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Religious responses to political crisis / edited by Henning Graf Reventlow and Yair Hoffman.

Contributor(s): Reventlow, Henning, Graf | Hoffman, Yair
Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies: 444.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies: Publisher: New York, N.Y. : T & T Clark International, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: ix, 175 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780567028129 (alk. paper); 0567028127 (alk. paper)Other title: Religious responses to political crises in Jewish and Christian tradition [Cover and spine title:]Subject(s): Politics in the Bible | Religion and politics | Judaism and politics | Christianity and politicsDDC classification: 296.3/8209 LOC classification: BS680.P45 | R45 2008Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Speaking of kingship : the institution of the monarchy in Israel - negotiations, historical memory and social drama / Frank H. Polak -- Patterns of religious response to national crisis in the Hebrew Bible, and some methodological reflections / Yair Hoffman -- A religious alternative to a political response to a severe political crisis : King Ahaz and the prophet Isaiah / Henning Graf Reventlow -- The book of Lamentations : response to destruction or ritual of rebuilding? / Edward L. Greenstein -- Reality and hopes of the Qumran community as response to crises in second temple Judaism / Bilhah Nitzan -- The image of God as father as a response to political crises in the first century B.C.E. / Elke Toenges -- Ethical and Halakhic responses following the Bar Kokhba revolt / Aharon Oppenheimer -- Political religion, political theology, and the doctrine of the two kingdoms / Christofer Frey -- How theology coped with the crisis of the first World War / Christian Link -- Religious responses to national crises in Jewish and Christian tradition / Franz-Heinrich Beyer.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Speaking of kingship : the institution of the monarchy in Israel - negotiations, historical memory and social drama / Frank H. Polak -- Patterns of religious response to national crisis in the Hebrew Bible, and some methodological reflections / Yair Hoffman -- A religious alternative to a political response to a severe political crisis : King Ahaz and the prophet Isaiah / Henning Graf Reventlow -- The book of Lamentations : response to destruction or ritual of rebuilding? / Edward L. Greenstein -- Reality and hopes of the Qumran community as response to crises in second temple Judaism / Bilhah Nitzan -- The image of God as father as a response to political crises in the first century B.C.E. / Elke Toenges -- Ethical and Halakhic responses following the Bar Kokhba revolt / Aharon Oppenheimer -- Political religion, political theology, and the doctrine of the two kingdoms / Christofer Frey -- How theology coped with the crisis of the first World War / Christian Link -- Religious responses to national crises in Jewish and Christian tradition / Franz-Heinrich Beyer.

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