Trying Man, Trying God

The Divine Courtroom in Early Jewish and Christian Literature
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-3-16-150409-9
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, Band 289, 379 Seiten, Format (B × H): 231 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 604 g

Reihe: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe

Meira Z. Kensky examines scenes of the divine courtroom in Jewish and Christian literature from antiquity. Her central argument is that these courtroom scenes, though fanciful in nature and often remarkably entertaining, are part of a serious inquiry taking place throughout the Mediterranean as to the nature of divine justice. These scenes can contain explicit criticism about the adequacy and equity of God's justice, or can be used to attempt to vindicate God from charges of injustice and inequity. What is important is that this amounts to a rotation of the courtroom scene: the courtroom, rather than simply functioning on the narrative level with the reader as an additional spectator, is rotated so that the reader is in the judicial position, and it is the judge and the process itself which are being adjudicated. When man is tried, it is truly God who is on trial.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kensky, Meira

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christliche Kunst und Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst