Of Kings And Prophets

Author : Mark Rutland
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781629998367

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FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR Power is only as strong as the authority that sustains it. This book will help you be a better leader. It will help you receive a healthy dose of accountability through applied spiritual authority. The biblical prophets did not live or prophesy in a contextual vacuum. They spoke into real-life circumstances to real-life leaders such as kings, queens, governors, and generals. Drawing on biblical accounts, Dr. Mark Rutland shows how these interactions, sometimes in the form of advice but more often as dramatic confrontations, demonstrate the tension between heaven's authority and the princes of this world. Readers will discover that: God positions His messengers to confront and advise those who lead in the natural realm. Likewise, Satan is also working to position his own servants near the world's leaders hoping to steer them away from the things and plans of God. To whom those leaders listen will determine, to a large extent, the fate of nations. God often positions His servants at the right elbow of leaders in a wide range of disciplines, from business to education to entertainment to politics. Every believer should be open to being "God's prophetic voice" in someone else's life, whether that person is a child, a boss, or a town councilman. Likewise, every believer should be in constant prayer for and humbly sensitive to wise counsel sent from God as a gift of grace. God makes and unmakes kings. When they can discern and listen to His voice, He sustains their well-wielded authority with His supernatural power.

Author : Cristiano Grottanelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780195071962

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Kings & Prophets by Cristiano Grottanelli Pdf

These essays focus on the subject of kingship in the ancient world. They explore the ways in which centralized state power, as epitomized by the sacred king, encounters other oppositional forms of power, including religious discourse.

Author : Ellen G. White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Bible
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU59008628

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The Story of Prophets and Kings by Ellen G. White Pdf

The story of Israel's triumphs, defeats, backslidings, captivity, and reformation abounds in great.

Author : Robert Alter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780393070255

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The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel by Robert Alter Pdf

"A masterpiece of contemporary Bible translation and commentary."—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books of 1999 Acclaimed for its masterful new translation and insightful commentary, The David Story is a fresh, vivid rendition of one of the great works in Western literature. Robert Alter's brilliant translation gives us David, the beautiful, musical hero who slays Goliath and, through his struggles with Saul, advances to the kingship of Israel. But this David is also fully human: an ambitious, calculating man who navigates his life's course with a flawed moral vision. The consequences for him, his family, and his nation are tragic and bloody. Historical personage and full-blooded imagining, David is the creation of a literary artist comparable to the Shakespeare of the history plays.

Author : Mark Rutland
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781629998374

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Of Kings and Prophets by Mark Rutland Pdf

FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR Power is only as strong as the authority that sustains it. This book will help you be a better leader. It will help you receive a healthy dose of accountability through applied spiritual authority. The biblical prophets did not live or prophesy in a contextual vacuum. They spoke into real-life circumstances to real-life leaders such as kings, queens, governors, and generals. Drawing on biblical accounts, Dr. Mark Rutland shows how these interactions, sometimes in the form of advice but more often as dramatic confrontations, demonstrate the tension between heaven’s authority and the princes of this world. Readers will discover that: God positions His messengers to confront and advise those who lead in the natural realm. Likewise, Satan is also working to position his own servants near the world’s leaders hoping to steer them away from the things and plans of God. To whom those leaders listen will determine, to a large extent, the fate of nations. God often positions His servants at the right elbow of leaders in a wide range of disciplines, from business to education to entertainment to politics. Every believer should be open to being “God’s prophetic voice” in someone else’s life, whether that person is a child, a boss, or a town councilman. Likewise, every believer should be in constant prayer for and humbly sensitive to wise counsel sent from God as a gift of grace. God makes and unmakes kings. When they can discern and listen to His voice, He sustains their well-wielded authority with His supernatural power.

Author : Peter J. Leithart
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781587431258

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1 & 2 Kings by Peter J. Leithart Pdf

This commentary on 1 and 2 Kings demonstrates the continuing intellectual and practical viability of theological interpretation of the Bible for today's church.

Author : Emil Bock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0863155731

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Kings and Prophets by Emil Bock Pdf

Argues for the importance of the Old Testament prophets for the modern world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024542589

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Synchronistical, Annals of the Kings and Prophets of Israel and Judah, and of the Kings of Syria, Assyria, Babylon and Egypt, mentioned in the Scriptures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Calum Carmichael
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108422956

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The Cambridge Companion to the Bible and Literature by Calum Carmichael Pdf

Examines the varied, enormously sophisticated contents of the Bible and sees how certain Western authors were inspired by them.

Author : Toni Matas
Publisher : Weigl Publishers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781489672902

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Kings and Prophets by Toni Matas Pdf

When David was still a boy, he fought against Goliath, an experienced soldier. Later, David became the king of Israel. Learn more about the rulers of Israel in Kings and Prophets, part of the Discover the Bible series.

