The betrayal of God: ideological conflict in Job

In this book, David Penchansky examines the inconsistencies between Job's beliefs and his actions. Adapting the theories of neo-Marxist/postmodernist literary critics Fredric Jameson and Pierre Mac…

Understanding wisdom literature: conflict and dissonance..

Israelite wisdom, literature, David Penchansky argues, records the disputes of ancient sages over basic human questions: What is the purpose of life? Is God just? Why do we suffer? Does God even ex…

What rough beast: images of God in the Hebrew Bible, c.1-2

In this book, author presses further down the path taken in the betrayal of God, his trenchant account of theodicy in the book of job. He entices us to read the God of his newly chosen texts as pro…

Twilight of the Gods: polytheism in the Hebrew Bible

This book will seriously distress most Christians who have not come to grips with the history and theology of the Bible. The Bible was and is a book containing Henotheistic theology. That is, the H…

The politics of biblical theology: a postmodern reading

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

0-86554-462-X

Collation

ix,109p.; 23 cm.

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230.041 PEN p