دانلود کتاب From Gods to God: The Dynamics of Iron Age Cosmologies (Forschungen Zum Alten Testament)

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Cover\nDedication\nPreface\nContents\nAbbreviations\nIntroduction\nPart I: The Rejection of Tradition\n Chapter 1. “Brisker Pipes than Poetry”: The Development of Israelite Monotheism\n Introduction\n I\n II\n III\n IV\n Chapter 2. The Baal (and the Asherah) in Seventh-Century Judah: Yhwh’s Retainers Retired\n Chapter 3. Yhwh the Revolutionary: Reflections on the Rhetoric of Redistribution in the Social Context of Dawning Monotheism\n Contemporary Understandings of the Theology of the Hebrew Bible: Problems and Prospects\n Revolutionary Religious Rhetoric and the Powerful Elite\n Prophetic Critique as a Social-Control Mechanism\n Yhwh’s Identity in Essentialist and Functional Views\n The Name Yhwh and History\n Chapter 4. The False Torah of Jeremiah 8 in the Context of Seventh Century BCE Pseudepigraphy: The First Documented Rejection of Tradition\nPart II: Cultural Transformations and Composition\n Chapter 5. The Resourceful Israelite Historian: The Song of Deborah and Israelite Historiography\n I. Some Issues and Implications\n II. The Problem and the Text\n III. Treatments of the Problem\n IV. Conclusions, Implications\n Chapter 6. Doctrine by Misadventure: Between the Israelite Source and the Biblical Historian\n I\n II\n III\n IV\n Chapter 7. Sacred History and Ideology: Chronicles’ Thematic Structure: Indications of an Earlier Source\n Introduction\n I\n II\n III\n IV\n Chapter 8. The Editions of Kings in the 7th-6th Centuries BCE\n Introduction\n I\n II.i\n II.ii\n II.iii\n II.iv\n II.v\n III\n IV.i\n IV.ii\n IV.iii\n V.i\n V.ii\n V.iii\n VI.i\n VI.ii\n VI.iii\n VI.iv\n VI.v\n VII.i\n VII.ii\n VIII\n IX\n Chapter 9. Why Manasseh is Blamed for the Babylonian Exile: The Evolution of a Biblical Tradition\n I. The Question\n II. The Strategy of Explanation in Chronicles\n A. Chronicles on the Exile\n B. Collective Sin (36:14)\n C. Profaning the Temple (36:14)\n D. Prophetic Cautions (36:15)\n E. Prophecy as a Mark of Divine Sympathy and its Mockery (36:15–16)\n F. Divine Wrath (36:16)\n III. Kings and the Account of Josiah\n IV. Josiah’s Death and the Blaming of Manasseh\n A. Huldah’s Oracle (2 Kgs 22:15–20; 2 Chr 34:24–8)\n B. Dating Huldah’s Oracle\n C. Fulfilling Huldah’s Oracle\n V. The Exilic strategy of Explanation in Kings\n VI. Implications for the Stages of Composition\nPart III: The State’s Rejection of Religion: Revolution and Reformation\n Chapter 10. Jerusalem and the Lineages in the 7th Century BCE: Kinship and the Rise of Individual Moral Liability\n I. Collective or Individual Reward?\n II. Assyria in Judah\n A. From Field Force to Hedgehog Defense\n B. Hezekiah and Friends\n C. At Home with Hezekiah\n III. Sennacherib’s Reforms\n A. Sennacherib at Large\n B. Sennacherib’s Judah\n IV. The Countryside Reformed\n A. The Depopulation of Judah\n B. The Traditional Organization of the Countryside\n C. Community in the Clan Sector\n V. The Aftermath\n VI. The Seventh Century: Renaissance and Reformation\n A. The Road to Josiah\n B. Individuation and Literalism\nPart IV: The Dynamics of Cosmological Thought in Iron Age Societies\n Chapter 11. The Assyrian Astronomy of Genesis 1 and the Birth of Milesian Philosophy\n I. Israelite Astronomy\n II. The Heavens of Genesis 1\n III. The Milesian Sky\n IV. Wheels within Wheels\n V. The World Turned Upside-down\n Chapter 12. Late Israelite Astronomies and the Early Greeks\n I. Israel’s Priestly Astronomies and Their Milesian Counterparts\n II. Astronomy in Jeremiah and Xenophanes\n III. The State Assault on the Ancestors\n IV. The Mechanisms of the Transfer\n Appendix: Excerpts from Churchill, The River War (1899, 2 vols.)\nBibliography\nSource Index\n Hebrew Bible\n New Testament\n Quran\nAuthor Index\nSelected Subjects Index