The Semitic Gods And The Bible

Author : Paula Fredriksen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300164107

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From Jesus to Christ by Paula Fredriksen Pdf

"Magisterial. . . . A learned, brilliant and enjoyable study."—Géza Vermès, Times Literary Supplement In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. This edition includes an introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus and its implications for both history and theology. "Brilliant and lucidly written, full of original and fascinating insights."—Reginald H. Fuller, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "This is a first-rate work of a first-rate historian."—James D. Tabor, Journal of Religion "Fredriksen confronts her documents—principally the writings of the New Testament—as an archaeologist would an especially rich complex site. With great care she distinguishes the literary images from historical fact. As she does so, she explains the images of Jesus in terms of the strategies and purposes of the writers Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."—Thomas D’Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor

Author : D. M. Bennett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0267349491

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The Semitic Gods and the Bible by D. M. Bennett Pdf

Excerpt from The Semitic Gods and the Bible: Being Over Three Hundred Pages From "the Gods and Religions of Ancient and Modern Times"; Written While Unjustly Imprisoned It will not be undertaken hereto give an account of all the old Semitic gods, as their number is great and the data within reach referring to them is hardly sufficient to justify it; but enough will be given to answer all reasonable desires. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Karel van der Toorn,Bob Becking,Pieter Willem van der Horst
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802824919

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Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible by Karel van der Toorn,Bob Becking,Pieter Willem van der Horst Pdf

The Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (DDD) is the single major reference work on the gods, angels, demons, spirits, and semidivine heroes whose names occur in the biblical books. Book jacket.

Author : De Robigne Mortimer Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 188?
Category : Free thought
ISBN : OCLC:53218042

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The Semitic Gods and the Bible by De Robigne Mortimer Bennett Pdf

Author : De Robigne Mortimer 1818-1882 Bennett
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1371429278

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SEMITIC GODS & THE BIBLE BEING by De Robigne Mortimer 1818-1882 Bennett Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Dan Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 1454930101

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God by Dan Barker Pdf

What words come to mind when we think of God? Merciful? Just? Compassionate? Delving deep into the Bible, former evangelical preacher Dan Barker uncovers God's negative qualities: jealous, petty, unforgiving, bloodthirsty, vindictive--and worse! Witty and well researched, this unique atheist book explains exactly why the Scripture shouldn't govern our everyday lives. It makes a powerful argument for the separation of church and state.

Author : William Lane Craig
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433501159

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Reasonable Faith by William Lane Craig Pdf

This updated edition by one of the world's leading apologists presents a systematic, positive case for Christianity that reflects the latest work in the contemporary hard sciences and humanities. Brilliant and accessible.

Author : Yair Zakovitch,Avigdor Shinan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827609082

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From Gods to God by Yair Zakovitch,Avigdor Shinan Pdf

"Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book."

Author : Hillel Ben-Sasson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030323127

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Understanding YHWH by Hillel Ben-Sasson Pdf

This book unlocks the Jewish theology of YHWH in three central stages of Jewish thought: the Hebrew bible, rabbinic literature, and medieval philosophy and mysticism. Providing a single conceptual key adapted from the philosophical debate on proper names, the book paints a dynamic picture of YHWH’s meanings over a spectrum of periods and genres, portraying an evolving interaction between two theological motivations: the wish to speak about God and the wish to speak to Him. Through this investigation, the book shows how Jews interpreted God's name in attempt to map the human-God relation, and to determine the measure of possibility for believers to realize a divine presence in their midst, through language.

Author : Peter Schäfer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691181325

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Two Gods in Heaven by Peter Schäfer Pdf

"In this book Peter Schäfer casts light on the common assumption that Judaism from its earliest formulations was strictly monotheistic. Over and over again in the Hebrew Bible the biblical writers insist upon the idea that there is one and only one God. But the biblical text is multifarious and contains many sources that subvert from within the strong monotheistic thesis. Old Canaanite deities such as Baal and El, although pushed to the edges, prove stubbornly persistent. They come to the forefront in, for example, the famous "Son of Man" of chapter 7 of the Book of Daniel. In sum, Schäfer argues that monotheism was an ideal in ancient Judaism that was consistently aspired to, but never fully achieved. Through close textual analysis of the Bible and certain key post-biblical sources, Schäfer tracks the long history of a second, younger, subordinate God next to the senior Jewish God YHWH. One might expect that with early Christianity's embrace of this idea (in the form of Jesus Christ), Judaism would have abandoned it utterly. But the opposite was the case. Even after Christianity usurps the original Jewish notion of a second, younger God, certain post-biblical Jewish circles-in particular early Jewish mystical circles-maintained and revived it with the archangel "Metatron," a controversial figure whose very existence is questioned and fiercely debated by the rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud. This book was originally published in Germany by C.H. Beck Verlag in 2016"--

