Author : R. Mark Shipp
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9004127151
Of Dead Kings and Dirges
R. Mark Shipp
Of Dead Kings And Dirges
Of Dead Kings And Dirges Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Of Dead Kings And Dirges book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The Politics of Dead Kings
Matthew J. Suriano
Author : Matthew J. Suriano
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Bible
ISBN : 3161504739
The Politics of Dead Kings by Matthew J. Suriano Pdf
Revised thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Los Angeles.
Scripture and Resistance
Jione Havea
Author : Jione Havea
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978703582
Scripture and Resistance by Jione Havea Pdf
Resistance against unjust (wicked) cultures and imperial powers is at the heart of scripture. In many cases, the resistance is waged against external systems or the misappropriation of scriptural texts and traditions. In some cases, however, scripture resists oppressive cultures and powers that it also requires, certifies and protects. At other times, and in different settings, the minders of scripture speak against the abusive cultures and power systems that they inherited and whose benefits they milk. Scripture and Resistance contains reflections by authors from East, West, South, and North — on resistance and the Christian scriptures regarding a rainbow of concerns: the colonial legacies of the Bible; the people (especially native and indigenous people) who were subjugated and minoritized for the sake of the Bible; the courage for resistance among ordinary and normal people, and the opportunities that arise from their realities and struggles; the imperializing tendencies that lurk behind so-called traditional biblical scholarship; the strategies of and energies in post- and de-colonial criticisms; the Bible as a profitable product, and a site of struggle; and the multiple views or perspectives in the Bible about empire and resistance. In other words, the contributors, as a collective, affirm that the Bible contains (pun intended) resistance.
The Sons of God in Genesis 6:1–4
J.J.T. Doedens
Author : J.J.T. Doedens
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004395909
The Sons of God in Genesis 6:1–4 by J.J.T. Doedens Pdf
In The Sons of God in Genesis 6:1–4, Jaap Doedens offers an overview of the history of exegesis of the enigmatic biblical text about the ‘sons of God’, the ‘daughters of men’, and the ‘giants’.
Divine Covenants and Moral Order
David VanDrunen
Author : David VanDrunen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467440639
Divine Covenants and Moral Order by David VanDrunen Pdf
This book addresses the old question of natural law in its contemporary context. David VanDrunen draws on both his Reformed theological heritage and the broader Christian natural law tradition to develop a constructive theology of natural law through a thorough study of Scripture. The biblical covenants organize VanDrunen's study. Part 1 addresses the covenant of creation and the covenant with Noah, exploring how these covenants provide a foundation for understanding God's governance of the whole world under the natural law. Part 2 treats the redemptive covenants that God established with Abraham, Israel, and the New Testament church and explores the obligations of God's people to natural law within these covenant relationships. In the concluding chapter of Divine Covenants and Moral Order VanDrunen reflects on the need for a solid theology of natural law and the importance of natural law for the Christian's life in the public square.]>
Beyond Orality
Jacqueline Vayntrub
Author : Jacqueline Vayntrub
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315304175
Beyond Orality by Jacqueline Vayntrub Pdf
Central to understanding the prophecy and prayer of the Hebrew Bible are the unspoken assumptions that shaped them—their genres. Modern scholars describe these works as “poetry,” but there was no corresponding ancient Hebrew term or concept. Scholars also typically assume it began as “oral literature,” a concept based more in evolutionist assumptions than evidence. Is biblical poetry a purely modern fiction, or is there a more fundamental reason why its definition escapes us? Beyond Orality: Biblical Poetry on its Own Terms changes the debate by showing how biblical poetry has worked as a mirror, reflecting each era’s own self-image of verbal art. Yet Vayntrub also shows that this problem is rooted in a crucial pattern within the Bible itself: the texts we recognize as “poetry” are framed as powerful and ancient verbal performances, dramatic speeches from the past. The Bible’s creators presented what we call poetry in terms of their own image of the ancient and the oral, and understanding their native theories of Hebrew verbal art gives us a new basis to rethink our own.
Life and Mortality in Ugaritic
Matthew McAffee
Author : Matthew McAffee
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781646020362
Life and Mortality in Ugaritic by Matthew McAffee Pdf
While topics such as death, funerary cult, and the netherworld have received considerable scholarly attention in the context of the Ugaritic textual corpus, the related concept of life has been relatively neglected. Life and Mortality in Ugaritic takes as its premise that one cannot grasp the significance of mwt (“to die”) without first having wrestled with the concept of ḥyy (“to live”). In this book, Matthew McAffee takes a lexical approach to the study of life and death in the Ugaritic textual corpus. He identifies and analyzes the Ugaritic terms most commonly used to talk about life and mortality in order to construct a more representative framework of the ancient perspective on these topics, and he concludes by synthesizing the results of this lexical study into a broader literary discussion that considers, among other things, the implications for our understanding of the first-millennium Katumuwa stele from Zincirli. McAffee’s study complements previous scholarly work in this area, which has tended to rely on conceptual and theoretical treatment of mortality, and advances the discussion by providing a more focused lexical analysis of the Ugaritic terms in question. It will be of interest to Semitic scholars and those who study Ugaritic in particular, in addition to students of the culture of the ancient Levant.
