Shall Not the Judge of All the Earth Do What is Right? Studies on the Nature of God in Tribute to James L. Crenshaw / edited by David Penchansky and Paul L. Redditt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Redditt, Paul L., Editor.

Penchansky, David., Editor.

Crenshaw, James L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology.

Hidden God--Biblical teaching.

God--Biblical teaching.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Does God, in fact, always show love toward those who love him and faithfully serve him? Even apart from the fact that God punishes those who clearly deserve his wrath, and even apart from his hostility to Israel's enemies, what do we do with the not insignificant number of passages in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible where it could be said that he turns against his own people or members of that people, attacking them without cause, or at least with excessive violence? Professor James Crenshaw, perhaps more than any other single scholar of this generation, has led the way into discussion of this pivotal matter, and the essays included in this volume are based on or react to his seminal contributions to the topic." --Provided by publisher

Contents:

Preface

Appreciation

Introduction

Publications of James L. Crenshaw

Abbreviations

Chapter 1: "Shall Not the Judge of All the Earth Do What Is Just?" God's Oppression of the Innocent in the Old Testament

Chapter 2: Texts That Linger, Not Yet Overcome

Chapter 3: Yahweh as Deus absconditus: Some Remarks on a Dictum by Gerhard von Rad

Chapter 4: Patriarchal Models for Piety

Chapter 5: Deus absconditus and Deus revelatus: Three Difficult Narratives in the Pentateuch

Chapter 6: "You Cannot See My Face" Seeking to Understand Divine Justice

Chapter 7: Whose Agony? Whose Ecstasy? The Politics of Deuteronomic Law

Chapter 8: Achan's Sin: Warfare and Holiness

Chapter 9: The Problematic God of Samuel

Chapter 10: "Why, O Lord, Do You Harden Our Heart?" A Plea for Help from a Hiding God

Chapter 11: "Why, O Lord, Do You Harden Our Heart?" A Plea for Help from a Hiding God

Chapter 12: Wisdom and Yahwism Revisited

Chapter 13: Revelation and the Problem of the Hidden God in Second Temple Wisdom Literature

Chapter 14: Job's Wife: The Satan's Handmaid

Chapter 15: The Verb hāyâ in Qoheleth

Chapter 16: The "Our Father" as John the Baptist's Political Prayer: A Ritual Response to the Absence of God's Kingdom

Indexes; Index of Authors; Index of Scripture

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781575065212

1575065215

OCLC:

922991486