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Creation : biblical theologies in the context of the ancient Near East / Othmar Keel and Silvia Schroer ; translated by Peter T. Daniels. [print]

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, (c)2015.Description: xii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781575060934
Other title:
  • Biblical theologies in the context of ancient Near Eastern religions
Uniform titles:
  • Schopfung. English
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS651.D186.K445 2015
  • BS651
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Contents:
Introduction: The Primacy of Exodus Theology over Creation Theology? -- Status of Creation Traditions in Several Twentieth-century Currents of Christian Theology -- Contemporary Challenges of Christian Creation Theology -- Traces of a Numinous Approach to the Environment in the Hebrew Bible -- Creation and Blessing -- Ideas of the Origin of the World -- World as Manifestation of Divine Activity -- Destruction of Creation as a Result of Human Failure -- Threatening World as the Work of God in God's Speeches (Job 38-41) -- Question of Origins in the Ionian Natural Philosophers -- Wisdom Immanent in the World as the Prime Beginning in the First Testament -- Theologization of Wisdom, a Post-critical Naivete (Modesty), and the Will for the Joy for Eternity.
Subject: "Othmar Keel has become well known as the author of masterly studies on the iconography and texts of the ANE and their relationship to the text of the Hebrew Bible. In this volume, he partners with Silvia Schroer to assemble ANE texts and art that bears on the idea of creation. The result is a convenient assemblage of texts and iconographical data that may be studied in concert, often leading to being able to see old texts in new ways. As with much of this Swiss scholar's work, this new volume will prove to be a resource for all who wish to study the biblical theology of creation against its wider background"--
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"Othmar Keel has become well known as the author of masterly studies on the iconography and texts of the ANE and their relationship to the text of the Hebrew Bible. In this volume, he partners with Silvia Schroer to assemble ANE texts and art that bears on the idea of creation. The result is a convenient assemblage of texts and iconographical data that may be studied in concert, often leading to being able to see old texts in new ways. As with much of this Swiss scholar's work, this new volume will prove to be a resource for all who wish to study the biblical theology of creation against its wider background"--

Introduction: The Primacy of Exodus Theology over Creation Theology? -- Status of Creation Traditions in Several Twentieth-century Currents of Christian Theology -- Contemporary Challenges of Christian Creation Theology -- Traces of a Numinous Approach to the Environment in the Hebrew Bible -- Creation and Blessing -- Ideas of the Origin of the World -- World as Manifestation of Divine Activity -- Destruction of Creation as a Result of Human Failure -- Threatening World as the Work of God in God's Speeches (Job 38-41) -- Question of Origins in the Ionian Natural Philosophers -- Wisdom Immanent in the World as the Prime Beginning in the First Testament -- Theologization of Wisdom, a Post-critical Naivete (Modesty), and the Will for the Joy for Eternity.

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