Visions of the holy : studies in biblical theology and literature / Marvin A. Sweeney.
| Author/creator | Sweeney, Marvin A., 1953- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Atlanta : SBL Press, [2023] |
| Copyright Date | ©2023 |
| Description | xix, 799 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Resources for biblical study Resources for biblical study ; no. 105. ^A1002573 |
| Contents | Introduction -- Part 1. Foundations. 1. Biblical theology in canonical perspective : Jewish and Christian models -- 2. Form criticism -- 3. Reconceiving the paradigms of Old Testament theology in the post-Shoah period -- 4. Jewish biblical theology -- 5. Berit Olam, the Eternal Covenant : is the Eternal Covenant really conditional? -- 6. Asian biblical theology and filial piety (Xiao) -- Part 2. History, comparative studies, and reception. 7. The origins of kingship in Israel and Japan : a comparative analysis -- 8. Genesis in the context of Jewish thought -- 9. Dimensions of the Shekinah : the meaning of the Shiur Qomah in Jewish mysticism, liturgy, and rabbinic thought -- 10. The democratization of messianism in modern Jewish thought -- Part 3. Torah. 11. Shabbat : an epistemological principle for holiness, sustainability and justice in the Pentateuch -- 12. The Jacob narratives : an Ephraimitic text? -- 13. Form criticism : the question of the endangered matriarchs in Genesis -- 14. The literary-historical dimensions of intertextuality in Exodus-Numbers -- 15. The wilderness traditions of the Pentateuch : a reassessment of their function and intent in relation to Exodus 32-34 -- 16. Creation as sacred space in the Exodus narratives -- 17. Moses's encounter with G-d and G-d's encounter with Moses : a reading of the Moses narratives in conversation with Emmanuel Levinas -- 18. Why Moses was barred from the Land of Israel : a reasessment of Numbers 20 in literary context -- 19. Balaam in intertextual perspective -- Part 4: Former prophets. 20. Davidic polemics in the Book of Judges -- 21. Rethinking Samuel -- 22. Eli, a high priest thrown under the wheels of the ox cart -- 23. Samuel's institutional identity in the Deuteronomistic history -- 24. The critique of Solomon in the Josianic edition of the Deuteronomistic history -- 25. Synchronic and diachronic considerations in the Deuteronomistic history portrayal of the demise of Solomon's kingdom -- 26. A reassessment of the Masoretic and Septuagint versions of the Jeroboam narratives in 1 Kings/3 Kingdoms 11-14 -- 27. Prophets and priests in the Deuteronomistic history : Elijah and Elisha -- Part 5: Latter prophets. 28. Revelation as empirical observation of nature in the prophets -- 29. Swords into plowshares or plowshares into swords? : Isaiah and the Twelve in intertextual perspective on Zion -- 30. Isaiah and theodicy after the Shoah -- 31. Sargon's threat against Jerusalem in Isaiah 10:27-32 -- 32. Isaiah 60--62 in intertextual perspective -- 33. Jeremiah among the prophets -- 34. The Ezekiel that G-d creates -- 35. Ezekiel's conceptualization of the exile in intertextual perspective -- 36. Synchronic and diachronic concerns in reading the Book of the Twelve Prophets -- 37. Hosea's reading of Pentateuchal narratives : a window for a foundational E stratum -- Part 6. The writings. 38. The question of theodicy in the historical books : contrasting views concerning the destruction of Jerusalem according to the Deuteronomistic history and the Chronicler's history -- 39. What is biblical theology? : with an example on divine absence and the Song of Songs -- 40. Absence of G-d and human responsibility in the Book of Esther. |
| Abstract | "Visions of the Holy is a collection of essays by Marvin A. Sweeney on the study of biblical and postbiblical theology and literature. The volume includes previously published and unpublished essays related to the developing field of Jewish biblical theology; historical, comparative, and reception-critical studies; and the reading of texts from the Pentateuch, Former Prophets, Latter Prophets, and Ketuvim. Additional essays examine Asian biblical theology, the understanding of Shabbat, intertextuality in Exodus-Numbers, Samuel, Isaiah, and the Twelve in intertextual perspective, and the democratization of messianism in modern Jewish thought. The volue is an excellent resource for scholars, students, and clergy interested in theological readings of the Hebrew Bible." -- Publisher, page four of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 713-768) and indexes. |
| ISBN | 9781628373608 |
| ISBN | 1628373601 |
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