Exile and Suffering

Exile and Suffering
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9789004171046
ISBN-13 : 9004171045
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Book Synopsis Exile and Suffering by : Bob Becking

Download or read book Exile and Suffering written by Bob Becking and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the fiftieth anniversary of the Old Testament Society of South Africa a conference was organized on the theme Exile and Suffering. This volume contains a selection of the papers presented. Focal questions are such themes as: What do we really know about the Exile? To what degree did suffering take place? How did the Ancient Israelites cope with the disaster? Where the ancinet traditions sufficient to deal with the Exile? Or did this period produce new forms of 'theology'? The significance of the Exile as a matrix for understanding suffering until this day is also dealt with.


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