God of Vengeance? Understanding the Psalms of Divine Wrath

Name: God of Vengeance? Understanding the Psalms of Divine Wrath
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ISBN: 9780664256371

ISBN-10: 0664256376

ISBN-13: 9780664256371

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Authors: Erich Zenger

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List price: $33.00
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date: 12/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 7.40" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

<b Erich Zenger</b is Professor of Old Testament at the University of Munster in Germany. He is the author of numerous works, including <i To Begin with, God Created</i and <i A God of Vengeance?</i .



Preface


Abbreviations


A Complex Problem


Unpleasant and Repulsive Psalms


The Constant Presence of Enemies throughout the Book of Psalms


Protest and Rejection in the Name of Christianity


Objection in the Name of a Humane Ethics


A Look at the Psalms Themselves


Psalm 12: Protest against the Violence of Violent People


Psalm 139: Passionate Struggle against Structural Violence


Psalm 58: A Cry for Right and Justice


Psalm 83: Witness for God, When Everything Else Is a Denial of God


Psalm 137: What Remains for the Powerless


Psalm 44: Transformation of the Image of a Violent God


Psalm 109: They Attack Me without Cause, but I Am a Prayer


Toward a Hermeneutic of the Psalms of Enmity and Vengeance


"... To Judge the Living and the Dead"


A God of Vengeance After All?


A Dynamic World Image and a Realistic View of the World


Poetic Prayers


The Psalms of Vengeance: A Revelation of God?


Practical Consequences


Revitalization of Lament in Liturgical Prayer


Practicing and Dramatizing the Psalms as Contextual Poetry


Reciting the Psalms of Enmity as Canon


Suggestions for a New Language of Prayer


Notes


Selected Bibliography