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  title info:
    title: Where is God in the Megilloth?
    sub title: a dialogue on the ambiguity of divine presence and absence
  name:
    name part: Melton, Brittany N.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 223 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: In 'Where is God in the Megilloth?' Melton constructs a dialogue among Ruth, Esther, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs centred on this question, in an effort to settle the debate about whether God is present or absent in these books. Their juxtaposition in the Hebrew Bible highlights their shared theme of apparent divine absence, but, paradoxically, traces of God's presence are unearthed as well. By examining various aspects of this theme, including the literary absence of God, divine abandonment, God-talk, allusive language, God's providence and divine silence, it becomes clear that the ambiguity of divine presence and absence in the Megilloth presents a significant challenge to current conceptualizations of divine presence and absence in the Hebrew Bible.
  note: by Brittany N. Melton.
  note: Slightly revised version of the author's Ph. D. thesis--University of Cambridge, 2017.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-210) and indexes.
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
      part name: Five Scrolls
    topic: Criticism, interpretation, etc
  subject:
    topic: Hidden God
    topic: Biblical teaching
  classification: BS1309 .B75 2018
  classification: 221/.044
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oudtestamentische studiën ; d. 73
  identifier: 9789004368705
  identifier: 9004368701
  identifier: 2018015621
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180405
    record change date: 20181024084014.0
    record identifier: in00004035314