{"title":"Hating Our Enemies—2 Kings, Nahum, and Jonah","authors":"E. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0025","url":null,"abstract":"The Prophets do not view the territory of Israel and Judah in isolation from its neighbors, the surrounding small states, and especially the vast empires that threatened or dominated the region throughout most of the monarchic period. For more than a century, the dominant force was Assyria; its fate is the exclusive focus of two of the Minor Prophets, Nahum and Jonah. Total domination of the Mediterranean region began during the expansionist reign of the Assyrian ruler Tiglath-Pileser III (745–727 BCE) and continued until the last decades of the seventh century, when the empire gradually weakened in the face of multiple enemies. The capital city of Nineveh fell in 612 BCE, as the Chaldean dynasty in Babylon began its own spectacular rise to dominance of western and central Asia....","PeriodicalId":325838,"journal":{"name":"Opening Israel's Scriptures","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125967398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Esther and Daniel","authors":"E. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0038","url":null,"abstract":"The books of Esther and Daniel are diaspora tales, written from the point of view of those on the underside of dominance, who are threatened by persecution and genocide. The exaggerated and ironized telling of Persian history in Esther gives voice to the oppressed. Yet this volatile book has also been used as a warrant for violence, both by Jews and against Jews. The book of Daniel is another imaginative account of Jews living in foreign courts, and it has the overt theological dimension that Esther lacks. Both the court tales and the vision reports in the second half of the book exploit this setting to address two questions: How can Jews survive in Gentile power structures, which often threaten Jewish identity and Jewish lives? And, how long until God asserts sovereignty over all oppressive potentates?","PeriodicalId":325838,"journal":{"name":"Opening Israel's Scriptures","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121102549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beginning with Blessing—Genesis 12–50","authors":"E. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"BIBLICAL THEOLOGY BEGINS with Genesis, and blessing is one of its core concepts. For modern Westerners, blessing might be an offhand response to a sneeze, but the Bible views it as the main thoroughfare for traffic between God and the creatures, both human and nonhuman. Accordingly, the story of Israel’s first ancestors reads like a primer on the complex dynamics of blessing, which prove to be both messy and transformative for human lives....","PeriodicalId":325838,"journal":{"name":"Opening Israel's Scriptures","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129473757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ecstasy of Intimacy—Song of Songs","authors":"E. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0037","url":null,"abstract":"“THE SONG OF Songs, which is Solomon’s” (Song 1:1)—that opening ascription is the one conventional statement in the whole book, paralleled as it is by many similar ascriptions to David in Psalms. Yet almost every other aspect of this book is unique within the Bible, starting with the outburst of passionate longing that sets the tenor for the whole:...","PeriodicalId":325838,"journal":{"name":"Opening Israel's Scriptures","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129088036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1–2 Samuel and 1 Kings","authors":"E. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0017","url":null,"abstract":"The semihistorical dramas in 1–2 Samuel and 1 Kings reflect complex and sometimes competing perspectives on the past, woven together into a large textured statement about human character, social change, and political division. They also explore the ambiguity of God’s role in those social processes. The account of Saul’s rejection should be read on multiple levels—political, theological, and symbolic. David’s story is told with a measure of skepticism, and the account of Solomon likewise prompts a fresh appraisal of his reputation for wisdom. Yet the text points to their lasting legacy in the worship tradition and Zion theology associated with the temple and the book of Psalms. Narratives in Kings—stories of Elijah and also the anonymous man of God who confronted Jeroboam at Bethel—focus on prophets and YHWH’s word itself as primary shapers of history. The YHWH-alone movement in ninth-century Israel, associated with Elijah, bears some resemblance to the spread of indigenous African Christianity in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.","PeriodicalId":325838,"journal":{"name":"Opening Israel's Scriptures","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133864706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sovereignty of the Prophetic Word—1 Kings 13–21","authors":"E. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0021","url":null,"abstract":"STARTING AT THE very end of Solomon’s reign, the center of gravity shifts from kings to prophets; the narrative refocuses attention away from palace intrigue and royal enterprises, including even war, as primary shapers of history. Rather, what comes to the fore is the sovereignty of the prophetic word itself, operating in ways that may go beyond the intentions and hopes of the prophet and sometimes run directly counter to them. The large body of narrative from Joshua to Kings is traditionally known as the ...","PeriodicalId":325838,"journal":{"name":"Opening Israel's Scriptures","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122810410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Big Upheaval: Canaan in the Thirteenth Century—Excursus","authors":"E. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"CULTURAL MEMORIES DO not come out of nowhere. If the book of Joshua looks to the distant past as a time of major conflict between Israelites and Canaanites with some instances of peaceful coexistence, then likely the historical reality included both. So what actually happened between Israelites and Canaanites in the thirteenth century, the period when the historical record first identifies Israel as a distinct people?...","PeriodicalId":325838,"journal":{"name":"Opening Israel's Scriptures","volume":"87 19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126301900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Wisdom of Lament—Psalms","authors":"E. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0033","url":null,"abstract":"MANY READERS WHO first encounter the book of Psalms in its entirety—and not just isolated psalms in worship—are unprepared for the predominance of lament. Although the book as a whole bears the Hebrew title Tehilim, “Praisings,” the first half is dominated by cries of pain and appeals for deliverance. Many of these psalms are not carefully modulated expressions of agony and outrage, and for that reason, they tend not to be part of the functional theology of either church or synagogue. This is a sad irony, since the angry psalms are among those that may be most useful for pastoral ministry, as well as for spiritual growth and healing. As Calvin observed, the emotional honesty of psalms is a protection against and remedy for “that most baneful infection, hypocrisy”;...","PeriodicalId":325838,"journal":{"name":"Opening Israel's Scriptures","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121018940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"David in Perspective—2 Samuel","authors":"E. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0019","url":null,"abstract":"SAUL, AS REPRESENTED in the book of Samuel, is a complex and tragic figure, whose fatal flaw is his inability to emerge from self-absorption and refocus his attention on YHWH and his own commission from YHWH to govern the people (1 Sam 9:17). The corresponding portrait of David in the same book is even richer; no human narrative character in the Bible (not counting Jesus!) is drawn in such depth and detail, and at the same time so variously. The chiaroscuro portrait of David in Samuel is not easily reconciled with the pious portrayal in Chronicles, and there is yet a third “David,” the implied voice speaking through numerous psalms. All three Davids have profoundly touched the imagination of Jews and Christians and shaped religious understandings and practices over centuries and millennia. For twenty-first-century readers, the detailed and realistic account of David in Samuel raises questions that invite consideration of the story from several different perspectives—historical, literary, and theological....","PeriodicalId":325838,"journal":{"name":"Opening Israel's Scriptures","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125448724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Telling God the Truth—Jeremiah","authors":"E. Davis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190260545.003.0029","url":null,"abstract":"JEREMIAH IS THE most fully developed personality among the writing prophets, the only one with much of a biography, and therefore likely the only one with whom a contemporary reader might imagine it possible to identify. That felt connection is a result of how the book presents him. We hear his own voice to an extent that is not true of any other prophet—an independent voice, not only speaking ...","PeriodicalId":325838,"journal":{"name":"Opening Israel's Scriptures","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130333912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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