A story of YHWH : cultural translation and subversive reception in Israelite history /: cultural translation and subversive reception in Israelite history. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Shawn W. Flynn.
• Authors: Flynn, Shawn W
• Contents: Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Chapter 1: Purpose and Scope The Story of Comparative Endeavors Understanding the Roots of Contemporary Questions Some Common Challenges Tools for a Comparative and Developmental History of YHWH Finding a Narrative Arc Cultural Translation Subversive Reception Summary Chapter 2: Competing Narratives of Early Origins Geographical Options and Limitations Possible Southern Origins: Egypt and the Biblical Narrative An Egyptian/Southern Test Case: Seth and YHWH Early YHWHism From a Southern Perspective The North: Ugarit, Baal, El, and the Early Stages of YHWHism Early YHWHism YHWH in Early Poetry YHWH in Inscriptions The Divine Council Summary Chapter 3: The Rise of YHWH and Jerusalem on the International Stage Urbanization and YHWH Urbanism and Divinity in the Ancient Near East Israelite Urbanism and Divinity in Shiloh and Jerusalem A Context for Change: Israel and its Neighbors Urbanization, Divinity, and the Role of Scribal Culture YHWH on the International Stage The Neo-Assyrian Context as Catalyst Isaiah 6 as Israelite Protest Literature Isaiah 6:1 –8 in the Neo-Assyrian Period Subversive Reception: The mīs pî and its Connections with Isaiah 6:1 –8 The Call of the Neo-Assyrian Kings Versus the Call of Isaiah Subversive Reception in the Book of Nahum Nahum 1 Nahum 2 Nahum 3 Summary Chapter 4: YHWH as Israel’s Only God: YHWH in The Exilic Period The Exilic Context The Exile and Judean Reactions such as Psalm 137 The Growth of Exilic YHWHism and Onomastics Psalms of Lament, Psalm 44, and the Silence of an Urban YHWH What happened to the Other Gods? The Deuteronomistic History Jeremiah Genesis 1 and Creation Imagery Habakkuk Summary Chapter 5: Persian Period: The Afterlives of YHWHism The Context of the Persian Period Elephantine and the Judean Communities YHWHism YHWH in Third-Isaiah Isaiah 57:14 –15 Third-Isaiah Tackling Monotheism The Book of Jonah Horizontal Movement and Tension Descending to Sheol and Escaping Heaven: The Vertical Axis Self-Constructed Distance from YHWH: Vertically and Horizontally Jonah’s Complex/Post-Exilic Perception of YHWH The Shape of YHWH in the Persian Period Summary Chapter 6: Conclusion and Assessment Challenges and Limitations Discoveries and Fruits Bibliography Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 296.3112; God (Judaism) -- Name; Judaism -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317247135; 9781317247142; 9781317247128; 9781315630472
• Related ISBNs: 9781138641471
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