Author(s): Yair Hoffman, Henning Graf Reventlow, Benjamin Uffenheimer
Series: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 171
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Year: 1994
Language: English
Pages: 216
Politics and Theopolitics in the Bible and Postbiblical Literature......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Editors' Preface......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 12
Yehoshua Amir: Josephus on the Mosaic 'Constitution'......Page 14
Introduction......Page 29
Judges 19-21 as a Hidden Polemic against Saul and his Followers......Page 30
Why a Hidden Polemic?......Page 39
Moshe Anbar: 'Thou Shalt Make No Covenant With Them' (Exodus 23.32)......Page 42
The Time of the First Temple......Page 50
The Hasmonean Times......Page 54
1. The Problem......Page 56
2. Political Ethics or Political Theology?......Page 57
3. Political Theology: Some Approaches to a Variable Phenomenon......Page 58
4. Reading or Exploiting the Bible......Page 65
Yair Hoffman: The Concept of 'Other Gods' in the Deuteronomistic Literature......Page 67
Yair Hoffman: Reflections on the Relationship between Theopolitics, Prophecy and Historiography......Page 86
1. Introduction......Page 101
2. Historical and Exegetical Approaches to the Subject......Page 103
3. Theses......Page 108
4. Exegetical Observations, Arguments and Explanations......Page 110
David: Weakness and Strength......Page 120
The Fundamental Tension......Page 125
David: A Tragic Consciousness......Page 137
Tension and Equilibrium......Page 140
Appendix 1: Plot Structure and Cohesion in 2 Samuel 7-13......Page 143
Appendix 2: The Dynastic Promise in 2 Samuel 7......Page 144
The Source of the Obligation of the Seven Noahide Commandments......Page 149
The Content of 'Law'......Page 150
Laws Based on Equity......Page 152
The Parallel of Noahide Law and the Law of the King......Page 153
The Effect of the Obligation to Follow Laws on the Validity of Acts of Non-Jewish Courts in the Light of the Rule that 'the law of the King is the Law'......Page 154
Explicit Differences between Noahide and Jewish Law......Page 155
Are Jews Bound to Enforce a Noahide Commandment?......Page 157
Conflict of Laws......Page 158
Conclusion......Page 159
Henning Graf Reventlow: The Biblical and Classical Traditions of 'Just War'......Page 161
B. Uffenheimer: Isaiah's and Micah's Approaches to Policy and History......Page 177
Klaus Wengst: Babylon the Great and the New Jerusalem: The Visionary View of Political Reality in the Revelation of John......Page 190
1. The Judgment of the Great Whore......Page 192
2. The 'New Jerusalem' as a 'Bride'......Page 198
Index of References......Page 204
F......Page 214
M......Page 215
W......Page 216
Y......Page 217
Back Matter......Page 218
