A light to the nations;an introduction to the Old Testament.
Description
1. Angle of vision : Obstacles ; Perspectives -- 2. The ancestry of the Old Testament : Emergence of the writings ; Literary types : Songs ; Sayings or oracles ; Prose. Canon ; Text ; Translations : Ancient versions ; English versions -- 3. The Old Testament world : The near East ; Mountains ; Fertile crescent ; Desert. Palestine : Coastal plain ; Western highlands ; Jordan Rift ; Eastern highlands -- 4. The fathers of Israel : The era of Abraham ; The patriarchal traditions : Oral transmission ; The religion of the fathers -- 5. The people of the covenant : The Pentateuch ; The Mosaic traditions ; The era of Moses ; The Exodus ; The holy mountain ; The originality of Moses : Atonism ; Kenite Yahwism. The religion of Moses : Covenant and Decalogue ; The divine name ; Mosaic theology ; Mosaic cult -- 6. The settlement of the land : The Canaanites ; The traditions of Joshua ; Total conquest ; The settlement reconstructed ; The traditions of the Judges ; Song of Deborah ; Religion during the settlement -- 7. The great kingdom : The Philistines ; The books of Samuel ; Saul ; David ; Solomon ; The secession of the North ; The Yahwist : The Characteristics and purpose of J ; The J writer in Genesis -- 8. The kingdom disrupted : The D theology of the monarchy ; The rival kingdoms, 922-800 BC ; The Elohist ; The origins of Hebrew prophecy ; The prophetic narratives of kings -- 9. The collapse of Israel : Assyria and the fall of Israel, 800-700 BC ; Hebrew prophecy : Misconceptions ; The meaning of prophecy ; Literary forms. Amos : The structure of the book ; Justice and practical monotheism. Hosea : The prophets' marriage ; God's love for Israel ; Sin and the knowledge of God : Yahweh, Lord of nature. Micah ; Isaiah of Jerusalem : The composition of the book ; The threefold ministry ; The Holy One of Israel ; Faith as trust ; The sign Immanuel ; The saving remnant ; Sin as pride ; The Messiah -- 10. The decline of Judah : Neo-Babylonia and the fall of Judah, 700-587 BC ; Zephaniah ; Deuteronomy : Josiah's reformation ; The structure of the book ; The purpose of the Deuteronomists ; Centralization of worship ; The enigma of God's love ; The retributive philosophy of history ; Law and social justice. Nahum ; Habakkuk ; Jeremiah : The prophet's ministry ; The composition of the book ; The confessions ; Sin and repentance ; The future of Israel -- 11. The people in exile : The Jews in Exile, 587-538 BC. ; Lamentations ; Ezekiel : Palestinian or Babylonian ministry? ; The composition and chronology of the book ; Prophetic visions, allegories, and symbolic acts ; The divine honor ; Individual responsibility ; Apocalyptic and the new temple. The rise of Persia, 550-538 BC ; Deutero-Isaiah : The composition of Isaiah 40-66 ; Literary forms ; The Babylonian stimulus ; The redeeming God ; The nations ; The servant Yahweh -- 12. Reconstruction under the Persians : The restored community, 538-333BC ; Postexilic prophecy : Haggai ; Zechariah ; Malachi ; Isaiah 56-66 ; Joel. The priestly code : The characteristics and purpose of P ; P as theologian ; Creation in Babylon and Israel. Wisdom literature : Proverbs ; Job ; Ecclesiastes ; Song of Songs -- 13. Reconstruction under the Hellenists : The encroachment of Hellenism, 333-63 BC ; The Psalms : A poetic anthology ; Literary types ; Representative Psalms. Religious fiction : Esther ; Ruth ; Jonah. Apocalyptic : Daniel. Intertestamental Judaism^^Near Eastern texts related to the Old Testament -- 1. The Babylonian creation story -- 2. The Babylonian flood story -- 3. Tell el-Amarna letters -- 4. Baal and Anath -- 5. Egyptian love songs -- 6. The hymn to Aton -- 7. The Israel or Merneptah Stela -- 8. The Moabite stone -- 9. The Siloam inscription -- 10. Assyrian annals -- 11. The Cyrus cylinder.
615 pages :illustrations ;24 cm
Book Details
Author
Gottwald, Norman K.
Place Published
City
New York
Publication Subjects
Bible.--Old Testament--Introductions.
Call No.
BS1140.2 .G6 1959
LCCN
58059882
Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Carrier type: volumencrdacarrier
Media type: unmediatednrdamedia
Date: [1959]