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

ISBN-13: 9780367732516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 310 str.

Brian Rainey

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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