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The theology of the book of Genesis /
"The book of Genesis contains foundational material for Jewish and Christian theology, both historic and contemporary, and is almost certainly the most appealed-to book in the Old Testament in contemporary culture. R.W.L. Moberly's The Theology of the Book of Genesis examines the actual us...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Old Testament theology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What is a theology of Genesis?
- Towards a theology of Genesis
- The contested nature of theology
- Historical criticism and socially-valued knowledge
- Ideological criticism of the biblical text
- A proposal for a theology of Genesis
- Biblical text and canonical contexts
- Text and contexts: an example
- On reading Genesis 1-11
- Building on the history of interpretation
- Noah and the flood
- The perspective and convention embodied in the use of Hebrew language
- Literary conventions and theological interpretation
- Genesis 1: picturing the world
- A first reading of Genesis 1
- Genesis 1 in relation to its possible compositional context
- Genesis 1 in relation to alternative ancient pictures
- Jon D. Levenson's reading of Genesis 1
- Genesis 1 and evolutionary biology
- Genesis 1 and alternative pictures of the world: a proposal
- Genesis 2-3: Adam and Eve and the fall
- James Barr on Genesis 2-3
- A reformulated version of the traditional interpretation
- Is a gnostic precedent a good precedent?
- Identifying the key issue
- Rereading the narrative
- Genesis 4: Cain and Abel
- Exposition of Regina M. Schwartz's interpretation
- A theological reading of Cain and Abel
- Conclusion: Doing well in demanding circumstances
- Genesis 6-9: cataclysm and grace
- Reflections on some characteristic modern approaches
- Pentateuchal criticism and reading strategy
- The flood in Genesis and the epic of Gilgamesh
- A characteristic postmodern anxiety
- Towards a theological interpretation of the flood narrative
- The collocation of Genesis 6:5 with 8:21
- The evil-thought clause in Genesis 8:21
- Reading the story without the evil-thought clause
- Israel and the world, Sinai and the flood
- On reading Genesis 12-50
- The patriarchs as a problem for Jewish observance of Torah
- Genesis as a compositional and religio-historical problem
- A third way : a canonical approach
- Genesis as the Old Testament of the Old Testament
- On interpreting the revelation of the divine name
- The distinctive patterns of patriarchal religion
- Theological issues in a canonical approach to the patriarchal narratives
- Genesis 12:1-3: a key to interpreting the Old Testament?
- A contemporary Christian approach to Genesis 12:1-3
- An alternative reading of Genesis 12:1-3
- The idiomatic meaning of blessing
- The significance of the proposed reading
- Theological interpretation as a continuing task
- Exegesis and theology
- On evaluating Gerhard von Rad's interpretation
- A Jewish-Christian dimension
- Genesis 12:3a: a biblical basis for Christian Zionism?
- Why Christians should support Israel
- Some factors in the use of scripture
- An appeal to the plain sense of the text
- Merely human words?
- Possible significance of the patriarchal and non-settled context
- Some observations on unconditional divine promises
- The bearing of the New Testament upon Christian appropriation of the Old Testament
- Conditionality and Christian attitudes towards Jews
- Who are the children of Abraham?
- Politics and self-interest
- Genesis 22: Abraham, model or monster?
- Interpretive clues within the biblical text
- Model or monster? some factors for making progress
- De-instrumentalizing Isaac
- The nightmare scenario
- A Christian epilogue
- Abraham and the Abrahamic faiths
- Exposition of Karl-Josef Kuschel's account of Abraham
- Preliminary critique of Kuschel
- Jon D. Levenson's critique of Kuschel
- Should we continue to speak of Abrahamic faiths/religions?
- Genesis 37-50: Joseph
- The Joseph narrative in Gerhard von Rad's analysis
- Analysis of Von Rad's account
- Re-envisioning key elements in the Solomonic enlightenment hypothesis
- Re-envisioning the Joseph narrative in relation to Proverbs
- Joseph's treatment of his brothers
- Divine sovereignty and human activity.