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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455465603321

Autore

Brichto Herbert Chanan

Titolo

The names of God [[electronic resource] ] : poetic readings in biblical beginnings / / Herbert Chanan Brichto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c1998

ISBN

1-280-45316-8

0-19-535513-X

0-585-35316-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (481 p.)

Disciplina

222/.1106

Soggetti

Authorship

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Companion vol. to the author's Toward a grammar of biblical poetics, 1992.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 458-459) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; ONE: THE NAMES OF GOD: THE PROBLEM: A PRELIMINARY REVIEW; A Meta-literary Address to the Problem: Source-Analysis; An Essentially Literary Address to the Problem: Cassuto; The Names of God in Nonnarrativc Texts and the ""Evolution"" of Biblical Monotheism; Excursus: On the Names of God in the Psalter; On the Evolution of Biblical Monotheism; On Terms for Divinity, Common and Proper; The names 'Elohim and YHWH; YHWH Introduces Himself by Name; The Patriarchs' Use of the Name YHWH; The Solution to the Problem: A (Literary) Hypothesis

TWO: THE CREATION STORY IN GENESIS, CH. I:I-2:4ATHREE: EDEN AND EDEN'S AFTERMATH; FOUR: THE FLOODS OF NOAH AND UTNAPISHTIM: THEOLOGY STRAIGHT AND THEOLOGY SATIRIC; FIVE: FROM NOAH TO ABRAM; SIX: EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM; SEVEN: STRUCTURES AS A BIBLICAL LITERARY PHENOMENON; SUPPLEMENTS, CONCLUSIONS, ANTICIPATIONS; EIGHT: POETICAL ODDS AND ADDENDS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This text is intended for scholars of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament).