Rachelle Gilmour

Divine Violence in the Book of Samuel

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Produktbeschreibung

Much of the drama, theological paradox, and interpretive interest in the Book of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible derives from instances of God's violence in the story. In Divine Violence in the Book of Samuel, Rachelle Gilmour explores these narratives of divine violence from ethical, literary and political perspectives, in dialogue with the thought of Immanuel Kant, Martha Nussbaum and Walter Benjamin. Gilmour asks, is the God of Samuel a capricious God with a troubling dark side, or can fresh approaches, grounded in the text's historical contexts, throw light on these startling and often incomprehensible acts of God?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780190938079
• ISBN-10: 0190938072
• Artikelnr.: 62578975

Autorenporträt

Rachelle Gilmour is a Bromby Senior Lecturer in Old Testament at Trinity College, University of Divinity in Melbourne, Australia. She is also the author of Juxtaposition and the Elisha Cycle and Representing the Past: A Literary Analysis of Narrative Historiography in the Book of Samuel.

Inhaltsangabe

* The Lord Kills and Brings to Life: Introduction
* Part 1: He Shall Repay the Lamb Fourfold: Retribution and Curse
* Chapter 1: Introduction
* Chapter 2: Retributive and Consequential Violence in 2 Sam 11-20
* Chapter 3: The Characterisation of God and the Retributive Punishment
of David
* Chapter 4: Reading Retribution in the David Story Politically
* Chapter 5: Retribution and 1 Sam 12
* Chapter 6: Retribution and 2 Sam 21
* Part 2: God has Become your Enemy: Upheavals in Divine Retribution
* Chapter 7: Introduction
* Chapter 8: Saul's Rejection in the Book of Samuel
* Chapter 9: The Ethics and Characterisation of God and the Rejection
of Saul
* Chapter 10: Reading the Rejection of Saul Politically
* Chapter 11: The House of Eli and God's Delight
* Part 3: Who is Able to Stand before the Lord, this Holy God?: The
Irruption of Divine Violence
* Chapter 12: Introduction
* Chapter 13: The Violence of the Ark
* Chapter 14: The Characterisation of God in the Stories of the Ark
* Chapter 15: Reading the Ark in Beth-Shemesh and Perez-Uzzah
Politically
* The Lord will Exalt the Power of his Anointed: Conclusion