Creation
Subtitle: biblical theologies in the context of the ancient Near East
By: Othmar Keel & Silvia Schroer ; translated by Peter T. Daniels
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Winona Lake, IN
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781575060934
Copyright date: 2015
Other titles: Schöpfung: Biblische Theologien im Kontext altorientalischer Religionen
Notes: "Translated by Peter T. Daniels from Schöpfung: Biblische Theologien im Kontext altorientalischer Religionen, copyright 2002, 2nd edition, 2008, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht." - Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Preface to the English translation; title: Introduction : The primacy of Exodus theology over creation theology?; title: The status of creation traditions in several twentieth-century currents of Christian theology; title: Contemporary challenges for a Christian creation theology; title: Traces of a numinous approach to the environment in the Hebrew Bible; title: Creation and blessing; title: Ideas of the origin of the world; title: The world as manifestation of divine activity; title: The destruction of creation as a result of human failure; title: The threatening world as the work of God in God's speeches (Job 38-41); title: The question of origins in the Ionian natural philosophers; title: The wisdom immanent in the world as the prime beginning in the first Testament; title: The theologization of wisdom, a post-critical naivete (modesty), and the desire for eternity; title: Epilogue; title: A selection of nonbiblical texts