Righteousness
Righteousness by Jeffrey J. Niehaus, published by Pickwick Publications in 2023, is the second volume of a comprehensive three-volume work that examines the Hebrew terms for righteousness found in the Old Testament. This edition spans 364 pages and is presented in English. The book begins with a discussion on apperception and deductive method, ultimately concluding with an afterword that explores the relationship between righteousness and ontology, emphasizing that God’s aseity serves as the foundation for biblical righteousness.
Readers will find a detailed exegetical analysis of the various occurrences of righteousness in the Old Testament, including related terms such as “righteous,” “justify,” and the significant pairing of “righteousness and justice.” The first three chapters focus on semantic domain studies, revealing how terms like “upright,” “blameless,” and “good” qualify the concept of righteousness. The work illustrates that, regardless of the nuances in different contexts, the essence of righteousness aligns with conformity to God’s Being and actions, reflecting the nature of divine righteousness.
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The second volume of this three-volume work exegetes and comments on every occurrence of the Hebrew terms for righteousness in the Old Testament. It begins with a discussion of apperception and deductive method and concludes with an afterword on righteousness and ontology. The ontological argument affirms that God’s aseity is the foundation of righteousness in the Bible, and thus of all true righteousness. Righteousness is being true to God, and God is always true to himself, including in his self-existence. Other terms in the righteous word group, such as “righteous” and “justify,” are considered, along with the important word pair, “righteousness and justice,” in semantic domain studies in the first three chapters. Semantic domain studies show that terms like “upright,” “blameless,” and “good” are qualifiers of righteousness. Whatever the flavor or nuance of the terms for righteousness may be in different OT contexts, however, study shows that the underlying sense of righteousness is conformity to God’s Being and doing, and the same is true of the righteousness of God.
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