Other gods and idols: the relationship between the worship of other gods and the worship of idols within the Old Testament
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: The Ten Commandments as Instruction -- Chapter 1: The Linguistic Ambiguity -- The Case for a Prohibition of Divine Images -- The Case for a Prohibition of False Gods -- How Then Shall We Approach...
| Summary: | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: The Ten Commandments as Instruction -- Chapter 1: The Linguistic Ambiguity -- The Case for a Prohibition of Divine Images -- The Case for a Prohibition of False Gods -- How Then Shall We Approach the Linguistic Ambiguity? -- Chapter 2: The Grammatical Ambiguity -- You Shall Not Worship Idols -- You Shall Not Worship Other Gods -- You Shall Not Worship Either -- How Then Shall We Approach the Grammatical Ambiguity? -- Chapter 3: The Theological Ambiguity -- You Shall Not Make for Yourself a Divine Image of an Alien Deity -- You Shall Not Make for Yourself a Divine Image of YHWH -- You Shall Not Make for Yourself a Divine Image -- How Then Shall We Approach the Theological Ambiguity? -- Chapter 4: Three Difficulties of Defining the Wider Relationship -- The Ambiguous Language of 'Idolatry' -- Texts that Fuse and Texts that Distinguish -- Worshipping the Wrong Gods and Worshipping the Right God in the Wrong Way -- Chapter Summary and Summary of Part I -- Part II: The War Against Idols Before and After the Fall of the Northern Kingdom -- Chapter 5: The War Before the Fall -- Battle on the Foreign Front -- Battle on the Domestic Front -- Two Fronts and Two Commandments -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 6: The War and the Fall -- The End of Battle on the Domestic Front -- Justification for a Strong Distinction -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 7: The War After the Fall -- Absence of Battle on the Domestic Front -- All Arms to the Foreign Front -- One Front and One Commandment -- From Monolatry to Monotheism? -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 8: Returning to the Commandments in Light of the War -- The War Before and After the Fall of the Northern Kingdom -- The Prohibitions in the Narrative Context of the Era Before the Fall. |
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| ISBN: | 0567684296 |