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Thus saith the Lord : the revolutionary moral vision of Isaiah and Jeremiah / Richard E. Rubenstein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Orlando : Harcourt, 2006Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 258 p. : map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0151012199
  • 9780151012190
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 224/.106 22
LOC classification:
  • BS1515.6.E8 R83 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
"If YHVH is God, follow Him!" : Elijah, I Kings 18:21 -- "What are your endless sacrifices to me?" : Isaiah I:II -- "Blessed be my people Egypt" : Isaiah 19:25 -- "The heart is more devious than any other thing" : Jeremiah 17:9 -- "Deep within them I will plant my law" : Jeremiah 31:33 -- "I will make you the light of the nations" : Isaiah 49:6 -- "Now I create new heavens and a new earth" : Isaiah 65:17.
Summary: "In ancient Judea, Jeremiah and Isaiah advised kings and priests and watched the great armies of the ancient Near East sweep across the desert, threatening and overtaking their tiny country with its burgeoning faith. Across centuries a new view emerged based on their words: Might does not make right; we are all the children of one God. Both the beautiful words of Isaiah and the frightening words of Jeremiah helped form our contemporary ideas of justice, ethics, and faith. Richard Rubenstein shows us the evolution of our own moral codes and how they transformed the god of the Israelites from a local deity into Adonai, the universal sovereign who requires ethical behavior and demands the pursuit of justice for all people.--From publisher description."--From source other than the Library of Congress
Item type: Book
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BS1515.53 .I63 2004 Isaiah 1-39 / BS1515.53 .I83 2007 Isaiah : BS1515.6.E8 D38 2000 Double standards in Isaiah : BS1515.6.E8 R83 2006 Thus saith the Lord : BS1515.6.J8 G73 2006 Rhetoric and social justice in Isaiah / BS1515.6.N6 G49 2004 Mythology and lament : BS1520 .I83 2007 Isaiah 40-66 /

Map on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-250) and index.

"If YHVH is God, follow Him!" : Elijah, I Kings 18:21 -- "What are your endless sacrifices to me?" : Isaiah I:II -- "Blessed be my people Egypt" : Isaiah 19:25 -- "The heart is more devious than any other thing" : Jeremiah 17:9 -- "Deep within them I will plant my law" : Jeremiah 31:33 -- "I will make you the light of the nations" : Isaiah 49:6 -- "Now I create new heavens and a new earth" : Isaiah 65:17.

"In ancient Judea, Jeremiah and Isaiah advised kings and priests and watched the great armies of the ancient Near East sweep across the desert, threatening and overtaking their tiny country with its burgeoning faith. Across centuries a new view emerged based on their words: Might does not make right; we are all the children of one God. Both the beautiful words of Isaiah and the frightening words of Jeremiah helped form our contemporary ideas of justice, ethics, and faith. Richard Rubenstein shows us the evolution of our own moral codes and how they transformed the god of the Israelites from a local deity into Adonai, the universal sovereign who requires ethical behavior and demands the pursuit of justice for all people.--From publisher description."--From source other than the Library of Congress

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