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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815042503321

Titolo

Politics and theopolitics in the Bible and postbiblical literature / / edited by Henning Graf Reventlow, Yair Hoffman, and Benjamin Uffenheimer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, England, : JSOT Press, c1994

ISBN

1-281-80376-6

9786611803766

0-567-02963-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series, , 0309-0787 ; ; 171

Altri autori (Persone)

ReventlowHenning, Graf

HoffmanYair

UffenheimerBenjamin

Disciplina

220.6

220.832

Soggetti

Politics in the Bible

Christianity and politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This is the third volume to be published containing papers read at meetings between the Department of Bible of Tel Aviv University and the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Bochum"--Pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Editors' Preface; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Josephus on the Mosaic 'Constitution'; Literature in the Service of Politics: Studies in Judges 19-21; 'Thou Shalt Make No Covenant With Them' (Exodus 23.32); Religion and State in Ancient Israel; The Biblical Tradition in the Perspective of Political Theology and Political Ethics; The Concept of 'Other Gods' in the Deuteronomistic Literature; Reflections on the Relationship between Theopolitics, Prophecy and Historiography; Christ, the Body of Christ and Cosmic Powers in Paul's Letters and the New Testament as a Whole

David's Kingship-A Precarious EquilibriumThe 'Law' and the Noahides; The Biblical and Classical Traditions of 'Just War'; Isaiah's and Micah's Approaches to Policy and History; Babylon the Great and the New Jerusalem: The Visionary View of Political Reality in the Revelation of



John; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

This volume contains papers from the third symposium held by the University of Tel Aviv, Israel, and the Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, with the aim of furthering dialogue between Jewish and Christian biblical scholars. The papers examine the ways in which political issues and events are reflected in the Bible and in the postbiblical literature, the term 'theopolitics' expressing the conviction of both communities that the politics of human life have always been and continue to be subject to the rule and providence of God. The hope of the symposium is that through examination of the ways in