A misanthropic view at the societies of the Old Testament in the books of smaller prophets
Abstract
The subject of work is a value relationship that is established towards the society in the books of the prophet of Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, and Malachi. Their attitude toward the current state of social organization of the Jewish people is negative. They see the social and cultural life as morally bad, where the roots of that evil are in deviation from God's laws given to Moses, and its manifestations are all of those actions that, from an eschatological perspective, lead to punishment, not salvation. We call this relationship a misanthropic one, since it is not a simple view of society as morally distorted, but such distortion is set in a kind of teleological perspective, in which it turns out that given sociability for the prophets is a systematically organized way of human existence contrary to the basic interests of man - life in in accordance with God's laws for salvation.
Keywords:
sociability / prophets / Old Testament / moral / misanthropy / God / anthropologySource:
Etnoantropološki problemi, 2018, 13, 4, 1091-1112Publisher:
- Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju, Beograd
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Etnologija i antropologija / Ethnology and AnthropologyTY - JOUR AU - Žikić, Bojan AU - Sinani, Danijel PY - 2018 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2617 AB - The subject of work is a value relationship that is established towards the society in the books of the prophet of Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, and Malachi. Their attitude toward the current state of social organization of the Jewish people is negative. They see the social and cultural life as morally bad, where the roots of that evil are in deviation from God's laws given to Moses, and its manifestations are all of those actions that, from an eschatological perspective, lead to punishment, not salvation. We call this relationship a misanthropic one, since it is not a simple view of society as morally distorted, but such distortion is set in a kind of teleological perspective, in which it turns out that given sociability for the prophets is a systematically organized way of human existence contrary to the basic interests of man - life in in accordance with God's laws for salvation. PB - Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju, Beograd T2 - Etnoantropološki problemi T1 - A misanthropic view at the societies of the Old Testament in the books of smaller prophets EP - 1112 IS - 4 SP - 1091 VL - 13 DO - 10.21301/eap.v13i4.9 ER -
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Žikić, B.,& Sinani, D.. (2018). A misanthropic view at the societies of the Old Testament in the books of smaller prophets. in Etnoantropološki problemi Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju, Beograd., 13(4), 1091-1112. https://doi.org/10.21301/eap.v13i4.9
Žikić B, Sinani D. A misanthropic view at the societies of the Old Testament in the books of smaller prophets. in Etnoantropološki problemi. 2018;13(4):1091-1112. doi:10.21301/eap.v13i4.9 .
Žikić, Bojan, Sinani, Danijel, "A misanthropic view at the societies of the Old Testament in the books of smaller prophets" in Etnoantropološki problemi, 13, no. 4 (2018):1091-1112, https://doi.org/10.21301/eap.v13i4.9 . .