Research Concern -- Preliminary Questions raised -- Historical Understanding of God's Repentance -- Statement of the Research Problem -- Rationale for the Problem -- Research Questions -- Methodology -- Thesis Statement -- Delimitations. Biblical Theology -- Systematic Theology -- Summary. The Exegetical Significance of naham -- Cognate Philology -- LXX Usage -- Contextual Usage -- Summary -- Primary texts -- Exodus 32:7-14 -- Numbers 14:1-25 -- Deuteronomy 9:7-21 -- Jeremiah 26:12-15 -- Amos 7:1-6 -- Psalm 106:19-23 -- Secondary texts -- Numbers 11:1-3 -- 2 Samuel 24:13-17 -- 1 Kings 13:1-6 -- 2 Kings 13:3-6 -- 2 Chronicles 33:9-13 -- Psalm 90:13 -- Jeremiah 18:7-12 -- Joel 2:12-14 -- Jonah 3:5-4:2 -- Observations -- Similar Historical Backgrounds -- Judgment and the Wrath of God -- Intercession on Behalf of the Unworthy -- Related Literature Characteristics -- h1h pny YHWH -- sub and naham -- naham and hesed -- sb -- Unusual Terminology -- nuah -- prs -- The Non-Repentance of God. Theology Concerning God -- The Stoic God -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Naham: an Attribute of God -- God's Nature is Complex -- The Mutability of God -- The Passibility of God -- Theology Concerning Prayer -- The "Man in the Breach" -- Sometimes God does not listen -- God's Sovereignty and Prayer. Significance of Findings -- Final Argumentation. Historical Similarities Between Primary and Secondary Texts -- Overview of Literary Similarity and Terminology.
Columbia Biblical Seminary and Graduate School of Missions--Dissertations.