دانلود کتاب Theology from the Beginning: Essays on the Primeval History and its Canonical Context (Forschungen Zum Alten Testament)

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Cover\nPreface\nTable of Contents\nIntroduction\n1. The Image of God\n Made in the “Image of God”: The Concepts of Divine Images in Gen 1–3\n 1. Images versus Idols\n 2. “Image” and “Likeness”\n 2.1 Statue or Person\n 2.2 The Making of an Image\n 3. The Image and the Other\n 4. More than an Image?\n The Reluctant Image: Theology and Anthropology in Gen 1–3\n 1. Introduction: Aitia and Telos\n 2. The Dissenting Trajectory: Human Sociality and the Divine Image\n 3. God’s Intention to let the Divine Image rule (Gen 1:1–2:3)\n 4. The Image in the Garden (Gen 2:4–25)\n 5. Eve as the Reluctant Image\n The Dignity of the Image: A Re-reading of the Priestly Prehistory\n 1. Introduction\n 2. The Royal Dignity of Human Beings as Key to the Image of God?\n 2.1 Rule – what for?\n 2.2 Image and Similarity\n 3. Personal Formation of the Human Being as the Imago Dei\n 4. The Endangered World and the Commission to “Rule”\n 5. Conclusion\n The Notion of Life: Nefesh and Ruach in the Anthropological Discourse of the Primeval History\n 1. Introduction\n 2. The Cultic World and the Role of the Nefesh\n 3. The Persian Period and the Loss of “World Certainty”\n 4. Ruᵅch as Life-force and “Spirit”\n 4.1. Ruᵅch in the “Primeval History”\n 4.2. Ruᵅch as the Spirit of Life\n Transformed into the Image of Christ: Identity, Personality, and Resurrection\n 1. Modernity’s Loss of Death Awareness\n 2. Resurrection and the Eschatological Validity of Past, Present, and Future Life\n 3. Identity and Resurrection\n 4. Personal Resurrection versus Objective Immortality\n 5. Psychological Mechanisms (Peter Berger)\n 6. Objective Immortality (A.N. Whitehead and D. Parfit)\n 7. Personhood versus Identity\n2. Evil\n “And Behold, It Was Very Good … And Behold, the Earth Was Corrupt” (Genesis 1:31, 6:12): The Prehistoric Discourse about Evil\n 1. Introduction\n 2. The Flood Myth and the Question of Evil\n 3. The Biblical Flood Myth\n 3.1 The Violent Temperament of the Creatures\n 3.2 The Human Heart\n 3.3 Evil in the Flood Narrative – A Conclusion\n 4. Sin at the Doorstep (Gen 4:7)\n 5. Conclusion\n The Divine-Human Marriages: Genesis 6:1–4 and the Greek Framing of the Primeval History\n 1. Introduction\n 2. The Text\n 3. The Text in its Literary Context\n 4. The Mythic Elements of Gen 6:1–4\n Evil from the Heart: Qoheleth’s Negative Anthropology and its Canonical Context\n 1. Introduction\n 2. Qoheleth’s Assessment of the Human Heart\n 2.1 What does the Heart desire and by what is it affected?\n 2.2 The Heart as a Wisdom-seeking and Knowledge-seeking Organ\n 2.3 What God lays into the Human Heart\n 2.4 The Evil Heart\n 3. Qoheleth’s Reference to the Primeval History (Gen 6–8)\n 4. The Evil Heart Remains. Qoheleth and Gen 6–8 as a Criticism of the Prophetic Line of Tradition\n 5. A God of Grace? Similarities and Differences between Gen 6–8 and Qoheleth in their respective Views of God\n 6. Ethos and Cult\n3. Law and Forgiveness: Elements of Priestly Theology\n The “Eternal Covenant” in the Priestly Pentateuch and the Major Prophets\n 1. Covenant in the Priestly Code\n 2. The “Eternal Covenant” in Exilic/Postexilic Prophecy\n 3. The Divine Speeches in the Priestly Flood Narrative (Gen 8:15–17; 9:1–17)\n