Rewriting The Bible

Author : Thomas Jefferson,Wyatt North
Publisher : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Jefferson Bible by Thomas Jefferson,Wyatt North Pdf

The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth as it is formally titled, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the latter years of his life by cutting and pasting numerous sections from various Bibles as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus. Jefferson's composition excluded sections of the New Testament containing supernatural aspects as well as perceived misinterpretations he believed had been added by the Four Evangelists. In 1895, the Smithsonian Institution under the leadership of librarian Cyrus Adler purchased the original Jefferson Bible from Jefferson's great-granddaughter Carolina Randolph for $400. A conservation effort commencing in 2009, in partnership with the museum's Political History department, allowed for a public unveiling in an exhibit open from November 11, 2011, through May 28, 2012, at the National Museum of American History.

Author : József Zsengellér
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004271180

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Rewritten Bible after Fifty Years: Texts, Terms, or Techniques? by József Zsengellér Pdf

Rewritten Bible After Fifty Years offers several papers on the meanings and usages of the notion Rewritten Bible introduced by Geza Vermes in 1961.

Author : Jeremy Corley,Harm van Grol
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110240948

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Rewriting Biblical History by Jeremy Corley,Harm van Grol Pdf

Old Testament texts frequently offer a theological view of history. This is very evident in the Books of Chronicles and in the final section of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus). Today there is renewed interest in both these works as significant theological and cultural Jewish documents from the centuries before Jesus. Both Chronicles and Ben Sira aim to recreate a national identity centered on temple piety. Some chapters in this volume consider the portrayal of Israelite kings like David, Hezekiah, and Josiah, while others deal with prophets like Samuel and Elijah.

Author : Paul Barnett
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830894680

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Is the New Testament Reliable? by Paul Barnett Pdf

If everyone writes from a point of view and with an agenda, can we reasonably expect any historical account to be objective—to tell us the truth? In this second edition, Paul Barnett defends the task of the historian and the concept of history, addressing questions about the New Testament that are of importance to people of faith and skeptics alike.

Author : Sidnie White Crawford
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802847409

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Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times by Sidnie White Crawford Pdf

Meeting a need for quality English-language resources on the Dead Sea Scrolls, this series makes available to readers at all levels the best of current Dead Sea Scrolls research, showing how the Scrolls impact our understanding of the Bible, Judaism, and Christianity.

Author : Samantha Zacher
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441150936

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Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse by Samantha Zacher Pdf

The Bible played a crucial role in shaping Anglo-Saxon national and cultural identity. However, access to Biblical texts was necessarily limited to very few individuals in Medieval England. In this book, Samantha Zacher explores how the very earliest English Biblical poetry creatively adapted, commented on and spread Biblical narratives and traditions to the wider population. Systematically surveying the manuscripts of surviving poems, the book shows how these vernacular poets commemorated the Hebrews as God's 'chosen people' and claimed the inheritance of that status for Anglo-Saxon England. Drawing on contemporary translation theory, the book undertakes close readings of the poems Exodus, Daniel and Judith in order to examine their methods of adaptation for their particular theologico-political circumstances and the way they portray and problematize Judaeo-Christian religious identities.

Author : Isabel Mukonyora,James Leland Cox,F. J. Verstraelen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Bible
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017194551

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Rewriting the Bible by Isabel Mukonyora,James Leland Cox,F. J. Verstraelen Pdf

Author : Elaine Pagels
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781101577073

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Revelations by Elaine Pagels Pdf

A startling exploration of the history of the most controversial book of the Bible, by the bestselling author of Beyond Belief. Through the bestselling books of Elaine Pagels, thousands of readers have come to know and treasure the suppressed biblical texts known as the Gnostic Gospels. As one of the world's foremost religion scholars, she has been a pioneer in interpreting these books and illuminating their place in the early history of Christianity. Her new book, however, tackles a text that is firmly, dramatically within the New Testament canon: The Book of Revelation, the surreal apocalyptic vision of the end of the world . . . or is it? In this startling and timely book, Pagels returns The Book of Revelation to its historical origin, written as its author John of Patmos took aim at the Roman Empire after what is now known as "the Jewish War," in 66 CE. Militant Jews in Jerusalem, fired with religious fervor, waged an all-out war against Rome's occupation of Judea and their defeat resulted in the desecration of Jerusalem and its Great Temple. Pagels persuasively interprets Revelation as a scathing attack on the decadence of Rome. Soon after, however, a new sect known as "Christians" seized on John's text as a weapon against heresy and infidels of all kinds-Jews, even Christians who dissented from their increasingly rigid doctrines and hierarchies. In a time when global religious violence surges, Revelations explores how often those in power throughout history have sought to force "God's enemies" to submit or be killed. It is sure to appeal to Pagels's committed readers and bring her a whole new audience who want to understand the roots of dissent, violence, and division in the world's religions, and to appreciate the lasting appeal of this extraordinary text.

