by Peter Enns
21:14–15
170
22:32
185
31
146
Deuteronomy
4:19–20
130
4:37–38
84
5:1–5
85
5:8–10
91
5–26
85
7, 20
146
14
156, 222
15:14
66
15:15
66
16:1–9
67
16:2
67
16:7
67
17:16–17
232
21:18–21
27
27:11–28:68
52
27–28
85
28:15–68
146
30:11–20
40
30:12–13
61
30:15–20
241–42
Joshua 10:26
51, 146
Judges
4:21
51
13:3
184
19:29
51
1 Samuel
99, 107, 146
15:1–9
146
1–2 Samuel
99, 107
2 Samuel
146
5–10
231–32
1 Kings
4
232
6
226
10:27
232
11
232
11–12
99
14:19
170
17:17–24
180
18:20–40
168
2 Kings
107–108
3:27
136
9–10
92
10:17
92
21:1–18
109
21:16
109
23:26
109
1 Chronicles
107–108, 111
1:30
205
2 Chronicles
107–8
7:14
111
33:10–17
110
33
110
Job 1–2
147, 185
Psalms
2:7
210
23:1, 4
122–23
68:4
129
82
200
89
182
119
220–21
137:9
147
Proverbs
1:3; 2:8
37
1:20–23
201–2
3:18
39
3:19
40
8:22, 30
204
8:22–31
40–42
10:15
33
18:11
34
23:13
27
25:11
36
26:4–5
29, 31–32, 34, 202, 260
Isaiah
6:9–10
199
6
184
9:4; 10:27
259
41:8–9
247
44:6
247
44:1–2, 21
168
44:12–20
168
45:4
247
48:20
247
49:3
247
52–53
247–48
52:13–53:12
247
53:4–5
247
66:1
225
Jeremiah
7:30–34
246
7, 19
146
10:1–18
168
25:11–12
184
28:14; 29:1–14
259
29:10
184
30:8
259
31:15
98
Ezekiel
18:2
89–90
18:3–4
90
18
111
37:1–14
39–40, 180
37:11–14
180
37
241
40–48
229
43:7
229
Daniel
9
184
12:2
180
Hosea
1:4–5
92
2:16–20
248
Jonah
1:2
102
3:4
104
3:10
104
Nahum 3:19
104
Habakkuk 1:5–11
259
Apocrypha
* * *
Ecclesiasticus (Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach)
24:13–22
61
24:23
61
24:30–31
61
Judith
14:10
235
Wisdom of Solomon
7:27–28
43
7:29
43
Baruch
3:9
61
3:29–30
61
2 Maccabees
7
243
7:9
182
4 Maccabees
248–49
17:20–22
248
New Testament
* * *
Matthew
2:20
211
3:3
242
5:21–42
203
5:44, 48
104
7:24–27
201
9:17
196, 211
10:30
121
12:1–8
56
13:13
199
13:52
196
20:28
249
Mark
1:3
242
2:22
211
4:11–12
199
6:2
201
Luke
1:51–53; 60–73
242
2:25
181
2:26, 30
181
2:40, 52
201
3:4
242
5:36–39
211
6:17
210
8:10
199
John
1:1–3
43
1:12
205
1:23
242
2:13–25
227
2:19
228
10:30
200
10:32
200
17:20–26
205
Acts 28:30–31
260
Romans
1:18–32
266
1:26–27
266
3:25
246, 249
5:12–21
245
6:5
244
8:1
244
9:22–29
224
10:4
221
13:1
257, 258, 259, 260
15:22–23
2
59
1 Corinthians
1:30
43, 205
3:16
229
8:5
167
11:4–5
263
14:34
263
21:22
229
2 Corinthians
1:21
244
Galatians
2:16
222
4:1–7
224
4:21–26
220
1 Timothy 2:12
263
Hebrews 2:17
249
James 1:14–24
236–37
1 Peter 1:18
249
2 Peter 2:4
185
Ephesians
5:21
264
5:22
264
6:3
26
6:4
167
6:5
262
Colossians
2:3
205
3:16
229
3:20
26
Revelation 5:9
249
Subject Index
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Abraham and Sarah, 7, 220, 224, 233, 237
Adam and Eve, 39, 40, 42, 187, 219, 245
adaptation: honoring religious tradition through, 165–66, 187–90; New York Yankees’ example of successful, 216–17; survival requires, 163–65. See also biblical adaptation
Alexander the Great, 108, 173
ambiguous/ambiguity of the Bible: Bible characteristic of, 5–6, 8, 12, 19; of the biblical laws, 52, 53–54, 58–59, 64–65, 67–68; book of Proverbs as being, 35–38, 76; pondering questions about God in context of, 272; of the Ten Commandments, 58–59; wise adaptation of biblical laws in diversity from, 69–71
ancient/antiquity of the Bible: Bible characteristic of, 5–6, 8, 12, 19; book of Proverbs as being, 35–38, 76; pondering questions about God in context of, 272
angels, 183–85
animal-sitting rules, 52–53
Antiochus IV Epiphanes, King, 181–82, 259
Aramaic language, 172–73
Assyria, 85–86, 99, 102–6, 110, 232
atonement, 249
authority of governing authorities, 257–60
Baal (Canaanite god), 168
Babylonian exile: Adam and Eve’s, 39, 40; of children due to their parents’ sins, 89–92; of Judah to Babylon, 39–40, 105–6, 232–33; NT connecting Jesus’s ministry to return from, 242–46; panic and pain of the Israelites’, 98–100, 230–31; people of Judah returned from their, 100, 233; reimagining of God following the, 168–69; resurrection as OT metaphor for returning from, 241–42; 2 Chronicles on King Manasseh and the, 109–12, 273; triggering the writing of OT, 101–2, 169–73. See also Jewish people; kingdom of Judah
Babylonian Talmud, 106
baptism of Jesus, 209–10
Bathsheba, 231–32
Ben Sira, 61–62
Bible: as a conversation and debate over time, 77; crisis of God’s abandonment triggering writing of, 101–2, 169–73; danger of a rulebook view of the, 27–28, 78; finding better ways to read the, 15–19; how it does and does not help with child rearing, 24–28; how it is used to justify opposite positions, 10; introduction to the ancient, ambiguous, and diverse nature of the, 5–9, 12; languages of the, 127; on the laws given to Israel by God, 51–52; our misguided expectations of the, 3–5; passages on life and death in the, 39–40; spiritual adaptation as key to understanding wisdom of the, 78–82; various images of God in the, 153–54. See also New Testament (NT); Old Testament (OT)
