Destiny of the Defiant

Semantic Field Analysis of Biblical Karet
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-16-164068-1
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, 319 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

Reihe: Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe

In this detailed study on the meaning of the biblical term karet, "cutting off", Donald J. Wold concludes that the penalty is a conditional divine curse denying eternal life to the defiant, "high-handed" sinner (Num 15:30). He is the first scholar to examine karet in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and rabbinic sources. Ancient Near Eastern literature furnishes analogues to karet in Akkadian, West Semitic, Hittite, and Egyptian. Previous explanations have not accounted for its full semantic range, prompting the author to employ semantic-field analysis. He shows that karet is never enacted by humans. It is executed only by God for violations against sacred time, sacred substance, illicit sex and worship, idolatry, blasphemy, and failure to perform certain purification rituals - crimes against God alone.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wold, Donald J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Wold, Donald J.
Born 1945; 1967 BMus, University of Wisconsin, Madison; 1971 MDiv, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; 1973 MA Comparative Semitics, UC Berkeley; 1978 PhD, UC Berkeley; 1978-80 Assoc. Prof. Simpson College; 1975-77 Instructor, World Religions University of Redlands; Independent Researcher.