TY - BOOK AU - Fretheim,Terence E. TI - God and world in the Old Testament: a relational theology of creation SN - 9780687342969 AV - BS1199 .G633 2010 PY - 2005/// CY - Nashville PB - Abingdon Press KW - Bible KW - Old Testament KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Theology KW - Creation KW - Biblical teaching N1 - THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES --; Language of creation --; To what does creation refer? --; Creation, redemption, and salvation --; A relational creator and a relational world --; The universality of God's presence in the created order --; Excursus: Genesis 1-2 and modern science --; THE CREATION ACCOUNTS IN GENESIS --; Basic characteristics of Genesis 1-2 --; Modes of creation --; Images of God the creator --; Images of God the creator --; The creature and the creative process --; Creation and Sabbath, God and time --; Excursus: Creation stories in the Ancient Near East --; CREATION AT RISK: DISRUPTED, ENDANGERED, RESTORED (GENESIS 3 - 11) --; Genesis 3:1-24 - The originating sin --; Genesis 4:1-6:5 - The snowballing effects of sin --; Genesis 6:5-8:22 - The Flood: The great divide --; Genesis 9:1-11:26 - A new world order --; CREATION AND THE FOUNDATION NARRATIVES OF ISRAEL --; Creation in Genesis 12-50 --; Human beings in community: Family, nation and land --; "Implied Law" in Genesis 12-50 --; Images of God --; Creation in Exodus --; CREATION AND LAW --; Divine commandment and natural law --; Creation and worship --; Law and vocation --; A dynamic understanding of law --; A point of contemporary significance --; CREATION, JUDGMENT, AND SALVATION IN THE PROPHETS --; Creation and judgment --; Perspectives on judgment --; God judges through means --; Divine judgment and the created moral order --; The oracles against the nations --; Amos's creation doxologies --; Creation and judgment in Jeremiah --; A close study of Jeremiah 12 --; Creation and salvation in the prophets --; WISDOM AND CREATION --; Creation and wisdom literature --; Woman wisdom in Proverbs 8 --; Wisdom as human and female --; Wisdom as created cocreator --; Rejoicing and delighting --; Revelation - Words to the wise --; God and creation in the Book of Job --; NATURE'S PRAISE OF GOD --; History of interpretation --; Genre and metaphor --; Tradition --; Concluding reflections --; CONCLUSION: IMPLICATION OF A RELATIONAL THEOLOGY OF CREATION --; A relational model of creation --; Human and nonhuman vocation --; Human vocation --; The vocation of the nonhuman; 2 ER -