Hermeneutics Of Holiness

Author : Naomi Koltun-Fromm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199889976

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In Hermeneutics of Holiness , Naomi Koltun-Fromm examines the ancient nexus of holiness and sexuality and explores its roots in the biblical texts as well as its manifestations throughout ancient and late-ancient Judaism and early Syriac Christianity. In the process, she tells the story of how the biblical notions of "holy person" and "holy community" came to be defined by the sexual and marriage practices of various interpretive communities in late antiquity. Koltun-Fromm seeks to explain why sexuality, especially sexual restraint, became a primary demarcation of sacred community boundaries among Jews and Christians in fourth-century Persian-Mesopotamia. She charts three primary manifestations of holiness: holiness ascribed, holiness achieved, and holiness acquired through ritual purity. Hermeneutics of Holiness traces the development of these three concepts, from their origin in the biblical texts to the Second Temple literature (both Jewish and Christian) to the Syriac Christian and rabbinic literature of the fourth century. In so doing, this book establishes the importance of biblical interpretation for late ancient Jewish and Christian practices, the centrality of holiness as a category for self-definition, and the relationship of fourth-century asceticism to biblical texts and interpretive history.

Author : Naomi Koltun-Fromm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199741743

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Hermeneutics of Holiness by Naomi Koltun-Fromm Pdf

In Hermeneutics of Holiness , Naomi Koltun-Fromm examines the ancient nexus of holiness and sexuality and explores its roots in the biblical texts as well as its manifestations throughout ancient and late-ancient Judaism and early Syriac Christianity. In the process, she tells the story of how the biblical notions of "holy person" and "holy community" came to be defined by the sexual and marriage practices of various interpretive communities in late antiquity. Koltun-Fromm seeks to explain why sexuality, especially sexual restraint, became a primary demarcation of sacred community boundaries among Jews and Christians in fourth-century Persian-Mesopotamia. She charts three primary manifestations of holiness: holiness ascribed, holiness achieved, and holiness acquired through ritual purity. Hermeneutics of Holiness traces the development of these three concepts, from their origin in the biblical texts to the Second Temple literature (both Jewish and Christian) to the Syriac Christian and rabbinic literature of the fourth century. In so doing, this book establishes the importance of biblical interpretation for late ancient Jewish and Christian practices, the centrality of holiness as a category for self-definition, and the relationship of fourth-century asceticism to biblical texts and interpretive history.

Author : Stephen J. Lennox
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532634437

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A Holiness Hermeneutic by Stephen J. Lennox Pdf

America in the late nineteenth century was undergoing enormous societal shifts. Immigration and urbanization were changing the face of the country. New discoveries and new perspectives on old verities stretched its mind and stirred its soul. The recently concluded Civil War left America bloodied, its self-confidence bruised, and its capacity for controversy weakened. American churches responded to these upheavals in different ways with long-lasting consequences. The reaction of one small branch of American Protestantism rooted in the broader stream of Methodism opens a window into these troubled times. This book explores how the American holiness movement navigated the societal maelstrom and the role the Bible played in charting its course. The holiness movement's response illustrates the interaction between the Bible and culture. It sheds light on the development of the movement's younger cousin, Pentecostalism. It also adds texture to the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy, an important struggle that marked the early decades of the twentieth century and continues to shape America today.

Author : Chris E W Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1935931997

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Sanctifying Interpretation by Chris E W Green Pdf

In this experimental and critically constructive monograph, Pentecostal theologian Chris Green offers an alternative to the standard Evangelical models of Scripture and scriptural hermeneutics. Instead of beginning with the usual epistemological questions about how the biblical texts can be understood as God's Word, Green's work begins with soteriological concerns: how does God use the Scripture in readying the church to fulfill her calling? And how are we to read the Scripture so that we are drawn along by the Spirit into Christlikeness? In three major parts, Green explores the profound and dynamic interrelatedness of vocation, holiness, and the interpretation of Scripture. Through close readings of biblical texts and searching engagement with the church's spiritual and theological traditions, he develops a model for reading Scripture that makes room for God to use the always difficult and sometimes overwhelming work of making faithful sense of the Scriptures to form the people of God for sanctifying participation in the divine mission for the sake of the world.This Second Edition adds more than 50 pages of new material, which includes expanded discussions in several areas. Also new are examples of biblical interpretation that illustrate and explain the author's key ideas.

