Post-mortem Divine Retribution
Post-mortem Divine Retribution

Author: Angukali Rotokha

Publisher: Langham Publishing

Published: 2023-05-31

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1839738650

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While a Christian understanding of divine judgement tends to focus on the afterlife, the Hebrew Bible is far more concerned with divine retribution as something experienced in this life. Yet if the same God enacts both, should there not be significant continuity between biblical accounts of divine retribution, whether experienced in this world or the hereafter? In this study, Dr. Angukali Rotokha provides an overview of Old Testament and Second Temple sources that express conceptions of post-mortem judgement. Alongside these passages, she examines the perspective on judgement presented in Deuteronomy, with its orientation towards divine retribution as experienced on this side of death. She explores Deuteronomy’s varying emphases on the impersonal, anthropocentric, theocentric, and limited aspects of divine retribution, as well as the relevance of these conceptions to the descriptions of post-mortem judgement found in Isaiah, Daniel, 1 Enoch, and 2 Maccabees. In clarifying points of continuity and discontinuity between earthly and post-mortem divine retribution, she provides a foundation for deeper insight into the Judeo-Christian understanding of both God’s judgement and God’s grace.

Human Transgression – Divine Retribution: A Study of Religious Transgressions and Punishments in Greek Cultic Regulation and Lydian-Phrygian Propitiatory Inscriptions (‘Confession Inscriptions’)
Human Transgression – Divine Retribution: A Study of Religious Transgressions and Punishments in Greek Cultic Regulation and Lydian-Phrygian Propitiatory Inscriptions (‘Confession Inscriptions’)

Author: Aslak Rostad

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2020-10-22

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1789695260

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This book analyses pagan concepts of religious transgressions as expressed in Greek cultic regulations from the 5th century BC-3rd century AD. Also considered are so-called propitiatory inscriptions from the 1st-3rd century AD Lydia and Phrygia, in light of ‘cultic morality’, intended to make places, occasions, and worshippers suitable for ritual.

Divine Retribution
Divine Retribution

Author: Virginia West

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2012-06-22

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1468582976

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Pushed to the very limits of sanity, Della Divine takes the only course of action available to her: she frames her noisy neighbours for her attempted murder, moves to London, and pulls together a team of mercenaries. Using her own sense of right and wrong, she provides her customers with the opportunity to mete out retribution, unaware that one of the assignments will put her and the team in the path of danger and ultimately death. Everyone is at risk as tit-for-tat strikes rage across the country. This smoke-and-mirrors tale will have you sitting on the edge of your seat.

The Idea of Retribution in the Book of Ezekiel
The Idea of Retribution in the Book of Ezekiel

Author: Ka Leung Wong

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2001-07-12

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9047401050

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The objective of the book is to examine the idea of retribution in the Book of Ezekiel. The book seeks to show that underlying Ezekiel are three principles of retribution: covenant, the disposal of impurity, and poetic justice. That is to say, the consequence of an act is either governed by the terms of a covenant, or seen as the disposal of impurity produced by the act, or made to look like the act by incorporating some features of the act. The present study shows that retribution can be juridical in nature as in the case of the covenant, but it can also be non-juridical as in the cases of disposal of impurity and poetic justice. This study also provides an examination of these three important ideas seldom noted in detail in current literature on Ezekiel.

Reward, Punishment, and Forgiveness
Reward, Punishment, and Forgiveness

Author: Joze Krasovec

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-09-03

Total Pages: 997

ISBN-13: 9004276033

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This book deals with central and universal issues of reward, punishment and forgiveness for the first time in a compact and comprehensive way. Until now these themes have received far too little attention in scholarly research both in their own right and in their interrelationship. The scope of this study is to present them in relation to the foundations of our culture. These and related issues are treated primarily within the Hebrew Bible, using the methods of literary analysis. The centrality of these themes in all religions and all cultures has resulted, however, in a comparative investigation, drawing attention to the problem of terminology, the importance of Greek culture for the European tradition, and the fusion of Greek and Jewish-Christian cultures in our modern philosophical and theological systems. This broad perspective shows that the biblical personalist understanding of divine authority and of human righteousness or guilt provides the personalist key to the search for reconciliation in a divided world.

Holman Bible Dictionary
Holman Bible Dictionary

Author: Trent C. Butler

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 1498

ISBN-13:

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A Bible dictionary is an essential resource for anyone who studies the Bible?

Wisdom Literature
Wisdom Literature

Author: Roland Edmund Murphy

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780802818775

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This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. Murphy sees three of the six books (Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes) as being technically 'wisdom literature.' The others are either love poems or historical narrative that fit well within the context of the subject presented here. In this volume previous form-critical work is carefully evaluated, and the result is a thorough-going form-critical treatment of this part of the Old Testament. The work is enhanced by bibliographies for each Old Testament book and a glossary of general terms.

Disasters and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan
Disasters and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan

Author: Mark R. Mullins

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-26

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1137521325

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Japan was shaken by the 'double disaster' of earthquake and sarin gas attack in 1995, and in 2011 it was hit once again by the 'triple disaster' of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown. This international, multi-disciplinary group of scholars examines the state and societal responses to the disasters and social crisis.