Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A superfluous threat of annihilation -- God's reaction to the building of the Golden Calf: Exodus 32 -- 3. Punishment and threat of destruction in the story of the spies: Varied theological views in two parallel narratives -- 4. The annihilation-threat tradition -- 5. Told by the protagonists: Retelling episodes of the time in the desert -- 6. Reviewing the past in light of the present plight: Nehemiah 9 -- 7. The past in the service of God's name: Ezekiel 20 -- 8. Past precedents pave the way for current pleas: Psalm 106 -- 9. Conclusions -- List of abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Subject index -- Ancient sources index -- Author index
Summary
The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world