Author : André Lemaire,Baruch Halpern,Matthew Joel Adams
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004177291

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The Books of Kings by André Lemaire,Baruch Halpern,Matthew Joel Adams Pdf

This collaborative commentary on, or dictionary of, Kings, explores cross-cutting aspects of Kings ranging from the analysis of its composition, historically regarded, to its transmission and reception. Ample attention is accorded sources, figures and peoples who play a part in the book. The commentary deals with Kings treatment in translation and role in later ancient literature. While our comments do not proceed verse by verse, the volume furnishes guidance, from contributors highly qualified to advance contemporary discussion, on the book's historical background, its literary intentions and characteristics, and on themes and motifs central to its understanding, both of itself and of the world from which it arose. This volume functions as a meta-commentary, offering windows into the secondary literature, but assembling data more fully than is the case in individual commentaries.

Author : Cristiano Grottanelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195361124

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Kings and Prophets by Cristiano Grottanelli Pdf

This collection of essays examines the respective religious and social functions of kings and prophets as they are presented in the biblical narratives. Biblical kingship is easily shown to be a specific instance of an ancient and widespread institution--sacred monarchy--that was the pivot of most state organizations throughout antiquity; prophetic authority is described as a typical institution of ancient Hebrew society. The difference between monarchy and prophecy is radical, because the former implies a hereditary power and is upheld by its subjects who feed their kings with taxes, while the latter derives its authority from allegedly direct divine inspiration, and though it is also economically dependent it is not explicitly presented as being based upon systematic exploitation. Cristiano Grottanelli interprets the rise of prophecy as a consequence of a crisis of monarchical structures at the beginning of the Iron Age, and connects it to similar phenomena attested in ancient Greek texts derived from a similar crisis. Though monarchy finally won the day in the Ancient Mediterranean in a new imperial form, the new literatures in Greek and Hebrew consonantic and alphabetic scripts shaped nonmonarchic figures to which they attributed some of the functions previously pertaining to monarchy. These new literatures, produced by two cultures that were both highly literate and organized according to nonmonarchical principles, diverged radically in their development and final outcomes. In the Hebrew tradition, monolatry and an official canon of sacred writings were the final result; the prophetic principle was thus overcome by a new ideological construction, centered upon inspired scriptures rather than upon the impromptu performances of inspired persons. In using the prophetic principle against the monarchic, the canonical texts paradoxically shaped their own authority above that of living prophets.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780805241815

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The Early Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings by Anonim Pdf

The story of ancient Israel, from the arrival in Canaan to the destruction of the Kingdom of Judah and the Babylonian exile some six centuries later, here is the highly anticipated second volume in Everett Fox’s landmark translation of the Hebrew Bible. The personalities who appear in the pages of The Early Prophets, and the political and moral dilemmas their stories illuminate, are part of the living consciousness of the Western world. From Joshua and the tumbling walls of Jericho to Samson and Delilah, the prophet Samuel and the tragic King Saul, David and Goliath, Bathsheba and Absalom, King Solomon’s temple, Elijah and the chariot of fire, Ahab and Jezebel—the stories of these men and women are deeply etched into Western culture because they beautifully encapsulate the human experience. The four books that comprise The Early Prophets look at tribal rivalries, dramatic changes in leadership, and the intrusions of neighboring empires through the prism of the divine-human relationship. Over the centuries, the faithful have read these narratives as demonstrations of the perils of disobeying God’s will, and time and again Jews in exile found that the stories spoke to their own situations of cultural assimilation, destruction, and the reformulation of identity. They have had an equally indelible impact on generations of Christians, who have seen in many of the narratives foreshadowings of the life and death of Jesus, as well as models for their own lives and the careers of their leaders. But beyond its importance as a foundational religious document, The Early Prophets is a great work of literature, a powerful and distinctive narrative of the past that seeks meaning in the midst of national catastrophe. Accompanied by illuminating commentary, notes, and maps, Everett Fox’s masterly translation of the Hebrew original re-creates the echoes, allusions, alliterations, and wordplays that rhetorically underscore its meaning and are intrinsic to a timeless text meant to be both studied and read aloud.

Author : Frederick Denison Maurice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:AH688I

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The Prophets and Kings of the Old Testament by Frederick Denison Maurice Pdf

Author : Robert Jones, Jr.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593085707

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The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr. Pdf

Best Book of the Year NPR • The Washington Post • Boston Globe • TIME • USA Today • Entertainment Weekly • Real Simple • Parade • Buzzfeed • Electric Literature • LitHub • BookRiot • PopSugar • Goop • Library Journal • BookBub • KCRW • Finalist for the National Book Award • One of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year • One of the New York Times Best Historical Fiction of the Year • Instant New York Times Bestseller A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence. Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the end. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. But when an older man—a fellow slave—seeks to gain favor by preaching the master's gospel on the plantation, the enslaved begin to turn on their own. Isaiah and Samuel's love, which was once so simple, is seen as sinful and a clear danger to the plantation's harmony. With a lyricism reminiscent of Toni Morrison, Robert Jones, Jr., fiercely summons the voices of slaver and enslaved alike, from Isaiah and Samuel to the calculating slave master to the long line of women that surround them, women who have carried the soul of the plantation on their shoulders. As tensions build and the weight of centuries—of ancestors and future generations to come—culminates in a climactic reckoning, The Prophets fearlessly reveals the pain and suffering of inheritance, but is also shot through with hope, beauty, and truth, portraying the enormous, heroic power of love.