By Diana Lipton
ISBN-10: 1589836502
ISBN-13: 9781589836501
This booklet reexamines the Sodom and Gomorrah narrative in Genesis 18 19, an ethically charged textual content that has considerably inspired perspectives approximately homosexuality, stereotyping the opposite, the rewards and dangers of hospitality, and the justice owed to outsiders. Its twelve essays, reflecting their authors enormous geographical, non secular, methodological, and educational variety, discover this troubling textual content in the course of the lens of universalism and particularism. Biblical Sodom is learn because the website of a number of borders fluid, porous, and bi-directional among comparable and varied, males and angels, women and men, fathers and daughters, insiders and outsiders, hosts and site visitors, citizens and extraterrestrial beings, selected and nonchosen, and folks and God. Readers of those exegetically and theologically attentive essays released in reminiscence of Ron Pirson will adventure an extraordinary feel of an historic textual content being learn in and for the trendy international. The individuals are Calum Carmichael, Diana Lipton, William John Lyons, Nathan MacDonald, Amira Meir, Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg, T. A. Perry, Ron Pirson, Jonathan D. Safren, Megan Warner, Harlan J. Wechsler, and Ellen J. van Wolde.
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I assume, then, that Gen 18–19 in its final form is later than Ezekiel, and that Genesis is working through theological issues raised by Ezekiel. Some redactional difficulties in Genesis may thus be explained by the desire to forge a connection with Ezekiel, and even the particular placement of Gen 18–19—in some respects a bizarre interruption of the narrative flow—is affected by Ezekiel. My first table deals with vocabulary and concepts that are shared by the two texts: Ezekiel 14 Genesis 18–19 Non-Israelite land (v.
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