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Creation, Nature and Hope in 4 Ezra

Author : Jonathan A. Moo
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647531030
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Book Synopsis Creation, Nature and Hope in 4 Ezra by : Jonathan A. Moo

Download or read book Creation, Nature and Hope in 4 Ezra written by Jonathan A. Moo and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exegetical study of creation and nature in 4 Ezra argues that this first-century Jewish apocalypse's profound pessimism concerning humankind and the present age is matched by a surprisingly robust belief in the goodness of the created order. 4 Ezra presents the natural world as standing with God over and against corrupt humankind, envisions substantial elements of continuity between the ages and hints that those parts of the earth that remain unsullied by humankind still witness to God's sovereignty, love and justice and even serve as material pointers to the new creation. This study calls into question the persistent assumption that apocalypticism and the 'apocalyptic eschatology' of the historical apocalypses in particular necessarily entails a profound dualism. Emerging as it does from an experience of historical disaster and unresolved questions of theodicy, 4 Ezra especially is often considered an apocalypse in which the doctrine of the two ages has been radicalised to the extent that creation, history and life in this world have lost their meaning or significance. The results of this study, however, indicate that while 4 Ezra considers the world of humankind to be corrupted and corrupting, in the natural world the creator's sovereignty is not so obscured, and there his original intentions for creation can still be perceived. This study provides a fresh reading of 4 Ezra that takes seriously the book's unity and coherence. Its conclusions suggest that it may be best to abandon the label 'apocalyptic eschatology' given its potential mask the interesting complexities and mix of continuity and discontinuity that attend the portrayal of creation, nature and hope in an apocalypse like 4 Ezra.

As a Deer Longs for Flowing Streams

Author : Staffan Olofsson
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647533831
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Book Synopsis As a Deer Longs for Flowing Streams by : Staffan Olofsson

Download or read book As a Deer Longs for Flowing Streams written by Staffan Olofsson and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the new DSI series is the most comprehensive investigation of Hebrew and Greek translation equivalents in Ps 42-43 in the Psalter and in the Septuagint as a whole currently available. This detailed study does not only include the translation equivalents in the Septuagint, the semantic meanings of the Hebrew and Greek words are also discussed and parallels in the LXX as well as in the Hebrew Bible are included. A systematic investigation of the translator's method must be carried out before one can use the manuscripts in a proper way. Accordingly, the extensive translation-technical emphasis and the discussion of text-critical matters make it possible to present a more accurate Old Greek text and this book may thus contribute to a new critical edition of the Greek Psalter. The book is also in some respects in itself a text-critical study, since all variants in Rahlfs' edition of the Septuagint Psalms, with the addition of Papyrus Bodmer XXIV (Rahlfs 2110), as well as Hebrew variants, are referred to and studied. This includes suggestions and evaluations of the Hebrew Vorlage behind the Septuagint text. It is also a commentary on the Hebrew and the Greek texts of Ps 42-43. Like other commentaries, it describes the position of the psalm, it presents the unity and form of the psalm, its structure and its relation to the close context. As a commentary on both the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint, it gives an overall interpretation of the psalm in Hebrew and in Greek separately. The book can be read by the specialist in Septuagint studies as well as all scholars interested in translation, textual criticism, and in the book of Psalms, not least its use of metaphors and the reflection of temple theology.

The Firstborn Son in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

Author : Kyu Seop Kim
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900439494X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis The Firstborn Son in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity by : Kyu Seop Kim

Download or read book The Firstborn Son in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity written by Kyu Seop Kim and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a study of the meaning of the firstborn son in the New Testament paying specific attention to the concept of primogeniture in the Old Testament and Jewish literature.

Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch

Author : Gabriele Boccaccini
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567407675
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (674 download)

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Book Synopsis Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch by : Gabriele Boccaccini

Download or read book Interpreting 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch written by Gabriele Boccaccini and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume Gabriele Boccaccini and Jason M. Zurawski collect together essays from leading international scholars on the books of 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch. The literature of the Second Temple Period has become increasingly studied in recent years as scholars have begun to recognize the importance of these texts for a developed understanding of Rabbinic and Christian origins. Through close readings of the texts themselves, examining the books in comparison with other Jewish apocalyptic literature and early Christian materials, and reading the texts in light of their social and historical settings, the fifteen papers collected herein significantly advance the current scholarly conversation on these defining Jewish apocalypses written at the end of the first century CE, and they shed light on the everlasting legacy of apocalyptic ideas in both Christianity and Judaism.

