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God's Favorite
- Judaism, Christianity, and the Myth of Divine Chosenness
Engelsk Hardback
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God's Favorite
- Judaism, Christianity, and the Myth of Divine Chosenness
Engelsk Hardback

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A noted biblical scholar explores how the claim of divine choice has been used from ancient times to the present to justify territorial expansion and prejudice.

The Bible describes many individuals and groups as specially chosen by God. But does God choose at all? Michael Coogan explains the temporally layered and allusive storytelling of biblical texts and describes the world of the ancient Near East from which it emerged, laying bare the power struggles, the acts of vengeance, and persecutions made sacred by claims of chosenness.

Jumping forward to more modern contexts, Coogan reminds us how the self-designation of the Puritan colonizers of New England as God’s new Israel eventually morphed, in the United States, into the self-justifying doctrines of manifest destiny and American exceptionalism. In contemporary Israel, both fundamentalist Zionists and their evangelical American partners cite the Jews’ status as God’s chosen people as justification for taking land—for very different ends. Appropriated uncritically, the Bible has thus been used to reinforce exclusivity and superiority, with new myths based on old myths.

Finally, in place of the pernicious idea of chosenness, Coogan suggests we might instead focus on another key biblical concept: taking care of the immigrant and the refugee, reminding the reader of the unusual focus on the vulnerable in both the Hebrew Bible and New Testament.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
160
ISBN-13:
9780807001943
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0807001945
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Udg. Dato:
2 apr 2019
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
223mm
Højde:
149mm
Forlag:
Beacon Press
Oplagsdato:
2 apr 2019
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