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Theology from the Beginning Essays on the Primeval History and its Canonical Context

:	Andreas Schüle
:	Theology from the Beginning Essays on the Primeval History and its Canonical Context
:	Mohr Siebeck
:	9783161549489
:	Forschungen zum Alten Testament
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The Primeval History (Genesis 1-11) is one of the most complex theological compositions of the Old Testament/the Hebrew Bible. Woven into its multi-layered text one finds reflections on an array of fundamental questions: How did the world come into being? Who is its creator? What role does humankind play in the larger scheme of creation? Why is the world that God made not a perfect one? And finally, is it possible to lead a meaningful and even happy life despite the unpredictabilities of existence? The essays by Andreas Schüle assembled in this volume address these and related questions through close readings of Genesis 1-11 and by relating them to kindred textual traditions throughout the Old Testament/the Hebrew Bible.

Born 1968; studied Theology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Heidelberg; PhD in Semitic Studies (Heidelberg); PhD in Old Testament Studies (Heidelberg); Habilitation in Old Testament (Zurich); 2005-12 Professor of Biblical Exegesis and Old Testament at Union Presbyterian Seminary (Richmond, Virginia); since 2012 Professor for Exegesis and Theology of the Old Testament (Leipzig) and Extraordinary Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa).

	Cover	1
	Preface	6
	Table of Contents	8
	Introduction	10
	1. The Image of God	14
	Made in the “Image of God”: The Concepts of Divine Images in Gen 1–3	16
	1. Images versus Idols	16
	2. “Image” and “Likeness”	19
	2.1 Statue or Person	23
	2.2 The Making of an Image	26
	3. The Image and the Other	29
	4. More than an Image?	33
	The Reluctant Image: Theology and Anthropology in Gen 1–3	36
	1. Introduction: Aitia and Telos	36
	2. The Dissenting Trajectory: Human Sociality and the Divine Image	38
	3. God’s Intention to let the Divine Image rule (Gen 1:1–2:3)	40
	4. The Image in the Garden (Gen 2:4–25)	46
	5. Eve as the Reluctant Image	50
	The Dignity of the Image: A Re-reading of the Priestly Prehistory	54
	1. Introduction	54
	2. The Royal Dignity of Human Beings as Key to the Image of God?	56
	2.1 Rule – what for?	58
	2.2 Image and Similarity	60
	3. Personal Formation of the Human Being as the Imago Dei	61
	4. The Endangered World and the Commission to “Rule”	67
	5. Conclusion	70
	The Notion of Life: Nefesh and Ruach in the Anthropological Discourse of the Primeval History	72
	1. Introduction	72
	2. The Cultic World and the Role of the Nefesh	74
	3. The Persian Period and the Loss of “World Certainty”	77
	4. Ru?ch as Life-force and “Spirit”	81
	4.1. Ru?ch in the “Primeval History”	82
	4.2. Ru?ch as the Spirit of Life	84
	Transformed into the Image of Christ: Identity, Personality, and Resurrection	90
	1. Modernity’s Loss of Death Awareness	90
	2. Resurrection and the Eschatological Validity of Past, Present, and Future Life	92
	3. Identity and Resurrection	94
	4. Personal Resurrection versus Objective Immortality	97
	5. Psychological Mechanisms (Peter Berger)	97
	6. Objective Immortality (A.N. Whitehead and D. Parfit)	99
	7. Personhood versus Identity	102
	2. Evil	106
	“And Behold, It Was Very Good … And Behold, the Earth Was Corrupt” (Genesis 1:31, 6:12): The Prehistoric Discourse about Evil	108
	1. Introduction	108
	2. The Flood Myth and the Question of Evil	110
	3. The Biblical Flood Myth	113
	3.1 The Violent Temperament of the Creatures	116
	3.2 The Human Heart	120
	3.3 Evil in the Flood Narrative – A Conclusion	122
	4. Sin at the Doorstep (Gen 4:7)	124
	5. Conclusion	127
	The Divine-Human Marriages: Genesis 6:1–4 and the Greek Framing of the Primeval History	130
	1. Introduction	130
	2. The Text	132
	3. The Text in its Literary Context	134
	4. The Mythic Elements of Gen 6:1–4	135
	Evil from the Heart: Qoheleth’s Negative Anthropology and its Canonical Context	144
	1. Introduction	144
	2. Qoheleth’s Assessment of the Human Heart	146
	2.1 What does the Heart desire and by what is it affected?	146
	2.2 The Heart as a Wisdom-seeking and Knowledge-seeking Organ	147
	2.3 What God lays into the Human Heart	148
	2.4 The Evil Heart	149
	3. Qoheleth’s Reference to the Primeval History (Gen 6–8)	151
	4. The Evil Heart Remains. Qoheleth and Gen 6–8 as a Criticism of the Prophetic Line of Tradition	154
	5. A God of Grace? Similarities and Differences between Gen 6–8 and Qoheleth in their respective Views of God	156
	6. Ethos and Cult	158
	3. Law and Forgiveness: Elements of Priestly Theology	162
	The “Eternal Covenant” in the Priestly Pentateuch and the Major Prophets	164
	1. Covenant in the Priestly Code	164
	2. The “Eternal Covenant” in Exilic/Postexilic Prophecy	171
	3. The Divine Speeches in the Priestly Flood Narrative (Gen 8:15–17	9:1–17)
	The Primeval History as an Etiology of Torah	180
	1. Introduction: Creation and Flood in the Priestly Primeval History	180
	2. The Divine Speech after the Flood (Gen 9:1–17)	184
	3. The Laws to Protect Life (Gen 9:4–6)	185
	4. Individual Responsibility	187
	5. Covenant and Law	188
	At the Border of Sin and Forgiveness: Sala? in the Old Testament	192
	1. Introduction	192
	2. The Cultic Function of ???	194
	3. Forgiveness and Communal Events	198
	3.1 The Prayer for the Dedication of the Temple	198
	3.2 Is there a Specific Deuteronomistic Term for Forgiveness?	202
	3.3 Forgiveness and the New Covenant in Jeremiah	205
	3.4 Forgiveness and Covenant Faithfulness	207
	4. Conclusion	210
	“On Earth as it is in Heaven”: Eschatology and the Ethics of Forgiveness	212
	1. Introduction	212
	2. Old Testament Traditions	216
	3. The Hodayot of Qumran	221
	4. Returning to Matthew	225
	4. God	230
	The Challenged God: Reflections on the Motif of God’s Repentance in Job, Jeremiah, Jonah, and the Non-Priestly Flood Narrative	232
	1. Introduction: the Book of Job as a Heuristic Point of Entry