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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954352403321

Autore

Hiebert Theodore

Titolo

The Yahwist's landscape : nature and religion in early Israel / / Theodore Hiebert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1996

ISBN

0-19-774203-3

1-280-44179-8

0-19-535785-X

1-4237-6504-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

222.06

222.106

Soggetti

J document (Biblical criticism)

Nature - Biblical teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-205) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; 1 The ""Problem"" of Nature in the Bible; 2 The Primeval Age; 3 The Ancestors in Canaan; 4 The Southern Narratives; 5 The Bible and Nature: Ancient Israelite Views and Modern Environmental Theologies; Appendix:; Table A.1 Sources of the Pentateuch; Table A.2 Sections with Hebrew/English Verse Number Differences; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This comprehensive examination of the ideology of the biblical author J. (the Yahwist), writer of the oldest narrative sections of Genesis, Exodus and Numbers, explains how the ancient viewpoint is relevant to modern attempts to frame a theology of ecology.