Conversations On Canaanite And Biblical Themes

Author : Rebecca S. Watson,Adrian H. W. Curtis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110605242

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Conversations on Canaanite and Biblical Themes by Rebecca S. Watson,Adrian H. W. Curtis Pdf

Arguments over the relationship between Canaanite and Israelite religion often derive from fundamental differences in presupposition, methodology and definition, yet debate typically focuses in on details and encourages polarization between opposing views, inhibiting progress. This volume seeks to initiate a cultural change in scholarly practice by setting up dialogues between pairs of experts in the field who hold contrasting views. Each pair discusses a clearly defined issue through the lens of a particular biblical passage, responding to each other’s arguments and offering their reflections on the process. Topics range from the apparent application of ‘chaos’ and ‘divine warrior’ symbolism to Yahweh in Habakkuk 3, the evidence for ‘monotheism’ in pre-Exilic Judah in 2 Kings 22–23, and the possible presence of ‘chaos’ or creatio ex nihilo in Genesis 1 and Psalm 74. This approach encourages the recognition of points of agreement as well as differences and exposes some of the underlying issues that inhibit consensus. In doing so, it consolidates much that has been achieved in the past, offers fresh ideas and perspective and, through intense debate, subjects new ideas to thorough critique and suggests avenues for further research.

Author : David Toshio Tsumura
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783161612787

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Was There a Cult of El in Ancient Canaan? by David Toshio Tsumura Pdf

Author : David W. Larsen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666758221

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The Place of God at the Bookends of the Bible by David W. Larsen Pdf

What if everything in the Bible has a larger outer context than is usually accounted for? Missional and biblical theologies suggest that the Bible presents a grand story like a play with multiple acts. The acts typically include creation, fall, redemption, and finally restoration. But what if the whole story itself occurs in another larger setting, occurring within a mission running in the background throughout the whole Bible? How might this aid our research, reading, and application? And why is this being proposed now? This book explores these questions. The larger context is the production of the place of God—a home and homeland wherein God, with his people, dwell on earth. Since place is underdeveloped in biblical studies, the book presents a new method for interpreting place. Then the book lays out the case that a grand mission to produce the place of God becomes the outer context for the whole Bible. Finally, the book defends this proposal with an in-depth placial commentary of the bookends of the Bible, since these bookends provide keys to unlock this message, thereby inviting further study on the rest of the Bible and on the implications for this transformative perspective.

Author : Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567699336

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Life and Death by Francesca Stavrakopoulou Pdf

Life and Death: Social Perspectives on Biblical Bodies explores some of the social, material, and ideological dynamics shaping life and death in both the Hebrew Bible and ancient Israel and Judah. Analysing topics ranging from the bodily realities of gestation, subsistence, and death, and embodied performances of gender, power, and status, to the imagined realities of post-mortem and divine existence, the essays in this volume offer exciting new trajectories in our understanding of the ways in which embodiment played out in the societies in which the texts of the Hebrew Bible emerged.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004515109

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Congress Volume Aberdeen 2019 by Anonim Pdf

This volume presents the main lectures of the 23rd Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) held in Aberdeen, United Kingdom, in August 2019.

Author : Edmond F. Desueza,Judith Jones
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780819227508

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Conversations with Scripture by Edmond F. Desueza,Judith Jones Pdf

Daniel was written during a time when God’s people were struggling to discern how to remain faithful, even as their lives were dominated by the political and cultural forces of the Empire. Daniel’s central themes have remained relevant ever since: the challenge of remaining loyal to God despite the alternately seductive and threatening voices of imperial powers; the indispensability of humility before God; the perpetual problem of human arrogance and failure to recognize the overarching power of God; the insatiable and life-denying human thirst for power and control; and the call to find in God the source of just, joyful and abundant living. As people today try to make sense of a newly emerging global reality, Daniel continues to speak an important word about faithful living. Who truly controls our lives? To what or whom do we owe ultimate allegiance? To whom do the kingdom, the power and the glory belong? This book invites readers to consider the questions that Daniel raises and then live out the answers.

Author : L. Daniel Hawk
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606088197

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Joshua in 3-D by L. Daniel Hawk Pdf

This unique commentary generates a conversation between the biblical narrative of conquest, related biblical themes, and the American master narrative of Manifest Destiny. Writing in an accessible style and format, Hawk offers an exegesis of the biblical text with special emphasis on the ways the narrative of conquest shaped ancient Israel's identity as a people. A second level of commentary lifts key themes from the text (e.g., the land as divine gift and promise, mass killing, Israel's distinctive attributes, the construction of the Indigenous Other) and sets them within their broader biblical context. A third dimension reflects on corresponding elements in America's narrative of "westward expansion" (e.g. the conviction of America's unique character and destiny, total war and ethnic cleansing, the dehumanization of Native peoples, patriotism and homeland, the idea of the American Dream). As a whole, this book offers Joshua as a biblical resource for reading the American experience, challenging readers to reflect on how conquest shaped America's identity and how it continues to influence American attitudes and actions.

