Into the Hands of the Living God
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Into the Hands of the Living God

  1. 271 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Into the Hands of the Living God

About this book

Into the Hands of the Living God is Lyle Eslinger's second study of Deuteronomistic literature. This book is devoted to studies of key texts (Joshua 1-9; Judges 1-2; 1 Samuel 12; 1 Kings 8; 2 Kings 17) or concepts (the success/failure of the conquest; the exile and theodicy) in these narratives. Eslinger's readings are unorthodox and challenging, both for readers from the communities of faith and for critical scholarship. The Deuteronomistic narratives are here shown to be far from being a vindication of the ways of God at Israel's expense. Rather, in these narratives God, no less than Israel's leaders, has his hands soiled in the machinations that end in Babylon. What the Deuteronomistic history offers is, rather, dispassionate analysis of the problems, some unavoidable, that predetermined the failure of the covenant relationship. The collection of carefully worked out close readings of the biblical text in this volume provides a new critical vantage point from which one can reassess conventional historical-critical readings of these colourful books.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Chapter 1 NARRATORIAL SITUATIONS IN THE BIBLE
  5. Chapter 2 THESE NATIONS THAT REMAIN
  6. Chapter 3 A NEW GENERATION IN ISRAEL
  7. Chapter 4 A KING IN WHOM THERE IS NO PROFIT
  8. Chapter 5 KING SOLOMON'S PRAYERS
  9. Chapter 6 THROUGH THE FIRE
  10. Chapter 7 EXPLICIT EVALUATION IN THE DEUTERONOMISTIC NARRATIVE
  11. Bibliography
  12. Index of Authors
  13. Index of Subjects
  14. Index of Textual References
  15. Index of Hebrew Terms