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Soteriology and the End of Animal Sacrifice

Author : Giosuè Ghisalberti
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532652089
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Soteriology and the End of Animal Sacrifice written by Giosuè Ghisalberti and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soteriology and the End of Animal Sacrifice traces the historically sustained critique of animal sacrifice in both the Jewish prophets and Greek philosophers and offers a reinterpretation of the fundamental expression of piety in both cultures. The Jewish prophets, such as Isaiah, and Greek philosophers beginning with Pythagoras, provided not only an unequivocal denunciation of animal sacrifice as a religious ritual. Equally important, they also offered an alternative conception of piety in and through a language dedicated to the therapeutic health and well-being of others. In the philosophies of Socrates and Epicurus in the Greek world and in the teaching and healing of Jesus in the Jewish world of first-century Palestine, we reach a decisive moment in the revolution of religion in the ancient world. The practice of animal sacrifice in the temples of Greece and Jerusalem begins to be reconceived and eventually abolished and replaced by a soteriology or healing wholly dedicated to the well-being of individuals no less than entire societies. The replacement of animal sacrifice with soteriological speech is the single most important revolution in the religions of antiquity.

Animal Sacrifice and the Death Penalty

Author : Giosue Ghisalberti
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666703877
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Animal Sacrifice and the Death Penalty written by Giosue Ghisalberti and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-12-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slaughter of animals as a religious ritual and the execution of human beings as a judicial one was an interrelated phenomenon in the ancient world. Writings from different traditions had to be interpreted in relation to each other for the connection between two sacred rituals to be made. The history of the death penalty within the textual traditions of Judaism and ancient Greece could be traced to specific commandments beginning in Genesis and in laws specified as early as in Hesiod’s Theogony—in each case, however, with far from unambiguous conclusions despite their divine origins in YHWH or Zeus. An ever-present uncertainty in the nature of the death penalty pervades the writings of the Bible from Genesis to the Gospels of Jesus, as well as in the mytho-poetic world of Hesiod, the tragedy of Aeschylus, and Socratic philosophy as represented in Plato’s dialogues. Scholarship has not considered the importance of these two interrelated traditions insofar as both expose the specific characteristics of violence and killing within the institutions of religion and the law. The creation of religious rituals and the acts of the law are inseparable and essential to the authority of the politico-religious state. Animal sacrifice and the death penalty serve as the pillars of social legitimacy in the ancient world.

Practicing Intertextuality

Author : Max J. Lee
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725274388
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Practicing Intertextuality written by Max J. Lee and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practicing Intertextuality attempts something bold and ambitious: to map both the interactions and intertextual techniques used by New Testament authors as they engaged the Old Testament and the discourses of their fellow Jewish and Greco-Roman contemporaries. This collection of essays functions collectively as a handbook describing the relationship between ancient authors, their texts, and audience capacity to detect allusions and echoes. Aimed for biblical studies majors, graduate and seminary students, and academics, the book catalogues how New Testament authors used the very process of interacting with their Scriptures (that is, the Masoretic Text, the Septuagint, and their variants) and the texts of their immediate environment (including popular literary works, treatises, rhetorical handbooks, papyri, inscriptions, artifacts, and graffiti) for the very production of their message. Each chapter demonstrates a type of interaction (that is, doctrinal reformulations, common ancient ethical and religious usage, refutation, irenic appropriation, and competitive appropriation), describes the intertextual technique(s) employed by the ancient author, and explains how these were practiced in Jewish, Greco-Roman, or early Christian circles. Seventeen scholars, each an expert in their respective fields, have contributed studies which illuminate the biblical interpretation of the Gospels, the Pauline letters, and General Epistles through the process of intertextuality.

