God and His People

Covenant and Theology in the Old Testament

Ernest W. Nicholson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

1988
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-826727-0 (ISBN)

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This book deals with God's covenant with Israel which the author believes is a theme central to the understanding of the Old Testament. He argues that the debate during the last century has revealed how crucial the covenant idea was in the development of what is distinctive in the faith of Israel.

God's covenant with Israel has been a central theme in understanding the Old Testament from ancient times, but in the last hundred years it has been a particularly prominent issue in critical biblical study. In this book Professor Nicholson argues that, while in some important respects the position today regarding the covenant is much the same as it was for leading scholars a century ago, in other ways the intervening debate has made it possible to see far more clearly just how crucial the covenant idea was in the development of what is distinctive in the faith of Israel.

Part 1 Covenant in a century of study since Wellhausen: a time of controversy (1878-1918); the controversy ended; treaty and covenant; covenant as a theological idea. Part 2 The origin of the covenant between God and Israel - key texts: "They saw God and ate and drank" - a covenant meal at Sinai? (Exodus 24:1-2, 9-11); apostasy and renewal of the covenant at Sinai (Exodus 34:10-28); a covenant at Shechem (Joshua 24:1-28); the covenant ritual at Sinai (Exodus 19:3b-8, 24:3-8); covenant texts in Hosea. Part 3 God and His people: the covenant and the distinctiveness of Israel's faith.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.9.1988
Reihe/Serie	Clarendon Paperbacks
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 218 mm
Gewicht	338 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-826727-4 / 0198267274
ISBN-13	978-0-19-826727-0 / 9780198267270
Zustand	Neuware