A Misanthropic View at the Societies of the Old Testament in the Books of Smaller Prophets

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 negati...

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Autores principales: Bojan Žikić, Danijel Sinani
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:e6b19e58703a4bce8845889f39151d372021-11-25T19:19:32ZA Misanthropic View at the Societies of the Old Testament in the Books of Smaller Prophets 0353-15892334-8801https://doaj.org/article/e6b19e58703a4bce8845889f39151d372021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/244https://doaj.org/toc/0353-1589https://doaj.org/toc/2334-8801 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. Bojan ŽikićDanijel SinaniUniversity of BelgradearticlemisanthropyOld TestamentGodprophetssociabilitymoralAnthropologyGN1-890ENFRSREtnoantropološki Problemi, Vol 13, Iss 4 (2021)
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topic misanthropy
Old Testament
God
prophets
sociability
moral
Anthropology
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Old Testament
God
prophets
sociability
moral
Anthropology
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Bojan Žikić
Danijel Sinani
A Misanthropic View at the Societies of the Old Testament in the Books of Smaller Prophets
description 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.
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