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Ezekiel's Oracles against the Nations in Light of a Royal Ideology of Warfare [PDF]

Journal of Biblical Literature, 2011
Over the last few decades a steady stream of scholarship has argued for a mythological background to the oracles against the nations (OANs) in the book of Ezekiel.1 Very few studies, however, have attempted to make overarching sense of Ezekiel’s use of mythological motifs, either in the oracles or as part of the theological and literary project of the ...
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DE VOLGORDE VAN DE VOLKENPROFETIEËN IN HET BOEK JEREMIA

Acta Theologica, 2018
THE ORDER OF THE ORACLES AGAINST THE NATIONS IN THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH The textual tradition of the Book of Jeremiah shows two different orders of the collection of the Oracles Against the Nations (OAN).
H GL Peels
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JEREMIAH 51:15-19 (MT):

Acta Theologica, 2018
The oracles against Babylon seem to be an anomaly in the Book of Jeremiah. The doxology in Jeremiah 51:15-19 (MT) does, however, serve as a link between these oracles and the remainder of the book of Jeremiah.
M D Terblanche
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’n Ondersoek na die eenheid en teologiese boodskap van Jesaja 13-23

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1993
A survey of the unity and theological message of Isaiah 13-23 Everything in the Old Testament canon has theological value. Sometimes the message is obvious while in other cases the full message is still to be discovered.
F. J. Boshoff, J. P. Oberholzer
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Een slachtoffer heeft JHWH in het Noorderland (Jer 46:10)

In die Skriflig, 2016
For the Lord will offer sacrifice in the land of the North (Jer 46:10). The present article ‘For the Lord will offer sacrifice in the land of the North (Jer 46:10)’ combines two focal points of my research, namely the issue of the Old Testament image of ...
Hendrik G.L. (Eric) Peels
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THE CRIMES OF THE NATIONS IN AMOS 1-2

Acta Theologica, 2018
In the oracles against the nations in Amos 1-2, several acts of the nations are condemned as “transgressions” or “crimes”. The text mentions “threshing” one’s enemy, deportations and slave trade, acting in wrath and anger, expanding one’s territory by ...
R Kessler
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Unveiling the depths of trauma and the profound impact of rape and shaming on the Babylonian women in Isaiah 13:16 – A trauma and resilience reading of the violent narrative in Isaiah 13:16 [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology
The book of Isaiah is one of the world’s oldest surviving resistance literature. Isaiah 13 describes God who collects an army for the battle against Babylon which will lead to Babylon’s utter desolation and destruction.
Elizabeth (Liza) Esterhuizen
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Beyond revenge?: Responsible Bible reading practices in a Traumatized Land

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017
In this article, I argue that revenge fantasies such as those found in the Oracles Against the Nations (OAN) in Jeremiah 45–51 underscore the necessity for responsible Bible reading practices.
Juliana M. Claassens
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God and His People in the Nations' History: A Contextualised Reading of Amos 1 & 2

Tyndale Bulletin, 1996
The Oracles against the Nations in Amos 1 and 2 give important insights into the nature of God’s involvement in human history and the place of God’s people in it.
M. Daniel Carroll
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Jeremiah 50-51 (MT) as Catalyst in the Development of Babylon as a Symbol of Oppressive Empire

Old Testament Essays
The figure of Babylon became a symbol of any oppressive empire in Jewish as well as Christian literature. This essay proposes that the particular placement of the oracles against Babylon as attested in the Masoretic Text of the book of Jeremiah was a ...
Marius Daniel Terblanche
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