Old Testament Theology, Volume I by Preuss, Horst Dietrich -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Translator’s Preface Preface Chapter 1. Setting the Stage: The History, Methodology, and Structure of a “Theology of the Old Testament”

1.1 The Posing of the Question 1.2 The History of Scholarship

a. From Gabler to de Wette b. From Vatke to König c. The Change since 1920 d. From Sellin to Vriezen e. G. von Rad f. After G. von Rad

1.3 Setting the Boundaries for Methodology 1.4 Concerning the Center of the Old Testament 1.5 The Present Inquiry

Part One. Laying the Foundation

2.1 Yahweh’s Acts of Election 2.2 The Verb “to Elect” 2.3 Election of the Individual 2.4 Election of the People 2.5 The Semantic Field 2.6 Historical Emphases 2.7 Election and History 2.8 The Theology of Election 2.9 Further Questions

Chapter 3. The Election and Obligation of the People

3.1 The Exodus Event as the Primal Election 3.2 Israel as an Exodus Community 3.3 Israel as a People and as a Community of Faith

a. עם = ‘am (“people”) and גּױ = gôy (“people”) b. “Israel” c. קהל = qāhāl (“assembly”) and עדה = ‘ēdâ (“congregation”) d. Differentiations within Israel e. “Amphictyony”? f. Toward the Self-Understanding of Israel

3.4 Community and Individual 3.5 Sinai Tradition and Sinai Covenant

a. Sinai Tradition b. Sinai Covenant c. The So-called Covenant Formula d. Exodus 32–34 e. The Murmuring People during the Wilderness Wandering

3.6 Duty and Law: The Theological Basis of the Law of God

a. Law and Legal Sentences b. Law and Covenant c. Differentiations

3.7 Moses: His Place and the Problem of the Founding and Revealing of a Religion 3.8 Yahweh’s Will Requires Responsibility

a. The Decalogue b. Yahweh’s Demand for Exclusivity (the First Commandment) c. The Prohibition of Idols (the Second Commandment) d. The Formation of Monotheism

3.9 Israel’s Land

a. The Promises of Land b. The Land in Israel’s History c. Terminology d. The Israelite Law of Landownership e. Land as a Historical Gift

3.10 Yahweh as Warrior and Yahweh War

a. YHWH as Warrior b. YHWH War c. The Situation of Scholarship d. The “Ban” e. YHWH War against Israel f. War and Peace

Part Two. Yahweh as the Subject of the Historical Acts of Election

4.1 The Names of God

a. Yahweh b. Yahweh Sebaoth

4.2 The Appellations of God

a. אלהים = ’ĕlōhîm (“God”) b. אל = ’ēl (“God”) c. אּלוֹהּ = ’ĕlôah (“God”) d. Yahweh’s Accessibility through His Names

4.3 Yahweh as King 4.4 Yahweh’s Powers of Activity

a. Yahweh’s Spirit b. Yahweh’s Countenance c. The Angel of Yahweh d. The Glory of Yahweh e. The “Name” of Yahweh f. Yahweh’s Justice g. Yahweh’s Blessing h. The Connection between Deed and Consequence i. Yahweh’s Wisdom j. Yahweh’s Word

4.5 Yahweh Reveals Himself

a. Terms b. “Revelation” in Israel’s Cultural Environment c. The Self-Introduction and Knowledge of Yahweh d. Fundamental Structures of the Old Testament Language of Revelation e. Yahweh’s Acts in History f. “Time” according to the Witness of the Old Testament

4.6 Yahweh as Creator

a. Concerning Worldview b. Hymnic-sapiential Language about Creation c. The Yahwist, Priestly Source, Deutero-Isaiah, Postexilic Psalms d. Creation, History, and Salvation

4.7 Old Testament Statements about the “Nature” of Yahweh

a. Yahweh as an Eternal God without Origin b. The Holy One and the Holy One of Israel c. Yahweh’s Jealousy d. Exodus 34:6f. e. Yahweh as a Living God f. Anthropomorphisms and Anthropopathisms g. Fundamental Structures of the Old Testament Witness to God

Chapter 5. The World of God and the World Distant from God

5.1 Yahweh’s Places of Dwelling 5.2 The Ark 5.3 The Tent (of Meeting) 5.4 Yahweh’s Court: The Cherubim, Seraphim, and Angels 5.5 Demons 5.6 Satan 5.7 The Kingdom of the Dead

Abbreviations Notes Index of Hebrew Words

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