Title: Retooling the Template

 

The content of this chapter sets the stage for Chapters 35-36. Consequently, relevant bibliography can also be found there.

 

Bibliography from the book

 

Timothy M. Willis, “Yahweh’s Elders (Isa 24, 23): Senior Officials of the Divine Court,” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 103, no. 3 (1991): 375-385

 

David Burnett, “‘So Shall Your Seed Be’: Paul’s Use of Genesis 15:5 in Romans 4:18 in Light of Early Jewish Deification Traditions,” (Paper presented to the Paul & Judaism Conference at Houston Baptist University, Thursday, March 20, 2014)

 

M. David Litwa, We Are Being Transformed: Deification in Paul’s Soteriology (BZNW 187; Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2012)

 

Devorah Dimant, “Men as Angels: The Self-Image of the Qumran Community,” in Religion and Politics in the Ancient Near East (ed. Adele Berlin; Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Bethesda, Md.: University Press of America, 1996), 93-103

 

James Tabor, “Firstborn of Many Brothers: A Pauline Notion of Apotheosis,” on SBL Seminar Papers (1984), 295-303

 

Additional Bibliography

 

Gerald Cooke, “The Israelite King as Son of God,” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 73, no. 2 (1961): 202-225

 

Adela Yarbro Collins and John Joseph Collins, King and Messiah as Son of God: Divine, human, and angelic messianic figures in biblical and related literature (Eerdmans, 2008)

 

Erminie Huntress, ” ‘Son of God’ in Jewish Writings Prior to the Christian Era,” Journal of Biblical Literature (1935): 117-123

 

Daniel T. Lioy, “The Garden of Eden as a Primordial Temple or Sacred Space for Humankind,” Conspectus: The Journal of the South African Theological Seminary 10 (2010): 25-57

 

M. J. Selman, “The Kingdom of God in the Old Testament,” TynBul 40 (1989), 161–183

 

W. H. Rose, “Messiah,” Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2003), 565–68

 

T. N. D. Mettinger, King and Messiah: The Civil and Sacral Legitimation of the Israelite Kings (ConBOT 8; Lund: Gleerup, 1976)

 

John Day, ed. King and messiah in Israel and the ancient Near East: proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar (Vol. 270; Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013)

 

K. M. Heim, “Kings and Kingship,” Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books (ed. Bill T. Arnold and H. G. M. Williamson; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2005)

 

T. C. G. Thornton, “Charismatic kingship in Israel and Judah,” The Journal of Theological Studies 14, no. 1 (1963): 1-11

 

Keith W. Whitelam, “Israelite kingship: The royal ideology and its opponents,” The World of Ancient Israel: Sociological, Anthropological and Political Perspectives (1989): 119-139

 

Aubrey Rodway Johnson, “Living Issues in Biblical Scholarship Divine Kingship and the Old Testament,” The Expository Times 62, no. 2 (1950): 36-42

 

Gregory K. Beale, The temple and the church’s mission: a biblical theology of the dwelling place of God (InterVarsity Press, 2004)

 

Jeffrey Jay Niehaus, God at Sinai: covenant and theophany in the bible and Ancient near East (Zondervan, 1995)

 

L. Michael Morales, The Tabernacle Prefigured: Cosmic Mountain Ideology in Genesis and Exodus (Biblical Tools and Studies 15; Peeters, 2011)

 

Ida Zatelli, “Astrology and the Worship of the Stars in the Bible,” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 103, no. 1 (1991): 86-99

 

A. Rofé, The Belief in Angels in Israel in the First Temple Period in the light of Biblical Traditions (Heb; Jerusalem 1969), English edition: The Belief in Angels in the Bible and in Early Israel (Jerusalem 1979)

 

Discussion

 

Only one note to make here. This chapter mentioned (in a footnote) the issue of the tiers of the divine council. See the short comments on this topic on the page for Chapter 4 of this website.