By Bob Becking & Dirk Human

On the 50th anniversary of the outdated testomony Society of South Africa a convention used to be prepared at the subject matter Exile and soreness. This quantity incorporates a choice of the papers provided. Focal questions are such subject matters as: What can we particularly learn about the Exile? To what measure did pain occur? How did the traditional Israelites focus on the catastrophe? the place the traditional traditions enough to house the Exile? Or did this era produce new sorts of 'theology'? the importance of the Exile as a matrix for knowing discomfort till this present day is usually handled.

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Adam’s lack of resistance and almost meek compliance to Eve’s suggestion is the Yahwist’s way of indirectly criticising Solomon and his Egyptian wife. Holter takes this reasoning a step further. He notes that Isa. 14:29, Jer. 44 The criticism in Gen. 3 is much wider than directed only at Solomon’s foreign policy. All Israel’s neighbours are included. The warning is that Israel might become too dependent upon and therefore vulnerable to all her neighbours. 45 Thus, the Garden-narrative is interpreted in many and diverse ways, yet the outcome is clear: exile from the Garden implies lifelong suffering.

They could accomplish this because they integrated the best intellectual traditions of their time into their own theology. They appropriated the profound thinking of learned scholars and embraced all kinds of knowledge in order to shape their own thinking. These earliest theologians thus did not shun from theoretical thinking and intellectual challenges. This is why they could interpret and actualize the Bible for their times. 11 3. Reliving the Events of the Past One result of the constant reflection on history since the nineteenth century is the discovery of the individual and individuality.

8 M. Dietrich, O. Loretz, “ Jahwe und seine Aschera”. Anthropomorphes Kultbild in Mesopotamien, Ugarit und Israel (UBL, 9), Münster 1992; C. Uehlinger, ‘Bilderkult III. Bibel’, in: RGG 4 Bd. I, 1565–70; C. Uehlinger, ‘Bilderverbot’, in: RGG 4 Bd. I, 1574–77; C. Uehlinger, ‘Exodus, Stierbild und biblisches Kuldbildverbot. Religionsgeschichtliche Voraussetzungen eines biblisch-theologischen Spezifikums’, in: C. Hardmeier et al. (eds), Freiheit und Recht: FS F. Crüsemann, Gütersloh 2003, 42–77. 9 H.

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