The Earth Story in the Psalms and the Prophets - download pdf or read online

By Norman C. Habel

ISBN-10: 1841270873

ISBN-13: 9781841270876

In this quantity, students from worldwide learn the tale of Earth in key texts from the Psalms and the Prophets.Their readings problem renowned understandings of the Chaoskampf delusion, the theophany of Psalm 29 and the recent Earth in Isaiah sixty five. Re-readings of Ezekiel divulge the cruelty of divine justice prolonged to the wildlife. numerous articles by way of indigenous writers delicate to the voice of Earth deliver new insights to the aptitude which means of texts like Psalm 104. members comprise Lloyd Geering, Russell Nelson, William Urbrock, Laurie Braaten, Keith Carley, Anne Gardner, John Olley, Gunther Wittenberg, Kalinda Stevenson, Peter Trudinger, Arthur Walker-Jones, Norman Charles, Howard Wallace, Geraldine Avent, Madipoane Masenya and Abotchie Ntreh.

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3 When sinful deeds are too great for us; our transgressions you pardon. 4 Blessed is the one whom, you choose and bring near. He will inhabit your courts. May we be sated on the goodness of your house, on the holiness of your temple. 5 3. g. A. Anderson 1972: 471-72; Kraus 1989: 26-31; and Tate 1990:143. 4. The Hebrew text reads dumiyyah, 'silence'. The sense of this has often puzzled interpreters. g. Cheyne 1888: 176; Delitzsch 1871: II, 226; Tate 1990: 137) or as closeness to God (Levine 1995: 222).

Judg. 1). Earth is prominent in the psalm. The psalm opens with the declaration that the Earth community belongs to YHWH, its creator. A transimetaphors, or in stereotyped descriptions such as those indicating universal extent. Syntactically, whether the water-being is used as the subject of an active verb or not can be a marker of whether the water-being is given some degree of agency or objectified as a mere thing. Semantic considerations also play a role. Trudinger Friend or Foe? 37 tion from Earth to Zion similar to that observed in Psalm 74 then takes place, linking the first two sections of the psalm (Ps.

9, YHWH rebukes waters and in Pss. 3, 5 the water-beings flee immediately without a conflict; cf. Ps. 8 (verse numbers refer to the Hebrew text). In some psalms the distress of the speaker is likened to a hostile action by a water-being. In these cases the waters are attacking a human and the complaint is predicated on the assumption that YHWH can drive the source of distress away. 15. For example Pss. 6; and in the context of the Exodus: Pss. 18. References to water may also be used literally, in names of places, in 36 Tfa Earth Story in Psalms and Prophets the Chaoskampf pattern or Earth Bible principles, that the water beings come alive, for evil or good.

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