Visions of the holy : studies in biblical theology and literature / Marvin A. Sweeney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sweeney, Marvin A. (Marvin Alan), 1953- author.

Series:

Resources for biblical study ; no. 105.

Resources for biblical study ; number 105

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Theology.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible. Old Testament--Hermeneutics.

Bible. Old Testament.

Hermeneutics.

Theology.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xix, 799 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, GA : SBL Press, [2023]

Summary:

"This collection of previously published and unpublished essays by Marvin A. Sweeney examines issues in biblical and postbiblical theology. Topics include the canonical understanding of the Tanak, the character of Jewish biblical theology, 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 volume represents a lifetime of study of the Hebrew Bible in one volume for scholars, students, and clergy interested in theological readings of the Hebrew Bible"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 713-768) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781628373608

1628373601

9781628373615

162837361X

OCLC:

1406408045