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Theology from the beginning : essays on the primeval history and its canonical context /
The Primeval History (Genesis 1-11) is one of the most complex theological compositions of the Old Testament/the Hebrew Bible. Woven into its multi-layered text one finds reflections on an array of fundamental questions: How did the world come into being? Who is its creator? What role does humankind...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tübingen :
Mohr Siebeck,
2017.
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| Colección: | Forschungen zum Alten Testament
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Preface; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. The Image of God ; Made in the "Image of God": The Concepts of Divine Images in Gen 1-3; 1. Images versus Idols; 2. "Image" and "Likeness"; 2.1 Statue or Person; 2.2 The Making of an Image; 3. The Image and the Other; 4. More than an Image?; The Reluctant Image: Theology and Anthropology in Gen 1-3; 1. Introduction: Aitia and Telos; 2. The Dissenting Trajectory: Human Sociality and the Divine Image; 3. God's Intention to let the Divine Image rule (Gen 1:1-2:3); 4. The Image in the Garden (Gen 2:4-25); 5. Eve as the Reluctant Image.
- The Dignity of the Image: A Re-reading of the Priestly Prehistory1. Introduction; 2. The Royal Dignity of Human Beings as Key to the Image of God?; 2.1 Rule
- what for?; 2.2 Image and Similarity; 3. Personal Formation of the Human Being as the Imago Dei; 4. The Endangered World and the Commission to "Rule"; 5. Conclusion; The Notion of Life: Nefesh and Ruach in the Anthropological Discourse of the Primeval History; 1. Introduction; 2. The Cultic World and the Role of the Nefesh; 3. The Persian Period and the Loss of "World Certainty"; 4. Ruᵅch as Life-force and "Spirit"
- 4.1. Ruᵅch in the "Primeval History"4.2. Ruᵅch as the Spirit of Life; Transformed into the Image of Christ: Identity, Personality, and Resurrection; 1. Modernity's Loss of Death Awareness; 2. Resurrection and the Eschatological Validity of Past, Present, and Future Life; 3. Identity and Resurrection; 4. Personal Resurrection versus Objective Immortality; 5. Psychological Mechanisms (Peter Berger); 6. Objective Immortality (A.N. Whitehead and D. Parfit); 7. Personhood versus Identity; 2. Evil
- "And Behold, It Was Very Good ... And Behold, the Earth Was Corrupt" (Genesis 1:31, 6:12): The Prehistoric Discourse about Evil1. Introduction; 2. The Flood Myth and the Question of Evil; 3. The Biblical Flood Myth; 3.1 The Violent Temperament of the Creatures; 3.2 The Human Heart; 3.3 Evil in the Flood Narrative
- A Conclusion; 4. Sin at the Doorstep (Gen 4:7); 5. Conclusion; The Divine-Human Marriages: Genesis 6:1-4 and the Greek Framing of the Primeval History; 1. Introduction; 2. The Text; 3. The Text in its Literary Context; 4. The Mythic Elements of Gen 6:1-4.
- Evil from the Heart: Qoheleth's Negative Anthropology and its Canonical Context1. Introduction; 2. Qoheleth's Assessment of the Human Heart; 2.1 What does the Heart desire and by what is it affected?; 2.2 The Heart as a Wisdom-seeking and Knowledge-seeking Organ; 2.3 What God lays into the Human Heart; 2.4 The Evil Heart; 3. Qoheleth's Reference to the Primeval History (Gen 6-8); 4. The Evil Heart Remains. Qoheleth and Gen 6-8 as a Criticism of the Prophetic Line of Tradition; 5. A God of Grace? Similarities and Differences between Gen 6-8 and Qoheleth in their respective Views of God.