Textual Rivalries

Author : Gilad Elbom
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506481299
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Textual Rivalries written by Gilad Elbom and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the central claims thatTextual Rivalries makes is that the Kabbalah is often mislabeled as mysticism. Demystifying kabbalistic thought, Gilad Elbom treats it as a logical and consistent framework that promotes a new understanding of human-divine relations, social and psychological mechanisms, and the very idea of biblical interpretation. As such, the kabbalistic tradition becomes an early semiotic model that foreshadows modern modes of thinking, reading, and meaning-making. At its core, Textual Rivalries probes the ways in which assigning surprising roles to familiar signifiers is achieved through an intertextual reading of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and midrash, including classical rabbinic literature and inventive kabbalistic texts. Divided into five major narratives, Textual Rivalries explores the various transformations and configurations of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Moses and Jethro, Jesus and Paul, the male and female aspects of the divine system, and other key characters. Rather than a set of tried-and-true statements about an existing reality, the Bible, as Elbom shows, is a perpetually creative sign system that produces multiple meanings and generates new realities. In theological terms, the text is as continuously creative and just as imaginative as God. In many cases, the Kabbalah embodies innovative methods of biblical interpretation common to both Jewish and Christian theology. According to Kabbalistic thought, biblical interpretation itself contributes to the gradual repair of an imperfect world and functions as a major factor in the ongoing search for more profound definitions of God, language, history, and humanity.

John of History, Baptist of Faith

Author : James F. McGrath
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467467987
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book John of History, Baptist of Faith written by James F. McGrath and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of the historical Jesus typically reduce John the Baptist to a subordinate role in the story of Christian origins. This meticulous historical study focuses on John himself, revealing his extensive and enduring influence. In the popular imagination, John the Baptist plays the supporting role of Jesus’s unkempt forerunner. But meticulous historical study reveals his wide-reaching and enduring influence on the history of religion. The first study of its kind, John of History, Baptist of Faith sheds light on the historical John the Baptist and his world. James F. McGrath applies historical-critical methodology not only to the New Testament but also to the Mandaean Book of John, a holy text of the last extant gnostic sect. McGrath uses the teachings of John’s pupil, Jesus, as a window into his mentor’s beliefs. Along the way, he brings new clarity to questions of contention among scholars, such as John’s use of immersion as a substitute for temple sacrifice. Bold in its claims yet careful in its method, John of History, Baptist of Faith lends fresh insight into John, Jesus, and their world. McGrath’s pioneering monograph will challenge and intrigue students and scholars of the New Testament and Second Temple Judaism.

Dilemmas of Truth in Alain Badiou's Philosophy

Author : Giosuè Ghisalberti
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031182960
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Dilemmas of Truth in Alain Badiou's Philosophy written by Giosuè Ghisalberti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on Alain Badiou’s philosophy begins with a central theme: the attempt to trace how Badiou has replaced the tradition of critical theory and negation with an affirmative support of his four generic procedures (art, science, love, and art) as inseparable from his revitalization of both the subject and the concept of truth. By defining four procedures as conditions of philosophy, Badiou makes the attempt to establish each as inter-related and systematically necessary to make a new proposal for thought. The fidelity to Badiou’s project for the 21st century, however, requires a fundamental examination: are his four truths complicated by an inescapable dilemma? And if so, can the four truths be retained, as a whole, or does the individual reader have to make a decision that will alter Badiou’s project and conclusions? By presenting the dilemmas of his thought, the scholarly reader will be in a position to then pursue the necessary study to come to their own conclusions and, by doing so, become sufficiently free to resist the many coercions of social and political life in liberal democracies today.

Critical Philosophy of Innovation and the Innovator

Author : Xavier Pavie
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1786301474
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Critical Philosophy of Innovation and the Innovator written by Xavier Pavie and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major innovations which have occurred between the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century represent a fresh challenge to the responsibility of innovators. Innovators have disrupted, and continue to disrupt the world through the growth of technology, DNA sequencing, genetic engineering, the management of large databases, different forms of intrusion into our private lives, etc. It is up to them take full responsibility for their actions, and question what they are accomplishing, why they are accomplishing it, to what end and with what means. Such questionings are those found in a practice conducted by Ancient philosophers: spiritual exercises. These were internal or external discourses, enabling individuals to act, think, to know how to behave and how to master oneself. It is surely toward these practices innovators of today should turn in order to innovate with wisdom.

Soteriology

Author : Joseph Pohle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Soteriology written by Joseph Pohle and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Universal Salvation in Late Antiquity

Author : Michael Bland Simmons
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190202394
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Universal Salvation in Late Antiquity written by Michael Bland Simmons and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new study of Porphyrian soteriology, or the concept of the salvation of the soul, in the thought of Porphyry of Tyre

The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice

Author : Daniel C. Ullucci
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199791708
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice written by Daniel C. Ullucci and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacrifice dominated the religious landscape of the ancient Mediterranean world for millennia, but its role and meaning changed dramatically with the rise of Christianity. Ullucci explores this transformation, in the process demonstrating the complexity of the concept of sacrifice in Roman, Greek, and Jewish religion.

