Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel
Angaben zur Quelle:
11,4 (2022) 308-328
Keywords:
Bible Theology
;
Life Biblical teaching
;
God Attributes
;
Biblical teaching
;
Oaths Biblical teaching
;
Names in the Bible
Abstract:
This article re-engages the question of God's life in the Hebrew Bible. Much prior scholarship assumes a basic difference between the ways that God and creatures live. By contrast, this article begins from a working hypothesis of homology: that in the Hebrew Bible, there are qualities shared between the life of YHWH and the life of other beings, including the life of gods, humans, and animals; and it ventures that exploring these commonalities yields a fresh picture of the biblical God. It inspects three foci determined by their use of a common lemma, the Hebrew √ חיה, »to live«: the epithet אל חי, »living God,« and related forms; the oath formula חי יהוה, »(by) the life of YHWH«; and theophoric names built from the verb √ חיה .
DOI:
10.1628/hebai-2022-0038
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