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Author Monotheism in Late Prophetic and Early Apocalyptic Literature (Colloquium) (2012 : Universität Göttingen)

Title Monotheism in late prophetic and early apocalyptic literature / edited by Nathan MacDonald and Ken Brown ; contributors, Reinhard AchenBach [and eleven others]
Published Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 268 pages)
Series Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe ; 72
Studies of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Research Group on Early Jewish Monotheism ; Volume III
Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe ; 72.
Studies of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Research Group on early Jewish monotheism ; v. 3.
Contents Divine violence in the book of Isaiah -- 'The city by the sea will be a drying place': Isaiah 19.1-25 in light of prophetic texts from Ptolemaic Egypt -- Who is a God like You? Refracting the one God in Jonah, Micah and Nahum -- YHWH, the divine beings and Zechariah 1-6 -- The beginnings of one-ness theology in late Israelite prophetic literature -- Monotheistischer Universalismus und frühe Formen eines Völkerrechts in prophetischen Texten Israels achämenidishcher Zeit -- The god(s) of the nations in late prophecy -- Cognitive dissonance and eschatological violence: fantasized solutions to a theological dilemma in Second Temple Judaism -- Monotheism, angelology, and dualism in ancient Jewish apocalyptic writings -- Worship and Idolatry in the book of Daniel through the lens of Tertullian's De idololatria
Summary Discussion of early Jewish monotheism has focused on its origins in earlier Israelite religion, while its development in late prophetic and early apocalyptic literature has received little attention. Yet the reflections of the concept of monotheism in these works are much more diverse than is generally recognized. This literature reflects a lively debate over the implications of Yhwh's supremacy, which extend to the full range of religious and socio-political experience. The authors of this volume explore that diversity by focusing on how particular texts and themes embody and shape the emergi
Analysis Second Temple Judaism Exegesis Biblical Interpretation Altes Testament Antike Religionswissenschaft Antike Religionsgeschichte
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index at the end of each chapters
Notes In English, with one contribution in German
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SUBJECT Bible. Prophets -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses
Bible. Prophets. fast (OCoLC)fst01892941
Subject Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Monotheism -- Congresses
Apocalyptic literature.
Monotheism.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author MacDonald, Nathan, 1975- editor.
Brown, Ken, editor
AchenBach, Reinhard, contributor
ISBN 3161536886
9783161536885