Exile and suffering : a selection of papers read at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Old Testament Society of South Africa OTWSA/OTSSA Pretoria, August 2007

Author(s)

• Becking, Bob
• Human, Dirk J.

Bibliographic Information

Exile and suffering : a selection of papers read at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Old Testament Society of South Africa OTWSA/OTSSA Pretoria, August 2007

edited by Bob Becking and Dirk Human

（Oudtestamentische studiën, v. 50）

Brill, 2008

• : hardback : alk.

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

At the fiftieth anniversary of the Old Testament Society of South Africa a conference was organized on the theme Exile and Suffering. This volume contains a selection of the papers presented. Focal questions are such themes as: What do we really know about the Exile? To what degree did suffering take place? How did the Ancient Israelites cope with the disaster? Where the ancinet traditions sufficient to deal with the Exile? Or did this period produce new forms of 'theology'? The significance of the Exile as a matrix for understanding suffering until this day is also dealt with.

Table of Contents

* Dirk Human, Preface Pentateuch * Gerda de Villiers, Sin, Suffering, Sagacity: Genesis 2-3 * Jurie Le Roux, Suffering and Hope during the Exile * Matthias Koeckert, Suffering from Formlessness: The Ban on Images in Exilic Times Prophets * L. Juliana M. Claassens, Interrupting God-language: Rethinking the Image of God as Liberator in Isaiah 42 * Hendrik Bosman, Myth, Metaphor or Memory? The Allusions to Creation and Exodus in Isaiah 51: 9 - 11 as a Theological Response to Suffering during the Exile * Eric Peels, The Assassination of Gedaliah (Jer. 40:7 - 41:18) * Raymond de Hoop, Perspective after the Exile: The King, 'My Servant' in Jeremiah - Some Reflections on MT and LXX * Gert Kwakkel, Exile in Hosea 9:3-6: Where and for What Purpose? * Klaas Spronk, Perverse Delight: Some Observations on an Unpleasant Theme in the Old Testament * Eep Talstra, Exile and Pain: A Chapter from the Story of God's Emotions Writings * Bob Becking, Does Exile Equal Suffering? A Fresh Look at Psalm 137 * Yehoshua Gitay, The Poetics of Exile and Suffering: Memory and Perceptions a Cognitive-linguistics study of Lamentations * Louis Jonker, The Exile as Sabbath Rest: The Chronicler's Interpretation of the Exile Ancient Near Eastern and Contextual Perspectives * Frances Klopper, Lamenting the Loss of Lament, the Language for our Times * Gerald West, Interpreting 'the Exile' in African Biblical Scholarship: An Ideo-theological Dilemma in Post-colonial South Africa

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• NCID: BA88935762
• ISBN:
  • 9789004171046
• LCCN: 2008033146
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden ; Boston
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 280 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BS1197
  • DC22 : 221.6
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Bible. O.T. -- History of Biblical events -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D. -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Suffering -- Biblical teaching -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA10841387