Rethinking Divine Hiddenness in the Hebrew Bible : The Hidden God as the Hostile God in Psalms 88
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ArticlePublication details: Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, April,2021Description: Pages, 159-181
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Harvard Theological Review
Divine hiddenness in the Hebrew Bible is widely construed as the conceptual equivalent to divine absence. This article challenges this influential account in light of psalm 88-Where the hidden God is hostilely present, not absent and reevaluates divine hiddenness. . Divine hiddenness is not conterminous with divine absence. Rather, with its roots in the ancient Near Eastern idea of the royal and cultic audience the meaning of "hide the face" may be construed as a refusal of audience with the divine king YHWH.
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Divine hiddenness in the Hebrew Bible is widely construed as the conceptual equivalent to divine absence. This article challenges this influential account in light of psalm 88-Where the hidden God is hostilely present, not absent and reevaluates divine hiddenness. . Divine hiddenness is not conterminous with divine absence. Rather, with its roots in the ancient Near Eastern idea of the royal and cultic audience the meaning of "hide the face" may be construed as a refusal of audience with the divine king YHWH.
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