Brian Rainey

Religion, Ethnicity and Xenophobia in the Bible

A Theoretical, Exegetical and Theological Survey

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780815365891
• ISBN-10: 0815365896
• Artikelnr.: 54746453

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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