A History Of God Part 11

21. Hosea 6:6.

22. Genesis 4:1.

23. Hosea 2:23-4.

24. Hosea 2:18-19.

25. Hosea 1:2.

26. Hosea 1:9.

27. Hosea 13:2.

28. Jeremiah 10; Psalms 31:6; 115:4-8; 135:15.

29. The translation of this verse is by John Bowker, The Religious Imagination and the Sense of G.o.d, (Oxford, 1978), p.73.

30. See Genesis 14:20.

31. 2 Kings 32:3-10; 2 Chronicles 34:14.

32. Deuteronomy 6:4-6.

33. Deuteronomy 7:3.

34. Deuteronomy 7:5-6.

35. Deuteronomy 28:64-8.

36. 2 Chronicles 34:5-7.

37. Exodus 23:33.

38. Joshua 11:21-2.

39. Jeremiah 25:8, 9.

40. Jeremiah 13:15-17.

41. Jeremiah 1:6-10.

42. Jeremiah 23:9.

43. Jeremiah 20:7, 9.

44. In China Tao and Confucianism are seen as two facets of a single spirituality, concerning the inner and outer man. Hinduism and Buddhism are related and can both be seen as a reformed paganism.

45. Jeremiah 2:31, 32; 12:7-11; 14:7-9; 6:11.

46. Jeremiah 32:15.

47. Jeremiah 44:15-19.

48. Jeremiah 31:33.

49. Ezekiel 1:4-25.

50. Ezekiel 3:14-15.

51. Ezekiel 8:12.

52. Psalm 137.

53. Isaiah 11:15,16 54. Isaiah 51:9, 10; This would be a constant theme. See Psalm 65:7; 74:13-14; 77:16; Job 3:8; 7:12.

55. Isaiah 46:1.

56. Isaiah 45:21.

57. Isaiah 43:11, 12.

58. Isaiah 55:8, 9.

59. Isaiah 19:24, 25.

60. Exodus 33:20.

61. Exodus 33:18.

62. Exodus 34:29-35.

63. Exodus 40:34, 35; Ezekiel 9:3.

64. Cf. Psalms 74 and 104.

65. Exodus 25:8, 9.

66. Exodus 25:3-5.

67. Exodus 39:32, 43; 40:33; 40:2, 17; 31:3, 13.

68. Deuteronomy 5:12-17.

69. Deuteronomy 14:1-21.

70. Proverbs 8:22, 23, 30, 31.

71. Ben Sirah 24:3-6.

72. The Wisdom of Solomon 7:25-6.

73. De Sperialibus Legibus, 1:43.

74. G.o.d is Immutable, 62; The Life of Moses, 1:75.

75. Abraham 121-3.

76. The Migration of Abraham, 34-5.

77. Shabbat 31a.

78. Aroth de Rabba Nathan, 6.

79. Louis Jacobs, Faith (London, 1968), p.7.

80. Leviticus Rabba 8:2; Sotah 96.

81. Exodus Rabba 34:1; Hagigah i3b; Mekilta to Exodus 15:3.

82. Baba Metzia 59b.

83. Mishna Psalm 25:6; Psalm 139:1; Tanhuma 3:80.

84 Commenting on Job 11:7; Mishna Psalm 25:6.

85. Thus Rabbi Yohannan b. Nappacha: 'He who speaks or relates too much of G.o.d's praise will be uprooted from this world.'

86. Genesis Rabba 68:9.

87. B. Berakoth 10a; Leviticus Rabba 4:8; Yalkut on Psalm 90:1; Exodus Rabba.

88. B. Migillah 29a.

89. Song of Songs Rabba 2; Jerusalem Sukkah 4.

90. Numbers Rabba 11:2; Deuteronomy Rabba 7:2 based on Proverbs 8:34.

91. Mekhilta de Rabbi Simon on Exodus 19:6. Cf. Acts of the Apostles 4:32.

92. Song of Songs Rabba 8:12.

93. Yalkut on Song of Songs 1:2.

94. Sifre on Deuteronomy 36.

95. A. Marmorstein, The Old Rabbinic Doctrine of G.o.d, The Names and Attributes of G.o.d (Oxford, 1927), pp.171-4.

96. Niddah 3ib.

97. Yalkut on 2 Samuel 22; B. Yoma 22b; Yalkut on Esther 5:2.

98. Jacob E. Neusner, 'Varieties of Judaism in the Formative Age', in Arthur Green (ed.), Jewish Spirituality, 2 Vols, (London 1986, 1988), I pp.172-3.

99. Sifre on Leviticus 19:8.

100. Mekhilta on Exodus 20:13.

101. Piske Aboth 6:6; Horayot 133.

102. Sanhedrin 4:5.

103. Baba Metziah 58b.

104. Arakin 15b.

3 - A Light to the Gentiles 1. Mark 1:18, 11.

2. Mark 1:15. This is often translated: 'The Kingdom of G.o.d is at hand', but the Greek is stronger.

3. See Geza Vermes, Jesus the Jew (London, 1973); Paul Johnson,^ History of the Jem (London, 1987).

4. Matthew 5:17-19.

5. Matthew 7:12.

6. Matthew 23.

7. T. Sof. 13:2.

8. Matthew 17:2.

9. Matthew 17:5.

10. Matthew 17:20; Mark 11:22-3.

11. Astasahasrika 15:293 in Edward Conze, Buddhism: its Essence and Development (Oxford, 1959) p.125.

12. Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna's Counsel in War (New York, 1986), XI, 14, P.97.

13. Ibid XI:21, p.100.

14. Ibid XI:18, p. 100.

15. Galatians 1:11;14.

16. See, for example, Romans 12:5; 1 Corinthians 4:15; 2 Corinthians 2:17. 5:17.

17. I Corinthians, 1:24.