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Index
The Hebrew Bible and Philosophy of Religion
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Part 1
1. A Philosophical Approach to Ancient Israelite Religion
1.1. The Philosophical Gap in Hebrew Bible Interpretation
1.2. The Involvement of Philosophy in Hebrew Bible Studies
1.3. What about Philosophy of Religion?
1.4. Rationale for a Descriptive Philosophical Approach to Ancient Israelite Religion
1.5. Objectives of This Study
1.6. Outline of Contents
1.7. A Supermodern Disclaimer
2. Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Religion
2.1. What Is a “Philosophical” Approach to Religion?
2.2. Pluralism in Contemporary Metaphilosophy of Religion
2.3. Historical Perspectives on the Relationship between Philosophy and Religion
2.4. Contexts and Currents in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion
2.4.1. The So-Called Analytic-Continental Divide
2.4.2. Major Currents in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion
2.5. Standard Issues of Interest in Philosophy of Religion
2.6. Conclusion
3. Philosophy of Religion and Hebrew Bible Interpretation: A Brief History of Interdisciplinary Relations
3.1. Introduction
3.2. From the Greeks to Gabler
3.3. Relations since Gabler
3.3.1. Initial Positive Interaction
3.3.2. The Rise of Antiphilosophical Sentiment
3.3.3. A Philosophical Turn?
3.4. Conclusion
4. The Hebrew Bible in Philosophy of Religion
4.1. Introduction
4.2. The Hebrew Bible in Modern Philosophy of Religion
4.2.1. Early Days
4.2.2. The Rise of an Academic Discipline
4.2.3. The Contemporary Situation
4.3. Conclusion
5. Descriptive Currents in Philosophy of Religion for Hebrew Bible Studies
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Three Descriptive Philosophical Currents
5.2.1. Analytic Traditions
5.2.2. Phenomenological Approaches
5.2.3. Comparative Perspectives
5.3. A Parallel: Conceptual Clarification in Philosophical Theology
5.4. Doing Philosophy of Religion in the Context of Hebrew Bible Studies
5.5. Differences from Thiselton’s “Philosophical Description”
5.6. Fallacies in Possible Objections to a Philosophical Approach to Ancient Israelite Religion
5.7. Conclusion
6. Possible Analogies for a Philosophy of Ancient Israelite Religion
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Folk Philosophy in Ancient Israelite Religion
6.3. Analogies from Philosophy
6.3.1. Historical Introductions to Jewish Philosophy
6.3.2. Varieties of Ancient Near Eastern Philosophy
6.3.3. African Philosophy
6.3.4. Philosophy in Literature
6.3.5. Philosophical Approaches to Myth
6.4. Analogies from Biblical Scholarship
6.4.1. Worldview Research
6.4.2. “Hebrew Thought”
6.4.3. Old Testament Theology
6.4.4. Old Testament Ethics
6.4.5. Cognitive Approaches
6.5. Conclusion
7. Philosophical Criticism as Biblical Criticism
7.1. Introduction
7.2. What Is Philosophical Criticism?
7.3. Philosophical Analysis
7.4. Functional Types of Descriptive Philosophical Commentary
7.4.1. Presupposition Reconstruction: The Worlds under the Worlds in the Text
7.4.2. Conceptual Analysis: The Worlds within the Worlds in the Text
7.4.3. Philosophical Translation: The Worlds above the Worlds in the Text
7.5. Issues on the Agenda
7.6. Pros and Cons
7.7. Conclusion
8. Toward a Descriptive Philosophy of Ancient Israelite Religion
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Assumptions of a Large-Scale Inquiry
8.3. Loci on the Angenda
8.4. Philosophy of Israelite Religion and the History of Israelite Religion
8.5. Large-Scale Philosophical Method
8.6. Adoption and Adaptation of Issues in Christian Philosophy of Religion
8.7. Conclusion
Part 2
9. The Nature of Religious Language in the Hebrew Bible
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Philosophical Theories of Religious Language
9.3. An Error Theory of Selective Diachronic Conceptual Reconfigurations
9.4. The Panmetaphor Bandwagon in Biblical Theology
9.5. Anachronistic Metaphysical Assumptions in Biblical Theology
9.6. Religious Language and Reference in Ancient Yahwism
9.7. Conclusion
10. The Concept of Generic Godhood in the Hebrew Bible
10.1. Introduction
10.2. The Generic Sense
10.3. What Is an אל ?
10.4. Gaps in Related Research
10.5. Properties of Generic Godhood and Metatheistic Assumptions about the Divine Condition
10.6. Generic Godhood as a Property
10.7. Generic Godhood as a Fuzzy Concept
10.8. Philosophical Definition
10.9. Conclusion
11. Yhwh: A Philosophical Perspective
11.1. Introduction
11.2. The Anachronism of “Perfect Being” Theology
11.3. The Doctrine of Divine Complexity
11.4. From Attributes of God to Properties of Yhwh
11.4.1. Essential versus Accidental Properties
11.4.2. Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Properties
11.4.3. Primary versus Secondary Properties
11.4.4. Fixed-Degree versus Multigrade Properties
11.4.5. Structured versus Unstructured Properties
11.4.6. First-Order versus Higher-Order Properties
11.4.7. Supervenient versus Nonsupervenient Properties
11.4.8. Initial versus Emergent Properties
11.4.9 Divine Properties as Essentially Fuzzy
11.4.10. Properties and Divine Complexity
11.5. The Philosophical Problem of Yhwh’s Identity
11.5.1. Basic Questions
11.5.2 . Persistence Problems versus Numerical/Qualitative Identity
11.5.3. Reductionist Perspectives
11.5.4 Narrative Idenity?
11.5.5 The Trouble with a Literary Ontology
11.5.6. Yhwh’s Identity across Possible Worlds
11.6. Modeling Representational Theologics via an Oneirological Analogy
11.7. The Nature of Divine Consciousness
11.8. Conclusion
12. Natural A/theologies in Ancient Israel
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Folk-Philosophical Arguments for the Existence of Yhwh
12.2.1. Implicit Arguments
12.2.2. Explicit Arguments
12.3. Descriptive Atheologies in the Hebrew Bible
12.3.1. Varieties of Atheism and Atheology in Ancient Israel
12.3.2. Antagonist Atheological Arguments
12.3.3. Protagonist Atheological Arguments
12.4. Yhwh and the Mystery of Existence
12.5. Nonrealism, Fictionalism, and the Ontological Assumptions of the Implied Author
12.6. Conclusion
13. Epistemologies in Ancient Israelite Religion
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Possible Concerns
13.2.1. Traces of Soft Evidentialism
13.2.2. Religious Experience and the Epistemological Problem of Divine Testimony
13.2.3. The Justification of Religious Knowledge and Allotheism
13.2.4. Divine Revelation and the Principle of Sufficient Reason
13.2.5. Philosophical Perspectives on Prophecy
13.2.6. The History of Israelite Religion and the Logic of Belief Revision
13.3. Conclusion
14. Religion and Morality in Ancient Israel
14.1. Introduction
14.2. What Is a Biblical Metaethics?
14.3. A Few Neglected Metaethical Issues in Hebrew Bible Interpretation
14.3.1. The Euthyphro Dilemma
14.3.2. Moral Realism
14.3.3. The Deity/Humanity Relation
14.3.4. The Axiology of Divine Intervention and the Philosophy of Action
14.3.5. Is There a Problem of Evil in the Hebrew Bible?
14.3.6. Ancient Israelite Perspectives on the Meaning of Life
14.4. Conclusion
15. Summary and Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Biblical References
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects
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