The Blessing and the Curse
Trajectories in the Theology of the Old Testament
The magical power of the spoken word is a topic that often comes up in a discussion of biblical blessings and curses. What is the source of social and linguistic power behind these blessings and curses? Many theologians would agree that God can and does bless, but does God also curse? If so, what does that mean to the biblical theology of the Old Testament and the Christian church? Anderson's The Blessing and the Curse applies speech act theory as one way to understand the performative function of blessings and curses. The concept of speech acts provides a method of recognizing the potent social power of language to accomplish certain ends, w…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-72524-827-4
- EAN: 9781725248274
- Produktnummer: 34667049
- Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'504 KB
Über den Autor
Jeff S. Anderson is Professor of Religion at Wayland Baptist University's Anchorage Campus. He is the author of The Internal Diversification of Second Temple Judaism (2002) and The Old Testament: It's Story and History (2010).
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