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Covenant in the Persian period : from Genesis to Chronicles /

The 22 essays in this new and comprehensive study explore how notions of covenant, especially the Sinaitic covenant, flourished during the Neo-Babylonian, Persian, and early Hellenistic periods. Following the upheaval of the Davidic monarchy, the temple's destruction, the disenfranchisement of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bautch, Richard J. (Editor ), Knoppers, Gary N., 1956-2018 (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Pentateuch. Abraham amidst the nations: the Priestly concept of covenant and the Persian imperial ideology / Jakob Wöhrle
  • The "eternal covenant" in the Priestly Pentateuch and the Major Prophets / Andreas Schüle
  • Correlating the covenants in Exodus 24 and Exodus 34 / Wolfgang Oswald
  • The covenant in Leviticus 26: a concept of admonition and redemption / Thomas Hieke
  • Part 2. Historical books (Deuteronomistic history). "The unwritten text of the covenant": torah in the mouth of the prophets / Reinhard Achenbach
  • A balancing act: settling and unsettling issues concerning past divine promises in historiographical texts shaping social memory in the late Persian period / Ehud Ben Zvi
  • From covenant to connubium: Persian period developments in the perception of covenant in the Deuteronomistic history / Cynthia Edenburg
  • Part 3. Prophecy. The covenant in the Book of Jeremiah: on the employment of family and political metaphors / Dalit Rom-Shiloni
  • Inner-biblical interpretation in the redaction of Jeremiah 33:14-26 / Matthew Sjöberg
  • Breaking an eternal covenant: Isaiah 24:5 and Persian-period discourse about the covenant / J. Todd Hibbard
  • Presumptions of "covenant" in Joel / James Nogalski
  • Curse, covenant, and temple in the Book of Haggai / John Kessler
  • Zechariah 11 and the shepherd's broken covenant / Richard J. Bautch
  • The reproach of the priests (Malachi 1:6-2:9) within Malachi's conception of covenant / Elie Assis
  • Achaemenid Persian concepts pertaining to covenant and Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi / Christine Mitchell
  • Part 4. Wisdom literature. The Psalms, covenant, and the Persian period / W.H. Bellinger Jr.
  • Poems, prayers, and promises: the Psalms and Israel's three covenants / Carol J. Dempsey
  • "When the friendship of God was upon my tent": covenant as essential background to lament in the Wisdom literature / Jamie A. Grant
  • Qohelet and the covenant: some preliminary observations / Thomas M. Bolin
  • Part 5. Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Ezra 10:3: solemn oath? renewed covenant? new covenant? / Douglas J.E. Nykolaishen
  • Reenvisioning the relationship: covenant in Chronicles / Mark J. Boda
  • "The Ark of the Covenant of the Lord": the place of covenant in the Chronicler's theology / Louis C. Jonker.