Terror of the radiance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Terror of the radiance write by Richard Jude Thompson. This book was released on 2013. Terror of the radiance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Terror of the Radiance
Terror of the Radiance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Terror of the Radiance write by Richard Jude Thompson. This book was released on 2013. Terror of the Radiance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Richard-Jude Thompson investigates Martin Noth's conclusion about the Deuteronomistic History (DH) that the people of Israel had committed apostasy ceased to obey the law code of Yhwh, and thus lost their land. Scholars have challenged Noth's hypothesis and even the existence of such a history. The present study adopts a thematic reading of the DH as a coherent corpus of writing with a consistent message. A close reading reveals a god, Yhwh, who declares war on other gods and commands his followers to conquer and to sanctify the mountain of the Emorites and the land of Canaan to Yhwh. The sanctification includes the killing of the people living there: "When you attack them, you shall annihilate them entirely. Do not make a treaty with them and do not show mercy to them". Throughout the DH, Yhwh and his spokespersons reward obedience and punish disobedience. Because the disobedient people of Israel fail to enforce Yhwh's command to remove the nations of Canaan, Yhwh enforces imperial law and sentences them to national death and exile. The author hypothesizes that the DH depicts an imperial, military covenant. After a survey of the inscriptions of the second-millennium b.c.e. Levant, the Hittite empire, the Neo-Assyrian empire, and the first-millennium b.c.e Levant, the study concludes with a hypothesis that the evidence points to the ideology of the Neo-Assyrian empire as the historical precedent for the Dtr covenant. The study challenges two presuppositions that underlie both the DH and its scholarship: that of the torahas law and that of Yhwh as a unique god.
A Story of YHWH
A Story of YHWH - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Story of YHWH write by Shawn W. Flynn. This book was released on 2019-09-06. A Story of YHWH available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Story of YHWH investigates the ancient Israelite expression of their deity, and tracks why variation occurred in that expression, from the early Iron Age to the Persian period. Through this text, readers will gain a better appreciation for the complexities and contexts in the development of YHWH, from its earliest origins to the Persian period. Two interpretive frameworks–cultural translation and subversive reception–are offered for filtering through the textual data and contexts. Comparative study with ancient Near Eastern deities and select biblical texts lead readers through early YHWHism, YHWH’s original outsider status, and the eventual impact of urbanization on the expression. Perceived and real pressures then challenge urbanite YHWHism and invite new directions for forming a unique expression of divinity in the ancient world. This book is intended for those interested in the study of ancient divinity broadly as well as those who study ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible. The work provides generalists with a better appreciation for the particular challenges in working in the ancient Near East and with the bible specifically, while it provides specialists with a broad theory that can be continually tested. For both, the study provides two reading lenses to work through similar questions and an accounting of why the many contextually driven and varied constructions of YHWH may have occurred.
The Cruel Radiance
The Cruel Radiance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cruel Radiance write by Susie Linfield. This book was released on 2012-04-15. The Cruel Radiance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Susie Linfield addresses the issue of whether photographs depicting past scenes of violence & cruelty are voyeuristic, arguing that if we do not look & understand that we are seeing at people, rather than depersonalised acts of inhumanity, our hopes of curbing political violence today are probably limited.
Sparks of Radiance
Sparks of Radiance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sparks of Radiance write by Bracha Toporowitz. This book was released on 2020-04-26. Sparks of Radiance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
