Configuring Nicodemus

Author : Michael R. Whitenton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567685636

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Configuring Nicodemus by Michael R. Whitenton Pdf

Michael Whitenton offers a fresh perspective on the characterization of Nicodemus, focusing on the benefit of Hellenistic rhetoric and the cognitive sciences for understanding audience construals of characters in ancient narratives. Whitenton builds an interdisciplinary approach to ancient characters, utilizing cognitive science, Greek stock characters, ancient rhetoric, and modern literary theory. He then turns his attention to the characterization of Nicodemus, where he argues that Nicodemus would likely be understood initially as a dissembling character, only to depart from that characterization later in the narrative, suggesting a journey toward Johannine faith. Whitenton presents a compelling argument: many in an ancient audience would construe Nicodemus in ways that suggest his development from doubt and suspicion to commitment and devotion.

Author : Michael R. Whitenton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567665324

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Configuring Nicodemus by Michael R. Whitenton Pdf

Michael Whitenton offers a fresh perspective on the characterization of Nicodemus, focusing on the benefit of Hellenistic rhetoric and the cognitive sciences for understanding audience construals of characters in ancient narratives. Whitenton builds an interdisciplinary approach to ancient characters, utilizing cognitive science, Greek stock characters, ancient rhetoric, and modern literary theory. He then turns his attention to the characterization of Nicodemus, where he argues that Nicodemus would likely be understood initially as a dissembling character, only to depart from that characterization later in the narrative, suggesting a journey toward Johannine faith. Whitenton presents a compelling argument: many in an ancient audience would construe Nicodemus in ways that suggest his development from doubt and suspicion to commitment and devotion.

Author : Wil Rogan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567708670

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Purity in the Gospel of John by Wil Rogan Pdf

Wil Rogan argues that, contrary to twentieth-century interpretation, the Fourth Gospel did not replace purity with faith in Jesus. Instead, as with other early Jewish writings, its discourse about purity functions as a way to make sense of life before God in the world. He suggests that John's Gospel employs biblical and early Jewish traditions of purity associated with divine revelation and Israel's restoration to narrate how God's people are prepared for the coming of Jesus and enabled by him to have life with God characterized by love. After evaluating different theories of purity for the interpretation of the Fourth Gospel, Rogan explores John the Baptist as an agent of ritual purification, Jesus as the agent of moral purification, and the disciples of Jesus as ones who are (or are not) made morally pure by Jesus. While purity is not one of the Fourth Gospel's primary focuses, Rogan stresses that the concept figures into some of its most significant claims about Christology, the doctrine of salvation, and ethics. Through purity, the Fourth Gospel guards continuity with the past while placing surprising conditions on participation in Israel's future.

Author : Zach Preston Eberhart
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004692039

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Between Script and Scripture: Performance Criticism and Mark's Characterization of the Disciples by Zach Preston Eberhart Pdf

This volume reimagines the first-century reception of the Gospel of Mark within a reconstructed (yet hypothetical) performance event. In particular, it considers the disciples' character and characterization through the lens of performance criticism. Questions concerning the characterization of the disciples have been relatively one-sided in New Testament scholarship, in favor of their negative characterization. This project demonstrates why such assumptions need not be necessary when we (re-)consider the oral/aural milieu in which the Gospel of Mark was first composed and received by its earliest audiences.

Author : Sung Uk Lim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030602864

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Otherness and Identity in the Gospel of John by Sung Uk Lim Pdf

In this book, Sung Uk Lim examines the narrative construction of identity and otherness through ongoing interactions between Jesus and the so-called others as represented by the minor characters in the Gospel of John. This study reconfigures the otherness of the minor characters in order to reconstruct the identity of Jesus beyond the exclusive binary of identity and otherness. The recent trends in Johannine scholarship are deeply entrenched in a dialectical framework of inclusion and exclusion, perpetuating positive portrayals of Jesus and negative portrayals of the minor characters. Read in this light, Jesus is portrayed as a superior, omniscient, and omnipotent character, whereas minor characters are depicted as inferior, uncomprehending, and powerless. At the root of such portrayals lies the belief that the Johannine dualistic Weltanschauung warrants such a sharp differentiation between Jesus and the minor characters. Lim argues, to the contrary, that the multiple constructions of otherness deriving from the minor characters make Jesus’ identity vulnerable to a constant process of transformation. Consequently, John’s minor characters actually challenge and destabilize Johannine hierarchical dualism within a both/and framework.

Author : Matthew Ryan Hauge,Craig Evan Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567699510

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Character Studies in the Gospel of Matthew by Matthew Ryan Hauge,Craig Evan Anderson Pdf

This volume examines a multitude of characters in Matthew's gospel and provides an in-depth look at the different approaches currently employed by scholars working with literary and reader-oriented methods. Beginning with an introduction on 'the properties of character' and the several aspects involved in the creation of person, the contributors provide a close reading of numerous characters and character types in the Gospel of Matthew. Including Mary, King Herod, John the Baptist, Jesus the Preacher, Jesus the Teacher, God the Father, the Roman Centurion, Peter, Women, Gentiles, Scribes and Pharisees, and Romans. Such close studies aid the understanding of different issues in Matthean characterization, while also charting the development of hermeneutical vistas that have developed in contemporary scholarship, resulting in a collection of exegetical character studies that are self-consciously working from a literary, narrative-critical, reader-oriented, or related methodology.

Author : Michael R. Whitenton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004329652

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Hearing Kyriotic Sonship by Michael R. Whitenton Pdf

In Hearing Kyriotic Sonship Michael Whitenton approaches the characterization of Mark’s Jesus from an interdisciplinary perspective and argues that many first-century listeners probably understood him as a divine Davidic king.

Author : John DelHousaye
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532683725

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The Fourfold Gospel, Volume 3 by John DelHousaye Pdf

In the spirit of Ludolph of Saxony (c. 1295–1378) and Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), The Fourfold Gospel invites the reader into the mystery of God’s redemption in Jesus Christ. All the parallel passages in the Gospels are glossed together, along with the unique material, using a medieval interpretive approach called the Quadriga or the acronym PaRDeS in Hebrew. Meditating on the literal, canonical, moral, and theological senses of Scripture offers a scaffolding for the spiritual formation of the reader. This volume focuses on the illuminative stage of discipleship, the goal of the parables, along with Jesus’s conflict with enemies and our mission.

Author : Steven G. Ogden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000451580

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Violence, Entitlement, and Politics by Steven G. Ogden Pdf

This book is an exercise in political theology, exploring the problem of gender- based violence by focusing on violent male subjects and the issue of entitlement. It addresses gender-based violence in familial and military settings before engaging with a wider political context. The chapters draw on sources ranging from Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Étienne Balibar to Rowan Williams and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. Entitlement is theorized and interpreted as a gender pattern, predisposing subjects towards controlling behaviour and/or violent actions. Steven Ogden develops a theology of transformation, stressing immanence. He examines entitled subjects, predisposed to violence, where transformation requires a limit-experience that wrenches the subject from itself. The book then reflects on today’s pervasive strongman politics, where political rationalities foster proprietorial thinking and entitlement gender patterns, and how theology is called to develop counter-discourses and counter-practices.

Author : David M. Allen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978715615

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The Use of the Jewish Scriptures in the Johannine Passion Narrative by David M. Allen Pdf

How do Israel’s Scriptures inform the account of Jesus’s cruciform death in the Gospel of John? What does it mean for John’s portrayal of Jesus’s death to be “according to the Scriptures”? The Use of the Jewish Scriptures in the Johannine Passion Narrative: That the Scripture May Be Perfected argues that they are the focal element of the Johannine portrayal, and without them, John’s Passion Narrative simply makes no sense. Whether through the evangelist’s appeal to the fulfilment of Scripture (with such fulfilment accompanying the very moment of Jesus’s death) or whether through allusions to the narratives of Creation or Passover, Israel’s Scriptures provide the Passion Narrative’s veritable heartbeat. This book also considers the impact of John’s scriptural usage on the very concept of Scripture itself, contending that Scripture is brought to perfection by Jesus’s actions and to a new standing or status in this regard. David M. Allen examines how the use of Scripture in the Passion account impacts the Fourth Gospel’s own self-understanding, arguing that its capacity to pronounce on Scripture’s fulfilment attests to the Gospel’s own self-avowed, scriptural credentials.

Author : Peter S. Perry
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666711295

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Biblical Humor and Performance by Peter S. Perry Pdf

What’s so humorous about the Bible? Quite a bit, especially if experienced with others! Nine biblical scholars explore their experiences of reading and hearing passages from the Bible and discovering humor that becomes clearer in performance. Each writer found clues in their chosen biblical text that suggested biblical authors expected an audience to respond with laughter. Performers have a powerful role in either bringing out or tamping down humor in the Bible. One audience may be more disposed to respond to humor than another. And each contributor found that experiencing humor changed the interpretation of the biblical passage. From Genesis to Revelation, this study uncovers the Bible’s potential for humor.

Author : Craig L. Blomberg
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781087753157

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Jesus and the Gospels, Third Edition by Craig L. Blomberg Pdf

All of Scripture testifies to the person of Jesus, yet the Gospels offer a face-to-face encounter. This newly revised third edition of Jesus and the Gospels prepares readers for an in-depth exploration of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Esteemed New Testament scholar Craig Blomberg considers the Gospels’ historical context while examining fresh scholarship, critical methods, and contemporary applications for today. Along with updated introductions, maps, and diagrams, Blomberg’s linguistic, historical, and theological approach delivers a deep investigation into the Gospels for professors, students, and pastors alike.

Author : Kim Paffenroth,Maggie Ann Labinski
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666954869

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Augustine and Gender by Kim Paffenroth,Maggie Ann Labinski Pdf

The relationship between Augustine of Hippo and the subject of gender raises important questions. Augustine and Gender address these issues head-on. This volume offers original interpretations of the many ways that gender appears throughout Augustine’s thought and works. Contributions draw from a wide range of sources including Augustine’s sermons, letters, treatises, and dialogues. Readers will discover detailed analyses about the nature of desire and emotion, the politics of sex and marriage, the possibilities of human speech and exegesis, and the hope of education and community. In addition, this book is a persuasive demonstration of the benefits of bringing together Augustinian scholars with the most pressing concerns of the present.

Author : Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600091490

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Scripture readings for schools and families, by C.M. Yonge. With comments. [5 vols. Wanting vol. 1]. by Charlotte Mary Yonge Pdf

Author : Clement Read Vaughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Gifts, Spiritual
ISBN : UVA:X000500619

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The Gifts of the Holy Spirit to Unbelievers and Believers by Clement Read Vaughan Pdf

This treatise does not seek to enlarge the boundaries of Christian knowledge, unless the attempt to restate the old familiar truths of the gospel of grace in the forms they have assumed in a re-thinking of them under the current modes of thought in the passing era can be so called. The object is wholly practical. There are no new speculations here. The discussion only seeks to extend the applicaion of some of these venerable truths to the practical experience of Christian people, and to restate the terms on which the Christian hope may be obtained by those not yet entitled to indulge it. - Preface.