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Disloyalty and Destruction : Religion and Politics in Deuteronomy and the Modern World.
The goal of the work is a heuristic reading strategy for a modern reader to engage with YHWH''s threats against Israel in Deuteronomy. This goal is accomplished in three steps. First, the biblical text is considered through close reading to discern the logic of YHWH''s threats: w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2010.
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| Colección: | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The goal of the work is a heuristic reading strategy for a modern reader to engage with YHWH''s threats against Israel in Deuteronomy. This goal is accomplished in three steps. First, the biblical text is considered through close reading to discern the logic of YHWH''s threats: what motivates the threats, what form the threats take, and what effect the threats expect to produce. Second, a modern analogy is sought that most helpfully matches the structure and logic observed in the biblical text. A number of common modern analogies for the divine-human relationship (e.g., parent-child, master-sl. |
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| Notas: | 6.2.3. Fulfillment of the Covenant Curses in the Old Testament Canon. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780567554871 0567554872 1336212950 9781336212954 |