Including the Stranger | |
Phụ đề: | Foreigners in the Former Prophets |
Tác giả: | David G. Firth |
Ký hiệu tác giả: |
FI-D |
DDC: | 224 - Các sách Giáo huấn |
Ngôn ngữ: | Anh |
Tập - số: | Vol 50 |
Số cuốn: | 1 |
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Serial preface | ix | |
Author's preface | xi | |
Abbreviations | xiii | |
1 | Concerning foreigners and the Former Prophets | 1 |
Being a foreigner and reading the Bible | 1 | |
Why the Former Prophets? | 4 | |
Toward an ethical and theological reading of the Former Prophets | 7 | |
2 | The book of Joshua: the identity of the people of the God | 13 |
Initial observations: the genre and language of Joshua | 13 | |
Rahad and the initial entry into the land (Joshua. 1-6) | 18 | |
Achan (Josh. 7:1- 8:29) | 24 | |
The alter on Mount Ebal and the Gibeonites(Josh. 8:30- 12:24) | 27 | |
Caleb, the surviving Canaanites and the cities of refuge (Josh. 13-21) | 33 | |
The alter on the Jordan (Josh. 22) | 42 | |
The threat of all and an invitation to all (Josh. 23-24) | 46 | |
Conclusions: Joshua as the formation of the people of God | 51 | |
3 | The book of Judges: the people through whom Yahweh works | 53 |
Initial orientation | 53 | |
After Joshua: Judges 1:1- 3:6 | 57 | |
The stories of the judges 3:7-16:31 | 66 | |
When there was no king: Judges 17-21 | 86 | |
Conclusions on Judges: the people through whom Yahweh works | 91 | |
4 | The books of Samuel: foreigners as the means of assessing Israel | 93 |
Initial Orientation | 93 | |
Samuel: 1 Samuel 1-12 | 96 | |
Samuel: 1 Samuel 13-15 | 101 | |
Saul and David, Ish-bosheth and David: 1 Samuel 16:1- 2 Samuel 5:16 | 104 | |
David as king: 2 Samuel 5:17-24:25 | 117 | |
Conclusions: Samuel and understanding the people of God | 132 | |
5 | The book of King: foreigners beyond the borders of Israel | 135 |
Initial orientation | 135 | |
Solomon: 1 Kings 1-11 | 138 | |
Two kingdoms: 1 Kings 12- 2 King 13 | 146 | |
The fall of the kingdoms: 2 Kings 14-25 | 163 | |
Conclusions: kings and foreigners beyond the bonders of Israel | 172 | |
6 | Foreigners and the people of God | 173 |
Initial orientation: key themes from the Former Prophets | 173 | |
Echoes in the Old Testament | 178 | |
Echoes in the New Testament | 181 | |
Pointers for an ethic towards foreigners | 183 | |
Bibliography | 187 | |
Index of authors | 205 | |
Index of Scripture references | 209 | |
Index of ancient sources | 218 |