughtful and thought-provoking work. I look forward to further reflection from its author’s pen.»
Walter J. Houston, University of Manchester, Journal of Semitic Studies
This book is a heuristic reading strategy for a modern reader to engage with YHWH's threats against Israel in Deuteronomy. First, the biblical text is considered through close reading to discern the logic of YHWH's threats: what motivates the threats, what form the threats take, and what effect the threats expect to produce. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- T.& T.Clark Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 304
- ISBN
- 9780567689658
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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«I am grateful to have had the opportunity to read this thoughtful and thought-provoking work. I look forward to further reflection from its author’s pen.»
Walter J. Houston, University of Manchester, Journal of Semitic Studies
"Revising his 2007 doctoral dissertation at Durham University, Barrett approaches Old Testament accounts of God killing, destroying, and threatening Israel, with engagement and provisional sympathy, and without selectively suppressing objectionable passages. He covers previous approaches, introductory considerations, the basic threat of idolatry and destruction, destruction and restoration as coercion, the rebellion by traitors, the horrors of destruction, and the politics of Yhwh and other gods. Among more detailed discussions are canon and history, religion and politics in Deuteronomy and the modern world, the golden calf incident as national myth, modern responses to rebellion, understanding the curses, and the modern state and other gods." -Eithne O'Leyne, BOOK NEWS, Inc.