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Back cover: This work demonstrates that the genealogy of Jacob/Israel was singular and based on the rankings of the four mothers Leah, Rachel, Zilpah and Bilhah. These positions remained in the memory even as the power of various tribes changed over time, guiding the sequenicing of names within the lists. For this reason, the different presentations of the genealogy are not indicative of different Sitz im Leben and do not aid in reconstruction of Israel's early history. A secondary yet equally important discovery is that mothers continue to hold importance beyond the Genesis narrative. This work adds to the growing evidence that mothers in particular, and women in general are vital contributors to their families, to the Promise and to the advancement of the theological message of the Hebrew Bible.

Women in the Bible --- Genealogy in the Bible --- 221.08*3 --- 221.08*3 Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- Jacob --- Leah --- Rachel --- Raḥel --- רחל אמנו --- רחל, --- Léa --- Īakov --- Israel --- Isrāʼīl (Biblical patriarch) --- Jacob, --- Jakob --- Yaʻaḳov --- Yaʻăqōb --- Yaʻqūb (Biblical patriarch) --- Yiśraʼel --- יעקב

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In the Bible, the land of Israel is more than a piece of ground. It is a theological symbol, because it was an essential part of Israel's practice of its relationship with God. The land is connected to a lifestyle and to the carrying out of religious acts, like the sacrifices and the celebrations. Aspects of this are the use of the land and the enactment of ecological and humanitarian obligations. In this volume, we concentrate on the religious viewpoints, especially how the promised land can be seen from the Old and New Testament perspective. Before practical conclusions are drawn, it is important to have a good overview of the subject in the entire Bible. The chosen approach is historic-canonical and implies that we use the order of Bible books from the Hebrew canon. Two additional chapters show the Jewish and Islamic viewpoints.

Land tenure --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Land use, Rural --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- Biblical teaching --- Bible. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Theology. --- 221.08*3 --- 221.08*3 Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata

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Dagmar Kühn examines the Ancient Near Eastern and the Old Testament concept of kingship with reference to the concept of "The king's two bodies", established by the historian Ernst H. Kantorowicz regarding the European Middle Ages. According to this concept the king had both a mortal body and an immortal body, joint inseparable in his person. It was developed in Elizabethan Tudor Period to conceptualize am immortal person of the king (body politic) unaffected by imperfection, weakness and death of the natural person of the king (body natural). The West Semitic cultures developed various strategies of outfitting the body politic with insignia and images of representation to maintain and preserve the body politic when the body natural is threatened by crisis, death and disease. In Ugarit, this concept becomes apparent in the Epics of Kirta and Aqhatu with their human protagonists as well as in the Epic of Baal with its divine protagonists. The continuity of the royal dynasty and the welfare of the body natural depended on the blessing of the gods. The Ahirom sarcophagus from Byblos is the most obvious example of the concept of "The king's two bodies" in Phoenician realm. While the body of the king (body natural) was buried within the sarcophagus an en-throned effigy en relief symbolised the immortal body politic. The texts of the Old Testament bear witness of the knowledge of the Ancient Near Eastern ideology of kingship both in their eternal (body politic) and human components (body natural) and the ability to use them in theological conceptualizations. In particular, the Psalms and sapiential texts have preserved the ideal image of the king (body politic), who was considered the son of God after enthronement and could even be denoted as god with regard to his office.

Human body --- Religion and state --- State and religion --- State, The --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- History --- Religious aspects --- Middle East --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Antiquities. --- Kings and rulers --- History. --- 221.08*3 --- 221.08*3 Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata