The Life of God in the Hebrew Bible
This article re-engages the question of God's life in the Hebrew Bible. Much prior scholarship assumes a basic difference between the ways that God and creatures live. By contrast, this article begins from a working hypothesis of homology: that in the Hebrew Bible, there are qualities shared be...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2022
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Hebrew bible and ancient Israel
Year: 2022, Volume: 11, Issue: 4, Pages: 308-328 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jahwe
/ Life
/ Old Testament
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IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HD Early Judaism |
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Summary: | This article re-engages the question of God's life in the Hebrew Bible. Much prior scholarship assumes a basic difference between the ways that God and creatures live. By contrast, this article begins from a working hypothesis of homology: that in the Hebrew Bible, there are qualities shared between the life of YHWH and the life of other beings, including the life of gods, humans, and animals; and it ventures that exploring these commonalities yields a fresh picture of the biblical God. It inspects three foci determined by their use of a common lemma, the Hebrew √ חיה , »to live«: the epithet אל חי , »living God,« and related forms; the oath formula חי יהוה , »(by) the life of YHWH«; and theophoric names built from the verb √ חיה . |
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ISSN: | 2192-2284 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Hebrew bible and ancient Israel
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/hebai-2022-0038 |