Mithraic Studies

Author : John R. Hinnells
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719005367
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Mithraic Studies written by John R. Hinnells and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Soteriology

Author : Revere Franklin Weidner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soteriology written by Revere Franklin Weidner and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism

Author : Jonathan Klawans
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195177657
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism written by Jonathan Klawans and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Klawans shows how the link between moral impurity and physical defilement, as understood by the ancient Hebrews, can be followed through to St Paul and the Christian era when the need for ritual purity was finally rejected.

Sacrifice Unveiled

Author : Robert J. Daly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567436489
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Sacrifice Unveiled written by Robert J. Daly and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most ideas of sacrifice, even specifically Christian ideas, as we saw in the Reformation controversies, have something to do with deprivation or destruction. But this is not authentic Christian sacrifice. Authentic Christian sacrifice, and ultimately all true sacrifice (whether one is conscious of it or not) begins with the self-offering of the Father in the gift-sending of the Son, continues with the loving "response" of the Son, in his humanity, and in the Spirit, to the Father and for us, and finally, begins to become real in our world when human beings, in the power of the same Spirit that was in Jesus, respond to love with love, and thus begin to enter into that perfectly loving, totally self-giving relationship that is the life of the triune God. The origins of this are in the Hebrew Bible, its revelatory high-points in Jesus and Paul, and its working out in the life of the Church, especially its Eucharistic Prayers. Special attention will be paid to the atonement, not just because atonement and sacrifice are often synonymous, but also because traditional atonement theology is the source of distortions that continue to plague Christian thinking about sacrifice. After exploring the possibility of finding a phenomenology of sacrificial atonement in Girardian mimetic theory, the book will end with some suggestions on how to communicate its findings to people likely to be put off from the outset by the negative connotations associated with "sacrifice."

The Letter to the Hebrews: Critical Readings

Author : Scott D. Mackie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567668045
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book The Letter to the Hebrews: Critical Readings written by Scott D. Mackie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Letter to the Hebrews is a key text in the New Testament canon. It has recently received a great deal of attention, prompting a resurgence of scholarly works, and a need to re-engage with some of the foundational works of scholarship on the text. The history of research on Hebrews is presented in this volume of critical readings, edited by Scott D. Mackie. The volume is organized thematically, addressing the following sub-areas: theology, Christology and pneumatology; eschatology; authorship and audience; structure and Greco-Roman influences; the relationship with contemporaneous Judaism, and soteriology. Each section is prefaced by an introduction and summary of the particular theme in Hebrews. At the end of each section is an annotated bibliography to point researchers towards further readings in and engagements with these key themes.

Paul in Israel's Story

Author : John L. Meech
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195306945
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Paul in Israel's Story written by John L. Meech and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Paul in Israel's Story, John Meech addresses the problem of the self in community in a theological hermeneutics that brings together recent biblical scholarship and constructive theology."--BOOK JACKET.

Bloodless Atonement?

Author : Benjamin J. Burkholder
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532605714
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Bloodless Atonement? written by Benjamin J. Burkholder and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the Messiah have to die to pay for his people's sins? Is the cross of Jesus an atoning sacrifice? In recent decades a burgeoning number of theologians have answered the aforementioned questions in the negative. In fact some, like Rene Girard, have gone so far as to assert that seeing the cross as an atoning sacrifice undermines the very essence of the New Testament Gospels. While Girard and others following in a similar vein have offered provocative alterations to soteriology that no longer need Jesus's death to acquire forgiveness from God, does a bloodless atonement have biblical support? Does a nonviolent understanding of the atonement harmonize with the Gospels? This particular volume answers these questions with a fresh look at the Synoptic portraits of the Last Supper accounts. In them Jesus expounds upon the significance of his death by using the Passover symbols of bread and wine. More importantly, in these passages in the Gospels we find the fullest articulation of how Jesus's death benefits his followers. Holding a wealth of dense theological riches, these passages provide theological parameters that can inform contemporary soteriological development, especially that which appeals to the New Testament for its basis. Conversant with both biblical studies and contemporary theology, the work seeks to bring the best of both fields into conversation in productive new ways.