Author : Brian Britt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567381163

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Rewriting Moses by Brian Britt Pdf

Exalted for centuries as a hero and author of the Bible, Moses is inseparable from biblical tradition itself. Moses is also an inherently ambiguous figure and a perennial focus of controversy, from ancient disputes of priestly rivalry to modern issues of class, gender and race. In Rewriting Moses, Brian Britt analyses elements of polemic and ideology in the Moses of the Bible, of film, novel, visual art and scholarship. He argues that the biblical Moses lives within writing, while the post-biblical Moses lives more often in biography. Yet later rewritings of Moses refract biblical traditions of writing in surprising ways. Rewriting Moses provides an original account of the Freudian insight that traditions preserve what they repress. This is volume 14 in the Gender, Cutlure, Theory series and is volume 402 in the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplements series.

Author : Etienne Nodet,Justin Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021932715

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The Origins of Christianity by Etienne Nodet,Justin Taylor Pdf

Etienne Nodet and Justin Taylor investigate the character of the early Christian community by looking at the origins of baptism and the Eucharist and the links between them. A fundamental work on the initiation sacraments, "The Origins of Christianity" focuses on the Essenes at the time that this tradition-bound culture came in contact with the Gentiles. The result was a profound change that transformed a sect into a church.

Author : Hindy Najman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004180468

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Past Renewals by Hindy Najman Pdf

Through close readings of texts such as Ezra-Nehemiah. Philo of Alexandria, and 4Ezra, Hindy Najman develops the idea of a discourse tied to a founder, illuminating the nexus between revelation, interpretive authority, and the quest for perfection in ancient Judaism.

Author : Antti Laato,Jacques Ruiten
Publisher : Abo Akademi University
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Apocryphal books
ISBN : UVA:X030463929

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Rewritten Bible Reconsidered by Antti Laato,Jacques Ruiten Pdf

Introduction / Antti Laato & Jacques van Ruiten -- Part One: Methodology -- Rewritten Bible, rewritten stories: methodological aspects / Erkki Koskenniemi & Pekka Lindqvist -- Part Two: Early Judiasm -- Moses and his parents: the intertextual relationship between Exodus 1:22-2:10 and Jubilees 47:1-9 / Jacques van Ruiten -- Rewriting the Bible - 4 Ezra and canonization of scripture / Michael Becker -- Diversity by rewriting: the divine characteristics as part of the identity concept of Jewish groups in Second Temple Judaism / Lukas Bormann -- "Remember Lot's Wife": Gen. 19:1-29 rewritten in early Judaism and in the New Testament / Erkki Koskenniemi -- Part Three: Early Christianity -- Rewritten Psalms in the Gospel of John / Beate Kowalski -- Revelation and rewritten prophecies / Marko Jauhiainen -- Psalm 22 in Early Christian literature / Ville Auvinen -- Isaiah 53 and the Biblical exegesis of Justin Martyr / Antti Laato -- Lot's departure from Sodom in Augustine / Timo Nisula -- Part Four: Islamic period -- How Giwargis Warda retells Biblical texts: some remarks / Martin Tamcke -- Sayings recontextualized: Jesus' teachings in Islamic tradition / Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila.

Author : Frederick J. Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195360424

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Pseudo-Philo by Frederick J. Murphy Pdf

This is a literary and theological study of the Biblical Antiquities of Pseudo-Philo--a long, well-written reinterpretation of the Hebrew Bible written by a Palestinian Jew of the first century C.E. Using the methodologies of redaction and literary criticism, Murphy provides an analysis of the whole of the Biblical Antiquities. After a chapter-by-chapter analysis, Murphy addresses several topics more generally--major characters, major themes, and the historical context of the work. Full concordances to the Latin text are provided to assist future research on Pseudo-Philo. This book will prove an important resource for students of Jewish interpretation of the Bible at the end of the Second Temple period. It also sheds light on Jewish thought of the period regarding covenant, leadership in Israel, women in Israel, relations with Gentiles, divine providence, divine retribution, eschatology, and many other subjects. Furnishing a broad interpretive context for future work on the Biblical Antiquities, this study gives students of the Bible access to an important literary and religious product of first-century Judaism.

Author : Kent P. Jackson,Scott H. Faulring,Robert J. Matthews
Publisher : Shadow Mountain
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bibles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119476229

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Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible by Kent P. Jackson,Scott H. Faulring,Robert J. Matthews Pdf

This volume--the work of a lifetime--brings together all the Joseph Smith Translation manuscript in a remarkable and useful way. Now, for the first time, readers can take a careful look at the complete text, along with photos of several actual manuscript pages. The book contains a typographic transcription of all the original manuscripts, unedited and preserved exactly as dictated by the Prophet Joseph and recorded by his scribes. In addition, this volume features essays on the background, doctrinal contributions, and editorial procedures involved in the Joseph Smith Translation, as well as the history of the manuscripts since Joseph Smith's day.

Author : Michael L. Brown
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621365907

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Hyper-Grace by Michael L. Brown Pdf

At a time when the church needs an urgent wake-up call and a fresh encounter with Jesus, the hyper-grace message is lulling many to sleep. Claiming to be a new revelation of grace, this teaching is gaining in popularity, but is it true? Or is the glorious truth of grace being polluted by errors, leading to backsliding, compromise, and even the abandonment of faith?