David J. Reimer | reimerd@gmail.com
N.b. for a PDF of this “handout” go to https://is.gd/gikasu.
“The doctrine of the Trinity is then fully present in the NT, not, indeed, as a doctrine about God but more fundamentally, as a controlling logic…”: Robert W. Jenson, “Trinity”, in The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought, ed. by Adrian Hastings, Alistair Mason, and Hugh Pyper (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) , pp. 716–17.
- The Book of Job, with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton and Illustrated by C. Mary Tongue (London: C. Palmer & Hayward, 1916), p. xiv.
- Michael Reeves, “Why a Triune God Is Better Than Any Other,” Credo 3.2 (2013): 34–39.
- Joseph B. Soloveitchik, “The Lonely Man of Faith,” Tradition 7.2 (1965): 5–67.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism (New York: Farrar, Straus, & Cudahy, 1955), p. 312.
- Valeria Motta, “Key Concept: Loneliness,” Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 28.1 (2021): 71–81.
- Fay Bound Alberti, A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).
DJR: loneliness = “social lack or deprivation experienced as emotional impairment”; so distinct from being alone which is simply to be without company, or alienation | isolation which is the condition of being socially or relationally estranged.
“But the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, ‘Where are you [אַיֶּכָּה, ʾayyekkâ]?’”
- N.T. Wright, Evil and the Justice of God (InterVarsity Press, 2006), p. 53.
[Translation??] שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ יְהוָה אֶחָד, šǝmaʿ yiśrāʾēl yhwh ʾĕlōhênû yhwh ʾeḥād
- Joseph B. Soloveitchik, “Religious Definitions of Man and his Social Institutions”, (1958): Lecture 2 @ 22:30 https://outorah.org/p/26577.
- R. W. L. Moberly, Old Testament Theology: Reading the Hebrew Bible as Christian Scripture (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2013), pp. 18–24.
v. 3a:
I trod the winepress alone (לְבַדִּי lǝbaddî) / and from the peoples no one was with me (אֵין־אִישׁ אִתִּי ʾên-ʾîš ʾittî)
v. 5a (cf. 59:16):
I looked and there was no one to help; I was appalled and there was no one to support
וְאַבִּיט֙ וְאֵ֣ין עֹזֵ֔ר וְאֶשְׁתּוֹמֵ֖ם וְאֵ֣ין סוֹמֵ֑ךְ
wǝʾabbîṭ wǝʾên ʿōzēr wǝʾeštômēm wǝʾên sômēk
- Dominic S. Irudayaraj, Violence, Otherness and Identity in Isaiah 63:1–6: The Trampling One Coming from Edom, LHB/OTS 633 (London: Bloomsbury T. & T. Clark, 2017), 121–3.
“...You alone are God [אַתָּה אֱלֹהִים לְבַדֶּךָ, ʾattâ ʾĕlōhîm lǝbaddekā]”
- cf. Ps 83:18[19]; 2 Kgs 19:15 // Isa. 37:16; 2 Kgs 19:19 // Isa. 37:20; Deut. 4:35; etc.
- C. J. Labuschagne, The Incomparability of Yahweh in the Old Testament (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1966).
A “still small voice” = קוֹל דְּמָמָה דַקָּה, qôl děmāmâ daqqâ
council [סוֹד, sôd] of God | YHWH : e.g. Job 15:8; Jer. 23:18; 1 Kgs 22:19–22;
see also Prov. 8:22–31?
Karen Kilby, “Perichoresis and Projection: Problems with Social Doctrines of the Trinity,” New Blackfriars 81.956 (2000): 432-445.
Elizabeth R. Hare, “‘How Lonely Sits the City’: An Exploration of Loneliness and Human Connection in the Hebrew Bible, in Conversation with Select Modern Empirical Research on Loneliness” (PhD diss., King’s College London, 2021).
Samuel Hildebrandt, “‘I am a Lonely Bird’: Psalm 102 and the Psychology of Loneliness,” Biblical Theology Bulletin 53.2 (2023): 68–76.
—————, “‘I Sat Alone’: The Language of Loneliness in the Hebrew Bible”, ZAW 133.4 (2021): 512–25.
Dalit Rom-Shiloni, “Hebrew Bible Theology: A Jewish Descriptive Approach”, Journal of Religion 96.2 (2016): 165-84.
St Andrews | 22.02.2024