Religious responses to political crisis / edited by Henning Graf Reventlow and Yair Hoffman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reventlow, Henning Graf, editor.

Hoffman, Yair, editor.

Series:

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 444.

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies ; 444

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics in the Bible.

Religion and politics.

Judaism and politics.

Christianity and politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London, [England] : T & T Clark International, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book continues a series of volumes containing the papers read at an annual conference held in turn by Tel Aviv and Bochum in the course of a co-operation between the Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, the Department of Bible of Tel Aviv University and the Faculty of Protestant Theology in the University of the Ruhr, Bochum, since 1985. As a collection the book focuses on the important role religious views have played in critical moments during Jewish and Christian history. It argues for the significance that the role religious belief

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; Part I: THE BIBLE; SPEAKING OF KINGSHIP: THE INSTITUTION OF THE MONARCHY IN ISRAEL-NEGOTIATIONS, HISTORICAL MEMORY AND SOCIAL DRAMA; PATTERNS OF RELIGIOUS RESPONSE TO NATIONAL CRISIS IN THE HEBREW BIBLE, AND SOME METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS; A RELIGIOUS ALTERNATIVE TO A POLITICAL RESPONSE TO A SEVERE POLITICAL CRISIS: KING AHAZ AND THE PROPHET ISAIAH; THE BOOK OF LAMENTATIONS: RESPONSE TO DESTRUCTION OR RITUAL OF REBUILDING?; Part II: EARLY JUDAISM AND ROMAN PERIOD; REALITY AND HOPES OF THE QUMRAN COMMUNITY AS RESPONSE TO CRISES IN SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM

THE IMAGE OF GOD AS FATHER AS A RESPONSE TO POLITICAL CRISES IN THE FIRST CENTURY B.C.E.ETHICAL AND HALAKHIC RESPONSES FOLLOWING THE BAR KOKHBA REVOLT; Part III: MODERN PERIOD; POLITICAL RELIGION, POLITICAL THEOLOGY, AND THE DOCTRINE OF THE TWO KINGDOMS; HOW THEOLOGY COPED WITH THE CRISIS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR; RELIGIOUS RESPONSES TO NATIONAL CRISES IN JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN TRADITION; Index of References; Index of Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780567636737

0567636739