Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1. Foundations
1. Biblical Theology in Canonical Perspective
2. Form Criticism
3. Reconceiving the Paradigms
4. Jewish Biblical Theology
5. Berit Olam, the Eternal Covenant
6. Asian Biblical Theology and Filial Piety
Part 2. History, Comparative Studies, and Reception
7. The Origins of Kingship in Israel and Japan
8. Genesis in the Context of Jewish Thought
9. Dimensions of the Shekinah
10. The Democratization of Messianism
Part 3. Torah
11. Shabbat
12. The Jacob Narratives
13. Form Criticism
14. The Literary-Historical Dimensions of Intertextuality
15. The Wilderness Traditions of the Pentateuch
16. Creation as Sacred Space in the Exodus Narratives
17. Moses’s Encounter with G-d and G-d’s Encounter withMoses
18. Why Moses Was Barred from the Land of Israel
19. Balaam in Intertextual Perspective
20. Davidic Polemics in the Book of Judges
21. Rethinking Samuel
22. Eli, a High Priest Thrown under the Wheels of the Ox Cart
23. Samuel’s Institutional Identity
24. The Critique of Solomon
25. Synchronic and Diachronic Considerations
26. A Reassessment of the Masoretic and Septuagint Versions
27. Prophets and Priests in the Deuteronomistic History
Part 5. Latter Prophets
28. Revelation as Empirical Observation
29. Swords into Plowshares or Plowshares into Swords?
30. Isaiah and Theodicy after the Shoah
31. Sargon’s Threat against Jerusalem in Isaiah 10:27–32
32. Isaiah 60–62 in Intertextual Perspective
33. Jeremiah among the Prophets
34. The Ezekiel That G-d Creates
35. Ezekiel’s Conception of the Exile
36. Synchronic and Diachronic Concerns
37. Hosea’s Reading of Pentateuchal Narratives
Part 6. The Writings
38. The Question of Theodicy in the Historical Books
39. What Is Biblical Theology?
40. Absence of G-d and HumanResponsibility
Bibliography
Ancient Sources Index
Modern Authors Index