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By Henning Graf Reventlow, Yair Hoffman

ISBN-10: 0567028127

ISBN-13: 9780567028129

This e-book maintains a sequence of volumes containing the papers learn at an annual convention held in flip via Tel Aviv and Bochum during a co-operation among the Lester and Sally Entin college of Humanities, Chaim Rosenberg institution of Jewish reviews, the dep. of Bible of Tel Aviv collage and the college of Protestant Theology within the collage of the Ruhr, Bochum, on the grounds that 1985.

As a set the e-book specializes in the $64000 position non secular perspectives have performed in serious moments in the course of Jewish and Christian heritage. It argues for the importance that the function non secular ideals play in political and monetary decision-making and the formation of worldviews; in addition to demonstrating universal convictions held via either Jewish and Christians that may be used as a starting place to discover related solutions to real problems.

Focusing at the convention held in March 2005 at Tel Aviv, the booklet incorporates a gathered biography of the literature quoted in addition to a listing of ordinary abbreviations.

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4. Z. Z e v it, The R eligions o f A n cien t Isra e l (L ondon: C ontinuum , 2001 ), 11-17. 5. , 14) h im s e lf accepts w ith so m e slig h t m odifications th e definition o f R. R. " 6. J. G . Platvoet a n d A . L. , The P ragm atics o f D efining Religion (S tu d ies in the H istory o f R eligions; L eiden: B rill, 1999). 7. H . J. A driaanse, “O n D efining R elig io n ," in Platvoet a n d M olendijk, eds.. The P ra g m a tics o f D efining Religion, 2 2 7 -4 4 (247). J lis conclusion is: 'T h e academ ic com m unity should, therefore, not ban any definition o f relig io n , but in stead discuss a n d te st it” (p.

G . B riggs, P salm s II (IC C ; E dinburgh: T . & T . C lark, 1907), 197-201. 16. H. J. Kraus. Psalm en (B K A T 15/1; N eukirchen-V luyn: N eukirchener, 19 6 1), 5 4 9 -5 3 . 17. B. D uhm , D ie Psalm en ( Tübingen: J. C. B. M ohr, 1922). 2 0 6 -7 . 18. H. ; G öttingen: V andenhoeck & R uprecht, 1968), 3 4 8 -5 0 . HOFFMAN P a ttern s o f R elig io u s R esponse 23 m o re creativ e. , reco n stru ctin g a n alleg ed d estru ctio n o f Jeru salem in th at year. H is p ro o f o f th is alleg ed catastrophe is P s 79, alo ng w ith so m e o th e r tex ts reflecting a n atio n al crisis w h o se historical b ack g ro u n d is d isp u ted ,20 w h ich is a c le a r case o f a v icio u s circlc.

G. D eut 2 3 :3 -9 ; Isa 24; 6 0 :8 -2 2 ; Pss 2; 20; 21; 23; 74— altogether som e 50 b ib lica l passages. S ee M o rg e n ste m 's list in H UCA 28 (1957): 47. 21. 2 K gs 25:1 -2 1 ; J e r 39:1 - 7 ; 5 2 :4 -3 0 ; 2 C h r 3 6 :1 7 -2 0 . T here a re so m e inconsistencies reg ard in g the d e ta ils o f th e siege, th e d estru ctio n , the n u m b er o f exiles, and the theological interpretation o f the events, b u t none arc relev an t to th is study. 22. 2 K gs 2 3 :2 0 -3 5 ; 2 C h r 36:1 -4 .

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