Creation in Jewish and Christian tradition / edited by Henning Graf Reventlow and Yair Hoffman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 319Publication details: London ; New York : Sheffield Academic Press, c2002.Description: xi, 356 p. ; 25 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 231.7/65 21
LOC classification:
  • BS680.C69 C72 2002
Other classification:
  • 11.00
Contents:
Poetic style and parallelism in the creation account (Genesis 1.1-2.3) / Frank H. Polak -- The first creation story : canonical and diachronic aspects / Yair Hoffman -- God as creator and lord of nature in the Deuteronomistic literature / Winfried Thiel -- Deutero-Isaiah's typological use of Jacob in the portrayal of Israel's national renewal / Meira Polliack -- Creation in Paul's theology / Gottfried Nebe -- "See, I am making all things new" : new creation in the book of Revelation / Elke Toenges -- Creation as a topic in Biblical theology / Henning Graf Reventlow -- Patterns of creation in ancient Egypt / Hans-Peter Hasenfratz -- The creation of the world and the shaping of ethos and religion in ancient Israel / Ithamar Gruenwald -- God's golem : the creation of the human in Genesis 2 / Edward L. Greenstein -- The idea of creation and its implications in Qumran literature / Bilha Nitzan -- Providence : an unsolved problem of the doctrine of creation / Christian Link -- Creation or nature? : about dialogue between theology and natural sciences / Wilhelm Grb̃ -- The concept of creation in the conciliar process of justice, peace and the integrity of creation / Erich Geldbach.
Summary: In this volume Jewish and Christian perspectives on creation of the Bible, with contemporary theological, philosophical and political issues are raised by the biblical-Jewish-Christian concepts of creation.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-333) and indexes.

Poetic style and parallelism in the creation account (Genesis 1.1-2.3) / Frank H. Polak -- The first creation story : canonical and diachronic aspects / Yair Hoffman -- God as creator and lord of nature in the Deuteronomistic literature / Winfried Thiel -- Deutero-Isaiah's typological use of Jacob in the portrayal of Israel's national renewal / Meira Polliack -- Creation in Paul's theology / Gottfried Nebe -- "See, I am making all things new" : new creation in the book of Revelation / Elke Toenges -- Creation as a topic in Biblical theology / Henning Graf Reventlow -- Patterns of creation in ancient Egypt / Hans-Peter Hasenfratz -- The creation of the world and the shaping of ethos and religion in ancient Israel / Ithamar Gruenwald -- God's golem : the creation of the human in Genesis 2 / Edward L. Greenstein -- The idea of creation and its implications in Qumran literature / Bilha Nitzan -- Providence : an unsolved problem of the doctrine of creation / Christian Link -- Creation or nature? : about dialogue between theology and natural sciences / Wilhelm Grb̃ -- The concept of creation in the conciliar process of justice, peace and the integrity of creation / Erich Geldbach.

In this volume Jewish and Christian perspectives on creation of the Bible, with contemporary theological, philosophical and political issues are raised by the biblical-Jewish-Christian concepts of creation.