Imperialism and biblical prophecy, 750-500 BCE
David Aberbach.
Bok Engelsk 1993 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | London ; New York : : Routledge, , c1993.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (139 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Spine title: Imperialism & biblical prophecy, 750-500 BCE.. - Cover; Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy 750-500 BCE; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Chronological Table; Map; Introduction; 1. Assyria and the Fall of Israel; Two Doom-Songs for Samaria; The Prostitution of Israel; Against Damascus; Song of a Vineyard; The Collapse of Israel; Tyre's Fate; Against Philistia; Dirge for Moab; Oracles on Arabia; Poems to Egypt and Ethiopia; The Fall of Babylon; The Warning; Isaiah's Poem to Sennacherib; The Restoration; 2. Babylonia and the Fall of Judah; The Age of Josiah's Reforms; The Fall of Nineveh; Songs of God's Injustice. - The Battle of CarchemishThe Invasion; Nebuchadrezzar's Attack; The Fate of Jehoiachin; Dirge for the Lions of Judah; Doom-Song for Egypt; Confessions of Jeremiah; Ezekiel: The Living Symbol; Lament for Judah; The Charge Against Edom; The Fall of Tyre; 3. Persia and Judah's Restoration; Poems of Hope; The Fall of Babylon; Poem to Cyrus; Consolation; The Suffering Servant; The Stupidity of Idolatry; The Messiah; On the Warpath; The Day of Judgement; Bibliography; Index. - Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy is a radically new interpretation of prophetic poetry. Using more than thirty new translations from the Hebrew Bible, it shows that this poetry is inseparable from imperialism, that each of the three major waves of biblical prophecy which have survived in the Old Testament occurred in response to simultaneous waves of imperialist conquest.
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| ISBN | 041509500X
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