Exile and suffering a selection of papers read at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Old Testament Society of South Africa OTWSA/OTSSA, Pretoria, August 2007 /

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Corporate Authors: Old Testament Society of South Africa. Congress, ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Becking, Bob, Human, Dirk J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Series:Oudtestamentische studiën ; d. 50.
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Table of Contents:
  • Sin, suffering, and sagacity : Genesis 2-3 / Gerda de Villiers
  • Suffering and hope during the Exile / Jurie Le Roux
  • Suffering from formlessness : the ban on images in Exilic times / Matthias Köckert
  • Interrupting God-language : rethinking the image of God as liberator in Isaiah 42 / L. Juliana M. Claassens
  • Myth, metaphor or memory? the allusions to Creation and Exodus in Isaiah 51:9-11 as a theological response to suffering during the Exile / Hendrik Bosman
  • The assassination of Gedaliah (Jer. 40:7-41:18) / Eric Peels
  • Perspective after the Exile : the King, [ʻvdj], 'My servant' in Jeremiah : some reflections on MT and LXX / Raymond de Hoop
  • Exile in Hosea 9:3-6 : where and for what purpose? / Gert Kwakkel
  • Perverse delight : some observations on an unpleasant theme in the Old Testament / Klaas Spronk
  • Exile and pain : a chapter from the story of God's emotions / Eep Talstra
  • Does exile equal suffering? a fresh look at Psalm 137 / Bob Becking
  • The poetics of exile and suffering : memory and perceptions : a cognitive-linguistics study of Lamentations / Yehoshua Gitay
  • The Exile as Sabbath rest : the Chronicler's interpretation of the Exile / Louis Jonker
  • Lamenting the loss of lament, the language for our times / Frances Klopper
  • Interpreting 'the Exile' in African Biblical scholarship : an ideo-theological dilemma in post-colonial South Africa / Gerald West.