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Israel and the Cosmological Empires of the Ancient Orient

Symbols of Order in Eric Voegelin’s 'Order and History', Vol. I. Edited by Ignacio Carbajosa and Nicoletta Scotti Muth. With the collaboration of Aldo L'Erario.

13 essays (ten in English, three in German) explore and debate some of the fundamental theses of Eric Voegelin's magnum opus, addressing four thematic sections: I. Forms of Civilization; II. Order and History; III. On the Old Testament; IV. Israel and Revelation. Since the publication of the German edition of 'Israel and Revelation', the first volume of Voegelin's magnum opus 'Order and History', a noteworthy turnaround in the method of conducting research on this book has taken place. The innovation consisted of bringing its interdisciplinary nature into greater relief, an aim which is further pursued by the essays collected in the present volume. Its four thematic sections focus respectively on civilization forms, on the order of human history, on specific aspects of Old Testament exegesis, and finally on the meaning of the term “revelation” in the context of the biblical events narrated. Focusing, in fact, on the opening of a work that, in spite of the ambitious claim it seeks to contront in an unprecedented way the powerful theme of human history, still remains scarcely noticed, the goal of the initiative needed to be something other. It consisted, in one way, in offering new perspectives on the reading of 'Israel and Revelation', and in another way, to call on the carpet ambiguities and discrepancies - for example, the fact that its very author seemed to distance himself from the thesis here formulated as the drafting of the entire series proceeded. -- From the Table of Contents: 1. Ignacio Carbajosa and Nicoletta Scotti Muth: Introduction; 2. Nicoletta Scotti Muth: Eric Voegelins Rekurs auf aristotelische Denkmotive im Theorierahmen von 'Order and History'; 3. Peter Machinist: Eric Voegelin and His Orientalist Critic: The Case of William Foxwell Albright; 4. Dietrich Wildung: Zeitlos. Zum Geschichtsbild der alten Ägypter; 5. Giorgio Buccellati: The Cosmos before Cosmology: Foreshadowing of Order in Prehistory; 6. Massimo Marassi: Die symbolische und transzendentale Struktur der Geschichte: Order and History; 7. John Milbank: Truth and the Ambivalence of Empire: on the Theoretical Work of Eric Voegelin; 8. Dominik Markl: Divine Law and the Emergence of Monotheism in Deuteronomy; 9. Eckart Otto: Assyria and Israel: The Political Theory of the Book Deuteronomy and its Reception by Max Weber and Eric Voegelin; 10. Ignacio Carbajosa: "The Exodus of Israel from itself:" The Role of the Prophets in Voegelin’s Israel and Revelation; 11. Marvin A. Sweeney: Judaism and Revelation. Eric Voegelin’s Israel and Revelation Reconsidered; 12. David Walsh: History as Constituted by What it Cannot Contain: Israel and Revelation; 13. Catherine Chalier: What about Judaism in Israel and Revelation? VI,325 Seiten mit vier Farb- und 24 s/w-Abb., broschiert (Eric Voegelin Studies: Supplements; Vol. 1/Brill | Wilhelm Fink 2021) Mängelexemplarstempel auf Schnitt, Kanten leicht bestoßen, leicht angeschmutzt/defect copy stamp on cut, edges slightly bumped, slightly soiled