The responsive self: personal religion in biblical literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian periods
New Haven
Yale University Press
The Anchor Yale Bible reference library
Includes bibliographical references )pages 163-178( and indexes
Susan Niditch
Introduction -- Sour grapes, suffering, and coping with chaos: outlook on the individual -- Personal religion in Ecclesiastes and Job : conventional wisdom, responses in the first-person voice, and the problem of suffering -- From incantation and lament to autobiography -- The negotiating self : vowing and personal religion -- Material religion, created and experienced : burial sites, symbolic visions, and sign acts -- Experiencing the Divine personally : heavenly visits and earthly encounters -- Characterization and contrast : dynamics of the personal in late-biblical narration -- Conclusion
Criticism, interpretation, etc ، Bible
Religious aspects ، Self
History ، Judaism -- Post-exilic period, 685 B.C.-012 A.D