King and Messiah as Son of God
Adela Yarbro Collins,John J. Collins
Author : Adela Yarbro Collins,John J. Collins
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802807724
King and Messiah as Son of God by Adela Yarbro Collins,John J. Collins Pdf
This book traces the history of the idea that the king and later the messiah is Son of God, from its origins in ancient Near Eastern royal ideology to its Christian appropriation in the New Testament. Both highly regarded scholars, Adela Yarbro Collins and John J. Collins argue that Jesus was called "the Son of God" precisely because he was believed to be the messianic king. This belief and tradition, they contend, led to the identification of Jesus as preexistent, personified Wisdom, or a heavenly being in the New Testament canon. However, the titles Jesus is given are historical titles tracing back to Egyptian New Kingdom ideology. Therefore the title "Son of God" is likely solely messianic and not literal. King and Messiah as Son of God is distinctive in its range, spanning both Testaments and informed by ancient Near Eastern literature and Jewish noncanonical literature.
Plots of Epiphany
John B. Weaver
Author : John B. Weaver
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110915617
Plots of Epiphany by John B. Weaver Pdf
Past scholarship on the prison-escapes in the Acts of the Apostles has tended to focus on lexical similarities to Euripides' Bacchae, going so far as to argue for direct literary dependence. Moving beyond such explanations, the present study argues that miraculous prison-escape was a central event in a traditional and culturally significant story about the introduction and foundation of cults - a story discernable in the Bacchae and other ancient texts. When the mythic quality and cultural diffusion of the prison-escape narratives are taken into account, the resemblance of Lukan and Dionysian narrative episodes is seen to depend less on specific literary borrowing, and more on shared familiarity with cultural discourses involving the legitimating portrayal of new cults in the ancient world.
Death in the Iron Age II and in First Isaiah
Christopher B. Hays
Author : Christopher B. Hays
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Bible
ISBN : 3161507851
Death in the Iron Age II and in First Isaiah by Christopher B. Hays Pdf
Death is one of the major themes of 'First Isaiah, ' although it has not generally been recognized as such. Images of death are repeatedly used by the prophet and his earliest tradents.The book begins by concisely summarizing what is known about death in the Ancient Near East during the Iron Age II, covering beliefs and practices in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Syria-Palestine, and Judah/Israel. Incorporating both textual and archeological data, Christopher B. Hays surveys and analyzes existing scholarly literature on these topics from multiple fields.Focusing on the text's meaning for its producers and its initial audiences, he describes the ways in which the 'rhetoric of death' functioned in its historical context and offers fresh interpretations of more than a dozen passages in Isa 5-38. He shows how they employ the imagery of death that was part of their cultural contexts, and also identifies ways in which they break new creative ground.This holistic approach to questions that have attracted much scholarly attention in recent decades produces new insights not only for the interpretation of specific biblical passages, but also for the formation of the book of Isaiah and for the history of ancient Near Eastern religions
Inheritance: Covenants, Kingdoms, Bodies and Nations
Mark Daniel
Author : Mark Daniel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312926714
Inheritance: Covenants, Kingdoms, Bodies and Nations by Mark Daniel Pdf
The Body Royal
Mark W. Hamilton
Author : Mark W. Hamilton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047415435
The Body Royal by Mark W. Hamilton Pdf
This book rethinks the problem of Israelite kingship by examining how the male royal body and its self-presentation figured in the governance of the dual monarchies of Israel and Judah. As such, this is a reopening of old questions and an opening to new ones.
Life and Death
Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Author : Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567699336
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.
Desiring Divinity
M. David Litwa
Author : M. David Litwa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190467173
Desiring Divinity by M. David Litwa Pdf
Perhaps no declaration incites more theological and moral outrage than a human's claim to be divine. Those who make this claim in ancient Jewish and Christian mythology are typically represented as the most hubristic and dangerous tyrants. Their horrible punishments are predictable and still serve as morality tales in religious communities today. But not all self-deifiers are saddled with pride and fated to fall. Some who claimed divinity stated a simple and direct truth. Though reviled on earth, misunderstood, and even killed, they received vindication and rose to the stars. This book tells the stories of six self-deifiers in their historical, social, and ideological contexts. In the history of interpretation, the initial three figures have been demonized as cosmic rebels: the first human Adam, Lucifer (later identified with Satan), and Yaldabaoth in gnostic mythology. By contrast, the final three have served as positive models for deification and divine favor: Jesus in the gospel of John, Simon of Samaria, and Allogenes in the Nag Hammadi library. In the end, the line separating demonization from deification is dangerously thin, drawn as it is by the unsteady hand of human valuation.
Isaiah among the Ancient Near Eastern Prophets
Matthijs de Jong
Author : Matthijs de Jong
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047422617
Isaiah among the Ancient Near Eastern Prophets by Matthijs de Jong Pdf
Offering a comparison between the earliest parts of the book of Isaiah and the Assyrian prophecies, this book maintains that ancient Israelite prophecy, of which Isaiah was an exponent, was much in conformity with ancient Near Eastern prophecy in general.