“The recognition that idolatry really consists in making gods for ourselves and putting our trust in them is the great breakthrough in Israel’s thinking about the matter, and I have suggested that it may be to Isaiah that we owe… — R. W. L. Moberly Copy Share Image
“Clearly, there is real force in this kind of objection to divine election. If there are the chosen, then there are also, in some… — R. W. L. Moberly Copy Share Image
“In any case, whatever the pedigree, the concern has become widespread that a classic biblically-rooted belief in a single deity who chooses particular people… — R. W. L. Moberly Copy Share Image
“What, now, of those not elected? Those not elected cannot be expected not to be hurt by not being of the seed of Abraham,… — R. W. L. Moberly Copy Share Image
“My positive interpretive thesis is thus straightforward. In response to the puzzle as to why Deuteronomy should promote and prioritize ḥērem if it “was… — R. W. L. Moberly Copy Share Image
“On the one hand, we have seen that the particularizing logic of election is an expression of the particularizing logic of love. When there… — R. W. L. Moberly Copy Share Image
“If the (apparently) ancient practice of ḥērem is promoted when it is not feasible in military terms, then this is a good reason for… — R. W. L. Moberly Copy Share Image
“There is also one obvious contextual issue for the translation of the verbal form of ḥērem. If the seven nations are to be “destroyed”… — R. W. L. Moberly Copy Share Image
“such a translation may beg the interpretive question. Deuteronomy has two other verbs to express a straightforward sense of “destroy.”57 Moreover, the conceptuality of… — R. W. L. Moberly Copy Share Image
“The recognition that idolatry really consists in making gods for ourselves and putting our trust in them is the great breakthrough in Israel’s thinking… — R. W. L. Moberly Copy Share Image
“So despite Humphreys’s rhetoric about scholarly misinterpretation and the “inspirational” potential of his interpretation, I think it is in fact hard to improve upon… — R. W. L. Moberly Copy Share Image