Author : Richard S. Briggs
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268103767

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Theological Hermeneutics and the Book of Numbers as Christian Scripture by Richard S. Briggs Pdf

How should Christian readers of scripture hold appropriate and constructive tensions between exegetical, critical, hermeneutical, and theological concerns? This book seeks to develop the current lively discussion of theological hermeneutics by taking an extended test case, the book of Numbers, and seeing what it means in practice to hold all these concerns together. In the process the book attempts to reconceive the genre of "commentary" by combining focused attention to the details of the text with particular engagement with theological and hermeneutical concerns arising in and through the interpretive work. The book focuses on the main narrative elements of Numbers 11–25, although other passages are included (Numbers 5, 6, 33). With its mix of genres and its challenging theological perspectives, Numbers offers a range of difficult cases for traditional Christian hermeneutics. Briggs argues that the Christian practice of reading scripture requires engagement with broad theological concerns, and brings into his discussion Frei, Auerbach, Barth, Ricoeur, Volf, and many other biblical scholars. The book highlights several key formational theological questions to which Numbers provides illuminating answers: What is the significance and nature of trust in God? How does holiness (mediated in Numbers through the priesthood) challenge and redefine our sense of what is right, or "fair"? To what extent is it helpful to conceptualize life with God as a journey through a wilderness, of whatever sort? Finally, short of whatever promised land we may be, what is the context and role of blessing?

Author : Gary Anderson,Ruth Clements,David Satran
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004207431

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New Approaches to the Study of Biblical Interpretation in Judaism of the Second Temple Period and in Early Christianity by Gary Anderson,Ruth Clements,David Satran Pdf

This volume illustrates the ways in which the discovery of the scrolls has altered our paradigms of biblical interpretation, investigating connections within and between Jewish and Christian interpretive texts.

Author : Kenneth Archer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567083675

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A Pentecostal Hermeneutic for the Twenty First Century by Kenneth Archer Pdf

The purpose of this book is to present a critically informed contemporary Pentecostal hermeneutic rooted in Pentecostal identity, in its stories, beliefs and practices. As Pentecostals began entering academic communities of higher learning, their interpretive methods became both mainstream and modernistic as they adapted the historical critical methods, or the so-called scientific hermeneutic. The proposed hermeneutic contained in this book desires to move beyond the impasse created by Modernity, instead pushing Pentecostals into the contemporary context by critically re-appropriating early Pentecostal ethos and interpretive practices for a contemporary Pentecostal community. The Pentecostal hermeneutic is a three-way interaction for theological meaning between the Holy Spirit, the Pentecostal community and sacred Scripture.

Author : L. William Oliverio
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004230194

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Theological Hermeneutics in the Classical Pentecostal Tradition by L. William Oliverio Pdf

In Theological Hermeneutics in the Classical Pentecostal Tradition, L. William Oliverio Jr. accounts for the development of Classical Pentecostal theological hermeneutics through four hermeneutical types and concludes with a philosophical basis for future Pentecostal theological hermeneutics within the contours of a hermeneutical realism.

Author : Pontifical Biblical Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0819836702

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The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church by Pontifical Biblical Commission Pdf

Author : Stanley E. Porter,Beth M. Stovell
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830869992

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Biblical Hermeneutics by Stanley E. Porter,Beth M. Stovell Pdf

In this Spectrum Multiview volume five experts in biblical hermeneutics gather to state and defend their approach to the discipline. Contributors include: Craig Blomberg with the historical-critical/grammatical approach Richard Gaffin with the redemptive-historical approach Scott Spencer with the literary/postmodern approach Robert Wall with the canonical approach Merold Westphal with the philosophical/theological approach Spectrum Multiview Books offer a range of viewpoints on contested topics within Christianity, giving contributors the opportunity to present their position and also respond to others in this dynamic publishing format.

