Creation in Jewish and Christian tradition

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Creation in Jewish and Christian tradition

edited by Henning Graf Reventlow and Yair Hoffman

(Journal for the study of the Old Testament : supplement series, 319)

Sheffield Academic Press, 2002

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Includes bibliographical references (p.309-333) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume brings together Jewish and Christian scholars with perspectives on Creation in the Bible (Tanakh, Old Testament, New Testament), in ancient Egypt and Israel, and at Qumran, as well as contemporary theological, philosophical and political issues raised by the biblical, Jewish and Christian concepts of creation.

Table of Contents

  • Part I: poetic style and parallelism in the creation account (Genesis 1.1-2.3)
  • the first creation story - canonical and diachronic aspects
  • God as Creator and Lord of Nature in the Deuteronomistic
  • Deutero-Isaiah's typological use of Jacob in the portrayal of Israel's national renewal
  • creation in Paul's theology
  • "See, I am making all things new" - new creation in the book of Revelation
  • creation as a topic in biblical theology. Part II: patterns of creation in Ancient Egypt
  • the creation of the world and the shaping of ethos and religion in Ancient Israel
  • God's golem - the creation of the human in Genesis 2
  • the idea of creation and its implications in Qumran literature. Part III: providence - an unsolved problem of the doctrine of creation
  • creation or nature? about the dialogue between theology and natural sciences
  • the concept of creation in the conciliar process of justice, peace and the integrity of creation (JPIC).

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