Philosophical Interpretations of the Old Testament

✍ Scribed by Seizo Sekine

• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 269
• Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 458
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This monograph challenges the extremes of faith-based theological approaches and value-free historical-critical methods by pursuing the middle path of philosophical hermeneutics. Drawing on Eastern and Western philosophy, the author proposes original interpretive solutions to the Akedah, Jeremiah and other biblical texts. Readers will also gain fresh insights into problems of monotheism, religious faith and identity, suffering and modern ethics.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction: Philosophical and Historical Interpretations

Part I: The Old Testament and Philosophy
1 Philosophical Interpretations of the Sacrifice of Isaac: Inquiring into the True Significance of the Akedah
2 The Paradox of Suffering: Comparing Second Isaiah and Socrates
3 Reconstructing Old Testament Monotheism: A Dialogue between Old Testament Studies and Philosophy

Part II: Old Testament Thought and the Modern World
4 Modern Aspects of the Old Testament Understanding of God: Qohelet, Schoenberg, Jung
5 Toward Regenerating Ethics: Seeking an Ordered Path of Joyful Coexistence

Part III: The Prophets and Soteriology
6 A Genealogy of Prophetic Salvation: Isaiah, Second Isaiah, and Jeremiah
7 The Prophets and Deuteronomism: The Book of Jeremiah

Part IV: Old Testament Studies in Japan
8 Old Testament Studies in Japan: A Retrospect and Prospects