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The Hermeneutics of the Ban on Images Exegetical and Systematic Theological Approaches.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Mahwah :
Paulist Press,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Illustrations and Acknowledgments
- Preface
- I. Introduction
- II. Exegetical and Religious-Historical Perspectives
- 1. Religious-Historical Contexts
- 1.1 Basics of Ancient Near Eastern Image Cults
- a. What is a sanctuary?
- b. Anthropomorphic cultic images: Production, worship, significance
- c. Symbols of gods: Equivalent or competing media?
- d. "Aniconic" cult symbols: Complementary or contrary to images?
- e. What do we know about Jerusalem's cultic symbolism?
- 1.2 The Cult's Frame of Reference: "Mental Iconography"
- A. The bodies of the gods
- b. Transcendence of the divine beings
- 2. The Ban on Images: Character and Origin
- 2.1 The Pre-Socratics' Critique of Images
- 2.2 Ancient Jewish Critique of Images
- a. Hellenistic-Roman authors on monotheism and prohibition of images: The view from outside
- b. Critique of images in ancient Jewish witnesses and texts of the postexilic period (5th-3rd c. BCE): The view from within
- b.1) Ancient Jewish texts
- b.2) Old Testament critique of images from the postexilic period
- 2.3 The Ban on Images: Origin, Variants, Rationale
- A. The Decalogue's prohibition of images
- b. Further explicit prohibitions of images in the Old Testament and their relationship to the Decalogue
- 2.4 Preconditions for the Beginnings of a Prohibition of Images
- a. Judaic-Babylonian cultural contacts and the origins of the ban on images
- b. Two older preconditions for the ban of images in Israel and Judah: Critique of certain visual representations
- b.1) The bull imagery at Bethel in the Northern Kingdom of Israel: Hosea and Exodus 32 (8th/7th c. BCE)
- b.2) Josiah of Judah's reform measures (end of the 7th c. BCE)
- 3. Consequences for a Hermeneutics of the Ban on Images from an Exegetical Perspective
- 3.1 The Ban on Images and the Image of God Conveyed in Words
- a. Biblical metaphorics as limit conceptuality
- b. Iconicity of the Psalms
- 3.2 Models of a Critical Hermeneutics of Imagery in the Old Testament
- a. The Sinai theophany: Transitory imagery and the image in words
- b. The "enduring disappearance" of the theophany as "figure" of memory
- c. Humans as image of God in the Priestly writing and relevance for a hermeneutics of imagery
- III. Systematic Perspectives
- 1. Contexts
- 2. Powerful Images
- 2.1 Representations of Dominance
- 2.2 Bodies and Images of Kings
- 2.3 Prohibition of Images as Critique of Power
- 3. Image and Body
- 3.1 God Has No Body?
- 3.2 Negative Evaluation of Corporeality
- 3.3 Philosophical Critique of Images (Plato)
- 3.4 Philosophical Critique of the Imagination (Descartes)
- 3.5 Repression of the Senses
- 3.6 Body as Imago Dei?
- 3.7 Embodiment and Christology
- 3.8 Christianity as a Crisis of the Body?
- 3.9 Preliminary Conclusion
- 4. Ban on Images, Monotheism, and Negative Theology