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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450794303321

Autore

Aberbach David <1953, >

Titolo

Imperialism and biblical prophecy, 750-500 BCE / / David Aberbach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993

ISBN

1-134-86755-7

1-280-32299-3

0-203-30394-6

0-203-21800-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (139 p.)

Disciplina

221.1/5

Soggetti

Prophecy

Hebrew poetry, Biblical - History and criticism

Imperialism - Biblical teaching

Electronic books.

Middle East History To 622

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Spine title: Imperialism & biblical prophecy, 750-500 BCE.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-113) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy 750-500 BCE; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Chronological Table; Map; Introduction; 1. Assyria and the Fall of Israel; Two Doom-Songs for Samaria; The Prostitution of Israel; Against Damascus; Song of a Vineyard; The Collapse of Israel; Tyre's Fate; Against Philistia; Dirge for Moab; Oracles on Arabia; Poems to Egypt and Ethiopia; The Fall of Babylon; The Warning; Isaiah's Poem to Sennacherib; The Restoration; 2. Babylonia and the Fall of Judah; The Age of Josiah's Reforms; The Fall of Nineveh; Songs of God's Injustice

The Battle of CarchemishThe Invasion; Nebuchadrezzar's Attack; The Fate of Jehoiachin; Dirge for the Lions of Judah; Doom-Song for Egypt; Confessions of Jeremiah; Ezekiel: The Living Symbol; Lament for Judah; The Charge Against Edom; The Fall of Tyre; 3. Persia and Judah's Restoration; Poems of Hope; The Fall of Babylon; Poem to Cyrus; Consolation; The Suffering Servant; The Stupidity of Idolatry; The Messiah; On the Warpath; The Day of Judgement; Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy is a radically new interpretation of prophetic poetry. Using more than thirty new translations from the Hebrew Bible, it shows that this poetry is inseparable from imperialism, that each of the three major waves of biblical prophecy which have survived in the Old Testament occurred in response to simultaneous waves of imperialist conquest.