Research Catalog

Title

The religion of Israel, by Henry Renckens. Translated by N.B. Smith.

Author

Renckens, Henricus.

Publication

New York, Sheed and Ward [1966]

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Details

Description

xii, 370 pages; 22 cm

Uniform Title

Godsdienst van Israël. English

Alternative Title

Godsdienst van Israël.

Subject

• To 70
• Judaism > History > To 70 A.D
• Judaism

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 334-355.

Contents

• I. The Mystery of Israel -- 1. the dilemma: problem or mystery -- 2. the mystery: both concealed and revealed in the course of Israel's history -- 3. the application of the dilemma to Israel -- monotheism -- messianism -- historiography -- 4. the connection between the mystery and religiosity and religions -- 5. the capacity for an assimilation of the mystery by means of transformation and purification -- 6. an example: the new consciousness of God in search of a concept of God -- 7. the mystery as the creative factor in religion and in God's people -- 8. Holy Scriptures as an attendant phenomenon and an essential and integral part of the mystery -- 9. the religion of Israel: definition, classification, and its value as a sign -- II. The Patriarchs of Israel -- 1. the distinctively historical character of the patriarchal account -- 2. the situation of the patriarchs -- 3. the God of the patriarchs -- 4. the father of faith -- 5. the promise -- 6. religious practices -- 7. strange, yet spiritually related.
• III. The God of Israel -- 1. God "from the land of Egypt" -- 2. the idea of names in the ancient Near East -- 3. the biblical ethymology of the name Yahweh -- 4. not and exclusive sense of God's nearness -- 5. a full consciousness also of God's nearness -- 6. "Why does thou ask me my name?" -- 7. the meaning of divine "being" in the Bible -- 8. Israel's feeling foe God's "being" expressed in the name -- 9. "I am who I am" -- IV. The Worship of Israel -- 1. the character of the biblical data -- 2. the sanctuary and its arrangement -- 3. priests and Levites -- Levites and the sons of Levi -- the Levitical priest -- the Levite as a non-priest -- explanatory accounts -- 4. the sacrificial service and its conditions -- readiness to sacrifice -- types of offering -- clean and unclean -- 5. Israel's calendar of feasts -- the new moon and the Sabbath -- 6. Israel as a worshiping community -- the priestly people -- the people of Yahweh's possession -- the people of the covenant.
• V. The King of Israel -- 1. the nature of the biblical data -- 2. the rise of Hebrew "amphictyony" -- 3. the sedentary state community -- 4. the new pattern of civilization -- 5. sedentary religion -- 6. the acceptance by Yahwism of the monarchy -- 7. the monarchy as a disruptive factor -- the northern kingdom of Israel and Samaria -- the southern kingdom of Judah and Jerusalem -- 8. the mutual estrangement of the community of believers and the state community -- VI. The prophets of Israel -- 1. the forms in which prophetism appeared -- 2. the function of prophetism -- 3. the development of prophetism -- 4. the factual task of the classic prophets -- 5. prophetic themes -- 6. the theme of disaster -- 7. Israel's disaster seen as a purification -- 8. the theme of the remnant -- 9. the transition from disaster to salvation and from the old order to the new -- 10. the prophetic themes of salvation -- 11. the nature of the new salvation -- VII. The Remnant of Israel -- 1. Judaism -- 2. the former southern kingdom -- 3. the exiles -- 4. new emphases -- 5. the new sense of God -- 6. the second temple -- 7. the Babylonian orthodoxy -- Nehemiah the governor -- Ezra the scribe -- 8. the great gap -- the Samaritan schism -- Scriptures and its interpretation -- the diaspora, the Elephantine colony, and the Septuagint -- 9. Judaism as a figure of authentic faith.

LCCN

66012261

OCLC

• ocm00393107
• 393107
• SCSB-182968

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library