Fear, fear of God, God-fearers / edited by Benedikt Hensel and Phillip Michael Lasater.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dormandy, Michael, Author.

Weiss, Katja, Author.

Gereboff, Joel D., Author.

Jo, Charis, Author.

Waller, Daniel James, Author.

Lanckau, Jörg, 1970- Author.

Burnett, D. Clint (David Clint), 1984- Author.

De Long, Kindalee Pfremmer, Author.

Contributor:

Hensel, Benedikt, Editor, Author.

Lasater, Phillip Michael, 1984- Editor, Author.

Series:

Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe ; 173.

Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe, 0940-4155 ; 173

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fear of God--Judaism.

Fear of God.

Fear of God--Christianity.

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

Bible.

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

Physical Description:

viii, 259 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2026]

Summary:

"The contributors to this volume examine how fear and fear of God shaped religious practice, social relations, and identity in ancient Judaism and early Christianity. Through analysis of biblical, Rabbinic, and early Christian texts, plus Egyptian and Mesopotamian sources, they reveal fear's complex role in ancient religious emotion and theology." -- From the back cover.

Contents:

Preface / Benedikt Hensel, Phillip M. Lasater

Fear, fear of God, God-fearers : philological and historical perspectives on the world of ancient Judaism and Christianity / Benedikt Hensel, Phillip Michael Lasater

Part 1: Fear and fear of God : conceptions and contexts.

Is God-fearing good fearing? : what the Greek reception of Hebrew fear-terms tells us about biblical concepts of fear / Michael Dormandy

What "fear" promises : the dialogue on ethics and perfection between Job and Eliphaz / Phillip Michael Lasater

Fear (of and for God) and strategies for coping with fear in ancient Egypt after the Amarna period / Katja Weiss

Fear of God in early Rabbinic Judaism / Joel Gereboff

Fear and fear of deities in Latin-speaking contexts : how novel was Augustine's view? / Charis Jo

Frightening forms : the physical reality of the demonic body in Jewish Aramaic magic bowls / Daniel James Waller

The "YHWH-fearing" sailors in Jon 1:5-16 as a model for the classification of the "nations" in early Judaism : a search for literary and historical traces in the book of Jonah / Benedikt Hensel

Fear of God as the beginning of obedience? : Genesis 22 in light of various conceptions of "religion" in the Tanakh / Jörg Lanckau

Jewish sympathizers : a reappraisal of Luke's "God-fearers" / D. Clint Burnett

God fearers as characters in Luke-Acts and their real-world analogs / Kindalee Pfremmer De Long.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783161645983

3161645987

OCLC:

1587460279