The character of Yhwh and the Ethics of the Old Testament: Is Imitatio Dei appropriate?

Journal of Theological Studies

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-25

  Houston, Walter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 63849246410     PISSN: 00225185     EISSN: 14774607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jts/fll036     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Martin Buber, 'Imitatio Dei', in Israel and the World (New York: Schocken, 1948), pp. 66-77
2. ET of 'Nachahmung Gottes', in Kampf um Israel: Reden und Schriften (1921-1932) (Berlin: Schocken, 1933)
3. Walther Eichrodt, Theology of the Old Testament, vol. 2 (London: SCM Press, 1967; after 5th German edn. of 1964), p. 373
4. See also Eckart Otto, 'Forschungsgeschichte der Entwürfe einer Ethik im Alten Testament', VF 36:1 (1991), pp. 3-37, at 19-20
5. Otto, 'Forschungsgeschichte'
6. id., Theologische Ethik des Alten Testaments (Theologische Wissenschaft, 3/2; Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1994), pp. 85-91, 111, 185
7. Understanding Old Testament Ethics', JSOT 9 (1978), pp. 44-64, at 60-1
8. id., 'The Basis of Ethics in the Hebrew Bible', Semeia 66 (1994), pp. 11-22, at 17-21
9. Cyril S. Rodd, Glimpses of a Strange Land: Studies in Old Testament Ethics (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2001), pp. 65-76
10. Hempel, Ethos, p. 197
11. Otto, 'Forschungsgeschiehte', pp. 19-20
12. Otto, Ethik, pp. 110-11
13. Rodd, Glimpses, pp. 65-76
14. 25)', ExpT 83 (1971-2), pp. 137-9
15. Nathan MacDonald, 'Listening to Abraham - Listening to Yhwh: Divine Justice and Mercy in Genesis 18:16-33', CBQ 66 (2004), pp. 25-43
16. Andrew Davies, Double Standards in Isaiah: Re-evaluating Prophetic Ethics and Divine Justice (Leiden: Brill, 2000)
17. A. Davies, Double Standards, pp. 136-7
18. R. N. Whybray, 'The Immorality of God: Reflections on Some Passages in Genesis, Job, Exodus and Numbers', JSOT 72 (1996), pp. 89-120
19. id., '"Shall not the Judge of All the Earth Do What is Just?" God's Oppression of the Innocent in the Old Testament', in David Penchansky and Paul L. Redditt (eds.), Shall not the Judge of the All the Earth Do What is Right? Studies on the Nature of God in Tribute to James L. Crenshaw (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2000), pp. 1-20. Many of the other essays in this collection explore similar themes
20. Danna Nolan Fewell and David M. Gunn, Gender, Power and Promise: The Subject of the Bible's First Story (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1993)
21. David M. Gunn, The Fate of King Saul (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1980), p. 131
22. 'The Task of Old Testament Theology', in The Task of Old Testament Theology: Substance, Method and Cases (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995), pp. 1-20
23. David J. A. Clines, Interested Parties: The Ideology of Writers and Readers of the Hebrew Bible (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995)
24. Israel Knohl, The Sanctuary of Silence: The Priestly Torah and the Holiness School (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995)
25. Jacob Milgrom, Leviticus 1-16 (AB 3; New York: Doubleday, 1991), pp. 13-42
26. Houston, Purity, p. 250
27. Glimpses, p. 66
28. Moshe Weinfeld, Deuteronomy 1-11 (AB 5; New York, Doubleday, 1991), pp. 438-9
29. Houston, Contending, pp. 213-17
30. Barton, 'Imitation'. See above
31. Mac Donald, Deuteronomy, p. 169
32. id., 'The King's Preferential Option for the Poor: Rhetoric, Ideology and Ethics in Psalm 72', BibInt 7 (1999), pp. 341-67
33. Weinfeld, Social Justice, pp. 25-44
34. Cf. John Barton, 'Natural Law and Poetic Justice in the Old Testament', JTS, NS 30 (1979), pp. 1-14
35. John Barton, 'Ethics in Isaiah of Jerusalem', JTS, NS 32 (1981), pp. 1-18
36. Whybray, 'Immorality', p. 113
37. Cf. Eichrodt, Theology, vol. 1 (London: SCM Press, 1961), p. 232
38. Hans G. Kippenberg: Religion und Klassenbildung im antiken Judäa: eine religionssoziologische Studie zum Verhältnis von Tradition und gesellschaftlicher Entwicklung, 2nd edn. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982), p. 32
39. N. P. Lemche, 'From Patronage Society to Patronage Society', in Volkmar Fritz and Philip R. Davies (eds.), The Origins of the Ancient Israelite States (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996), pp. 106-20
40. Ronald A. Simkins, 'Patronage and the Political Economy of Monarchic Israel', Semeia 87 (1999), pp. 123-44
41. David J. Reimer, 'The Apocrypha and Biblical Theology: The Case of Interpersonal Forgiveness', in John Barton and David J. Reimer (eds.), After the Exile: Essays in Honour of Rex Mason (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1996), pp. 259-82, at 272
42. Noted by Barton, Understanding, p. 7
43. B. Lindars, 'Ezekiel and Individual Responsibility', VT 15 (1965), pp. 452-67
44. and by Joel S. Kaminsky, Corporate Responsibility in the Hebrew Bible (JSOTSup 196; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995)
45. Eichrodt, Theology of the Old Testament, vol. 1, p. 244
46. See William H. C. Propp, Exodus 1-18 (AB 2; New York: Doubleday, 1998), p. 207, for discussion of
47. David M. Gunn, ''The Hardening of Pharaoh's Heart' in David J. A. Clines, David M. Gunn, and Alan Hauser (eds.), Art and Meaning: Rhetoric in Biblical Literature (JSOTSup 19; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1982), pp. 72-96
48. The next two paragraphs (apart from the last sentence) are reproduced, with permission, from my 'Exodus' in John Barton and John Muddiman (eds.), The Oxford Bible Commentary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 67-91, at 74
49. Donald M. Gowan, Theology in Exodus (Louisville, KY: Westminster-John Knox Press, 1994), p. 138
50. H. H. Schmid, Altorientalische Welt in der alttestamentlichen Theologie (Zurich: Theologischer Verlag, 1974)
51. Walter Brueggemann, 'Pharaoh as Vassal: A Study of a Political Metaphor', Catholic Biblical Quarterly 57 (1995), pp. 27-51, at 44
52. Gunn, 'Hardening', p. 84