The Prophet And The Sage

Author : Brian M. Koning
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666765830

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The Prophet and the Sage by Brian M. Koning Pdf

Job and Habakkuk represent the Bible's most focused interlocutors on the concepts of justice and theodicy. Both works center upon men chosen by God who see and suffer evil (Job 1:8, cf. Hab 1:1). Both books record the cries of these men as they wrestled to make sense of the world in which they lived (Job 3, cf. Hab 1:2-4). While they have a passing similarity, what if there is something more fundamental to their connection? What if these books are not merely two unconnected discourses on suffering, but linked in a significant way? By examining the texts themselves, this study explores the possibility that a textual relationship exists between portions of Habakkuk and Job and how the underlying transformation of Job's theodicy shapes Habakkuk's dialogue with God.

Author : Jonathan Sacks
Publisher : Maggid
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1592640214

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Covenant and Conversation by Jonathan Sacks Pdf

In this second volume of his long-anticipated five-volume collection of parashat hashavua commentaries, Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks explores these intersections as they relate to universal concerns of freedom, love, responsibility, identity, and destiny. Chief Rabbi Sacks fuses Jewish tradition, Western philosophy, and literature to present a highly developed understanding of the human condition under Gods sovereignty. Erudite and eloquent, Covenant Conversation allows us to experience Chief Rabbi Sacks sophisticated approach to life lived in an ongoing dialogue with the Torah.

Author : Joseph Blenkinsopp
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664226744

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Sage, Priest, Prophet by Joseph Blenkinsopp Pdf

Publisher description: Blenkinsopp investigates three forms of biblical Israel's religious leadership, and examines the development and character of these roles and how they functioned in their particular time and place. Based on sociological insights regarding role theory and audience expectations, the book demonstrates how Israel's prophets, priests, and sages represented their own traditions while responding to the political and professional pressures of their unique situations.

Author : Brian M. Koning
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666765816

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The Prophet and the Sage by Brian M. Koning Pdf

Job and Habakkuk represent the Bible’s most focused interlocutors on the concepts of justice and theodicy. Both works center upon men chosen by God who see and suffer evil (Job 1:8, cf. Hab 1:1). Both books record the cries of these men as they wrestled to make sense of the world in which they lived (Job 3, cf. Hab 1:2–4). While they have a passing similarity, what if there is something more fundamental to their connection? What if these books are not merely two unconnected discourses on suffering, but linked in a significant way? By examining the texts themselves, this study explores the possibility that a textual relationship exists between portions of Habakkuk and Job and how the underlying transformation of Job’s theodicy shapes Habakkuk’s dialogue with God.

Author : Marty E. Stevens
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621893073

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Leadership Roles of the Old Testament by Marty E. Stevens Pdf

The Old Testament is an ancient collection of theological reflections of life with God that the church has claimed as authoritative Scripture. Whereas most introductory books march from Genesis to Malachi, this book engages four important leadership roles across the breadth of the Old Testament canon: king, prophet, priest, and sage. Despite the obvious differences between the societies of ancient Israel and modern America, lessons can be learned from our ancestors in the faith. This engaging volume is intended for people who want to know more about the Old Testament, whether in personal study, church groups, college classrooms, or seminary courses. The book may be used profitably in concert with Theological Themes of the Old Testament: Creation, Covenant, Cultus, and Character (Cascade Books, 2010).

Author : Kevin van Bladel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199704481

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The Arabic Hermes by Kevin van Bladel Pdf

This is the first major study devoted to the early Arabic reception and adaption of the figure of Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary Egyptian sage to whom were ascribed numerous works on astrology, alchemy, talismans, medicine, and philosophy. Before the more famous Renaissance European reception of the ancient Greek Hermetica, the Arabic tradition about Hermes and the works under his name had been developing and flourishing for seven hundred years. The legendary Egyptian Hermes Trismegistus was renowned in Roman antiquity as an ancient sage whose teachings were represented in books of philosophy and occult science. The works in his name, written in Greek by Egyptians living under Roman rule, subsequently circulated in many languages and regions of the Roman and Sasanian Persian empires. After the rise of Arabic as a prestigious language of scholarship in the eighth century, accounts of Hermes identity and Hermetic texts were translated into Arabic along with the hundreds of other works translated from Greek, Middle Persian, and other literary languages of antiquity. Hermetica were in fact among the earliest translations into Arabic, appearing already in the eighth century. This book explains the origins of the Arabic myth of Hermes Trismegistus, its sources, the reasons for its peculiar character, and its varied significance for the traditions of Hermetica in Asia and northern Africa as well as Europe. It shows who pre-modern Arabic scholars thought Hermes was and how they came to that view.

Author : Marty E. Stevens
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610974080

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Leadership Roles of the Old Testament by Marty E. Stevens Pdf

The Old Testament is an ancient collection of theological reflections of life with God that the church has claimed as authoritative Scripture. Whereas most introductory books march from Genesis to Malachi, this book engages four important leadership roles across the breadth of the Old Testament canon: king, prophet, priest, and sage. Despite the obvious differences between the societies of ancient Israel and modern America, lessons can be learned from our ancestors in the faith. This engaging volume is intended for people who want to know more about the Old Testament, whether in personal study, church groups, college classrooms, or seminary courses. The book may be used profitably in concert with Theological Themes of the Old Testament: Creation, Covenant, Cultus, and Character (Cascade Books, 2010).

Author : Aaron Chalmers
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780281069002

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Exploring the Religion of Ancient Israel by Aaron Chalmers Pdf

This book aims to give students an introduction to the religious and social world of ancient Israel. It consists of two parts. The first explores the major religious offices mentioned in the Old Testament, including prophets, priests, sages and kings. As well as considering what these key people said and did, the author traces the process someone might have gone through to become recognised as a prophet, priest or sage, and where you would have had to go in ancient Israel if you wanted to locate someone who held one of these offices. In the second part the focus is on the religious beliefs and practices of the "common" people as this was the group that made up the vast majority of ancient Israel's population.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3963272163

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A Sage in New Haven by Anonim Pdf

Author : John G. Gammie,Leo G. Perdue
Publisher : Penerbit Erlangga
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0931464463

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The Sage in Israel and the Ancient Near East by John G. Gammie,Leo G. Perdue Pdf

Ancient Iranian literature / James R. Russell -- The functions of the sage in the Egyptian royal court / Ronald J. Williams -- The sage in Mesopotamian palaces and royal courts / Roanld F.G. Sweet -- The scribe (and sage) in the royal court at Ugarit / Loren R. Mack-Fisher. - The social significance of Solomon as a patron of wisdom / Walter A. Brueggemann -- The sage in the Israelite royal court / R.N. Whybray -- Sages and scribes at the courts of ancient Iran / James R. Russell -- The sage in Hellenistic royal courts / John G. Gammie -- The sage in family and tribe / Carole R. Fontaine -- The sage in school and temple / André Lemaire -- The female sage in ancient Israel and in the biblical wisdom literature / Claudia V. Camp -- The sage in Proverbs / James L. Crenshaw -- The sage in the Psalms /.

Author : Lloyd Geering
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781877242564

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Christianity Without God by Lloyd Geering Pdf

Does the failure of the conventional idea of God spell the end of the Christian tradition? Or does it simply mean the end of conventional Christian doctrine? Christianity without God affirms the latter, treating Christian culture as a living and evolving stream. In this cogently argued book, Lloyd Geering brings the resources of his deep scholarship to look at what the world really needs from contemporary religion. His inspiration is the cultivation of the wisdom of Christianity, not a dependence on beliefs about a supernatural saviour.

Author : David Flusser,Steven Notley
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467423854

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The Sage from Galilee by David Flusser,Steven Notley Pdf

Introduction by James H. Charlesworth This new edition of David Flusser's classic study of the historical Jesus, revised and updated by his student and colleague R. Steven Notley, will be welcomed everywhere by students and scholars of early Christianity and Judaism. Reflecting Flusser's mastery of ancient literary sources and modern archaeological discoveries, The Sage from Galilee offers a fresh, informed biographical portrait of Jesus in the context of Jewish faith and life in his day. Including a chronological table (330 BC – AD 70), and twenty-eight illustrations, The Sage from Galilee is the culmination of nearly six decades of study by one of the world's foremost Jewish authorities on the New Testament and early Christianity. Both Jewish and Christian readers will find challenge and new understanding in these pages.

Author : Edward F. McGushin
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810122833

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Foucault's Askesis by Edward F. McGushin Pdf

In his renowned courses at the Collège de France from 1982 to 1984, Michel Foucault devoted his lectures to meticulous readings and interpretations of the works of Plato, Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius, among others. In this his aim was not, Edward F. McGushin contends, to develop a new knowledge of the history of philosophy; rather, it was to let himself be transformed by the very activity of thinking. Thus, this work shows us Foucault in the last phase of his life in the act of becoming a philosopher. Here we see how his encounter with ancient philosophy allowed him to experience the practice of philosophy as, to paraphrase Nietzsche, a way of becoming who one is: the work of self-formation that the Greeks called askēsis. Through a detailed study of Foucault's last courses, McGushin demonstrates that this new way of practicing philosophical askēsis evokes Foucault's ethical resistance to modern relations of power and knowledge. In order to understand Foucault's later project, then, it is necessary to see it within the context of his earlier work. If his earlier projects represented an attempt to bring to light the relations of power and knowledge that narrowed and limited freedom, then this last project represents his effort to take back that freedom by redefining it in terms of care of the self. Foucault always stressed that modern power functions by producing individual subjects. This book shows how his excavation of ancient philosophical practices gave him the tools to counter this function-with a practice of self-formation, an askēsis.

Author : Ben Witherington III
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 20174-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451489507

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Jesus the Seer by Ben Witherington III Pdf

Increasingly, scholars recognize that prophetic traditions, expressions, and experiences stand at the heart of most religions in the ancient Mediterranean world. This is no less true for the world of Judaism and Jesus. Ben Witherington III offers an extensive, cross-cultural survey of the broader expressions of prophecy in its ancient Mediterranean context, beginning with Mari, moving to biblical figures not often regarded as prophets‒‒Balaam, Deborah, Moses, and Aaron‒‒and to the apocalyptic seer in postexilic prophecy, showing that no single pattern describes all prophetic figures. The consequence is that different aspects of Jesus’s activity touch upon prophetic predecessors: his miracles, on Elijah and Elisha; his self-understanding as the Son of Man, on Daniel and 1 Enoch; his warnings of woe and judgment, on the “writing prophets” in Judean tradition; and his messianic entry into Jerusalem, on Zechariah 9. Witherington also surveys the phenomenon of apocalyptic prophecy in early Christianity, including Paul, Revelation, the Didache, Hermas, and the Montanist movement. Jesus the Seer is a worthy complement to Witherington’s other volume on Jesus, Jesus the Sage (Fortress Press, 2000).

Author : Guru Singh
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1545346070

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21st Century Prophets by Guru Singh Pdf

21st Century Prophets is a book of essays written in the 'code-words' of empathic intuition. Reading these essays calms the brain's disruptive patterns left by survival's evolution that took place over the millennia. Time is topography . . . empathic intuition delivers an ability to step outside its momentum and into the actual moment . . . beyond the compelling disturbances of all the social noise. Empathic intuition -- from reading a book of 'code-words' -- is the same brain-state you activate in meditation, and dreamtime. You capture a deeper meaning in life. Science calls this 'anomalous cognition' . . . the world of clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, and precognition, which accelerates your momentum and effectiveness. These are the personal capacities needed on Earth right now . . .