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Creation, Nature and Hope in 4 Ezra
Jonathan A. Moo, Dietrich-Alex Koch
Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress, 2011
ISBN 9783647531038 , 206 Seiten
Format PDF, OL
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Front Cover
1
Title Page
4
Copyright
5
Table of Contents
6
Body
8
Preface
8
1. Creation, the ‘Apocalyptic Outlook’ and 4 Ezra
10
1.1 Introduction
10
1.2 Creation, History and Apocalypse
11
1.3 The ‘Apocalyptic Outlook’ and 4 Ezra
19
1.4 Situating the Present Study
22
1.5 Format of the Study
25
2. Hearing the Voice of 4 Ezra
28
2.1 Language and Text
28
2.2 Overview of the Book
30
2.3 Unity, Coherence and Finding the Author’s Voice
31
3. Creation in the Beginning
36
3.1 Introduction
36
3.2 The Vocabulary of Creation
36
3.3 Adam and the Garden (3:4–6)
38
3.4 Creation and Judgement (6:1–6)
46
3.5 Genesis Rewritten (6:38–54)
59
3.6 Conclusions
69
4. Creation Now: A World in Peril
72
4.1 Introduction
72
4.2 The Created Order and a Universal Law
72
4.3 The Parabolic Use of the Natural Order
83
4.4 Natural Law Rejected?
86
4.5 A Threatened World
88
4.6 A Threatening World
93
4.7 Two Worlds Planned from the Beginning
97
4.8 This Aging Saeculum
100
4.9 Creation’s Plight: Some Conclusions
102
5. The Saeculum to Come
106
5.1 Introduction
106
5.2 Episode 1
107
5.2.1 Intimations of an end
107
5.2.2 Reasons for an end
108
5.2.3 Signs of the end (I)
112
5.3 Episode 2
116
5.3.1 A pre–determined end
116
5.3.2 Dividing the ages
117
5.3.3 Signs of the end (II)
120
5.4 Episode 3
125
5.4.1 Ways of the world to come
125
5.4.2 The eschatological framework
126
5.4.3 The renewal of creation
136
5.4.4 The immortal age
137
5.4.5 Eschatological rewards
138
5.4.6 Signs of the end (III)
141
5.5 Episode 4
143
5.5.1 A heavenly and earthly city
143
5.5.2 Mother Zion and Mother Earth
145
5.5.3 Eating the flowers of the field
146
5.6 Episodes 5 and 6
149
5.6.1 The deliverance of creation
150
5.6.2 Another land
153
5.7 Episode 7
154
5.8 Conclusions: Ambiguity, Discontinuity and Hope
158
6. Summary and Conclusions
162
6.1 Summary of Results
162
6.2 Fourth Ezra’s Theology of Creation, the Apocalyptic Tradition and Prospects for Future Research
165
Bibliography
174
Index
192
Back Cover
210
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