Mysterious Encounters at Mamre and Jabbok
Author: William T. Miller
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780891308164
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Mysterious Encounters at Mamre and Jabbok
Author: William T. Miller
Publisher: Brown Judaic Studies
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween Biblical Criticism and Poetic Rewriting
Author: Samuel Tongue
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014-04-17
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9004271155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Between Biblical Criticism and Poetic Rewriting, Samuel Tongue offers an account of the aesthetic and critical tensions inherent in the development of the Higher Criticism of the Bible. Different ‘types’ of Bible are created through the intellectual and literary pressures of Enlightenment and Romanticism and, as Tongue suggests, it is this legacy that continues to orientate the approaches deemed legitimate in biblical scholarship. Using a number of ancient and contemporary critical and poetic rewritings of Jacob’s struggle with the ‘angel’ (Gen 32:22-32), Tongue makes use of postmodern theories of textual production to argue that it is the ‘paragesis’, a parasitical form of writing between disciplines, that best foregrounds the complex performativity of biblical interpretation.
Relating to the Text
Author: Timothy J. Sandoval
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 0826470491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection contains studies reflecting the contribution of Martin Buss to biblical scholarship, focusing on the forms and genres of biblical literature and on interdisciplinary approaches to biblical interpretation.
The Sensual God
Author: Aviad M. Kleinberg
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-09-08
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0231540248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the Old Testament, God wrestles with a man (and loses). In the Talmud, God wriggles his toes to make thunder and takes human form to shave the king of Assyria. In the New Testament, God is made flesh and dwells among humans. For religious thinkers trained in Greek philosophy and its deep distaste for matter, sacred scripture can be distressing. A philosophically respectable God should be untainted by sensuality, yet the God of sacred texts is often embarrassingly sensual. Setting experts' minds at ease was neither easy nor simple, and often faith and logic were stretched to their limits. Focusing on examples from both Christian and Jewish sources, from the Bible to sources from the Late Middle Ages, Aviad Kleinberg examines the way Christian and Jewish philosophers, exegetes, and theologians attempted to reconcile God's supposed ineffability with numerous biblical and postbiblical accounts of seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and even tasting the almighty. The conceptual entanglements ensnaring religious thinkers, and the strange, ingenious solutions they used to extricate themselves, tell us something profound about human needs and divine attributes, about faith, hope, and cognitive dissonance.
Jesus and the Thoughts of Many Hearts
Author: Collin Bullard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-02-26
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0567660362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the Gospel of Luke, the aged Simeon foresees the future opposition which Jesus will face (2.34-35) and concludes his ominous oracle with a vivid description of the final outcome of Jesus' ministry: '...so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed' (2.35). Bullard presents an investigation of the narrative and Christological significance of this 'revelation of thoughts' in the ministry of Jesus, especially as this revelation is demonstrated and fulfilled in Jesus' ability to know the thoughts in the hearts of those whom he encounters throughout the Gospel. Bullard first explores a number of potential literary parallels to Jesus' knowledge of thoughts in Greco-Roman and Jewish sources. He then undertakes a narrative- and redaction-critical study which spans the Gospel in order to provide a full description of the 'revelation of thoughts' in Jesus' ministry. What Jesus knows and how he knows it are fundamental features of his identity, governing how he relates to others in the narrative. Yet the issue of whether, or how, Jesus' knowledge of thoughts fits into Luke's overall Christological portrait has been given only superficial attention. Bullard offers an account of the Christological significance of Jesus' knowledge that makes sense of both its internal narrative development and external literary parallels.
The Bible in Arab Christianity
Author: David Richard Thomas
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9004155589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection illustrates the place of the Bible in Arab Christianity as a source of authority and information about Christian experiences under early Islam, and the importance attached to upholding its authenticity in the face of Muslim criticisms.
Handbook of Patristic Exegesis
Author: Charles Kannengiesser
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2004-06-01
Total Pages: 703
ISBN-13: 9047403959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough this comprehensive Handbook, the reader will obtain a balanced and cohesive picture of the Early Church. It gives an overall view of the reception, transmission, and interpretation of the Bible in the life and thought of the Church during the first five centuries of Christianity.
Genesis 12-50
Author: R. W. L. Moberly
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1992-01-11
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 0567161102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWalter Moberly's study Guide to Genesis 12-50 provides an invaluable introduction to the second part of Genesis and is essential reading for anyone interested in the patriarchal narratives and the earliest history of the people of Israel.
Michael and Christ
Author: Darrell D. Hannah
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2011-01-04
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1610971531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDarrell D. Hannah engages the debate over 'angelomorphic Christology'. He shows that more than one form of angel or angelomorphic Christology was current in early Christianity and that Michael traditions in particular provided a conceptual framework in which Christ's heavenly significance was understood.
