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Index
The Revelation of the Name YHWH to Moses
CONTENTS
Introduction
Contributors
PART I: THE NAME IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND EARLY JUDAISM
Wout Jac. van Bekkum: What’s in the Divine Name? Exodus 3 in Biblical and Rabbinic Tradition
1. Introduction
2. Exodus 3
3. Piyyutic Traditions on the Divine Name
4. Mystical and Kabbalistic Traditions on the Divine Name
Eibert Tigchelaar: Bare Feet and Holy Ground: Excursive Remarks onExodus 3:5 and its Reception
1. Readings of Exod 3:5
2. Excursus: Arabian Background
3. Readings of Josh 5:15
4. (No) Reception of Exod 3:5
5. Excursion: Bare Feet (Jewish, Muslim, Christian) on the Temple Mount
6. Conclusions
Horst Seebass: YHWH’s Name in the Aaronic Blessing (Num 6:22–27)
1. The meaning of Num 6:22–27
2. Num 6:22–27 and Exod 33:12–23
3. The place of the Aaronic blessing in the composition of Num
Summary
Bibliography
Eep Talstra: The Name in Kings and Chronicles
1. The Name: Is God within Reach or beyond Reach?
2. The Debate on Presence: ‘Mode’ or ‘Location’
3. Kings and Chronicles: a Move from Transcendence to Presence?
4. The Name: the Language of Identity in Chronicles
5. Concluding statements
Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten: A Burning Bush on the Stage: The Rewriting of Exodus 3:1–4:17 in Ezekiel Tragicus, Exagoge 90–131
1. Ezekiel Tragicus’ EXAGOGE
2. EXAGOGE 90–112 and Exodus 3:2–10
3. EXAGOGE 113–131 and Exodus 4:1–17
4. Conclusions
Ronit Nikolsky: ‘God Tempted Moses for Seven days’: The Bush Revelation in Rabbinic Literature
Introduction
1. Early Rabbinic Reference to the SNE Revelation: SEDER OLAM and MEKHILTA DE RABBI SHIMON BEN YOCHAI
2. The Classical midrash: Development of a fixed textual unit
3. The fixed textual unit in the TANCHUMA YELAMDENU
4. The fixed textual unit in later texts
Conclusions
Bibliography
PART II: THE NAME IN THE PAGAN GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD
George H. van Kooten: Moses/Musaeus/Mochos and his God Yahweh, Iao, and Sabaoth, Seen from a Graeco-Roman Perspective
Introduction
1. The Figure of Moses in Graeco-Roman Authors
2. Mochos in Greek Writings: Pythagoras, the Descendants of Mochos, and the Jews
3. Iao in Pagan Greek Writings
4. Sabaoth in Pagan Greek Writings
5. Conclusions
Bibliography
M.F. Burnyeat: Platonism in the Bible: Numenius of Apamea on Exodusand Eternity
1. ‘What is Plato but Moses Talking Attic?’
2. The Scene with the Burning Bush
3. Numenius’ Identification of the Good with Being
4. ‘What is Being?’
5. Eternity as PRESENT Being
6. The Name of the Incorporeal
7. The Etymology of ‘Eternity’
8. The Idea of an Eternal Present
Bibliography
Robbert M. van den Berg: Does it Matter to Call God Zeus? Origen,Contra Celsum I 24–25 against the Greek Intellectuals on Divine Names
1. Introduction
2. Greek Views on Divine Names: from Herodotus to THE LETTER OF ARISTEAS
3. Origen, CONTRA CELSUM I 24: Greek Philosophers Versus the Wise Men of All Nations
4. Origen, CONTRA CELSUM I 25: Origen and the Platonists
5. Conclusions
Bibliography
PART III: THE NAME IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY
Bert-Jan Lietaert Peerbolte: The Name above all Names (Philippians 2:9)
1. Phil 2:6–11 Within the Context of the Letter as a Whole
2. Phil 2:6–11 as a pre-Pauline Hymn
3. Some Remarks on the Structure and Sitz im Leben of Phil 2:6–11
4. The Name Above all Names
Conclusion
Riemer Roukema: Jesus and the Divine Name in the Gospel of John
1. Seeing God
2. Other indications of Correspondences between Christ and YHWH
3. The Distinction between the KYRIOS (or YHWH) and God the Father
Conclusion
Albert C. Geljon: Philo of Alexandria and Gregory of Nyssa on Moses at the Burning Bush
1. Philo of Alexandria
2. Gregory of Nyssa
3. Conclusions
Gerard P. Luttikhuizen: The Revelation of the Unknowable God in Coptic Gnostic Texts
1. The-One-who-is
2. A God Beyond Being and Comprehension
3. Conclusion
Index of Ancient Texts
I. Ancient Near Eastern Texts
II. Jewish Texts
III. Greek and Latin Pagan Texts
IV. Christian Texts
V. Koran
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