Prayer as Divine Experience in 4 Ezra and John’s Apocalypse

Author : David Seal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761869263
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Book Synopsis Prayer as Divine Experience in 4 Ezra and John’s Apocalypse by : David Seal

Download or read book Prayer as Divine Experience in 4 Ezra and John’s Apocalypse written by David Seal and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do humans have a special capacity designed to foster experiences of God? What role do specific bodily actions or emotions play in the cultivation of a divine experience? Prayer as Divine Experience in 4 Ezra and John’s Apocalypse: Emotion, Empathy, and Engagement with God explores these questions in a systematic study of the emotions in two apocalyptic texts. The book of 4 Ezra, an ancient Jewish apocalypse, and the book of Revelation, an ancient Christian Apocalypse written by John, are examined with a focus on the emotional language of the prayers and prayer preludes contained in this literature. Both texts were composed in the first-century of the Common Era, a time when most people exposed to literature heard the content as it was recited. The emotive language in these writings could potentially arouse similar emotions in the readers or hearers of these texts, allowing the person to have access to the divine experiences, which are described by the seer in 4 Ezra and are expressed by the angelic choir in John’s Apocalypse. Prior to examining the prayers, Prayer as Divine Experience will describe the neurological processes that cause a person to mirror the emotions expressed by another individual, thereby prompting an imitation of the experience that is perceived.

Worshipping a Crucified Man

Author : Jeremy Hudson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0227177347
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Worshipping a Crucified Man written by Jeremy Hudson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the mid-second century Christian writers were engaging in debates with educated audiences from non-Jewish Graeco-Roman cultural backgrounds. A remarkable feature of some of these texts is how extensively they refer to the Jewish scriptures, even though those scriptures were unfamiliar to non-Jewish Graeco-Romans. In Worshipping a Crucified Man, Jeremy Hudson explores for the first time why this should have been so. As the basis for his argument, Hudson examines three works by Christian converts originally educated in Graeco-Roman traditions: Justin Martyr's First Apology, Tatian's Oratio and Theophilus of Antioch's Ad Autolycum. He considers their literary strategies, their use of quotations and allusions and how they present the Jewish scriptures, all against the background of the Graeco-Roman literary culture familiar to both authors and audiences. The scriptures are presented as a critically defining feature of Christianity, instrumental in shaping the way the new religion presented itself, as it strove to engage with, and challenge, the cultural traditions of the Graeco-Roman world. This book will engage scholars interested in the very earliest centuries of Christianity and in the central role the Jewish scriptures played in the new religion’s self-presentation.

T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism Volume Two

Author : Loren T. Stuckenbruck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567660931
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Book Synopsis T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism Volume Two by : Loren T. Stuckenbruck

Download or read book T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism Volume Two written by Loren T. Stuckenbruck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism provides a comprehensive reference resource of over 600 scholarly articles aimed at scholars and students interested in Judaism of the Second Temple Period. The two-volume work is split into four parts. Part One offers a prolegomenon for the contemporary study and appreciation of Second Temple Judaism, locating the discipline in relation to other relevant fields (such as Hebrew Bible, Rabbinics, Christian Origins). Beginning with a discussion of terminology, the discussion suggests ways the Second Temple period may be described, and concludes by noting areas of study that challenge our perception of ancient Judaism. Part Two presents an overview of respective contexts of the discipline set within the broad framework of historical chronology corresponding to a set of full-colour, custom-designed maps. With distinct attention to primary sources, the author traces the development of historical, social, political, and religious developments from the time period following the exile in the late 6th century B.C.E. through to the end of the Bar Kokhba revolt (135 C.E.). Part Three focuses specifically on a wide selection of primary-source literature of Second Temple Judaism, summarizing the content of key texts, and examining their similarities and differences with other texts of the period. Essays here include a brief introduction to the work and a summary of its contents, as well as examination of critical issues such as date, provenance, location, language(s), and interpretative matters. The early reception history of texts is also considered, and followed by a bibliography specific to that essay. Numerous high-resolution manuscript images are utilized to illustrate distinct features of the texts. Part Four addresses topics relevant to the Second Temple Period such as places, practices, historical figures, concepts, and subjects of scholarly discussion. These are often supplemented by images, maps, drawings, or diagrams, some of which appear here for the first time. Copiously illustrated, carefully researched and meticulously referenced, this resource provides a reliable, up-to-date and complete guide for those studying early Judaism in its literary and historical settings.

Introducing the Apocrypha

Author : David A. deSilva
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493413074
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Introducing the Apocrypha written by David A. deSilva and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the Old Testament apocryphal books summarizes their context, message, and significance. The first edition has been very well reviewed and widely adopted. It is the most substantial introduction to the Apocrypha available and has become a standard authority on the topic. The second edition has been substantially revised and updated throughout to reflect the latest scholarship. The book includes a foreword by James H. Charlesworth.

This World and the World to Come

Author : Daniel M. Gurtner
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567028380
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book This World and the World to Come written by Daniel M. Gurtner and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

The Origins of the Canon of the Hebrew Bible

Author : Juan Carlos Ossandón Widow
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004381619
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis The Origins of the Canon of the Hebrew Bible by : Juan Carlos Ossandón Widow

Download or read book The Origins of the Canon of the Hebrew Bible written by Juan Carlos Ossandón Widow and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Origins of the Canon, Ossandón offers an analysis of Josephus’ Against Apion and 4 Ezra—the two earliest testimonies of the number of books of the Hebrew Bible—and proposes factors to explain the birth of the canon.

Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus

Author : Brian J. Wright
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506438490
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus written by Brian J. Wright and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the contemporary discussion of the Jesus tradition has focused on aspects of oral performance, storytelling, and social memory, on the premise that the practice of communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE. Brian J. Wright overturns the premise that communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE by examining evidence for its practice in the first century.

Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature

Author : Meredith J. C. Warren
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 0884143570
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (841 download)

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Book Synopsis Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature by : Meredith J. C. Warren

Download or read book Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature written by Meredith J. C. Warren and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New research that transforms how to understand food and eating in literature Meredith J. C. Warren identifies and defines a new genre in ancient texts that she terms hierophagy, a specific type of transformational eating where otherworldly things are consumed. Multiple ancient Mediterranean, Jewish, and Christian texts represent the ramifications of consuming otherworldly food, ramifications that were understood across religious boundaries. Reading ancient texts through the lens of hierophagy helps scholars and students interpret difficult passages in Joseph and Aseneth, 4 Ezra, Revelation 10, and the Persephone myths, among others. Features: Exploration of how ancient literature relies on bending, challenging, inverting, and parodying cultural norms in order to make meaning out of genres Analysis of hierophagy as social action that articulates how patterns of communication across texts and cultures emerge and diverge A new understanding of previously confounding scenes of literary eating

Proclaiming the Judge of the Living and the Dead

Author : Kai Akagi
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161569032
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Proclaiming the Judge of the Living and the Dead written by Kai Akagi and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back cover: Kai Akagi considers what the speeches in Acts 10 and 17 say about Jesus when they speak of him as a judge. This historical and literary study reveals that Jesus' role as a judge both suggests that he judges with divine authority and expresses his identity as Jewish messiah.

Revealed Wisdom

Author : John Ashton
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004272046
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Revealed Wisdom by : John Ashton

Download or read book Revealed Wisdom written by John Ashton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles on biblical books—Job, Paul, Mark, John—are accompanied by essays upon Messianism and apocalyptic ethics, plus studies on five first-century Jewish apocalypses, an early champion of Islam, two medieval Christian seers, and finally the Book of Revelation itself.

Turmoil, Trauma and Tenacity in Early Jewish Literature

Author : Nicholas P. L. Allen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110785129
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Turmoil, Trauma and Tenacity in Early Jewish Literature written by Nicholas P. L. Allen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is written in the context of trauma hermeneutics of ancient Jewish communities and their tenacity in the face of adversity (i.e. as recorded in the MT, LXX, Pseudepigrapha, the Deuterocanonical books and even Cognate literature. In this regard, its thirteen chapters, are concerned with the most recent outputs of trauma studies. They are written by a selection of leading scholars, associated to some degree with the Hungaro-South African Study Group. Here, trauma is employed as a useful hermeneutical lens, not only for interpreting biblical texts and the contexts in which they were originally produced and functioned but also for providing a useful frame of reference. As a consequence, these various research outputs, each in their own way, confirm that an historical and theological appreciation of these early accounts and interpretations of collective trauma and its implications, (perceived or otherwise), is critical for understanding the essential substance of Jewish cultural identity. As such, these essays are ideal for scholars in the fields of Biblical Studies—particularly those interested in the Pseudepigrapha, the Deuterocanonical books and Cognate literature.

Paul and the Greco-Roman Philosophical Tradition

Author : Joseph R. Dodson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567657922
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Paul and the Greco-Roman Philosophical Tradition written by Joseph R. Dodson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul and the Greco-Roman Philosophical Tradition provides a fresh examination of the relationship of Greco-Roman philosophy to Pauline Christianity. It offers an in-depth look at different approaches employed by scholars who draw upon philosophical settings in the ancient world to inform their understanding of Paul. The volume houses an international team of scholars from a range of diverse traditions and backgrounds, which opens up a platform for multiple voices from various corridors. Consequently, some of the chapters seek to establish new potential resonances with Paul and the Greco-Roman philosophical tradition, but others question such connections. While a number of them propose radically new relationships between Paul and GrecoRoman philosophy, a few seek to tweak or modulate current discussions. There are arguments in the volume which are more technical and exegetical, and others that remain more synthetic and theological. This diversity, however, is accentuated by a goal shared by each author – to further our understanding of Paul's relationship to and appropriation of Greco-Roman philosophical traditions in his literary and missionary efforts.

T&T Clark Handbook to Early Christian Meals in the Greco-Roman World

Author : Soham Al-Suadi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567669327
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book T&T Clark Handbook to Early Christian Meals in the Greco-Roman World written by Soham Al-Suadi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook situates early Christian meals in their broader context, with a focus on the core topics that aid understanding of Greco-Roman meal practice, and how this relates to Christian origins. In addition to looking at the broader Hellenistic context, the contributors explain the unique nature of Christian meals, and what they reveal about early Christian communities and the development of Christian identity. Beginning with Hellenistic documents and authors before moving on to the New Testament material itself, according to genre - Gospels, Acts, Letters, Apocalyptic Literature - the handbook culminates with a section on the wider resources that describe daily life in the period, such as medical documents and inscriptions. The literary, historical, theological and philosophical aspects of these resources are also considered, including such aspects as the role of gender during meals; issues of monotheism and polytheism that arise from the structure of the meal; how sacrifice is understood in different meal practices; power dynamics during the meal and issues of inclusion and exclusion at meals.