Religion, Ethnicity and Xenophobia in the Bible - A Theoretical, Exegetical and Theological Survey

This volume looks at some of the Bible's most hostile and violent anti-foreigner texts and raises critical questions about how students of the Bible & ancient Near East should grapple with "ethnicity" & "foreignness" conceptually, hermeneutically & theologically.

Sommario

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter One Biblical scholarship and "the Other"; Chapter Two Birds of a feather: explaining ethnic foreignness; Chapter Three "Brood of destruction": Mesopotamian caricatures of foreigners; Chapter Four "He fixed the boundaries of the earth": some biblical idioms of ethnicity; Chapter Five "A non-people, a foolish nation": caricatures of foreigners in Deuteronomistic texts; Chapter Six "I was repulsed by them": caricatures of foreigners in holiness texts; Chapter Seven "Foolish by nature": the reverberations of ethnic polemics in the Bible; Chapter Eight "In order that I might horrify them": a theological appraisal; Bibliography; Index

Info autore

Brian Rainey is Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA.

Riassunto

This volume looks at some of the Bible’s most hostile and violent anti-foreigner texts and raises critical questions about how students of the Bible & ancient Near East should grapple with "ethnicity" & "foreignness" conceptually, hermeneutically & theologically.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Brian Rainey
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367732516
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73251-6
• Pagine: 310
• Serie: Routledge Studies in the Biblical World
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Religione: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Ebraismo; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Christianity, Jewish Studies, Judaism, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Ancient religions & mythologies, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Ancient religions and Mythologies, Old Testaments