Come Out My People!": God's Call Out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond
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| ISBN-13: | 9781570758928 |
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| Publisher: | Orbis Books |
| Publication date: | 10/01/2010 |
| Pages: | 544 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.20(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
PART I IN THE BEGINNING
Introduction: "Is God on Our Side?" The Two Religions 3
1 "Then God Said, áLet there be light!'" (Gen. 1) 13
The Bible as Story and as History 13
2 "By the Sweat of Your Face You Shall Eat Bread" (Gen. 2-3) 22
3 "And He Built a City" 30
East of Eden 30
"Am I My Brother's Keeper?" (Gen.4) 33
The Historical Origins of "the City" 36
YHWH's Regret (Gen. 5-9) 43
The Beginning of Empire (Gen. 10-11) 45
4 Making One's Name Great 47
"Let Us Make a Name for Ourselves": The Tower of Babel (Gen. 11) 47
"I Will Make Your Name Great": YHWH's Call to Abram to Come Out of Empire (Gen. 12) 51
5 The Well-Watered Plain of Sodom 55
Turning to Egypt for Food (Gen. 12) 55
Choosing for Oneself (Gen. 13-14) 56
Entertaining Angels ...or Not (Gen. 15-19) 58
6 Fulfilling YHWH's Promises 66
Ishmael "yitzchaqing" (Gen. 21) 67
The Binding of Isaac (Gen. 22) 68
Acquiring a Holding in the Land (Gen. 23) 70
Finding a Wife for Isaac (Gen. 24) 71
Two Nations Are in Your Womb (Gen. 25) 73
Learning to Be a Trickster (Gen. 27-29) 75
Wrestling with God and Humans (Gen. 31-32) 80
7 The Price of Settling Too Soon 83
PART II FROM EXODUS TO EXILE: THE TWO RELIGIONS IN CONFLICT AMID GOD'S PEOPLE
8 Entering the "Exit Story" 93
9 Solomon's Wisdom 98
Dating Solomon 104
Solomon's "Nation Building" 115
Not Dividing the Baby 123
10 Finding the "Way Out" 134
Jeroboam's Rebellion 134
Birthing Israel, the People of YHWH 140
The Revenge of the Shilonites 156
11 Kissing Calves 161
Elijah, "Troubler of Israel" and His Successor, Elisha 161
Amos and Hosea: Calling Israel Back to the Sinai Covenant 165
12 "I Have Found the Book of the Torah in the House of YHWH!" 172
Hezekiah, Isaiah, and Micah Respond to the Threat of Assyria 172
Josiah, the Deuteronomistic History's True Hero 179
Monarchy, according to the Compromise Narrative 187
Role of Moses and Joshua 192
The Destruction of Jerusalem and the End of the Monarchy 197
13 What Was "Israel" before the Monarchy? 199
PART III FROM EXILE TO EASTER: FALLEN JERUSALEM, FALLEN BABYLON
14 The First Fall of Jerusalem: Jeremiah and Ezekiel 215
Jeremiah 215
Ezekiel 225
15 "In the Wilderness, Prepare the Way of YHWH": Envisioning a Way out of Exile 232
"Comfort, O Comfort My People": Second Isaiah's Promise of Release from the Prison of Exile 233
Ezekiel, Part Two: New Jerusalem 239
16 The Struggle over Jerusalem's Restoration 244
Introduction 244
Haggai-Zechariah 247
The Law of Your God and the Law of the King: The Imperially Sponsored Restoration Project of Ezra-Nehemiah 249
Against the Poor 256
"Do Not Let the Foreigner Joined to YHWH say, áYHWH Will Surely Separte Me from His People'": The Dissenting Voice of Third Isaiah 264
Genesis for a New Generation 268
Second Zechariah and the Beginning of Eschatological Hope 271
Leviticus: Cosmos, Temple, and Text in Microcosm 273
Chronicles: David as Patron of the Priesthood and Temple 278
"The Books of Moses" as Persian-supported "law" for Yehud 283
Assessing the Range of Visions for the Restored People of God 285
17 Seeking "Wisdon" under Greek Rule, Part One: The Ptolemaic Empire 287
From Persia to Greece 287
Wisdom from Above: A Brief Overview of "Royal Wisdom 290
Hellenistic Royal Ideology in Ptolemaic egypt 293
"I Will send You the Prophet Elijah": Malachi and the Closure of the Era of Prophecy 296
"All the Earth Was Filled with the Godlessness and Violence that Had Befallen It": Firs Enochs Book of the Wathcers 298
"All is Vapor": Qoheleth's "Pox" on Both Houses 309
18 Seeking "Wisdom" Under Greek Rule, Part Two: The Seleucid Empire 313
The Shift from Ptolemaic to Seleucid Rule of Judea in 200 BCE 313
Royal Wisdom on the Eve of Crisis: The Book of Sirach 315
The Epistle of Enoch: Measruring "Weeks" Until the Coming of God's Reign 318
The Crisis under Antiochus IV Epiphanes 323
The Maccabees: Zealous and Violent Defender of the Temple and of Religious Tradition 325
"And They Began to Open Their Eyes": Enoch's Dream Visions 330
"And I Saw One like a Human Being": The Book of Daniel 335
19 From Greece to Rome: Onging for God's Reign to Come 355
The Hasmonean dynasty: Empire from Within 355
Cosmos and Calendar: Enoch's Astrnomical Book and the Book of Jubilees 359
The Qumran Community: Awaiting the "End of Days" in the Desert 362
The temple Scroll: Envisioning a New Temple and a New King for Israel 366
Psalams of Solomon: Looking for a Messiah to Save Jerusalem 367
The Reign of Herod the Great, Pupppet of Rome 371
Parables of Enoch: Awaiting the Son of Man 372
PART IV FROM EASTER TO THE ESCHATON: JESUS' FULFILLMENT OF THE RELIGION OF CREATION AND DEFEAT OF THE RELIGION OF EMPIRE
20 Enlightenment and Empire: Reading Jesus from the Locus Imperii inthe Light of the Resurrection 383
21 The Gospel of Jesus Christ against the Gospel of Empire 393
22 "The Beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ": The Gospel of Mark 399
23 "Strive First fo the Kindom of God": Matthew's Gospel 407
24 Proclaiming Jubilee: Luke's Gospel and Acts of the Apostles 418
25 "Savior of the World": The Gospel of John 435
26 "Christ the Power of God and the Wisdom of God": Paul's Counter-imperial Gospel 447
Paul's "Conversion" 451
Forming and Nurturing Communities of the "Called Out" (ekklesiai) 454
Paul's Gospel of the Victory of the Creator God over the Gods of Empire 457
27 "Come Out, My People": The Book of Revelation 466
Conclusion: Hearing and Responding to God's Call: "Come Out, My People!" 473
Bibliography 475
Index 517