Robertson Drought, Famine, Plague and Pestilence

Ancient Israel’s Understandings of and Responses to Natural Catastrophes
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4632-3619-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 45, 210 Seiten

Reihe: Gorgias Biblical Studies

This interdisciplinary study integrates textual analysis of the Hebrew Bible and comparable ancient Near Eastern material with social theory and archaeology in order to articulate the ancient Israelites' taken-for-granted understandings of natural disasters, their intellectual and theological challenges to those understandings, and their intellectual and theological reconstructions thereof.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robertson, Warren C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgments (page 7)
- Table of Contents (page 9)
- Abbreviations (page 11)
- Chapter 1: Introduction (page 15)
- Why Study Understandings of and Responses to Natural Catastrophes? (page 26)
- Thesis and Purpose of This Study (page 15)
- Definitions of Terms (page 18)
- Methodology and Presuppositions (page 22)
- A Brief Survey of Related Studies (page 31)
- Specific Studies (page 35)
- Outline of This Study (page 39)
- Chapter 2: Natural Catastrophes In the Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean Worlds (page 41)
- Chapter 3: Social Theory: Doxa, Crisis and Cognitive Dissonance (page 51)
- The Durkheimian Tradition (page 52)
- Pierre Bourdieu and Doxa (page 57)
- Leon Festinger and Cognitive Dissonance (page 61)
- Chapter 4: Understandings of and Responses to Natural Catastrophes among Peoples of the Ancient Near East and Ancient Israel (page 63)
- Treaty Curse Tradition (page 64)
- The Flood Tradition (page 69)
- Exodus 32:1…35 (page 77)
- Numbers 16 (page 78)
- 1 Samuel 4:1B…7:1 (page 79)
- 2 Samuel 24:1…24 (page 94)
- Prophets (page 95)
- Discussion (page 99)
- Intellectual Challenges (page 102)
- Theological Reformulations (page 110)
- Summary (page 113)
- Chapter 5: Practical and Ritualistic Responses to Natural Catastrophes among Peoples of the Ancient Near East, Including Ancient Israel (page 117)
- Practical Responses (page 117)
- Ritualistic Responses (page 121)
- Personal/Family Piety and Local Practice (page 121)
- Official and/or State Religious Responses (page 138)
- Chapter 6: Summary and Conclusions (page 147)
- Appendix A: The Late Israelite/Judean Monarchy: an Era of Cumulative Trauma (page 153)
- Appendix B: Durkheimian Social Theory in Old Testament Study and Recent Sociology (page 159)
- Appendix C: Curses from Ancient Near Eastern Texts (page 163)
- Laws of Hammurapi (page 163)
- The Soldier's Oath (page 164)
- Inscription from Tell Fekheriye (page 165)
- The Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon (page 166)
- Bibliography (page 169)
- Index (page 207)