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Divine wrath and divine mercy in the world of antiquity / edited by Reinhard G. Kratz and Hermann Spieckermann.

Contributor(s): Kratz, Reinhard Gregor, 1957- | Spieckermann, Hermann
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, German Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament: 33.Publisher: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: viii, 279 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783161498206; 3161498208Subject(s): God -- Wrath | God -- Mercy | Anger -- Religious aspects | Mercy -- Religious aspectsLOC classification: BS1199.A53 | D58 2008Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Wrath and mercy as crucial terms of theological hermeneutics / Hermann Spieckermann -- Zorn und Gnade ägyptischer Götter / Louise Gestermann -- "Wo einer in Wut ist, kann kein andere ihm raten" : zum göttlichen Zorn im Alten Orient / Manfred Krebernik -- Divine wrath and mercy in the religions of the Hittites and Hurrians / Billie Jean Collins -- When gods lose their temper : divine rage in Ugaritic myth and the hypostasis of anger in Iron Age religion / P. Kyle McCarter -- Chemosh's wrath and Yahweh's no : ideas of divine wrath in Moab and Israel / Reinhard G. Kratz -- "Has God forgotten mercy, in anger withheld His compassion?" Names and concepts of God in the Elohistic Psalter / Karl William Weyde -- Platon über Gottes Zorn und seine Barmherzigkeit / Michael Bordt -- Darstellung und Funktion des Zorns der Götter in antiker Epik / Peter Schenk -- "Barmherzigkeit und Zorn Gottes" im Alten Testament am Beispiel des Buchs Jesus Sirach / Markus Witte -- "God is love" : on the textual traditions and semantics of a core expression of the Christian notion of God / Jörg Frey -- An offer God can't refuse : the punishment of flagellation in rabbinic theology / Aharon Shemesh -- The wrath of God and His followers : early Christian considerations / Gunnar af Hällström -- Divine wrath and divine mercy in Islam : their reflection in the Qurʼān and Quranic images of water / Todd Lawson.

Text in English and German.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Wrath and mercy as crucial terms of theological hermeneutics / Hermann Spieckermann -- Zorn und Gnade ägyptischer Götter / Louise Gestermann -- "Wo einer in Wut ist, kann kein andere ihm raten" : zum göttlichen Zorn im Alten Orient / Manfred Krebernik -- Divine wrath and mercy in the religions of the Hittites and Hurrians / Billie Jean Collins -- When gods lose their temper : divine rage in Ugaritic myth and the hypostasis of anger in Iron Age religion / P. Kyle McCarter -- Chemosh's wrath and Yahweh's no : ideas of divine wrath in Moab and Israel / Reinhard G. Kratz -- "Has God forgotten mercy, in anger withheld His compassion?" Names and concepts of God in the Elohistic Psalter / Karl William Weyde -- Platon über Gottes Zorn und seine Barmherzigkeit / Michael Bordt -- Darstellung und Funktion des Zorns der Götter in antiker Epik / Peter Schenk -- "Barmherzigkeit und Zorn Gottes" im Alten Testament am Beispiel des Buchs Jesus Sirach / Markus Witte -- "God is love" : on the textual traditions and semantics of a core expression of the Christian notion of God / Jörg Frey -- An offer God can't refuse : the punishment of flagellation in rabbinic theology / Aharon Shemesh -- The wrath of God and His followers : early Christian considerations / Gunnar af Hällström -- Divine wrath and divine mercy in Islam : their reflection in the Qurʼān and Quranic images of water / Todd Lawson.

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