Exile and Restoration

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ISBN: 9780664223199 | 0664223192
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Copyright: 12/1/1968

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This study of sixth-century Hebrew thought, a part of the Old Testament Library series, grew out of Peter Ackroyd's influential Hulsean Lectures on the same topic.The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.

The Hulsean Lectures 1960-1962	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
The Exilic Age	p. 1
Revaluation	p. 1
The exilic period as a 'creative age'	p. 7
The scope of the present study	p. 12
The sources	p. 14
The Historical Situation in the Exilic Age	p. 17
The historical background	p. 17
The situation in Judah	p. 20
The situation in Babylonia	p. 31
The Response to the Events	p. 39
General Considerations	p. 39
Return to older cults	p. 40
Acceptance of the religion of the conquerors	p. 41
The recognition of divine judgement	p. 43
The disaster and the 'Day of Yahweh'	p. 48
The Response to the Events (continued)	p. 50
The Book of Jeremiah	p. 50
The doom of the state	p. 51
Jeremiah and the future	p. 55
The exiles of 597	p. 55
Submission to Babylon	p. 56
Restoration themes	p. 58
The Historians and Theologians of the Exilic Age	p. 62
The Deuteronomic History	p. 62
The nature of the Deuteronomic presentation	p. 62
The criteria of the Deuteronomic presentation	p. 73
The outlook of the Deuteronomic history	p. 78
The Historians and Theologians of the Exilic Age (continued)	p. 84
The Priestly Work	p. 84
The Holiness Code (Lev. 17-26)	p. 87
The Priestly Work	p. 91
Prophecy of the Exile and the Ideals of Restoration	p. 103
The Book of Ezekiel	p. 103
Ezekiel and the disaster	p. 106
Ezekiel and restoration	p. 110
Temple	p. 111
Cultus	p. 112
Land and people	p. 113
Prophecy of the Exile and the Ideals of Restoration (continued)	p. 118
Deutero-Isaiah	p. 118
The people's present condition	p. 121
The future hope	p. 128
The Restoration and its Interpretation	p. 138
Introductory: The Historical Problems of the Restoration Period	p. 138
The Restoration and its Interpretation (continued)	p. 153
Haggai	p. 153
The Temple	p. 155
The new community and the new age	p. 162
The people's response	p. 166
The Restoration and its Interpretation (continued)	p. 171
Zechariah 1-8	p. 171
The Temple	p. 171
The new community and the new age	p. 175
The people's response	p. 200
Exile and Restoration: Other Aspects of the Thought of the Period	p. 218
Passages reflecting the exilic situation	p. 219
Oracles of judgement, primarily upon Babylon as conqueror	p. 219
Allusions to the exile in the Psalms	p. 225
Passages of lamentation	p. 226
Passages reflecting restoration	p. 228
The Significance of the Exile and Restoration	p. 232
Developments of thought	p. 232
The 'idea' of exile	p. 237
The 'idea' of restoration	p. 247
The Temple	p. 248
The new community and the new age	p. 251
The people's response	p. 254
Select Bibliography	p. 257
List of Abbreviations	p. 259
Index of Subjects	p. 263
Index of Authors	p. 272
Index of Biblical References	p. 277
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