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An Apocryphal God

Beyond Divine Maturity
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In Portraits of a Mature God, Mark McEntire traced the narrative development of the divine character in the Old Testament, placing the God portrayed at the end of that long story at the center of theological discussion. He showed that Israel's understanding of God had developed into a complex, multipurpose being who could work within a new reality, a world that included a semiautonomous province of Yehud and a burgeoning Mesopotamian-Mediterranean world in which the Jewish people lived and moved in a growing diversity of ways. Now, McEntire continues that story beyond the narrative end of the Hebrew Bible as Israel and Israel's God moved into the Hellenistic world. The "narrative" McEntire perceives in the apocryphal literature describes a God protecting and guiding the scattered and persecuted, a God responding to suffering in revolt, and a God disclosing mysteries, yet also hidden in the symbolism of dreams and visions. McEntire here provides a coherent and compelling account of theological perspectives in the apocryphal writings and beyond.

Author Biography:

Mark McEntire is professor of biblical studies at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. He has authored widely used textbooks such as, The Old Testament Story, Ninth Edition (2012). This work follows his successful Portraits of a Mature God: Choices in Old Testament Theology (Fortress Press, 2013).
Release date Australia
August 1st, 2015
Audience
  • Further/Higher Education
Contributor
  • Edited by Mark McEntire
Pages
296
Dimensions
152x228x10
ISBN-13
9781451470352
Product ID
23100673

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