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Reports from a Scholar's Life : : Select Papers on the Hebrew Bible / / Tryggve N. D. Mettinger; ed. by Andrew Knapp.

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Tryggve N. D. Mettinger, emeritus professor of Hebrew Bible at Lund University, has long been one of the best known and most admired voices in biblical studies. His eight (English-language) books and countless articles, published in a career spanning over four decades, have changed the field in many...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
VerfasserIn:
Mettinger, Tryggve N. D.,
MitwirkendeR:
Knapp, Andrew,
HerausgeberIn:
Knapp, Andrew,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2015
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (358 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Author's Preface
  • The Enigma of Tryggve
  • Select Publications of Tryggve N. D. Mettinger
  • 1. Report from a Scholar's Life: My Work on the Enigmas and the Notions of God
  • Part I The God of Israel in the Ancient Near Eastern Milieu: Continuities and Contrasts
  • 2. The Study of the Gottesbild: Problems and Suggestions
  • 3. The Elusive Essence: Yhwh, El and Baal and the Distinctiveness of Israelite Faith
  • 4. Yhwh Sabaoth: The Heavenly King on the Cherubim Throne .  62 Contextualization
  • 5. The Name and the Glory: The Zion-Sabaoth Theology and Its Exilic Successors
  • 6. The "Dying and Rising God": The Peregrinations of a Mytheme
  • Part II Aniconism
  • 7. The Veto on Images and the Aniconic God in Ancient Israel
  • 8. A Conversation with My Critics: Cultic Image or Aniconism in the First Temple?
  • Part III Davidic Trajectories
  • 9. "The Last Words of David": A Study of Structure and Meaning in II Samuel 23:1-7
  • 10. Cui Bono? The Prophecy of Nathan (2 Samuel 7) as a Piece of Political Rhetoric
  • Part IV Job
  • 11. Intertextuality: Allusion and Vertical Context Systems in Some Job Passages
  • 12. The Enigma of Job: The Deconstruction of God in Intertextual Perspective
  • Part V Second Isaiah
  • 13. A Farewell to the Servant Songs: A Critical Examination of an Exegetical Axiom
  • 14. In Search of the Hidden Structure: Yhwh as King in Isaiah 40-55
  • Part VI Reviews
  • 15. Review of James Barr, Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament
  • 16. Review of Ernst Jenni, Das hebräische Piʿel
  • 17. Review of Sandra L. Richter, The Deuteronomistic History and the Name Theology
  • Indexes

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