Author’s Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Author’s Preface xii
4. The Enigma of Tryggve xiv
5. Select Publications of Tryggve N. D. Mettinger xxiii
6. 1. Report from a Scholar’s Life: My Work on the Enigmas and the Notions of God 1
7. Part I The God of Israel in the Ancient Near Eastern Milieu: Continuities and Contrasts
8. 2. The Study of the Gottesbild: Problems and Suggestions 25
9. 3. The Elusive Essence: Yhwh, El and Baal and the Distinctiveness of Israelite Faith 35
10. 4. Yhwh Sabaoth: The Heavenly King on the Cherubim Throne .  62 Contextualization 62
11. 5. The Name and the Glory: The Zion–Sabaoth Theology and Its Exilic Successors 92
12. 6. The “Dying and Rising God”: The Peregrinations of a Mytheme 114
13. Part II Aniconism
14. 7. The Veto on Images and the Aniconic God in Ancient Israel 135
15. 8. A Conversation with My Critics: Cultic Image or Aniconism in the First Temple? 153
16. Part III Davidic Trajectories
17. 9. “The Last Words of David”: A Study of Structure and Meaning in II Samuel 23:1–7 181
18. 10. Cui Bono? The Prophecy of Nathan (2 Samuel 7) as a Piece of Political Rhetoric 190
19. Part IV Job
20. 11. Intertextuality: Allusion and Vertical Context Systems in Some Job Passages 217
21. 12. The Enigma of Job: The Deconstruction of God in Intertextual Perspective 237
22. Part V Second Isaiah
23. 13. A Farewell to the Servant Songs: A Critical Examination of an Exegetical Axiom 257
24. 14. In Search of the Hidden Structure: Yhwh as King in Isaiah 40–55 303
25. Part VI Reviews
26. 15. Review of James Barr, Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament 317
27. 16. Review of Ernst Jenni, Das hebräische Piʿel 322
28. 17. Review of Sandra L. Richter, The Deuteronomistic History and the Name Theology 326
29. Indexes 331