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studies in biblical theology and literature
Introduction -- Part 1. Foundations. 1. Biblical theology in canonical perspective : Jewish and Christian models -- 2. Form criticism -- 3. Reconceiving the paradigms of Old Testament theology in the post-Shoah period -- 4. Jewish biblical theology -- 5. Berit Olam, the Eternal Covenant : is the Eternal Covenant really conditional? -- 6. Asian biblical theology and filial piety (Xiao) -- Part 2. History, comparative studies, and reception. 7. The origins of kingship in Israel and Japan : a comparative analysis -- 8. Genesis in the context of Jewish thought -- 9. Dimensions of the Shekinah : the meaning of the Shiur Qomah in Jewish mysticism, liturgy, and rabbinic thought -- 10. The democratization of messianism in modern Jewish thought -- Part 3. Torah. 11. Shabbat : an epistemological principle for holiness, sustainability and justice in the Pentateuch -- 12. The Jacob narratives : an Ephraimitic text? -- 13. Form criticism : the question of the endangered matriarchs in Genesis -- 14. The literary-historical dimensions of intertextuality in Exodus-Numbers -- 15. The wilderness traditions of the Pentateuch : a reassessment of their function and intent in relation to Exodus 32-34 -- 16. Creation as sacred space in the Exodus narratives -- 17. Moses's encounter with G-d and G-d's encounter with Moses : a reading of the Moses narratives in conversation with Emmanuel Levinas -- 18. Why Moses was barred from the Land of Israel : a reasessment of Numbers 20 in literary context -- 19. Balaam in intertextual perspective -- Part 4: Former prophets. 20. Davidic polemics in the Book of Judges -- 21. Rethinking Samuel -- 22. Eli, a high priest thrown under the wheels of the ox cart -- 23. Samuel's institutional identity in the Deuteronomistic history -- 24. The critique of Solomon in the Josianic edition of the Deuteronomistic history -- 25. Synchronic and diachronic considerations in the Deuteronomistic history portrayal of the demise of Solomon's kingdom -- 26. A reassessment of the Masoretic and Septuagint versions of the Jeroboam narratives in 1 Kings/3 Kingdoms 11-14 -- 27. Prophets and priests in the Deuteronomistic history : Elijah and Elisha -- Part 5: Latter prophets. 28. Revelation as empirical observation of nature in the prophets -- 29. Swords into plowshares or plowshares into swords? : Isaiah and the Twelve in intertextual perspective on Zion -- 30. Isaiah and theodicy after the Shoah -- 31. Sargon's threat against Jerusalem in Isaiah 10:27-32 -- 32. Isaiah 60--62 in intertextual perspective -- 33. Jeremiah among the prophets -- 34. The Ezekiel that G-d creates -- 35. Ezekiel's conceptualization of the exile in intertextual perspective -- 36. Synchronic and diachronic concerns in reading the Book of the Twelve Prophets -- 37. Hosea's reading of Pentateuchal narratives : a window for a foundational E stratum -- Part 6. The writings. 38. The question of theodicy in the historical books : contrasting views concerning the destruction of Jerusalem according to the Deuteronomistic history and the Chronicler's history -- 39. What is biblical theology? : with an example on divine absence and the Song of Songs -- 40. Absence of G-d and human responsibility in the Book of Esther.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 713-768) and indexes.