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Zion, city of our God

Title
Zion, city of our God / edited by Richard S. Hess and Gordon J. Wenham.
Publication
Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, [1999], ©1999.

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  • Hess, Richard S.
  • Wenham, Gordon J.
Description
x, 206 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
  • Zion, city of our God gathers studies by an international team of scholars that help portray the full significance of Jerusalem in the First Temple period of the Old Testament. John M. Monson explores Jerusalem's temple of Solomon in its original ancient Near Eastern context. Richard S. Hess looks at one of the most important events in the Bible's record of pre-exilic Jerusalem - Sennacherib's attack on the city. Martin J. Selman and Gary N.
  • Knoppers outline the theological significance of Jerusalem in the books of Chronicles, providing as well a summary statement on the key role of the city in the entire Old Testament. Thomas Renz examines the Zion tradition as it underwent its greatest challenge, the fall of Jerusalem. Philip E. Satterthwaite and Knut M. Heim describe Jerusalem's place in the poetry of the Hebrew Bible, giving special attention, respectively, to the Songs of Ascents and Lamentations.
  • Lastly, Rebecca Doyle discusses what Ugaritic, Old Testament, and other texts tell us about the cult of Molek and the worship of this god in Jerusalem.
Subject
  • Bible. > History of Biblical events
  • Jerusalem > In the Bible
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Zion, City of Our God / Richard S. Hess and Gordon J. Wenham -- The Temple of Solomon: Heart of Jerusalem / John M. Monson -- Hezekiah and Sennacherib in 2 Kings 18-20 / Richard S. Hess -- Jerusalem in Chronicles / Martin J. Selman -- Jerusalem at War in Chronicles / Gary N. Knoppers -- The Use of the Zion Tradition in the Book of Ezekiel / Thomas Renz -- Zion in the Songs of Ascents / Philip E. Satterthwaite -- The Personification of Jerusalem and the Drama of Her Bereavement in Lamentations / Knut M. Heim -- Molek of Jerusalem? / Rebecca Doyle.
ISBN
080284426X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
99014369
OCLC
ocm40890947
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries