Theology Of The Old Testament

by Walther Eichrodt, J A Baker (Translator)

Overview

This book is the first volume of the monumental work that has come to be regarded as a theological classic, a landmark in Old Testament studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780664223090
Publisher:	Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date:	12/01/1967
Series:	Old Testament Library Series
Pages:	576
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Walther Eichrodt is the author of several books on the Old Testament, including three volumes in the Old Testament Library series.

Table of Contents

	From the Preface to the First Edition	11
	Preface to the Fifth Revised Edition	13
	Preface to the English Edition	17
	Translator's Preface	23
	Abbreviations	24
I.	Old Testament Theology: The Problem and the Method	25
II.	The Covenant Relationship	36
1.	The meaning of the covenant concept	36
2.	The history of the covenant concept	45
I	The jeopardizing of the Yahweh covenant	45
II	The re-fashioning of the covenant concept	49
III.	The Covenant Statutes	70
A.	The Secular Law	74
1.	Its distinctive character	74
2.	Some crucial phases in the development of the law	83
IV.	The Covenant Statutes (continued)	98
B.	The Cultus	98
1.	The significance of the cultus for religion in general	98
2.	The significance of the cultus in the religion of Israel	101
I	Sacred sites	102
II	Sacred objects	107
III	Sacred seasons	119
IV	Sacred actions	133
(a)	Consecration and purity rites	133
(b)	Sacrificial worship	141
(c)	Prayer	172
V	Synthesis	176
V.	The Name of the Covenant God	178
1.	General semitic designations of God	178
2.	Specifically Israelite designations of God	187
3.	Epithets of Yahweh	194
VI.	The Nature of the Covenant God	206
A.	Affirmations About The Divine Being	206
1.	God as personal	206
2.	God as spiritual	210
3.	God as one	220
VII.	The Nature of the Covenant God (continued)	228
B.	Affirmations About The Divine Activity	228
1.	The power of God	228
2.	The lovingkindness of God (hesed Yahweh)	232
3.	The righteousness of God	239
4.	The love of God	250
5.	The wrath of God	258
6.	The holiness of God	270
7.	The relation of the Old Testament picture of God to the moral norm	282
8.	Synthesis	286
VIII.	The Instruments of the Covenant	289
A.	The Charismatic Leaders	289
1.	The founder of the religion	289
2.	The seers	293
3.	The Nazirites	306
4.	The judges	306
5.	Nabism	309
I	The basic characteristics of the phenomenon	309
(a)	The phenomenon of group ecstasy	309
(b)	The general religious character of the phenomenon	313
(c)	The effects of spirit-possession	319
II	The theological significance of nabism	318
III	The degeneration of nabism	332
6.	Classical prophecy	338
I	Links with nabism	339
II	The distinctive character of classical prophecy	341
III	The religious structure of classical prophecy	345
(a)	The new experience of the divine reality	345
(b)	The working out of the experience of God in the prophetic system of thought	353
([alpha])	The new sense of the unity of life	353
([beta])	The divine-human relationship transferred to the individual level	356
([gama])	The prophetic critique of daily life	360
([delta])	The prophetic attitude to the cultus	364
([varepsilon])	The prophetic attitude to the national religion	369
(1)	Common presuppositions	369
(2)	The prophetic re-shaping of the national religion	371
([zeta])	Sin and judgment	374
([eta])	The prophetic conception of history	381
([theta])	Eschatology	385
(c)	Synthesis	387
IX.	The Instruments of the Covenant (continued)	392
B.	The Official Leaders	392
1.	The priests	392
I	The formation of the priesthood in the history of Israel	392
II	The religious structure of the priesthood	402
(a)	General	402
(b)	The distinctive character of the priestly conception of God	406
(c)	The relations between God and the world	410
(d)	The place of man in the world	415
([alpha])	Human right conduct	415
([beta])	Cultic activity	419
([gama])	Human existence in time (history and eschatology)	424
(e)	Synthesis	433
2.	The king	436
I	The origin of the monarchy	438
II	The ambivalent assessment of the monarchy in the sources	441
III	The monarchy as a religious office in the history of the covenant people	442
IV	The religious effects of the monarchy	452
X.	Covenant-Breaking and Judgment	457
I.	Judgment as a guarantee and restoration of the covenant	457
I	The possibility of annulment	457
II	A new evaluation of God's covenant	458
III	The hope of the overthrow and punishment of Israel's enemies	459
IV	Foreign influences	461
V	An execution of Yahweh's righteous judgment	461
2.	Judgment as abrogation of the covenant	462
I	The transformation of the limited vision of the future	462
II	The change in the character of the expectation of doom	464
III	Individual retribution	467
3.	Individualist and universalist elements in the expectation of judgment	467
XI.	Fulfilling the Covenant: The Consummation of God's Dominion	472
1.	The principal forms of the Old Testament hope of salvation	473
2.	The importance of the hope of salvation for the doctrine of God	490
I	The entry of God into history	490
II	The supramundane character of the messianic kingdom	491
III	The solution of the pressing problems of religion	492
3.	The origins of the Old Testament hope of salvation	494
I	Mythical elements	494
II	Its cultic derivation	497
III	Its nationalist origin	498
IV	Its religous core	499
4.	Prediction and fulfilment	501
I	The various attempts at a solution	502
II	The double relationship of prediction and fulfilment	508
	Excursus: The Problem of Old Testament Theology	512
	Index of subjects	521
	Index of modern authors	530
	Index of biblical passages	535