Author : Eric A. Seibert
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451407709

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Disturbing Divine Behavior by Eric A. Seibert Pdf

How should we understand biblical texts where God is depicted as acting irrationally, violently, or destructively? If we distance ourselves from disturbing portrayals of God, how should we understand the authority of Scripture? How does the often wrathful God portrayed in the Old Testament relate to the God of love proclaimed in the New Testament? Is that contrast even accurate? Disturbing Divine Behavior addresses these perennially vexing questions for the student of the Bible. Eric A. Seibert calls for an engaged and discerning reading of the Old Testament that distinguishes the particular literary and theological goals achieved through narrative characterizations of God from the rich understanding of the divine to which the Old Testament as a whole points. Providing illuminating reflections on theological reading as well, this book will be a welcome resource for any readers who puzzle over disturbing representations of God in the Bible.

Author : Darrell Jodock
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451416206

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Covenantal Conversations by Darrell Jodock Pdf

* Explores the eight most important topics in Jewish-Christian relations * Features the key leaders in Jewish-Christian relations and theology * Includes a study of the Arab-Israel-Palestinian conflict

Author : Eric A. Seibert
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451424324

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The Violence of Scripture by Eric A. Seibert Pdf

No one can read far in the Old Testament without encountering numerous acts of violence that are sanctioned in the text and attributed to both God and humans. Over the years, these texts have been used to justify all sorts of violence: from colonizing people and justifying warfare, to sanctioning violence against women and children. Eric Seibert confrons the problem of "virtuous" violence and urges people to engage in an ethically responsible reading of these troublesome texts. He offers a variety of reading strategies designed to critique textually sanctioned violence, while still finding ways to use even the most difficult texts constructively, thus providing a desperately needed approach to the violence of Scripture that can help us live more peaceably in a world plagued by religious violence. --from publisher description

Author : Mark J. Boda,J. Gordon McConville
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830895830

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Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets by Mark J. Boda,J. Gordon McConville Pdf

ECPA Book Award finalist With the Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets, IVP's Black Dictionary series completes its coverage of the Old Testament canonical books. A true compendium of recent scholarship, the volume includes 115 articles covering all aspects of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the twelve "minor prophets" and Daniel. Each book's historical, cultural, religious and literary background is thoroughly covered, alongside articles on interpretation history and critical method. Pastors, scholars and students will find this a deep resource for their Old Testament studies. Reference volumes in the IVP Bible Dictionary Series provide in-depth treatment of biblical and theological topics in an accessible, encyclopedia format, including cross-sectional themes, methods of interpretation, significant historical or cultural background, and each Old and New Testament book as a whole.

Author : Gordon H. Matties
Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780836198058

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Joshua by Gordon H. Matties Pdf

In an age of fear and insecurity, in which ethnic nationalism continues to give rise to conflict and war, we dare not avoid critical engagement with biblical texts that have been used to justify colonialism, conquest, occupation, and ethnic cleansing. Building on the idea of Scripture as dialogue partner, Matties advocates for the book of Joshua even as he engages in a difficult conversation with it. In his commentary, the twenty-fifth volume in the Believers Church Bible Commentary series, Matties calls for an openness to the unexpected in the book of Joshua. He suggests that reading Joshua carefully will open windows into how and why we read Scripture at all.

Author : Randal Rauser
Publisher : 2 Cup Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1775046249

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Jesus Loves Canaanites by Randal Rauser Pdf

And who is my neighbor? Christians confess the Bible as the Good Book, the perfect guide for becoming loving and holy, just like Jesus. And yet, that same book describes God commanding the Israelites to kill every Canaanite living in the Promised Land. How are we to understand the Bible as the Good Book when it depicts God commanding actions like genocide? How are we to reconcile this narrative with the God revealed in Jesus Christ, the God who taught us to love our enemies?In this bold new book, Randal Rauser defends a novel approach to the Canaanite genocide, one that remains faithful to our deepest moral intuitions even as it is guided by the conviction that Jesus calls us to love all our neighbors. And the Canaanite is our neighbor.

Author : Francis M. Macatangay,Francisco-Javier Ruiz-Ortiz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110762228

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Ben Sira in Conversation with Traditions by Francis M. Macatangay,Francisco-Javier Ruiz-Ortiz Pdf

This volume of essays on Ben Sira is a Festschrift on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Prof. Nuria Calduch-Benages. The volume gathers the latest studies on Ben Sira's relationship with other Jewish traditions. With a variety of methods and approaches, the volume explores Ben Sira's interpretation of received traditions, his views on the prevailing issues of his time, and the subsequent reception of his work.

Author : Gerd Theissen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015021842862

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The Open Door by Gerd Theissen Pdf

The Open Door by Gerd Theissen (1991).