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Document Details : Title: God's Steadfast Love Subtitle: Towards a New Conception of Old Testament Theology Author(s): SPIECKERMANN, Hermann Journal: Biblica Volume: 81 Issue: 3 Date: 2000 Pages: 305-327 DOI: 10.2143/BIB.81.3.3200440 Abstract : This article argues in favour of a conception of Old Testament theology that is aware of the different hermeneutical presuppositions due to the different canonical shapes of the Jewish and the Christian Bible, respectively. An Old Testament Theology based on the canon of the Christian Bible has to do equal justice to the Hebrew and to the Greek version of the Old Testament, acknowledging that the Greek version, the Septuagint, is a dominant factor for the emergence of Christian faith. Perceiving the Old Testament from a Christian point of view sheds new light on a central theological issue thus far underestimated in scholarly research: God's steadfast love. The contribution tries to show how this characteristic insight into God's true being is reflected and interpreted in the different parts of the Old Testament. |
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