Wold Destiny of the Defiant

Semantic Field Analysis of Biblical Karet
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-16-164069-8
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 341 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

Reihe: Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe

In this detailed study on the meaning of the biblical term k?r?t , '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 k?r?t in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and rabbinic sources. Ancient Near Eastern literature furnishes analogues to k?r?t 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 k?r?t 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.

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wold, Donald J.

Fachgebiete

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

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.