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Author Mettinger, Tryggve N. D., author

Title Reports from a scholar's life : select papers on the Hebrew Bible / by Tryggve N.D. Mettinger ; edited by Andrew Knapp
Published Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2015
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Contents Title; Contents; Author's Preface; The Enigma of Tryggve: Editor's Preface; Select Publicationsof Tryggve N. D. Mettinger; Report from a Scholar's Life: My Work on the Enigmas of the Notions of God; Part I -- The God of Israel in the Ancient Near Eastern Milieu: Continuities and Contrasts; The Study of the Gottesbild: Problems and Suggestions; The Elusive Essence: Yhwh, El and Baal and the Distinctiveness of Israelite Faith; Yhwh Sabaoth: The Heavenly King on the Cherubim Throne; The Name and the Glory: The Zion-Sabaoth Theology and Its Exilic Successors
The Dying and Rising God: The Peregrinations of a MythemePart II -- Aniconism; The Veto on Images and the Aniconic God in Ancient Israel; A Conversation with My Critics: Cultic Image or Aniconism in the First Temple?; Part III -- Davidic Trajectories; "The Last Words of David": A Study of Structure and Meaning in II Samuel 23:1-7; Cui Bono? The Prophecy of Nathan (2 Sam 7) as a Piece of Political Rhetoric; Part IV -- Job; Intertextuality: Allusion and Vertical Context Systems in Some Job Passages*; The Enigma of Job The Deconstruction of God in Intertextual Perspective; Part V -- Second Isaiah
Summary "Collection of writings from Tryggve N.D. Mettinger, renowned scholar and professor of Hebrew Bible, comparative literature, and religion"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Old Testament fast
Subject RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- Sacred Writings.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Knapp, Andrew, editor
LC no. 2015021179
ISBN 9781575063805
1575063808
1575063794
9781575063799