Author : Kenneth Mtata,Eve-Marie Becker
Publisher : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783374048434

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Pauline Hermeneutics by Kenneth Mtata,Eve-Marie Becker Pdf

Paul's letters are of crucial importance for Christian theology and church life. The way in which the apostle Paul critically reflected on the meaning of the gospel message in light of Scripture, the traditions, ethics and Christian faith and hope, has had a significant and lasting impact on the Lutheran tradition. In this publication, the fourth and final in a series of LWF publications on biblical hermeneutics, renowned international scholars from the fields of biblical studies and systematic theology reevaluate to what extent twenty-first-century Lutherans can rediscover the Pauline paradigm of the "power of the Gospel" and hereby overcome ambiguous perceptions of the so-called "Lutheran reading(s)" of Paul. [Paulinische Hermeneutik. Die "Kraft des Evangeliums" erforschen] Die Briefe des Paulus haben eine grundlegende Bedeutung für die christliche Theologie. Besonders die lutherischen Kirchen sind dauerhaft davon geprägt, wie Paulus als Apostel die Bedeutung des "Evangeliums" im Lichte der Auslegung von Schrift und Tradition sowie der Konzeption frühchristlicher Ethik und der Explikation von Hoffnung und Glaube herausgearbeitet und interpretiert hat. Die vorliegende Anthologie schließt einer Folge von vier LWB Publikationen zur biblischen Hermeneutik ab. International renommierte Bibelwissenschaftler und Systematische Theologen diskutieren, in welcher Weise lutherische Theologie im 21. Jahrhundert das paulinische Konzept von der "Kraft des Evangeliums" so wiederentdecken kann, dass ambivalente Vorstellungen von der sog. "Lutherischen Paulusperspektive" neu überdacht und überwunden werden können.

Author : Shaye J. D. Cohen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674278776

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What Is the Mishnah? by Shaye J. D. Cohen Pdf

The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic Judaism—rabbinic law is based on the Talmud which, in turn, is based on the Mishnah. Yet its sources, genre, and purpose are obscure. What Is the Mishnah? collects papers by leading scholars from the United States, Europe, and Israel and gives a clear sense of the direction of Mishnah studies.

Author : Jeannine K. Brown,Carla M. Dahl,Wyndy Corbin Reuschling
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801039256

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Becoming Whole and Holy by Jeannine K. Brown,Carla M. Dahl,Wyndy Corbin Reuschling Pdf

This Christian formation text combines insights from social science, biblical studies, and ethics to present a dynamic vision of human holiness and wholeness.

Author : Marc Hirshman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438406797

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A Rivalry of Genius by Marc Hirshman Pdf

By comparing interpretations of the Hebrew Bible by Jews, Christians, and Gnostics in Late Antiquity, this book provides a unique perspective on these religious movements in Palestine. Rival interpretations of the early Church and the Midrash are set against the backdrop of the pagan critique of these religions and the gnostic threat that grew within both Christianity and Judaism. The comparison of the exegetical works of Christianity and Judaism illuminates the later development of the two religions and offers fresh insight into the Bible itself.

Author : Helen F. Bergin
Publisher : ATF Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781922239211

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From North to South by Helen F. Bergin Pdf

From North to South brings together the interests in Edward Schillebeeckx of eight theologians from Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia. In each chapter, theologians dialogue from a southern context with one of Schillebeeckx's themes or methods. Themes such as suffering and negative contrast experiences, political holiness, ecclesiology, God and the cross, resurrection and hope, and theology and culture are addressed. Attention to Schillebeeckx's hermeneutics lies at the heart of several chapters but is generally woven throughout. Contributors bring their particular southern contexts into serious dialogue with Schillebeeckx's northern thought. The book concludes with a response to the south from North American theologian, Kathleen McManus OP. In short, the book witnesses to the ongoing challenge and stimulation of Edward Schillebeeckx's theology.