God's Holy People by Jo Bailey Wells
God calls his people to be holy. What does this mean? Holiness means belonging to God and being stamped with his character. This belonging is expressed for ancient Israel in the story of the foundational events on Mount Sinai. The idea is then developed, refined and transformed through the establishment of the priesthood, the gift of the Law, the challenge of the prophets and, in the New Testament, through the life of Christ. This book sets out these perspectives alongside each other, and considers their interplay within the canon of scripture as a whole. The result is both a biblical theology of holiness and a promising model for reinterpreting one text in the light on another.-
The Animalising Affliction of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4
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From Law to Prophecy
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Was Noah Good?
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Poets, Prophets, and Texts in Play
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Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Texts
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The Making of the Pentateuch
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The Faces of David
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Pivot Patterns in the Former Prophets
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Culture, Entertainment, and the Bible
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Isaiah 34-35
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The Origins of Biblical Israel
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Loneliness in the Hebrew Bible
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The Rise and Fall of the Monarchy in the Book of Chronicles
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Identity and the Hebrew Bible: Self-Definition and the Other
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Archaeology, History and Heritage of the Southern Levant
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Allusion and Meaning in Judges and Ruth
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Jephthah’s Daughter in the Bible and Reception
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Adoption in the Hebrew Bible
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Ancient Near Eastern Iconography and the Bible
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Divine Masculinity in the Book of Samuel
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Woe-Speeches within the Context of an Oracular Inquiry
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The Figure of the Widow in the Hebrew Bible
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Introducing a Hermeneutics of Cispicion
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Envisioning Writing
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On Femininities in the Song of Songs and Beyond
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Ethical God-Talk in the Book of Job
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Inner Biblical Allusion in the Poetry of Wisdom and Psalms
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The Sin of the Calf
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Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15
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Pre-Exilic Israel, the Hebrew Bible, and Archaeology
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Reading Ecclesiastes Intertextually
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Open-Mindedness in the Bible and Beyond
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On Her Account
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Concerning the Nations
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Still Selling the Righteous
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Religion in Ancient Israel
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History in Disguise
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Violence against Women and Children in the Hebrew Bible
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Tracing the Ritual Body
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Graded Holiness
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Jerusalem as Contested Space in Ezekiel
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Crossing the Jordan
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Leshon Limmudim
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By the Irrigation Canals of Babylon
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The Performative Dimensions of Rhetorical Questions in the Hebrew Bible
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Exploring the Narrative
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Judahite Burial Practices and Beliefs about the Dead
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The History of Israel's Traditions
"Wells's study is a useful analysis of a familiar biblical theme that is not often studied. . I recommend it to those scholars and students interested in a thematic approach to the study of the Bible from a literary, theological and canonical perspective." --The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 63 (2001)
"Bailey Wells is to be commended for the careful, fresh and hermeneutically alert approach to this familiar biblical theme. This is an academic treatment with significance for Christian and Jewish faith and practice." --Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches
"Bailey Wells is to be commended for the careful, fresh and hermeneutically alert approach to this familiar biblical theme. This is an academic treatment with significance for Christian and Jewish faith and practice." --Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches
Jo Bailey Wells is Dean of Clare College, Cambridge.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781841270968 |
| ISBN 10 | 1841270962 |
| Title | God's Holy People |
| Author | Jo Bailey Wells |
| Series | The Library Of Hebrew Bible Old Testament Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2000-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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