TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ratheiser,Gershom Manfred Hubert
TI  - Mitzvoth Ethics and the Jewish Bible: the end of Old Testament theology 
T2  - Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies
SN  - 9780567029621 (hardcover)
U1  - 221.601 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - T & T Clark
KW  - Bible
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Analysis of approaches to the Jewish Bible -- Christian approaches to the Jewish Bible : theology and history -- Johann Philipp Gabler and the influence of his predecessors -- The 18th century -- The 19th century -- The final rearing up of Protestant orthodoxy -- Excursus : Oehler's 'theologie des alten testaments' -- Excursus : Rimheld's 'theologia sacrosancta' -- Philosophical theologies & the social-historical awakening -- The 20th century -- Modern theologies of the Jewish Bible -- Excursus : Knight's A Christian theology of the OT -- Modern Christian theologies of the Jewish Bible and beyond -- Excursus : Christian ethical studies of the Jewish Bible -- Jewish approaches to the Jewish Bible : the ethical tendency -- Preliminary thoughts and historical entry -- The Jewish hermeneutical-exegetical tendency : ethics -- Jewish scholars and Jewish biblical-theological studies -- A historical-philological Mitzvoth ethics of the Jewish Bible -- Contributions and problems of Christian and Jewish perspectives -- Why Jewish and Christian biblical scholarship collide -- Possible way out of the hermeneutical maze -- An alternative hermeneutical-exegetical approach -- An alternative approach : the paradigm of examples -- Basic assumptions and introduction to the method -- The impact of Torah, decalogue and covenant : an outline -- The intention : the creation of an ethos of MWL -- Holiness as pillar of biblical Mitzvoth ethics -- Holiness in the Jewish Bible : a brief summary -- The concept of holiness in the book of Leviticus -- Preliminary remarks: indicative and imperative -- The point of departure: the exodus tradition -- Sanctuary, priesthood and 'Schicksalsgemeinschaft' -- Holiness as identity marker -- Holiness : the essence of all Jewish life -- Justice as pillar of Jewish biblical Mitzvoth ethics -- Preliminaries about the biblical understanding of justice -- HWHY : the guarantor of H/QDCW +PM -- H/QDC in the kingship ideology -- H/QDC in the context of the cult and wisdom literature -- H/QDC as a qualifier -- WQN/MWL/QDC -- Communicating the ideal -- The biblical ethos of theodicy -- The transformation of 'why?' into 'what for?' -- Theodicy, anthropodicy and the covenant -- Joshua the exemplary warrior -- Introductory notes : Joshua as an example of HWHY-pleasing life -- Joshua, the legitimate successor of Moses -- HWHY - the ancient Jews' ideal army leader -- Warrior terminology applied to HWHY -- The ideal warrior and his war : HWHY in Jewish warfare -- Holiness and justice in the wars of HWHY-- Excursus I : the debate on MRX and 'holy war' -- Excursus II : MRX and its cultic context -- Joshua, the ancient Jews' exemplary army leader -- Joshua and the land of promise conquered synergistically -- Joshua's preparatory steps initialising his war activity -- Joshua's wars against Jericho, Ai and royal coalitions -- The cultic role characteristics ofJoshua as exemplary warrior -- Just ruler : role characteristic of Joshua the prime warrior -- Joshua and the Mitzvoth covenant renewed -- Conclusion: the encouraged one becomes an encourager
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