Creation: Biblical Theologies in the Context of the Ancient Near East

by Othmar Keel, Silvia Schroer, Peter T. Daniels (Translator)

Overview

Othmar Keel has become well known as the author of masterly studies on the iconography and texts of the ANE and their relationship to the text of the Hebrew Bible. In this volume, he partners with Silvia Schroer to assemble ANE texts and art that bears on the idea of creation. The result is a convenient assemblage of texts and iconographical data that may be studied in concert, often leading to being able to see old texts in new ways. As with much of this Swiss scholar’s work, this new volume will prove to be a resource for all who wish to study the biblical theology of creation against its wider background.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781575060934
Publisher:	Penn State University Press
Publication date:	10/16/2015
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.96(d)

Table of Contents

The Status of Creation Traditions in Several Twentieth-century Currents of Christian Theology

Contemporary Challenges of Christian Creation Theology

Traces of a Numinous Approach to the Environment in the Hebrew Bible

Creation and Blessing

Ideas of the Origin of the World

The World as Manifestation of Divine Activity

The Destruction of Creation as a Result of Human Failure

The Threatening World as the Work of God in God’s Speeches (Job 38-41)

The Question of Origins in the Ionian Natural Philosophers

The Wisdom Immanent in the World as the Prime Beginning in the First Testament

The Theologization of Wisdom, a Post-critical Naivete (Modesty), and the Will for the Joy for Eternity