Divine Doppelgängers

Author : Collin Cornell
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781646020911

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Divine Doppelgängers by Collin Cornell Pdf

The Bible says that YHWH alone is God and that there is none like him—but texts and artwork from antiquity show that many gods looked very similar. In this volume, scholars of the Hebrew Bible and its historical contexts address the problem of YHWH’s ancient look-alikes, providing recommendations for how Jews and Christians can think theologically about this challenge. Sooner or later, whether in a religion class or a seminary course, students bump up against the fact that God—the biblical God—was one among other, comparable gods. The ancient world was full of gods, including great gods of conquering empires, dynastic gods of petty kingdoms, goddesses of fertility, and personal spirit guardians. And in various ways, these gods look like the biblical God. Like the God of the Bible, they, too, controlled the fates of nations, chose kings, bestowed fecundity and blessing, and cared for their individual human charges. They spoke and acted. They experienced wrath and delight. They inspired praise. All of this leaves Jews and Christians in a bind: how can they confess that the God named YHWH was (and is) the true and living God, in view of this God’s profound similarities to all these others? The essays in this volume address the theological challenge these parallels create, providing reflections on how Jews and Christians can keep faith in YHWH as God while acknowledging the reality of YHWH’s divine doppelgängers. It will be welcomed by undergraduates studying religion; seminarians and graduate students of Bible, theology, and the ancient world; and adult education classes.

Author : Collin Cornell
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781646020935

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Divine Doppelgängers by Collin Cornell Pdf

The Bible says that YHWH alone is God and that there is none like him—but texts and artwork from antiquity show that many gods looked very similar. In this volume, scholars of the Hebrew Bible and its historical contexts address the problem of YHWH’s ancient look-alikes, providing recommendations for how Jews and Christians can think theologically about this challenge. Sooner or later, whether in a religion class or a seminary course, students bump up against the fact that God—the biblical God—was one among other, comparable gods. The ancient world was full of gods, including great gods of conquering empires, dynastic gods of petty kingdoms, goddesses of fertility, and personal spirit guardians. And in various ways, these gods look like the biblical God. Like the God of the Bible, they, too, controlled the fates of nations, chose kings, bestowed fecundity and blessing, and cared for their individual human charges. They spoke and acted. They experienced wrath and delight. They inspired praise. All of this leaves Jews and Christians in a bind: how can they confess that the God named YHWH was (and is) the true and living God, in view of this God’s profound similarities to all these others? The essays in this volume address the theological challenge these parallels create, providing reflections on how Jews and Christians can keep faith in YHWH as God while acknowledging the reality of YHWH’s divine doppelgängers. It will be welcomed by undergraduates studying religion; seminarians and graduate students of Bible, theology, and the ancient world; and adult education classes.

Author : Collin Cornell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108842679

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Divine Aggression in Psalms and Inscriptions by Collin Cornell Pdf

Compares psalms and inscriptions to determine whether the aggression of the biblical God against his king and country was unique.

Author : Collin Cornell
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : God
ISBN : 1575067447

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Divine Doppelgängers by Collin Cornell Pdf

A collection of essays by scholars of the Hebrew Bible providing recommendations for how Jews and Christians can think theologically about the challenge of similarities between YHWH and other ancient gods.

Author : Collin Cornell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009079518

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Monotheism and Divine Aggression by Collin Cornell Pdf

The aggression of the biblical God is notorious. The phrase 'Old Testament God' conjures up images of jealousy and wrath, smiting and judging. But is it only an accident that this god became capital-G God, the unique creator and sustainer of three world religions? Or is there a more substantive connection between monotheism and divine aggression? This Element proposes exactly this causal connection. In three case studies, it showcases ways that literarily treating one god alone as god amplifies divine destructiveness. This happens according to two dynamics: God absorbs the destructive power of other divine beings-and God monopolizes divinity such that other beings, even special ones like God's beloved king or the people of God, are rendered vulnerable to divine aggression. The Element also attends to the literary contexts and counterbalances within which the Hebrew Bible imagines divine aggression.

Author : Mary D. Edwards
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781476669298

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Doppelgangers, Alter Egos and Mirror Images in Western Art, 1840-2010 by Mary D. Edwards Pdf

The notion of a person--or even an object--having a "double" has been explored in the visual arts for ages, and in myriad ways: portraying the body and its soul, a woman gazing at her reflection in a pool, or a man overwhelmed by his own shadow. In this edited collection focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century western art, scholars analyze doppelgangers, alter egos, mirror images, double portraits and other pairings, human and otherwise, appearing in a large variety of artistic media. Artists whose works are discussed at length include Richard Dadd, Salvador Dali, Egon Schiele, Frida Kahlo, the creators of Superman, and Nicola Costantino, among many others.

Author : Daniel C. Timmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108475594

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The Theology of the Books of Nahum, Habbakuk, and Zephaniah by Daniel C. Timmer Pdf

Daniel C. Timmer's study explores how the books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah engaged with ancient Judah's sociopolitical landscape.

