Problems in Biblical Theology

by Sun, Henry T. C.; Eades, Keith L.; Robinson, James M.

• ISBN13: 9781610971577
• ISBN10: 1610971574
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-07
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

Summary

Trained in the German tradition, Rolf Knierim is a scholar who has made many significant contributions to the ongoing discussion of form criticism, tradition history, and theology. He is also a passionate and charismatic teacher and a widely respected author and editor who has served the scholarly world most visibly in his role as coeditor of the Forms of the Old Testament Literature commentary series.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Way Stations	p. 1
Approaches to Old Testament Theology	p. 13
Die Erfahrung Hiobs. ôKonnektiveö und ôdistributiveö Gerechtigkeit nach dem Hiob-Buch	p. 27
Stories of Adam and Eve	p. 38
The Qumran Scrolls and Old Testament Theology	p. 59
Structure Analysis and the Art of Exegesis (1 Samuel 16:14-18:30)	p. 76
Festival Ideology in Chronicles	p. 104
Cosmos and History in Zechariah's View of the Restoration (Zechariah 1:7-6:15)	p. 125
Der Befreiende Gott: Zum Standort lateinamerikanischer Theologie	p. 145
Sin, Purification, and Group Process	p. 167
Ganzheitsdenken in the Book of Ruth	p. 192
The Language of Prophecy: Thoughts on the Macrosyntax of the debar YHWH and Its Semantic Implications in the Deuteronomistic History	p. 210
Letting Rival Gods Be Rivals: Biblical Theology in a Postmodern Age	p. 222
Yahweh's Compassion and Ecotheology	p. 234
Israel and the Nations in Isaiah 40-55	p. 249
Reflections on a Critical Biblical Theology	p. 265
Problems in a Theology of (Only) the Old Testament	p. 275
Meat Eating and the Hebrew Bible	p. 281
The Ninth Day: To Say ôCreationö in Genesis 1:1-11:26	p. 295
The Task of Text Criticism	p. 315
Beobachtungen zur Sachbewegung vorexilischer Gerichtsprophetie	p. 328
ôThe Place Which Yahweh Your God Will Chooseö in Deuteronomy	p. 338
Tanak versus Old Testament: Concerning the Foundation for a Jewish Theology of the Bible	p. 353
Sin and ôJudgmentö in the Prophets	p. 373
Gottes Handeln und Gottes Reden im Alten Testament	p. 389
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