Politics and theopolitics in the Bible and postbiblical literature
By: edited by Henning Graf Reventlow, Yair Hoffman, and Benjamin Uffenheimer.
Contributors: Reventlow, Henning, Graf.; Hoffman, Yair.; Uffenheimer, Benjamin.
Series: Journal for the study of the Old Testament.; 171
Publisher: JSOT Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Sheffield, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Politics in the Bible.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"This is the third volume to be published containing papers read at meetings between the Department of Bible of Tel Aviv University and the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Bochum"--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Josephus on the Mosaic 'constitution' / Yehoshua Amir; title: Literature in the service of politics: studies in Judges 19-21 / Yairah Amit; title: 'Thous shalt make no covenant with them' (Exodus 23.32) / Moshe Anbar; title: Religion and state in ancient Israel / Ze'ev W. Falk; title: The biblical tradition in the perspective of political theology and political ethics / Christofer Frey; title: The concept of 'other gods' in the Deuteronomistic literature / Yair Hoffman; title: Reflections on the relationship between theopolitics, prophecy and historiography / Yair Hoffman; title: Christ, the body of Christ and cosmic powers in Paul's letters and the New Testament as a whole / Gottfried Nebe; title: David's kingship: a precarious equilibrium / Frank H. Polak; title: The 'Law' and the Noahides / Nahum Rakover; title: The biblical and classical traditions of 'just war' / Henning Graf Reventlow; title: Isaiah's and Micah's approaches to policy and history / B. Uffenheimer; title: Babylon the great and the New Jerusalem: the visionary view of political reality in the Revelation of John / Klaus Wengst.