Jews. Christians, and the Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures

by Bellis, Alice Ogden

• ISBN13: 9780884140252
• ISBN10: 0884140253
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Theoretical Perspectives
Primary Propositions
Paradise Regained: Rabbinic Reflections on Israel at Sinai	p. 15
Writing on the Water: The Ineffable Name of God	p. 45
An Interpersonal Theology of the Hebrew Bible	p. 61
Losing a Friend: The Loss of the Old Testament to the Church	p. 83
Mostly Methods
Biblical Theology Appropriately Postmodern	p. 97
The Emergence of Jewish Biblical Theologies	p. 109
The Law and the Prophet	p. 123
A Christian Approach to the Theology of Hebrew Scriptures	p. 137
Engaging Evil
Reconceiving the Paradigms of Old Testament Theology in the Post-Shoah Period	p. 155
Christian Biblical Theology and the Struggle against Oppression	p. 173
YHWH the Revolutionary: Reflections on the Rhetoric of Redistribution in the Social Context of Dawning Monotheism	p. 179
Textual Perspectives
The Exodus Story
Liberation Theology and the Exodus	p. 215
History and Particularity in Reading the Hebrew Bible: A Response to Jon D. Levenson	p. 231
The Perils of Engaged Scholarship: A Rejoinder to Jorge Pixley	p. 239
The Exodus and Biblical Theology	p. 247
The Exodus and Biblical Theology: A Rejoinder to John J. Collins	p. 263
Pivotal Passages
Which Blessing Does Isaac Give Jacob?	p. 279
Traditional Jewish Responses to the Question of Deceit in Genesis 27	p. 293
A Jewish-Feminist Reading of Exodus 1-2	p. 307
Exodus 19 and Its Christian Appropriation	p. 327
The Many Faces of God in Exodus 19	p. 353
Habakkuk 2:4b: Intertextuality and Hermeneutics	p. 369
Bibliography of Primary Sources	p. 387
Bibliography of Modern Authors	p. 391
Contributors	p. 427
Acknowledgments	p. 428
Index of Primary Sources	p. 429
Index of Modern Authors	p. 444
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