| Description |
xvi, 335 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
I. Creation: Order out of chaos -- 1. Yahweh and people -- Israel in Egypt: Exodus 1-2 -- Moses in Midian: Exodus 3-4 -- Israel out of Egypt: Exodus 5-18 -- 2. Yahweh and world -- Creation: Genesis 1-2 -- Alienation: Genesis 3-11 -- 3. Yahweh and covenant -- In the ancestors: Genesis 12-50 -- In the Sinai Decalogue: Exodus 19-20 -- In the covenant code: Exodus 21-24 -- In the work and person of Moses: Exodus 32-34 -- In priestly cultus and ethic: Leviticus 16, 19, 23-26 -- In narratives of wilderness and occupation: Numbers 5-6, 11-17, 20-24; Joshua 1-12, 23-24 |
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II. Rebellion: Chaos out of order -- 4. Anarchy -- Tribal occupation and consolidation: Joshua 1-12; Judges 1-5 -- Premonarchic Israel: Ruth; Judges 6-21 -- 5. Monarchy -- Samuel, Saul, and David: I Samuel 1-2, Samuel 8, David, Uriah, and Absalom: 2 Samuel 21-24, 8-20 -- David, Solomon, and the kingdom: 2 Samuel 21-24; 1 Kings 1-11 -- 6. Rupture -- The first half-century: 1 Kings 11-16 -- Emergent prophetism -- The background of classical prophetism: 1 Kings 17 -- 2 Kings 14 |
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III. Positive judgment: Classical prophetism -- 7. Anticipated judgment: The eighth century -- Prophetism and the eighth-century indictment: Amos 1-9 -- Contingency and compassion: Amos and Hosea 1-14 -- The theological ethic and history: Isaiah 1-23, 28-33; Micah 1-7 -- 8. Suspended judgment: The seventh century -- Packaged prophetism: Deuteronomy -- Faith and the uncertain present: Nahum 1-3; Zephaniah 1-3; Habakkuk 1-3 -- Protesting prophetism: Jeremiah 1-52 -- 9. Applied judgment: The sixth century -- Hope and bitterness: Jeremiah, Obadiah, Lamentations -- Insight and resurrection: Ezekiel |
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IV. Existence: The meaning of Yahwism -- 10. The culmination, summary, and projection of prophetic faith -- Comfort and light: Second Isaiah -- Prophetic understanding -- 11. Yahwism into Judaism -- Reconstitution in temple and cultus: Isaiah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi -- City, law, and prayer book: Nehemiah, Ezra, the Psalter -- 12. Tensions of mind and faith -- Time and apocalypse: Fourth Isaiah, Joel, Second Zechariah -- Pride and justification: Job -- Faith and the world's wisdom: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon -- Judaism and the world: Daniel, Esther, Jonah |
| Notes |
Edition statement also appears as: First Fortress Press edition 1981 |
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Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 315-317 |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Old Testament http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96011927 -- Introductions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001683
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Bible. Old Testament http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96011927 -- Theology.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008984
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| LC no. |
78014672 |
| ISBN |
080061352X |
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