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Yhwh's Cultic Statue after 597/586 B.C.E.: A Linguistic and Theological Reinterpretation of Ezekiel 28:12
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SCHOLARS HAVE LONG NOTED that the Book of Ezekiel as a whole presents particularly puzzling exegetical difficulties. The manuscript witnesses differ at many points and the meanings are often ambiguous.1 In 1954, in a major article in which he attempted to solve several of these textual and semantic difficulties in the book, G. R. Driver contended that the original of Ezek 28:12 contained the phrase ... ("seal of perfection").2 T...
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Yhwh's Cultic Statue after 597/586 B.C.E.: A Linguistic and Theological Reinterpretation of Ezekiel 28:12
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; (ProQuest-CSA LLC: denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) SCHOLARS HAVE LONG NOTED that the Book of Ezekiel as a whole presents particularly puzzling exegetical difficulties. The manuscript witnesses differ at many points and the meanings are often ambiguous.1 In 1954, in a major article in which he
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Ezekiel's Throne-Chariot Vision: Spiritualizing the Model of Divine Royal Rule
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; THE PLACE WHERE sovereignty resides has been a perennially significant issue in political theory.1 When a nation is fighting for survival against an invading army, it is critical to know who makes the decisions that all must follow. In a monarchically organized community, the king is the decision
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Listening to Abraham-Listening to Yhwh: Divine Justice and Mercy in Genesis 18:16-33
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ... God is not a tyrant but really God. And from that flows good news.9 It may justly be questioned whether Brueggemann's interpretation ... that some interpreters have been less able to hear the good news. Norman Whybray, for example, sees the portrayal of Yhwh in this ...
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RECURRING THEMES IN THE BOOK OF THE TWELVE: CREATING POINTS OF CONTACT FOR A THEOLOGICAL READING
Interpretation
; Four themes in the Book of the Twelve (the Day of YHWH, fertility of the land, the fate of God's people, and theodicy) have surfaced in the discussion of editorial activity, literary development, and theological perspectives. These themes deserve exploration for the role they play as a lens for
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Interlocutions: The Poetics of Voice in the Figuration of YHWH and His Oracular Agent, Jeremiah
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; ... s concept of polyphony describes a specific aesthetic strategy taken as the artistic choice of a single historical agent, it maps a topography of voice for the novel that is not entirely dissimilar to that in the scroll of Jeremiah. There is no voice, no ...
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"We are utterly cut off": Some possible nuances of (the third element) in Ezek 37:11
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; (ProQuest Information and Learning: denotes foreign text omitted.) THOUGH THE SAYING attributed to the whole house of Israel in Ezek 37:11 has attracted no small amount of attention from commentators, the nuances of its third element, have yet to be explored fully.1 A number of interpreters of
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Zion's Warrior and the Nations: Isaiah 59:15b-63:6 in Isaiah's Zion Traditions
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; (ProQuest: denotes Greek characters omitted (or Cyrillic characters omitted THE UNFOLDING DRAMA of Zion's plight and destiny is one of the most captivating features in the book of Isaiah. Several scholars have noted Zion's prominence in the book, arguing variously that Isaiah's central concern is
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The course of the dialogue between Moses and Yhwh in Exodus 33:12-17
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; UMI: Foreign text omitted. THE COURSE OF THE DIALOGUE between Moses and Yhwh in Exod 33:12-17 does not run smoothly. The two partners in the conversation seem to speak at cross-purposes. Erhard Blum recognized in the curious ebb and flow of the conversation "the ingenious structure" of Exod
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Yhwh's own heart
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; (Proquest Information and Learning: Foreign text omitted.) THE OVERLAPPING stories of Saul and David in 1 Samuel 16-31 have been understood by most biblical scholars, at least since the work of Leonhard Rost, as part of the so-called History of David's Rise (HDR), 1 Samuel 16-2 Samuel 5.(1) Rost's
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The compound name in Isaiah 9:5(6)
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; BELL & HOWELL INFORMATION AND LEARNING FOREIGN TEXT OMITTED THE FOUR PHRASES in Isa 9:5b(6b) are commonly translated "wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting father, prince of peace." While they are not applied to Jesus in the New Testament, in Christian exegesis represented by a writer
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