Opening Israel's Scriptures / Ellen F. Davis.

Opening Israel's Scriptures is a collection of thirty-six essays on the Hebrew Bible, from Genesis to Chronicles, which gives powerful insight into the complexity and inexhaustibility of the Hebrew Scriptures as a theological resource. Based on more than two decades of lectures on Old Testament...

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Main Author: Davis, Ellen F. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Doing Justice: The practical and critical interpretation of scripture
  • Genesis"As Our Image"
  • Genesis 1:1-2:3
  • Complementarity and Rupture
  • Genesis 2:4-11:32
  • Beginning with Blessing
  • Genesis 12-50
  • Exodus
  • Getting Out of Egypt
  • Exodus 1-15
  • Becoming God's People
  • Exodus 16-40
  • Leviticus
  • Embodying Holiness
  • Leviticus 1-15
  • At-onement with YHWH and with Land
  • Leviticus 16-27
  • Numbers
  • Marked for blessing, plagued by sin
  • Numbers 11-24
  • Slowing down for violence
  • Numbers 5 and 25
  • Deuteronomylearning to love and to fear
  • Deuteronomy 1-11
  • Torah and life in the land
  • Deuteronomy 12-34
  • Joshua
  • un-conquest narrative
  • Joshua
  • Big upheaval: Canaan in the Thirteenth Century
  • Excursus
  • Judges
  • Leadership and Its discontents
  • Judges
  • Ruth
  • Vulnerable Protectors
  • Ruth
  • 1-2 Samuel & 1 Kings
  • United monarchy: the hope that (mostly) failed
  • Preface
  • Tragedy of the Chosen: Saul's Kingship
  • 1 Samuel
  • David in perspective
  • 2 Samuel
  • Wisdom, power, worship: Solomon's reign
  • 1 Kings 1-12
  • Sovereignty of the prophetic word
  • 1 Kings 13-21
  • Minor prophets
  • An Eighth-Century poetry jam: prophetic performances
  • Preface questioning Prosperity
  • Amos
  • Justice and intimacy
  • Micah and Hosea
  • Hating Our Enemies
  • 2 Kings, Nahum, and Jonah
  • Isaiah
  • Seeing the King
  • Isaiah 1-39
  • Vision expands
  • Isaiah 40-66
  • Jeremiah & Lamentations
  • 4tWell acquainted with grief
  • Preface
  • Telling God the Truth
  • Jeremiah
  • The Love Poetry of Disaster
  • Lamentations
  • Ezekiel
  • Prophecy at the End of the World
  • Ezekiel and Haggai
  • The Psalms
  • Reality and praise -Psalms
  • Wisdom of Lament
  • Psalms
  • Proverbs & Ecclesiastes
  • Poetry of the ordinary
  • Proverbs and Ecclesiastes
  • Job & the Song of Songs
  • Intimacy with God: The Agony and the Ecstasy
  • Preface
  • Learning to Struggle with God
  • Job
  • Ecstasy of Intimacy
  • Song of Songs
  • Esther & Daniel
  • Equipping Jewish imagination in a Gentile world
  • Preface
  • Joking about Genocide
  • Esther
  • Surviving the Furnace of History
  • Daniel
  • Ezra-Nehemiah & 1-2 Chronicles
  • Negotiating Identity
  • Preface
  • Settling the land a second time
  • Ezra-Nehemiah
  • Reading the Story Once More
  • 1-2 ChroniclesGlossaryScripture IndexIndex