DIVINE NARCISSISM AND YAHWEH'S PARENTING STYLE.
Theologians like Blumenthal, Brueggemann, and Chastain have recently stressed the abusive and sometimes capricious nature of Yahweh's actions toward his people, at times using studies of present-day child abuse to bolster their case. Predictably, such indictments of Yahweh have met with considerable...
| Publicado en: | Biblical Interpretation Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 36 - 57 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2002
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