Description
Book SynopsisOthmar Keel has become well known as the author of masterly studies on the iconography and texts of the ANE and their relationship to the text of the Hebrew Bible. In this volume, he partners with Silvia Schroer to assemble ANE texts and art that bears on the idea of creation. The result is a convenient assemblage of texts and iconographical data that may be studied in concert, often leading to being able to see old texts in new ways. As with much of this Swiss scholar’s work, this new volume will prove to be a resource for all who wish to study the biblical theology of creation against its wider background.
Table of ContentsThe Status of Creation Traditions in Several Twentieth-century Currents of Christian Theology
Contemporary Challenges of Christian Creation Theology
Traces of a Numinous Approach to the Environment in the Hebrew Bible
Creation and Blessing
Ideas of the Origin of the World
The World as Manifestation of Divine Activity
The Destruction of Creation as a Result of Human Failure
The Threatening World as the Work of God in God’s Speeches (Job 38-41)
The Question of Origins in the Ionian Natural Philosophers
The Wisdom Immanent in the World as the Prime Beginning in the First Testament
The Theologization of Wisdom, a Post-critical Naivete (Modesty), and the Will for the Joy for Eternity
