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Author Kugler, Gili

Title When God Wanted to Destroy the Chosen People : Biblical Traditions and Theology on the Move
Published Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (236 pages)
Series Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Für Die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft Ser. ; v. 515
Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Für Die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft Ser
Contents Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A superfluous threat of annihilation -- God's reaction to the building of the Golden Calf: Exodus 32 -- 3. Punishment and threat of destruction in the story of the spies: Varied theological views in two parallel narratives -- 4. The annihilation-threat tradition -- 5. Told by the protagonists: Retelling episodes of the time in the desert -- 6. Reviewing the past in light of the present plight: Nehemiah 9 -- 7. The past in the service of God's name: Ezekiel 20 -- 8. Past precedents pave the way for current pleas: Psalm 106 -- 9. Conclusions -- List of abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Subject index -- Ancient sources index -- Author index
Summary The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world
Notes In English
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SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Historiography
Bible. Old Testament fast
Subject God (Judaism) -- History of doctrines
God -- Wrath.
RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament.
God (Judaism) -- History of doctrines
God -- Wrath
Historiography
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3110609908
9783110609905
9783110609509
3110609509
9783110605822
3110605821