Author : Maurice H. Farbridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136373497

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Studies in Biblical and Semitic Symbolism by Maurice H. Farbridge Pdf

This is Volume II in series of six on the Ancient Near East. Originally published in 1923, adding to an important a branch of Biblical and Semitic Studies this study looks biblical and Semitic symbolism.

Author : Benjamin D. Sommer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139477789

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The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel by Benjamin D. Sommer Pdf

Sommer utilizes a lost ancient Near Eastern perception of divinity according to which a god has more than one body and fluid, unbounded selves. Though the dominant strains of biblical religion rejected it, a monotheistic version of this theological intuition is found in some biblical texts. Later Jewish and Christian thinkers inherited this ancient way of thinking; ideas such as the sefirot in Kabbalah and the trinity in Christianity represent a late version of this theology. This book forces us to rethink the distinction between monotheism and polytheism, as this notion of divine fluidity is found in both polytheistic cultures (Babylonia, Assyria, Canaan) and monotheistic ones (biblical religion, Jewish mysticism, Christianity), whereas it is absent in some polytheistic cultures (classical Greece). The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel has important repercussions not only for biblical scholarship and comparative religion but for Jewish-Christian dialogue.

Author : David Penchansky
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664228852

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Twilight of the Gods by David Penchansky Pdf

Since the middle of the twentieth century, one of biblical scholarship's chief assumptions has been that ancient Israel evolved out of the polytheism of surrounding cultures into an ethical monotheism. However, this consensus has fallen apart in recent years. Scholars now know that early Israel was surrounded by a very polytheistic culture and that many Israelites thought of Yahweh as the chief God among many gods. Furthermore, archaeology has shown that Yahweh was worshiped along with other gods throughout the period after the exile, when many shrines were in honor of "Yahweh and his Asherah." David Penchansky's Twilight of the Gods is the first accessible book that shows a historical Israel where polytheism and monotheism existed simultaneously in great conflict. He provides a historical introduction, followed by close readings of key Old Testament passages, where he demonstrates how to interpret difficult biblical texts that depict other gods or claim Yahweh is the only God within this new understanding of Israelite religion.

Author : William Robertson Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Cults, Semitic
ISBN : UOM:39015011729087

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Lectures on the Religion of the Semites by William Robertson Smith Pdf

Author : Eugene B. Korn,John T. Pawlikowski
Publisher : Sheed & Ward
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781461667902

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Two Faiths, One Covenant? by Eugene B. Korn,John T. Pawlikowski Pdf

Judaism and Christianity are religions bound together by their claims to the same biblical covenant initiated by God with Abraham and his descendants. Yet, despite the inseparable connection between the election of Israel and that of the church, between the "old" and the "new" covenant, this shared spiritual patrimony has been the source of a type of violent sibling rivalry competing for the same paternal love and inherited entitlement. God, it seemed, had but one blessing to bestow. It could be given to either Jacob or Esau—but not both. In the twenty-first century, however, Jews and Christians are challenged to reconsider their theological assumptions by two inescapable truths: the moral tragedy of the holocaust demands that Christian thinkers acknowledge the violent effects of theologically de-legitimizing Jews and Judaism, and the pervasive reality of cultural and religious pluralism calls both Christian and Jewish theologians to rethink the covenant in the presence of the Other. Two Faiths, One Covenant? Jewish and Christian Identity in the Presence of the Other is a breakthrough work that embraces this contemporary challenge and charts a path toward fruitful interfaith dialogue. The Christian and Jewish theologians in this book explore the ways that both religions have understood the covenant in biblical, rabbinic, medieval, and modern religious writings and reflect on how the covenant can serve as a reservoir for a positive theological relationship between Christianity and Judaism—not merely one of non-belligerent tolerance, but of respect and theological pluralism, however limited.