Remember Their Sin No More?

Forgiveness and the Hebrew Bible

David J. Shepherd, Richard S. Briggs, David J. Shepherd, Richard S. Briggs

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781725281981
• Topic: Théologie et religion
• Subtopic: Critique et interprétation bibliques

In a world in which genuine forgiveness seems as rare a commodity as ever, this collection of essays offers an opportunity to explore where and in what forms forgiveness may be found in the Hebrew Bible--a text which is foundational for Western religions and the cultures they have influenced over the last two millennia. In the wake of renewed interest in forgiveness in antiquity and recent suggestions that it bears little resemblance to modern conceptions, this book investigates the ways in which the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament itself conceptualizes forgiveness. How and in what ways does God forgive? Where, if at all, do we see reconciliation between people in the Old Testament, and what does it look like?

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1: Finding Forgiveness in the Hebrew Bible
• Chapter 2: Commitments to Absence and Presence
• Chapter 3: Sacrificial Atonement in Numbers 15:22–31
• Chapter 4: “The Trespass of Your Servant”
• Chapter 5: Forgiven and Unforgiven in the Book of Kings
• Chapter 6: Forgiveness as the Mitigation of Punishment in Kings
• Chapter 7: The Wisdom of Forgiveness
• Chapter 8: The Forgiveness of Others in the Old Testament
• Chapter 9: Forgiveness in the Christian Scriptures
• Bibliography