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Covenant and Grace in the Old Testament
Assyrian Propaganda and Israelite Faith
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About this book
This book examines the Old Testament language about Israel's relationship with God in the light of Assyrian royal propaganda. Unpacking this language's meaning in both Assyrian and biblical contexts, it shows Israel borrowed language from Assyrian vassal treaties to describe its covenant with God, and this book reveals what "covenant" meant, and that it is not "covenant" at all, but "grace." The broader theological implications of this discovery are explored in dialogue with contemporary theologians. The book takes seriously the study of text in its ancient context in order to highlight the theological content and its modern relevance.
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Information
T
HE
A
PPEAL
TO
E
XTRABIBLICAL
P
ARADIGMS
47
My
aim,
however,
is
to
explain
how
ancient
Israel
understood
its
relationship
with
Yahweh,
and
not
to
find
a
date
for
covenant,
or
even
to
locate
its
origin
(or
those
of
the
Covenant
Formula
or
berit
).
Such
studies
are,
however,
scientific
(at
least
in
intent);
they
are
the
pursuit
of
folklorists
or
anthropologists:
that
is
of
people
using
the
[bibli-
cal]
stories
not
as
they
were
meant
to
be
used,
but
as
a
quarry
from
which
to
dig
evidence,
or
information,
about
matters
in
which
they
are
inter-
ested.
A
perfectly
legitimate
procedure
in
itself
–
but
ignorance
or
forget-
fulness
of
the
nature
of
[the]
story
(as
a
thing
told
in
its
entirety)
has
often
led
such
inquirers
into
strange
judgements.
…
It
is
more
interesting,
and
also
in
its
way
more
difficult,
to
consider
what
they
are.
105
105
J.
R.
R.
Tolkein,
“On
Fairy
-
Stories,”
in
Essays
Presented
to
Charles
Williams
,
ed.
C.
S.
Lewis
(Oxford:
University
Press,
1947),
47-48.
Table of contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. THE SHAPE OF SCHOLARSHIP ON COVENANT
- 2. THE APPEAL TO EXTRABIBLICAL PARADIGMS
- 3. THE BARRAKAB INSCRIPTION
- 4. THE MATRIX OF ASSYRIAN IMPERIALISM
- 5. THE ISRAELITE COUNTERPARTS
- 5. THE ISRAELITE COUNTERPARTS
- 7. THE TRANSMISSION OF THE CONSTELLATION
- 8. THE PROPAGANDA OF SUBMISSION TO YAHWEH
- 9. THE CREEDAL CONTEXT
- 10. ELECTION AND GRACE IN ISRAELITE RELIGION
- 11 THE TRIUMPH OF GRACE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX