Ruth Esther Song Of Songs And Judith

Author : Lisa M. Wolfe
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725244818

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Ruth, Esther, Song of Songs, and Judith by Lisa M. Wolfe Pdf

This lively commentary encompasses four major books focusing on women in the Hebrew Bible and Apocrypha. Each section in the volume addresses the biblical text in detail, and draws connections from the world of ancient audiences to that of present-day readers. Wolfe's research is motivated by the usual inquiries of biblical scholarship, as well as the questions raised by the many church Bible study groups she has taught. Clergy and laity, students and scholars will benefit from these contemporarily relevant reflections on Ruth, Esther, Song of Songs and Judith. Ruth: The foreign widow who sneaks onto the nighttime threshing floor to find survival for herself and her devastated mother-in-law. Esther: The Jewish orphan-turned-queen who turns Persian banqueting on its head in an effort to defend her people. Song of Songs: The proud and alluring lover who claims her sexuality as her own and joyfully shares it with her beloved. Judith: The pious and beautiful widow who lets the enemy commander's appetite become his downfall in order to save her besieged city. This volume is an opportunity to engage these women's suspense-filled stories, which have sustained faith communities since ancient times.

Author : Wesley J. Fuerst
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1975-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Books of Ruth, Esther, Ecclesiastes, The Song of Songs, Lamentations: The Five Scrolls by Wesley J. Fuerst Pdf

The five Old Testament books dealt with in this volume of the Commentary occupied a special place in Hebrew tradition as selected readings for major festivals and were accordingly brought together in Hebrew manuscripts to form a group of five scrolls. The books of The Five Scrolls vary greatly; debate about their holiness and authority is recorded from the second century AD onwards, and they pose many problems of interpretation today.

Author : Andrew M King,Joshua M Philpot,William R Osborne
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781535935944

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The Law, The Prophets, and The Writings by Andrew M King,Joshua M Philpot,William R Osborne Pdf

The Old Testament is no ordinary text; it is a revelation of God’s will, character, purpose, and plan, inspired by the Spirit of God. That same Spirit continues to work within God’s people today as they read the Bible, even when the meaning is difficult to discern. In The Law, the Prophets, and the Writings, eighteen evangelical scholars analyze the Old Testament through a historical, literary, and theological hermeneutic, providing new insights into the meaning of the Scriptures. This festschrift in honor of Duane A. Garrett seeks to help Christians faithfully read and understand the Old Testament Scriptures.

Author : Irene Nowell
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814647943

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Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther by Irene Nowell Pdf

Irene Nowell's lively and thoughtful exploration of these poetic and powerful books promises to ignite appreciation and understanding in the hearts and minds of readers. The five books abound with vivid stories of faith. The Song of Songs, dedicated to Solomon, celebrates the wonder of human love. The book of Ruth, a masterpiece of storytelling, tells of two valiant women who move from emptiness to fullness, desolation to redemption. Lamentations, telling of the destruction of Jerusalem, recognizes that the Lord has struck and that only the Lord can heal. Ecclesiastes teaches the futility of vanity and storing up riches. The book of Esther tells the story of a Jewish woman and her uncle who, by their courage and wit, deliver the Jews from threatened genocide. Gathered together and artfully explored, this volume offers readers a wealth of information to inspire deeper understanding of the human journey and God's presence in the lives of those who trust in him.

Author : Terry Giles,William J. Doan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498206198

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The Story of Naomi—The Book of Ruth by Terry Giles,William J. Doan Pdf

The book of Ruth is probably best known as a romantic love story that, through the expression of loving devotion, overcomes tragedy and ends with the founding of the most famous family in all of biblical Israel. But the book wasn't always this way. In fact, it wasn't a book at all but rather a story told with a very different purpose in mind. Before Ruth, there was the Story of Naomi, a subversive story designed to challenge a male-dominated status quo. Through comedy, sarcastic irony, and unparalleled rhetorical skill the Naomi storyteller holds up for inspection social gender roles and the power of sexuality in a manner that resonates yet today. The Story of Naomi--The Book of Ruth goes behind the literary rendition of the story and recaptures the original oral tale, with script and performance directions that brings to life the humor, tragedy, and transparent honesty shared between the Naomi storyteller and her audience.

Author : Hemchand Gossai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567680969

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Postcolonial Commentary and the Old Testament by Hemchand Gossai Pdf

This is the first volume to provide a wide range of postcolonial interpretations of and commentaries upon significant texts in the Hebrew Bible. The volume intersects with the work of the key theorists in postcolonial studies such as Fanon, Senghor, Said and Spivak as well as with scholars such as Sugirtharajah, Kwok Pui-lan, and Segovia who have applied this theory to biblical studies. Texts have been chosen specifically for their relevance to postcolonial discourse, rather than seeking to cover each biblical document. This volume is designed to demonstrate how historical criticism, postmodernism, and the important concerns of postcolonial readings may be integrated to obtain an informed explanation of the Hebrew Bible and the writings of early Judaism. The chapters are written by scholars who represent a spectrum of national, indigenous, and diasporic contexts. Taken together these perspectives and the interpretations they yield represent a continued expansion of the manner in which Old Testament texts are read and interpreted through postcolonial lenses, reminding readers that the interpretive trajectories of these texts are almost inexhaustible. As such the volume serves as not only an addition to ongoing scholarship on postcolonialism but also as an expansion of the horizon for dialogue.

Author : John Anthony Dunne
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725248175

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Esther and Her Elusive God by John Anthony Dunne Pdf

What if the way the book of Esther has been taught to us in church and retold to us in films, cartoons, and romance novels has missed the original point of the story? Far from being models of piety and devotion, Esther and Mordecai seem indifferent to the faith of their ancestors. How then did this story become part of the Bible and gain the broad acceptance that it has? If the church should not neglect the story, how should it be read? Esther and Her Elusive God calls Christians to avoid the common attempts to make Esther more palatable and theological, and to reclaim this secular story as Scripture. Readers will be encouraged to see in Esther a profound message of God's grace and faithfulness to his wayward people.

Author : Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor,Katherine E. Southwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567668448

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Women and Exilic Identity in the Hebrew Bible by Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor,Katherine E. Southwood Pdf

Notions of women as found in the Bible have had an incalculable impact on western cultures, influencing perspectives on marriage, kinship, legal practice, political status, and general attitudes. Women and Exilic Identity in the Hebrew Bible is drawn from three separate strands to address and analyse this phenomenon. The first examines how women were conceptualized and represented during the exilic period. The second focuses on methodological possibilities and drawbacks connected to investigating women and exile. The third reviews current prominent literature on the topic, with responses from authors. With chapters from a range of contributors, topics move from an analysis of Ruth as a woman returning to her homeland, and issues concerning the foreign presence who brings foreign family members into the midst of a community, and how this is dealt with, through the intermarriage crisis portrayed in Ezra 9-10, to an analysis of Judean constructions of gender in the exilic and early post-exilic periods. The contributions show an exciting range of the best scholarship on women and foreign identities, with important consequences for how the foreign/known is perceived, and what that has meant for women through the centuries.

Author : David G Firth,Lindsay Wilson
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783594832

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Exploring Old Testament Wisdom by David G Firth,Lindsay Wilson Pdf

This volume surveys recent developments in the study of Old Testament wisdom; discusses issues that have arisen in Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes; examines the Song of Songs, Ruth and some Psalms as wisdom texts; and explores wisdom and biblical theology, the concept of retribution, and the issue of divine absence.

Author : Agnethe Siquans
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647552705

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Biblical Women in Patristic Reception / Biblische Frauen in patristischer Rezeption by Agnethe Siquans Pdf

Biblische Frauen spielen eine bedeutende Rolle in verschiedenen Genres patristischen Schrifttums und in rabbinischen Texten: Etwa als Vorbilder für Frauen, manchmal auch für Männer, als Repräsentantinnen bestimmter Tugenden oder Laster, als Autoritäten in Streitfragen, als Ausgangspunkt für bestimmte Praktiken. Die Bilder, die die (fast immer männlichen) Autoren von den biblischen Frauen zeichnen, spiegeln stets den zeitgenössischen sozialen, kulturellen und religiösen Kontext wider, besonders im Hinblick auf weit verbreitete antike Vorstellungen über Frauen und über das Verhältnis der Geschlechter zueinander. Der Sammelband fragt nach der Präsenz und Sichtbarkeit bzw. Hörbarkeit und nach dem Bild biblischer Frauen in den spätantiken Texten. Er enthält Beiträge zu Rahab, zur ägyptischen Frau des Salomo, zur Geliebten des Hoheliedes, zu Judit, den vier Töchtern des Philippus und den Myrophoren der Evangelien, die Salben zu Jesu Grab bringen, und untersucht die Rezeption dieser biblischen Frauen in verschiedenen patristischen und rabbinischen Texten.

Author : Athalya Brenner-Idan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567475121

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A Feminist Companion to Ruth and Esther by Athalya Brenner-Idan Pdf

The second series of Feminist Companions moves beyond the confines of sex- and gender-specific issues and studies of biblical women. Biblical feminist critics now address contemporary life situations, marginalization and a range of questions once not thought accessible to such critique. Feminist theory has also continued a rapid evolution. Among the topics included in this volume are composition, Torah, Ruth-the-Cat, female networking-together with much else to inform and stimulate female (and male) biblical scholars and non-scholars.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004536333

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Irony in the Bible by Anonim Pdf

It is generally agreed that there is significant irony in the Bible. However, to date no work has been published in biblical scholarship that on the one hand includes interpretations of both Hebrew Bible and New Testament writings under the perspective of irony, and on the other hand offers a panorama of the approaches to the different types and functions of irony in biblical texts. The following volume: (1) reevaluates scholarly definitions of irony and the use of the term in biblical research; (2) builds on existing methods of interpretation of ironic texts; (3) offers judicious analyses of methodological approaches to irony in the Bible; and (4) develops fresh insights into biblical passages.

Author : Stanley E. Porter
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441242686

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How We Got the New Testament (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology) by Stanley E. Porter Pdf

A recognized expert in New Testament Greek offers a historical understanding of the writing, transmission, and translation of the New Testament and provides cutting-edge insights into how we got the New Testament in its ancient Greek and modern English forms. In part responding to those who question the New Testament's reliability, Stanley Porter rigorously defends the traditional goals of textual criticism: to establish the original text. He reveals fascinating details about the earliest New Testament manuscripts and shows that the textual evidence supports an early date for the New Testament's formation. He also explores the vital role translation plays in biblical understanding and evaluates various translation theories. The book offers a student-level summary of a vast amount of historical and textual information.

Author : Peter S. Hawkins,Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780823225712

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Scrolls of Love by Peter S. Hawkins,Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg Pdf

Scrolls of Love is a book of unions. Edited by a Christian and a Jew who are united by a shared passion for the Bible and a common literary hermeneutic, this volume joins two biblical scrolls and gathers around them a diverse community of interpreters. Respectful of traditional biblical scholarship, the collection of essays moves beyond it; alert to contemporary trends, the volume returns venerable interpretive tradition to center stage. Most significantly, it is interfaith, bringing together two communities that have read their Bibles in isolation from one another, in ignorance of the richness of the others traditions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Bible
ISBN : OCLC:734105293

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Ruth, Esther by Anonim Pdf