This book is about the many faces of the God of Israel who may be covered by reading the different parts of the Old Testament. It treats the scriptures as a reference library assembled because the texts all have something to say about God, who in some sense is a character in each book, and is presented differently each time. In exploring the nature of "the God of the Old Testament, " Mary Mills places side by side these different -- often contradictory -- aspects of the deity, and allows them to comment on each other.The God who is revealed, in a world where all human activity is also the scene of divine action, is a multifaceted character challenging human beings to find, within the diversity of images and language, the face of God that offers them a means of communication with the sphere of transcendent order and unity.

Images of God in the Old Testament

Religion & Spirituality

Mills, Mary E.

Christian Books & Bibles

Cassell

The Old Testament tells the story of a particular nation, ancient Israel, from its origins to its collapse in the face of foreign invaders. But what sort of story is this? How does it fit in with the findings of archaeological explorations of ancient Syro-Palestine? Historical Israel: Biblical Israel picks up the two aspects of the story told in the books from Joshua to 2 Kings, that of an actual historical society and that of a literary presentation of a nation, told from a religious perspective. By exploring the contents of these books the student is led into the use of basic tools for biblical study, such as historical criticism, narrative criticism and ideological criticism, in order to engage in a structured manner with the task of reading and interpreting biblical texts in a twentieth-century world.

Historical Israel: Biblical Israel : Studying Joshua to 2 Kings (Cassell Biblical Studies Series)

History

Ancient Civilizations

This book explores alterity, pain, and suffering though readings of selected passages from Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. It uses reading methods drawn from modern literary theory, cultural geography, social psychology, and moral philosophy to read these ancient texts from the viewpoint of twenty-first century interests.Mills' aim is to focus on the absolute reality of pain, suffering, and difference in human experience and to find the values contained in these experiences; thus it produces a Narrative Ethics approach to the Old Testament. Mills argues that these selected biblical texts provide evidence of human interrogation of the meaning and value of pain and loss in human experience. The ways in which these texts interweave the subjective voice of the prophet with the life experience of the wider society offer the modern reader a resource for exploring contemporary concerns such as embodiment, landscape, and horror.

Alterity, Pain, and Suffering in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)

Bloomsbury T&T Clark

The Old Testament tells the story of a particular nation, ancient Israel, from its origins to its collapse in the face of foreign invaders. But what sort of story is this? How does it fit in with the findings of archaeological explorations of ancient Syro-Palestine? Joshua to Kings picks up the two aspects of the story told in the books from Joshua to 2 Kings, that of an actual historical society and that of a literary presentation of a nation, told from a religious perspective. By exploring the contents of these books the student is led into the use of basic tools for biblical study, such as historical criticism, narrative criticism and ideological criticism, in order to engage in a structured manner with the task of reading and interpreting biblical texts in a twentieth-century world.

Joshua to Kings: History, Story, Theology (T&T Clark Approaches to Biblical Studies)

This volume brings together aspects of contemporary study of cultural geography and selected passages from prophetic texts of the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament. The aim is to identify how the image of the city helps to construct meaning inside the biblical material. In order to carry out this task relevant textual narratives are analysed and then read from the viewpoint of space, place and urban studies. This latter category includes the works of Lefebvre, Bachelard, Soja, Massey, Amin and Thrift and Pile, among others. A major finding is that urban imagination is a tool by which the texts manage the experience of political and social events in a time of radical change.

Urban Imagination in Biblical Prophecy (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 560)

T&T Clark

The Old Testament tells the story of a particular nation, ancient Israel, from its origins to its collapse in the face of foreign invaders. But what sort of story is this? How does it fit in with the findings of archaeological explorations of ancient Syro-Palestine? 
Joshua to Kings picks up the two aspects of the story told in the books from Joshua to 2 Kings, that of an actual historical society and that of a literary presentation of a nation, told from a religious perspective. By exploring the contents of these books the student is led into the use of basic tools for biblical study, such as historical criticism, narrative criticism and ideological criticism, in order to engage in a structured manner with the task of reading and interpreting biblical texts in the modern world. For this third edition the text has been revised and updated to take into account the changes and shifts in scholarship. Reading lists and bibliographies have been comprehensively revised.

The Old Testament tells the story of a particular nation, ancient Israel, from its origins to its collapse in the face of foreign invaders. But what sort of story is this? How does it fit in with the findings of archaeological explorations of ancient Syro-Palestine? Joshua to Kings picks up the two aspects of the story told in the books from Joshua to 2 Kings, that of an actual historical society and that of a literary presentation of a nation, told from a religious perspective. By exploring the contents of these books the student is led into the use of basic tools for biblical study, such as historical criticism, narrative criticism and ideological criticism, in order to engage in a structured manner with the task of reading and interpreting biblical texts in the modern world. For this third edition the text has been revised and updated to take into account the changes and shifts in scholarship. Reading lists and bibliographies have been comprehensively revised.

This guide provides a concise introduction to the ways the book of Jeremiah has been interpreted by scholars, and to new possibilities of interpretation still open to readers. Outlining approaches the reader encountering the book may best adopt, Mary E. Mills moves into the reception of the prophetic book in the modern period. The role of historical criticism has been fundamental but she shows how it should be supplemented by recent explorations into the rhetorical structures and devices by which the book communicates its messages. 
Historically oriented scholars drew upon the book as a record of the words and career of a prophet in monarchical Judah. Literary investigation, on the other hand, focuses on the mood and tone of the literary work. Both interpretative strands acknowledge the persistence of a mood of terror and fragmentation within Jeremiah, the result of its origins in a period of great political upheaval. Examination of the poetic devices a society uses to process its social and cultural trauma leads the reader to a deeper appreciation of the variety of sources and genres found in Jeremiah. This study guide provides reading tools which readers can then develop at their own pace.

Jeremiah: An Introduction and Study Guide: Prophecy in a Time of Crisis (T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the Old Testament)

This text is intended to be set in the context of more traditional approaches to ethical regulations in the Christian Bible. The volume starts on the Old Testament story and focuses on the moral vision which is part of that narrative. The intention is to expand the reader's horizons concerning biblical morality and to provoke consideration of its many facets. This text takes seriously the overall presentation of biblical characters as good and bad, the whole structure of stories, which contain an understanding of the working out of justice and righteousness in human affairs, and the complexity of biblical approaches to such topics as the origins of sin and evil in the universe. Consequently the book does not focus on law and legality as such, but explores the Old tesament stories for the contribution these make to a broader picture of moral vision, which can accommodate even conflicting verdicts on the significance of human activity.

Biblical Morality: Moral Perspectives in Old Testament Narratives (Heythrop Studies in Contemporary Philosophy, Religion & Theology)

Ashgate Pub Ltd

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Images of God in the Old Testament

Historical Israel: Biblical Israel : Studying Joshua to 2 Kings (Cassell Biblical Studies Series)

Alterity, Pain, and Suffering in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)

Joshua to Kings: History, Story, Theology (T&T Clark Approaches to Biblical Studies)

Urban Imagination in Biblical Prophecy (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 560)

Urban Imagination in Biblical Prophecy (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 560)

Joshua to Kings: History, Story, Theology (T&T Clark Approaches to Biblical Studies)

Joshua to Kings: History, Story, Theology (T&T Clark Approaches to Biblical Studies)

Jeremiah: An Introduction and Study Guide: Prophecy in a Time of Crisis (T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the Old Testament)

Biblical Morality: Moral Perspectives in Old Testament Narratives (Heythrop Studies in Contemporary Philosophy, Religion & Theology)