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Both personal and scholarly in tone, this book encourages readers
to think theologically, ethically, and politically about the
statement that declares: "God loves diversity and justice." The
multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary, and
multi-gendered identities of the eleven contributors and two
respondents deepen the conversation. It considers questions such
as: Do we affirm or challenge this theological statement? Do we
concentrate on "God" in our response or do we interrogate what
diversity and justice mean in light of God's love for diversity and
justice? Alternatively, do we prefer to ponder the verb, to love,
and consider what it might mean for society if people really
believed in a divinity loving diversity and justice? Of course,
there are no easy and simple answers whether we consult the Sikh
scriptures, the Bible, the Qur'an, the movies, the Declaration of
Human Rights, or the transgender movement, but the effort is
worthwhile. The result is a serious historical, literary, cultural,
and religious discourse that fends against intellectually rigid
thought and simplistic belief systems across the religious
spectrum. In our world in which so much military unrest and
violence, economic inequities, and religious strife prevail, such a
conversation nurtures theological, ethical, and political
possibilities of inclusion and justice.
Both personal and scholarly in tone, this book encourages readers
to think theologically, ethically, and politically about the
statement that declares: "God loves diversity and justice." The
multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary, and
multi-gendered identities of the eleven contributors and two
respondents deepen the conversation. It considers questions such
as: Do we affirm or challenge this theological statement? Do we
concentrate on "God" in our response or do we interrogate what
diversity and justice mean in light of God's love for diversity and
justice? Alternatively, do we prefer to ponder the verb, to love,
and consider what it might mean for society if people really
believed in a divinity loving diversity and justice? Of course,
there are no easy and simple answers whether we consult the Sikh
scriptures, the Bible, the Qur'an, the movies, the Declaration of
Human Rights, or the transgender movement, but the effort is
worthwhile. The result is a serious historical, literary, cultural,
and religious discourse that fends against intellectually rigid
thought and simplistic belief systems across the religious
spectrum. In our world in which so much military unrest and
violence, economic inequities, and religious strife prevail, such a
conversation nurtures theological, ethical, and political
possibilities of inclusion and justice.
The monograph produces a new interpretation of the opening chapter
of 1 Samuel by combining several hermeneutical models, including
the theory of chaotic (dynamically unstable) systems and the most
recent, essentially post-modern, form criticism, to produce a new
interpretation of the opening chapters of 1 Samuel. It argues that
1 Samuel 1-8 is an integral literary unit whose stance on such
pivotal issues as monarchy and cultic centralization poorly agrees
with that of the balance of Deuteronomy - Kings. In the diachronic
perspective, this unit can be construed as a post-Deuteronomistic
redactional interpolation polemically directed against several
planks of the Deuteronomic/Deuteronomistic agenda. In the
synchronic perspective, the pattern of relationship between 1
Samuel 1-8 and the balance of Genesis - Kings calls for a
non-linear, multi-dimensional reading of the corpus. Both
interpretational trajectories lead to the conclusion that the
thrust of the Former Prophets in its final form is controlled to a
considerable extent by non-Deuteronomistic elements.
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Judges (Paperback)
Serge Frolov
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This commentary is the eighteenth published volume in The Forms of
the Old Testament Literature (FOTL), a series that aims to present
a form-critical analysis of the books and units in the Hebrew
Bible. Serge Frolov's valuable study of Judges, addressing both
synchronic and diachronic perspectives, offers the first full-scale
form-critical treatment of Judges since 1922 and represents an
important application of form criticism as practiced today.
Fundamentally exegetical, Frolov's work examines the structure,
genre, setting, and intention of Judges. Focusing on the canonical
Hebrew text, Frolov argues that what we know as the book of Judges
is not a literary unit but rather a series of interconnected units
that are for the most part closely linked to adjoining books. In
particular, he shows how the sequence
-apostasy-oppression-repentance-deliverance- traverses the boundary
between Judges and Samuel. Frolov also analyzes the history behind
the form-critical discussion of this book and exposes the
exegetical process so as to enable students and pastors to engage
in their own analysis and interpretation of Judges.
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