Bible of Judaism, 37, 81–82, 101
Bible’s purpose: biblical diversity as key to uncovering the true, 76–94; as book of wisdom, 9–13, 19, 20, 38–44, 69–71; to tell us what God is like, 120–23, 148–49. See also sacred responsibility
The Bible Tells Me So (Enns), 3–4
biblical adaptation: biblical writers’ inspired, 77, 78–79, 81, 94; demonstrating the Bible as book of wisdom, 78–82; Deuteronomy as revision of ancient law, 86–89; impact of Greek culture on, 174–79, 187–89, 215; as sacred responsibility to maintain faith, 189–90. See also adaptation; reimagining God
biblical laws: ambiguous nature of the, 52, 53–54, 58–59, 64–65, 67–68; biblical wisdom reinforced by the “real” message of, 59–63; as contradictory regarding slavery, 10, 56, 65–67; Deuteronomy as revision of ancient, 86–89; diversity tied to a timeline, 77; Exodus as the Book of the Covenant on the, 59–60; Fourth Commandment to keep the Sabbath holy, 54–56, 63; given to Israel by God, 51–52; Judaism’s rich tradition of deliberating over, 62–63; Passover meal, 67–68, 85; Paul’s reimagining the God of Moses and, 156, 218–22; severe penalties for violating the, 52; wisdom as central to obeying the, 60–63. See also the law; Mosaic Law; Ten Commandments; Torah
biblical writers: ancient languages the Bible was written in by, 127; experiencing God through their own experience, 125, 128; following their lead in reimagining God, 144; how they reimagined God throughout the Bible, 126–28, 157; inspired adaptation over time by the, 77, 78–79, 81, 94; King Manasseh’s story as reimagining God, 109–12, 273; as moving from rulebook mentality to wisdom, 19–20, 112; rethinking past of Judah’s exile and transposing it to their present, 109–13
Chemosh (Moabite god), 135–36, 137
child rearing, 24–28, 35–36, 75
children: fear of parents for loss of their, 97–98; suffering in exile for parents’ sins, 89–91
child sacrifice, 135–36, 246
Christian faith: Easter as central to, 238; “enfleshing” of God core of the, 204–5; incarnation mystery of the, 273; influence on how Jews reimagined their ancient God on, 187–90; James’s letter on, 236–37; Judaism tradition reimagined as the, 155–57, 167, 194–97, 215, 218–30; reimagining God through the crucifixion and resurrection, 155–57, 167; theology as an exercise in wisdom, 196. See also faith
Christianity: reimagined from Jewish sect to expansion of, 155–57, 167, 194–97, 215, 218–30; slavery as part of the history of, 261–63
Christians: the challenge of wisdom to modern-day, 275–77; how God has been reimagined by American, 157; John’s Gospel setting relations between Jews and, 207–8; questions and issues driving reimagining God by, 156–60; their tradition dependent on changes over time, 77. See also sacred responsibility
Christian tradition: adapting while still honoring, 165–66; allegorical understanding of, 274–75; as dependent on changes over time, 77; “Fourfold Method” of, 275; high moments of the, 274; Jesus’s gospel (“Good News”) born of Judaism tradition, 194, 276. See also Judaism tradition; tradition
circumcision law, 222–25, 235–36
cleansing the Temple, 208–9, 227–28
Colossians (New Testament), 26
creation, 40–42, 45, 56
crucifixion, 155–57, 167, 195, 215. See also resurrection
Cyrus (king of Persia), 259
David, King (Israel), 7, 118–19, 226, 231–32, 242
Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), 226
Dead Sea Scrolls, 189
death, 39–40. See also raised from the dead; resurrection
Deuteronomy: biblical timeline between Exodus and, 82–83, 85; childrearing laws in, 27, 35; on the death of Moses, 83–85; differing laws in Exodus and, 77, 88; as revision of ancient law, 86–89
dietary laws, 222–25, 235–36, 237
diversity/diverse of the Bible: adapting ambiguous laws in the biblical, 69–71; Bible characteristic of, 5–6, 8–9, 12, 19; book of Proverbs as being, 35–38, 76–77; as key to uncovering the Bible’s true purpose, 76–94; pondering questions about God in context of, 272
divine violence, 145–49
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Easter, 238
Egypt, 56, 66, 139–41, 143
Elijah, 180
Elisha, 92–93
Enns family, 75
Episcopal Three-Legged Stool, 272
exile. See Babylonian exile
exodus: allegorical understanding of the, 274; practice of making it present, 87–88; Ten Commandments given during the, 51, 54–56, 58–59, 63, 86–87
