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Religion and Cult (Hardcover)
Sigmund Mowinckel; Edited by K.C. Hanson; Translated by John Sj Sheehan
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R995
Discovery Miles 9 950
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This collection of essays is drawn from a series of previous
collections to which the author has contributed that were designed
to honour senior scholars in the discipline of Old Testament study.
Each of these essays reflects a distinct intention depending on the
nature of the original collection in which they appeared and the
scholar who was being honoured. Taken together, however, this
collection amounts to an articulation of Brueggemann's distinctive
approach to theological interpretation of the Old Testament.
Already in his major volume on Old Testament theology, Brueggemann
proposed a dynamism of tension, dispute, and contradiction as the
text of ancient Israel sought to give voice to the mystery of God
as a sustaining and disruptive agent in the life of the world. Over
a long period of time, this collection reflects the author's
growing clarity about the task of Old Testament theology. It
further reflects on the nature of the biblical text and the way in
which the God who inhabits the text runs beyond all of our attempts
to define and explain. These essays reflect not so much on
methodological issues, but take up the substantive questions that
regularly occupied these ancient text-makers.
Franz Delitzsch's lectures in 1902 and 1903 set off the Babel-Bible
controversy, which rocked Europe and North America. In this searing
critique of Delitzsch, Gunkel provides his own analysis of the
relationship between ancient Israel and Babylon. In this edition,
Gunkel's original work is newly translated, with a new Foreword,
notes, bibliographies, and indexes.
Biblical faith is passionately and relentlessly material in its
emphasis. This claim is rooted in the conviction that the creator
God loves the creation and summons creation to be in sync with the
will of the creator God. This collection of essays is focussed on
the bodily life of the world as it ordered in all of its
problematic political and economic forms. The phrase of the title
'all flesh' in the flood narrative of Genesis 9 refers to all
living creatures who are in covenant with God - human beings,
animals, birds, and fish - as recipients of God's grace, as
dependent upon God's generosity, and as destined for praise and
obedience to God. The insistence on the materiality of life as the
subject of the Bible means that the difficult issues of economics
and the demanding questions of politics are front and centre in the
text. So the Pentateuch pivots around the Exodus narrative and the
emancipation from an unbearable context of abusive labour
practices. In a similar manner, the prophets endlessly address such
questions of social policy and the wisdom teachers reflect on how
to manage the material things of life and social relationships for
the well-being of the community. This emphasis, pervasive in these
essays, is a powerful alternative and a strong resistance against
all of the contemporary efforts to transcend (escape!) the material
into some form of the 'spiritual'. All around us are efforts to
find an easier, more harmonious faith. This may be evoked simply
because of a desire to shield economic, political advantage from
the inescapable critique of biblical faith. Such a temptation is a
serious misreading of the Bible and a critical misjudgment about
the nature of human existence. Thus the Bible addressed the most
urgent issues of our day, and refuses the 'religious temptation'
that avoids lived reality where the power of God is a work.
In this new edition of Gerhard von Rad's classic work on the Moses
traditions, the reader is provided with a more polished text,
cross-references to von Rad's other works, an updated bibliography,
Scripture index, and a new foreword by Walter Brueggemann. A German
Lutheran pastor, University professor and a prolific Old Testament
scholar, Gerhard von Rad sought a revival of Old Testament
appreciation from a readership disheartened by two world wars.
Hanson brings this important work to the present generation in the
hopes of provoking the same reaction.
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Moses (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Gerhard von Rad; Edited by K.C. Hanson; Foreword by Walter Brueggemann
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R370
Discovery Miles 3 700
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Synopsis: In this new edition of Gerhard von Rad's classic work on
the Moses traditions, the reader is provided with a more polished
text, cross-references to von Rad's other works, an updated
bibliography, Scripture index, and a new foreword by Walter
Brueggemann. Endorsements: This volume "sparkles and snaps with
strong interpretive impulses that reflect on von Rad's courage and
his clear-headedness about the appeal to its radical promises and
its equally radical claims . . . von Rad understood well the
continuing contemporeneity of the traditions that cluster around
Moses, both as promise and as demand. These are radical invitations
to be in the world differently." . . . There is no "obvious
one-to-one correlation between the ancient dangers of Israel and
our contemporary dangers, and von Rad clearly understood that one
cannot easily slide from one to the other. His own work shows the
difficult way of interpretation in connecting from one context of
danger to another that requires interpretive skill and grace."
--Walter Brueggemann, from the Foreword Author Biography: Gerhard
von Rad (1901-1971) was Professor of Old Testament at the
University of Heidelberg and was the premier Old Testament
theologian of the twentieth century. Among his many publications
are Old Testament Theology, 2 vols. (1962-1965), Wisdom in Israel
(1972), and Genesis (rev. ed. 1972).
Description: Contents 1 The Practice of Homefulness 2 A Myriad of
""Truth and Reconciliation"" Commissions 3 Bragging about the Right
Stuff 4 A Culture of Life and the Politics of Death 5 Elisha as the
Original Pentecost Guy 6 The Stunning Outcome of a One-Person
Search Committee 7 The Non-negotiable Price of Sanity 8 The Family
as World-Maker
About the Contributor(s): Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus
McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia
Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. He is past President of the
Society of Biblical Literature and the author of numerous books,
including Truth-Telling as Subversive Obedience, David and His
Theologian, Praying the Psalms, A Pathway of Interpretation, and
Ichabod toward Home.
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