Jews, Christians, and the Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures (Symposium Series)

Cover......Page 1
JEWS, CHRISTIANS, AND THE THEOLOGY OF THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 10
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 12
Joel S. Kaminsky & Alice Ogden Bellis: Introduction......Page 16
SECTION 1: PRIMARY PROPOSITIONS......Page 28
Introduction......Page 30
The Rabbinic Evidence......Page 33
Theological Reflections......Page 54
The Beetle and the Poet......Page 60
Practices of Writing......Page 61
Traces of a Habit......Page 62
“We Write and Rewrite and Write Yet Again. . . ”......Page 65
Farewell to Innocence and Arrogance......Page 66
The Beetle and the Scholar......Page 68
The Most Holy Name of God......Page 70
Murray H. Lichtenstein: An Interpersonal Theology of the Hebrew Bible......Page 76
Ellen F. Davis: Losing a Friend: The Loss of the Old Testament to the Church......Page 98
Willing Readers......Page 99
Intimate Readings......Page 104
SECTION 2: MOSTLY METHODS......Page 110
A New Context for Theological Interpretation......Page 112
Interpretive Themes Endlessly Processive......Page 114
Interpretation That Refuses Closure......Page 118
Contextual Readings amidst Large Common Crises......Page 120
Tikva Frymer-Kensky: The Emergence of Jewish Biblical Theologies......Page 124
S. David Sperling: The Law and the Prophet......Page 138
The Hebrew Scriptures As Christian Bible......Page 152
Present Christian Approaches......Page 155
Changing Views......Page 159
A New Departure Is Necessary......Page 161
No False Polarization......Page 163
Steps to Be Taken......Page 165
SECTION 3: ENGAGING EVIL......Page 168
The Breakdown of the Enlightenment Consensus......Page 170
The Impact of the Shoah on Old Testament Theology......Page 173
The Task of Old Testament Theology in a Post-Shoah World......Page 178
A Post-Shoah Reading of Amos and Esther......Page 181
Concluding Reflections......Page 186
Jorge Pixley: Christian Biblical Theology and the Struggle against Oppression......Page 188
Contemporary Understandings of the Theology of the Hebrew Bible: Problems and Prospects......Page 194
YHWH’s Identity in Essentialist and Functional Views......Page 209
SECTION 1: THE EXODUS STORY......Page 228
The Exodus from Egypt As Political Revolution......Page 230
Is the Bible Really against Slavery?......Page 234
Who Benefited from the Exodus?......Page 238
Liberation for Service......Page 241
Honesty in Confronting Embarrassing Scriptures......Page 242
A Climate of Respectful Political Debate......Page 246
Modern Universality and Traditional Particularity......Page 248
Is the Authority of the Bible in the History or in the Text?......Page 251
Activism or Theology?......Page 254
Chosenness Is More Than Particularism......Page 257
Marxism or Open Debate?......Page 259
John J. Collins: The Exodus and Biblical Theology......Page 262
The Separation of Exodus and Sinai......Page 263
Liberation Theology......Page 266
Tradition and Canon......Page 269
The Use of the Exodus in the Prophets......Page 272
Constants and Constraints......Page 275
Jon D. Levenson: The Exodus and Biblical Theology: A Rejoinder to John J. Collins......Page 278
The Familial-National Dimension outside the Pentateuch......Page 285
The Egyptian Social Order or the Wickedness of the Second Pharaoh?......Page 288
SECTION 2: PIVOTAL PASSAGES......Page 292
Terence E. Fretheim: Which Blessing Does Isaac Give Jacob?......Page 294
A Universal Frame of Reference......Page 295
The Jacob-Esau Relationship......Page 299
David Marcus: Traditional Jewish Responses to the Question of Deceit in Genesis 27......Page 308
Reading Ourselves......Page 322
Rereading Exodus 1–2......Page 325
Brooks Schramm: Exodus 19 and Its Christian Appropriation......Page 342
Exodus 19......Page 343
“Conditional” Covenant?......Page 352
The New Testament and Sinai in Tension......Page 358
Marc Zvi Brettler: The Many Faces of God in Exodus 19......Page 368
Alice Ogden Bellis: Habakkuk 2:4b: Intertextuality and Hermeneutics......Page 384
Habakkuk 2:4b......Page 387
Galatians 3:11......Page 391
Reflections......Page 395
Romans 1:17......Page 390
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARY SOURCES......Page 402
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MODERN AUTHORS......Page 406
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 442
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 443
Hebrew Scriptures......Page 444
New Testament......Page 455
Mishnah, Tosefta, and Talmud......Page 456
Other Classical Jewish Sources......Page 457
Medieval Commentators......Page 458
INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS......Page 459