scholarly journals Poems of the promised land: women's stories in the King James Old Testament

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Joan Hoekstra
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
Women's Stories

scholarly journals Tinjauan Kritis-Multifaset Terhadap Tuduhan Genosida Atas Catatan Penaklukan Kuno Tanah Perjanjian

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-123
Author(s):  
Hendra Yohanes
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Contextual Approach ◽  
Moral Argument ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
Divine Retribution ◽  
Present Context ◽  
Cultural Gaps

Tujuan dari artikel ini adalah untuk menyajikan suatu tinjauan kritis-multifaset terhadap tuduhan bahwa Allah Yudeo-Kristen telah memerintahkan genosida kepada bangsa Israel dalam penaklukan Tanah Perjanjian. Sehubungan dengan itu, penulis mencoba memikirkan ulang apa yang dipersoalkan secara esensial dalam tuduhan tersebut dan membedah tuduhan tersebut dalam tiga faset meliputi faset terminologi hukum, penafsiran, dan moral-filosofis. Dengan menganalisis kriteria genosida di dalam hukum internasional, penulis berargumen bahwa catatan penaklukan kuno Tanah Perjanjian di Perjanjian Lama tidak memenuhi kriteria ini sehingga penaklukan ini secara keliru telah diklasifikasikan sebagai genosida. Penulis juga mengumpulkan beberapa contoh kekeliruan penafsiran terhadap catatan penaklukan Tanah Perjanjian. Penulis menyetujui bahwa bahasa figuratif-hiperbol merupakan sebuah perangkat sastra yang umum dalam catatan penaklukan kuno dan ideologi perang dipandang sebagai penghukuman ilahi dalam pandangan dunia Timur Dekat Kuno. Kemudian, penulis mengambil Yosua 9-11 sebagai sebuah studi kasus biblikal untuk menunjukkan jurang sejarah-budaya antara konteks Timur Dekat Kuno dari catatan penaklukan dengan konteks kekinian kita. Pada faset terakhir, penulis secara ringkas berargumen bahwa ada pendekatan yang lebih kontekstual yang berdasarkan argumen moral teistik ketimbang tuduhan kaum Ateis Baru. The purpose of this article is to deliver a critical-multifaceted review against the accusation that the Judeo-Christian God have commanded genocide to Israelites in the conquest of the Promised Land. Correspondingly, I try to reconsider what matters essentially in the accusation and dissect the accusation into three facets, included legal terminology, interpretive and moral-philosophical facets. By analysing criteria of genocide in the international law, I argue that ancient conquest account of the Promised Land in Old Testament dissatisfies these criteria, thus the conquest was incorrectly classified as genocide. I also gather some examples of misinterpretation of the conquest account of the promised land. I agree that the figurative-hyperbolic language as a common literary feature in the ancient conquest account and the ideology of war viewed as the divine retribution in ancient near eastern worldview. Then, I take Joshua chapters 9-11 as a biblical case study to demonstrate historical-cultural gaps between ancient near eastern context of the conquest account and our present context. In last facet, I tersely argue that there is a more contextual approach which based on theistic moral argument instead of the New Atheist accusation.

The Church and the Biblical Promised Land

2019 ◽  
pp. 64-104
Author(s):  
Gavin D'Costa
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
Precise Nature ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Church

Chapter 3 examines post-supersessionist Old Testament hermeneutics regarding the status of the promise of the land to the Jewish people. Drawing on the Pontifical Biblical Commission, it is shown that even though there are divergent New Testament views about the land, these do not cancel or negate the promise of the land to the Jewish people. The precise nature of this promise is established. While Catholic theology has only just begun to address the New Testament trajectories regarding a different evaluation of the land for Catholics, it is clear that the promise to the Jewish people is still intact.

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