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Author: Jeremy Wade Barrier
Publisher: Paul in Critical Contexts
Published: 2020-07-15
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781978709751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Witch Hunt in Galatia, Jeremy Wade Barrier reconstructs Galatians as part of Paul's effort to convince the Jews in Galatia to choose baptism through the "breath" (i.e. Spirit) of God over circumcision as a way to bring divine healing to their community.
Author: Jeremy Wade Barrier
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-09-29
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1978709765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKApproximately 2,000 years ago, some Jewish communities of Galatia in central Asia Minor believed they had fallen under a curse, argues Jeremy Wade Barrier. A fellow Jew named Paul wrote the letter we call Galatians to help them escape its effects. In the letter, Barrier argues, Paul called for the Jews in Galatia to stop practicing circumcision. The rite had fallen into disuse within many Jewish communities in the Roman Empire, but Barrier argues the Galatian Jews believed it was a talisman that would protect them from harm. As a further precaution, they needed to deal with the person who had brought this evil to their community. A witch hunt was underway, and some had concluded that the witch was none other than Paul. Barrier provides a reconstruction of the original occasion of Paul’s letter to the Galatians and shows how Paul defended himself from accusations of witchcraft by countering that the ritual that would protect them from the “Evil Eye” was not circumcision, but rather baptism. Through the ritual of baptism, they could receive healing from a material, yet divine, “breath” of God. Barrier also reconstructs an earlier understanding of this pneuma that was lost to subsequent Christianity under the influence of Neoplatonism.
Author: L.L. Welborn
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2023-08-15
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1978716249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the context of growing inequality in the twenty-first century, That There May Be Equality seeks to give new audibility to Paul’s appeal to the principle of “equality” in the collection for the poor. L.L. Welborn traces the history of the concept of “equality” in Greek history in order to convey the potency of the idea which Paul invokes. He analyzes the structural inequality of the Roman economy, particularly that of Roman Corinth, and traces the emergence of Paul’s concern about inequality in the ekklēsia of Christ believers at Corinth. Welborn then analyzes Paul’s invocation of the principle of “equality” in his appeal for partnership in the collection for the poor in 2 Corinthians 8 and 9, bringing Paul’s appeal to “equality” into the present-day crisis of global inequality.
Author: Philip Erwin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-09-29
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1978710720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Paul and Image, Philip Erwin challenges conventional interpretations of 1 Corinthians that tend to overlook the significance of ancient Roman visual culture in framing and posing exegetical questions. He argues that in 1 Corinthians Paul engaged in a long-standing philosophical discussion of visual representation, with consequential implications for how he and his Corinthian addressees interacted with the imagery around them. By situating Paul’s letter in the context of the critical discourse on visual representation from Plato to Philo to the Second Sophistic, Erwin redefines Paul’s critique of human wisdom, treatment of idols, and resurrection discourse in visual terms.
Author: Shirley Damsgaard
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Published: 2006
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stan-Collins Ubaka
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9789789181834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Margaret Y. MacDonald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-10-03
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521567282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a study of how women figured in public reaction to the church from New Testament times to Christianity's encounter with the pagan critics of the second century CE. The reference to a hysterical woman was made by the most prolific critic of Christianity, Celsus. He was referring to a follower of Jesus - probably Mary Magdalene - who was at the centre of efforts to create and promote belief in the resurrection. MacDonald draws attention to the conviction, emerging from the works of several pagan authors, that female initiative was central to Christianity's development; she sets out to explore the relationship between this and the common Greco-Roman belief that women were inclined towards excesses in religion. The findings of cultural anthropologists of Mediterranean societies are examined in an effort to probe the societal values that shaped public opinion and early church teaching. Concerns expressed in New Testament and early Christian texts about the respectability of women, and even generally about their behaviour, are seen in a new light when one appreciates that outsiders focused on early church women and understood their activities as a reflection of the group as a whole.
Author: John W. Hawking
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2015-12-09
Total Pages: 578
ISBN-13: 1329748662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFourteen year old Elizabeth Wiley is about to begin her studies at Bale's Christian Academy, the most prestigious Christian school in the country. It is an event that has brought excitement to her and her entire family. Her excitement is overshadowed by anxiety and fear, however, because Elizabeth has a secret, and it's one that could bring dire consequences for her if the faculty should discover it. Soon after her arrival, Elizabeth is befriended by Sakira Jones, a Senior and the most popular girl at school. With her new best friend, Elizabeth's own popularity soars and everything starts working out for her. Her joy and success is short lived however. For soon Elizabeth finds herself caught in the middle of a spiritual war with a malevolent presence that has blanketed the campus of Bale's Christian Academy; an unspeakable evil that only the sacrifice of human blood, of Elizabeth's blood, may be able to satisfy...
Author: Carey McWilliams
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 361
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Margit Sandemo
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Published: 2012
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ISBN-13: 9788771072792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSummer 1586: Silje, the courageous sixteen-year-old peasant girl orphaned by the Trondheim plague in the opening Ice People Novel, Spellbound, has just come of age in this sequel Witch-hunt. Having fled for her life with her adored 'wolf-man' Tengel and two children she rescued from the plague, she is struggling at 21 to come to terms with the harshness of life among witches and warlocks in the high mountain valley of the mysterious Ice People. Silje has bravely borne Tengel their first child, a daughter Liv. But their life of austere poverty is shattered when savage, witch-hunting troops invade the remote valley to slaughter all its feared inhabitants. Warned in time, Silje, Tengel and the three children flee from the carnage to the lowlands ... But are they unknowingly carrying with them to the rest of Europe the accursed heritage of the Ice People?
