Old testament theology : Israel's faith / John Goldingay. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction ; Narrative and Theology ; Diversity and Unity in Old Testament Theology ; Biblical Theology of the Old Testament God : The God YHWH ; YHWH's Aides and Representatives and Rivals ; YHWH's Lordship ; YHWH's Wisdom and Word ; Presence ; YHWH's Love ; YHWH's Hospitality ; Two Sides to YHWY's Person and Activity ; The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Israel ; YHWH's Family ; YHWH's Covenant People ; YHWH's Chosen ; YHWH's Kingdom ; YHWH's Servant ; YHWH's Disciple ; YHWH's Home ; Israel and the Church The Nightmare ; Faithlessness ; The Consequences ; Can the Nightmare be Forestalled? ; Is the Nightmare the End? ; The Church and the Nightmare ; The Vision ; Hope and Its Bases ; Transforming the People ; Israel's Response ; Renewing the People ; Renewing the Land ; Renewing the City ; Renewing the Monarchy ; Renewing the Priesthood ; Is the Vision the End? ; Promises Confirmed Humanity ; Relationship with God ; Community ; The Family ; The Person ; Responsibility ; Wisdom ; How Life Works ; Life Does Not Work ; Death ; Human Life in Christ ; The World; God's World ; The Heavens and the Earth ; God's Ongoing Activity in the World ; The Ambiguity of Life in the World ; The World Brought to its Destiny through Christ ; The Nations ; I Belong to YHWH ; Acknowledging YHWH's People ; The Superpower and Its Failure ; Ordinary Nations ; The World of Nations Devastated ; Hope for All Nations ; All Nations Will Come and Worship.

Old Testament Theology: Israel's Faith is the second of John Goldingay's magisterial three-volume Old Testament Theology. The award-winning first volume, Old Testament Theology: Israel's Gospel, followed the story line of the First Testament, developing its narrative theology. This volume finds its point of departure in the Prophets, Psalms and Wisdom literature, where we encounter a more discursive thinking that is closer to traditional theology. Whereas the first volume followed the epochal divine acts of Israel's "gospel" narrative, here Goldingay sets out the faith of Israel under the major rubrics of

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