On the Way to the Postmodern : Old Testament Essays 1967-1998 Volume 2
For these volumes, the author has selected 50 articles and papers, ten of them not previously published, from his work as an Old Testament scholar over the last 30 years. Some of the papers, like 'The Evidence for an Autumnal New Year in Pre-exilic Israel Reconsidered', are far from postmodern in their outlook. But there is ample evidence here that the postmodern is indeed the direction in which his mind has been moving. The essays are organized in eight sections (Method, Literature, History, Theology, Language, Psalms, Job-and, for entertainment, Divertimenti). They include 'Reading Esther fr
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THEOLOGY
23 Humanity as the Image of God
24 Yahweh and the God of Christian Theology
25 The Theology of the Flood Narrative
26 Predestination in the Old Testament
27 Sacred Space, Holy Places and Suchlike
28 Sin and Maturity
LANGUAGE
29 The Etymology of Hebrew Selem
30 Was There an 'bl II 'be dry' in Classical Hebrew?
31 Krt 111-114 (I iii 7-10): Gatherers of Wood and Drawers of Water
32 The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew
33 Philology and Power. 34 Squares and Streets: The Distinction of [omitted] 'Square' and [omitted] 'Streets'
PSALMS
35 Psalm Research since 1955: I. The Psalms and the Cult
36 Psalm Research since 1955: II. The Literary Genres
37 The Psalms and the King
38 Universal Dominion in Psalm 2?
39 The Tree of Knowledge and the Law of Yahweh (Psalm 19)
JOB
40 The Arguments of Job's Three Friends
41 False Naivety in the Prologue to Job
42 Job 4.13: A Byronic Suggestion
43 Verb Modality and the Interpretation of Job 4.20-21
44 Job 5.1-8: A New Exegesis. 45 Belief, Desire and Wish in Job 19.23-27: Clues for the Identity of Job's 'Redeemer'
46 In Search of the Indian Job
47 Those Golden Days: Job and the Perils of Nostalgia
48 Quarter Days Gone: Job 24 and the Absence of God
DIVERTIMENTI
49 The History of Bo-Peep: An Agricultural Worker's Tragedy in Contemporary Literary Perspective
50 New Directions in Pooh Studies: Überlieferungs- und traditionsgeschichtliche Studien zum Pu-Buch
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