Author : Ralph K. Hawkins
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467461481

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Discovering Exodus by Ralph K. Hawkins Pdf

This concise introduction to the interpretation of the book of Exodus encourages in-depth study of the text and deliberate grappling with related theological and historical questions by providing a critical assessment of key interpreters and interpretative debates. It draws on a range of methodological approaches (author-, text-, and reader-centered) and reflects the growing scholarly attention to the reception history of biblical texts, increasingly viewed as a vital aspect of interpretation rather than an optional extra. Throughout Discovering Exodus, Ralph Hawkins gives strategies for reading the book of Exodus, including archaeological criticism. He also reviews key issues raised by Exodus and connects these issues to questions of how this important Old Testament book should be interpreted today.

Author : Dimitris Vardoulakis
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823232987

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The Doppelgänger by Dimitris Vardoulakis Pdf

The Doppelganger presents literature as the double of philosophy. This relation is historically rooted in the genesis of the doppelganger as literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity: The term doppelganger was coined by the German author Jean Paul in 1796 as a critique of Idealism's assertion of subjective autonomy, individuality, and human agency. This critique prefigures late twentieth- century extrapolations of the subject as decentered. From this perspective, the doppelganger has a family resemblance to current conceptualizations of subjectivity. It becomes the emblematic subject of modernity. This is the first significant study of the doppelganger's influence on philosophical thought. Reading literature philosophically and philosophy as literature, Vardoulakis examines authors such as Franz Kafka, Maurice Blanchot, and Alexandros Papadiamantes and philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, Walter Benjamin, and Jacques Derrida to show how the doppelganger emerges as a hidden and unexplored element both in conceptions of subjectivity and in philosophy's relation to literature.

Author : Ella F. Mosby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Life
ISBN : HARVARD:HNNMRK

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The Ideal Life by Ella F. Mosby Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004311404

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Argument and Design: The Unity of the Mahābhārata by Anonim Pdf

Argument and Design features fifteen essays by leading scholars of the Sanskrit epics, the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa, discussing the Mahābhārata’s upākhyānas, subtales that branch off from the central storyline and provide vantage points for reflecting on it.

Author : Lucinda Mosher
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781647123673

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Naming God by Lucinda Mosher Pdf

A fresh look at how Christians and Muslims speak of God Naming God entails labeling the ineffable. And yet the Bible itself oscillates between denying that God can be named and describing how God shows Godself anyway. In Naming God, the result of the 2021 Building Bridges Seminar—an international dialogue of Christian and Muslim scholars—the contributors examine the many ways Christians and Muslims refer to and describe God and the significance of naming God differently. This book provides guidance and materials that will benefit faith leaders as well as students and scholars of theology, dialogue theory, and conflict resolution. Nonspecialists will benefit from an entry-point into the theme of naming God, while specialists will be challenged to develop and deepen their thought on this important topic.

Author : Mahri Leonard-Fleckman,Lauren A.S. Monroe,Michael J. Stahl,Dylan R. Johnson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004511538

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“A Community of Peoples” by Mahri Leonard-Fleckman,Lauren A.S. Monroe,Michael J. Stahl,Dylan R. Johnson Pdf

A “Community of Peoples” draws together a diverse community of scholars to honor the career of Daniel E. Fleming. Through a diversity of methods and disciplines, each contributor attempts to touch a sliver of ancient Middle Eastern history.

Author : Emanuel Pfoh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567704764

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T&T Clark Handbook of Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible by Emanuel Pfoh Pdf

This handbook presents an overview of the main approaches from social and cultural anthropology to the Hebrew Bible. Since the late 19th century, biblical scholarship has addressed issues and themes related to biblical stories from a perspective which could now be considered socio-anthropological. It is however only since the 1960s that biblical scholars have started to produce readings and incorporate analytical models drawn directly from social anthropology to widen the interpretive scope of the social and historical data contained in the biblical sources. The handbook is arranged into two main thematic parts. Part 1 assesses the place of the Bible in social anthropology, examines the contribution of ethnoarchaeology to the recovery of the social world of Iron Age Palestine and offers insights from the anthropology of the Mediterranean for the interpretation of the biblical stories. Part 2 provides a series of case studies on anthropological themes arising in the Hebrew Bible. These include kinship and social organisation, death, cultural and collective memory, and ritualism. Contributors also examine how the biblical stories reveal dynamics of power and authority, gender, and honour and shame, and how socio-anthropological approaches can reveal these narratives and deepen our knowledge of the human societies and cultural context of the texts. Bringing together the expertise of scholars of the Hebrew Bible and Biblical Archaeology, this ethnographic introduction prompts new questions into our understanding of anthropology and the Bible.

Author : Brent A. Strawn
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467463102

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The Incomparable God by Brent A. Strawn Pdf

“My Lord! There is no one like you among the gods!” Attempting to describe the nature of God often prompts the exclamation of the psalmist—that God is unlike anyone or anything else. And yet the claim is not simply the overflow of an adoring heart: God’s incomparability is a truth lodged deep within Christian Scripture. In The Incomparable God, Old Testament scholar Brent Strawn offers thoughtful insight into this theological mystery. This volume collects eighteen of Strawn’s most provocative essays on the nature of God, several of which are published for the first time here. Strawn covers the following topics: • the complex portrayal of God in Genesis • God’s mercy in Exodus • poetic description of God in the Psalms • the Trinity in both testaments • pedagogy of the Old Testament • integration of faith and scholarship Encompassing close readings of Scripture, biblical-theological argument, and considerations of praxis, The Incomparable God is essential reading for Old Testament scholars and students.