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Informationen zum Autor Thomas A. Judge is Tutor in Old Testament at King's School of Theology! and Lecturer in Old Testament at St John's College! Durham University! UK. An analysis of the difficulty in defining the relationship between the worship of gods other than YHWH and the worship of idols in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. Zusammenfassung This study questions why the relationship between the worship of other gods and the worship of idols within the Old Testament is difficult to define, acknowledging how various traditions have seen these two issues as synonymous and others have viewed them as separate commandments.Judge argues that there are four factors at play in this diversity. He introduces the first three through an examination of the relationship between the prohibitions listed in the biblical text, and the fourth through a study of the biblical depiction of the war against idols before and after the fall of the Northern Kingdom. Judge argues that texts depicting the era before the fall provide a context in which there are strong grounds to distinguishing the worship of the “wrong gods” and the worship of the right God in the wrong way. However, texts depicting the era after the fall provide a context in which the issues appear to have been fused. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part I The Ten Commandments as Instruction Chapter 1 The Linguistic Ambiguity Chapter 2 The Grammatical Ambiguity Chapter 3 The Theological Ambiguity Chapter 4 Three Difficulties of Defining the Wider Relationship Part II The War Against Idols Before and After the Fall of the Northern Kingdom Chapter 5 The War Before the Fall Chapter 6 The War and the Fall Chapter 7 The War After the Fall Chapter 8 Returning to the Commandments in Light of the War Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index of References Index of Authors
