Meeting One God in Many Texts. Festschrift for Eric Peels of the Occasion of his 25th Jubilee as Professor of Old Testament Studies
(ed. J. Dekker, G. Kwakkel)
Twenty-five years ago, on january 13, 1993, Eric Peels (1956) inagurated as professor of Old Testament Studies at the Theological University of Apeldoorn. To celebrate this anniversary, colleagues and friends offer him this Festschrift. In discussions on difficult biblical texts concerning the ‘shadow sides’ to the Old Testament revelation of God, Eric Peels has always recommended to respect the transmitted texts of the Bible and to listen for a longer period of time instead of drawing smooth conclusins distancing oneself from the texts. This Festschrift comprises twenty-eight articles from Bible scholars as systematic theologians, specialists in Semitic languages and Assyriology, and a philosopher, who all follow this advice or interact with it. The topics adressed in the articles all relate to the them of the research program of the section ‘Biblical Exegesis and Systematic Theology (BEST) of the Apeldoorn and Kampen theological universities: ‘Who is Like You Among the Gods? The One and Three in a Pluralistic Context’.