The Primeval History as an Etiology of Torah\n 1. Introduction: Creation and Flood in the Priestly Primeval History\n 2. The Divine Speech after the Flood (Gen 9:1–17)\n 3. The Laws to Protect Life (Gen 9:4–6)\n 4. Individual Responsibility\n 5. Covenant and Law\n At the Border of Sin and Forgiveness: Salaḥ in the Old Testament\n 1. Introduction\n 2. The Cultic Function of סלח\n 3. Forgiveness and Communal Events\n 3.1 The Prayer for the Dedication of the Temple\n 3.2 Is there a Specific Deuteronomistic Term for Forgiveness?\n 3.3 Forgiveness and the New Covenant in Jeremiah\n 3.4 Forgiveness and Covenant Faithfulness\n 4. Conclusion\n “On Earth as it is in Heaven”: Eschatology and the Ethics of Forgiveness\n 1. Introduction\n 2. Old Testament Traditions\n 3. The Hodayot of Qumran\n 4. Returning to Matthew\n4. God\n The Challenged God: Reflections on the Motif of God’s Repentance in Job, Jeremiah, Jonah, and the Non-Priestly Flood Narrative\n 1. Introduction: the Book of Job as a Heuristic Point of Entry\n 2. The Challenged God in the Individual Laments\n 2.1. The Lament toward God as Savior\n 2.2 The Lament against God as Creator\n 3. The Confessions of Jeremiah: the Rejected Lamentation\n 4. The Conclusion of the Book of Jonah: Justice versus Mercy\n 5. The Non-Priestly Flood Narrative: The Challenge to God as the Creator of All Life\n 6. Conclusion\n “Have you any Right to be angry?”: The Theological Discourse surrounding the Conclusion to the Book of Jonah (Jonah 3:6–4:11)\n 1. Introduction: The Theological Profile of the Book of Jonah\n 2. God as Compassionate Judge (Jonah 3:6–10)\n 3. The Prophetic Protest against God (Jonah 4:1–4)\n 4. The Creator Values the Creation (Jonah 4:5–11)\n The God who Creates: A Contribution to the Theology of the Old Testament\n 1. Creation as the Theme of Old Testament Theology – a Controversial Question\n 2. Cosmos, Cult, and Vitality: Creation Theology in the Cultic Psalms\n 3. Deutero-Isaiah\n 4. The Story of Creation (Gen 1:1–2:3)\n 5. Psalm 104: God as the Giver of All Life\n 6. The Divine Speeches of the Book of Job (Job 38–41): Creation Theology as Critique of Human Understanding and as Relativization of the Concept of Humanity as the Goal of Creation\n5. Ethics\n The Ethics of Genesis: A Contribution to Biblical Humanism\n 1. Introduction: Two Types of Ethics\n 2. Frame and Foundation: The Value of Life in Genesis\n 3. Ethical Realism and the Encounter with God\n “For He is Like You”: A Translation and Understanding of the Old Testament Commandment to Love in Lev 19:18\n 1. Right Observations and Wrong Conclusions: The Debate over Buber’s Understanding of Lev 19:18\n 2. Philological Analysis of Lev 19:18\n 2.1 ‎כ + Suffix as Adverbial Usage\n 2.2 The falsely assumed Synonymy between כמוך and כנפשך\n 2.3 The Syntagma of Preposition + Suffix in Status Attributions\n 3. Targum and Peshitta\n 4. Mt 5:24 in the Tradition of Lev 19:18\n 5. The Meaning of the Commandment to Love in the Context of Lev 19\n 6. Conclusion\n Sharing and Loving: Love, Law and the Ethics of cultural Memory in the Pentateuch\n 1. The Modern Understanding of Love as “Intimacy”\n 2. Love as a Commandment in Biblical Traditions\n 3. Love and Law\n 4. Love and Cultural Memory in Deuteronomy\n 5. “Love Thy Neighbor” (Lev 19:18)\n 6. Conclusion\nReferences\nBiblical Passages\n Old Testament\n New Testament\nAuthors\nSubject Index