Between Fear And Freedom

Becking (Old Testament, Utrecht U.) presents a coherent set of essays on the interpretation of the Old Testament passage. He emphasizes the ability to recognize the communicative patterns in a text and especially those patterns that also appear widely in the canonical literature of the Ancient Near East. His topics include a dissonant voice of hope; abbreviation, expansion, or two traditions; the macrostructure; awful terror, prophecy of liberation, and oracle of salvation; divine changeability; between anger and harmony; the metaphysical meaning of the masal in Jeremiah 31:29, covenant and creation; whether the conception coherence of the passage is based on an Exodus theology; and overwhelming wisdom, divine battle, and new life. Only authors and textual references are indexed. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Bob Becking, Ph.D. (1985) in Theology, Utrecht University, is Professor of Old Testament Study at Utrecht University. Apart from a great variety of articles, he published The Fall of Samaria (Brill, 1992) and was co-editor of the Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (Brill, 1995; 1998)