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Author : John Gwyn Griffiths
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Celestial Ladder and the Gate of Heaven in Egyptian Ritual written by John Gwyn Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Gwyn Griffiths
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Celestial Ladder and the Gate of Heaven written by John Gwyn Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Edward Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195348494
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Early History of Heaven written by J. Edward Wright and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think of "heaven," we generally conjure up positive, blissful images. Heaven is, after all, where God is and where good people go after death to receive their reward. But how and why did Western cultures come to imagine the heavenly realm in such terms? Why is heaven usually thought to be "up there," far beyond the visible sky? And what is the source of the idea that the post mortem abode of the righteous is in this heavenly realm with God? Seeking to discover the roots of these familiar notions, this volume traces the backgrounds, origin, and development of early Jewish and Christian speculation about the heavenly realm -- where it is, what it looks like, and who its inhabitants are. Wright begins his study with an examination of the beliefs of ancient Israel's neighbors Egypt and Mesopotamia, reconstructing the intellectual context in which the earliest biblical images of heaven arose. A detailed analysis of the Hebrew biblical texts themselves then reveals that the Israelites were deeply influenced by images drawn from the surrounding cultures. Wright goes on to examine Persian and Greco-Roman beliefs, thus setting the stage for his consideration of early Jewish and Christian images, which he shows to have been formed in the struggle to integrate traditional biblical imagery with the newer Hellenistic ideas about the cosmos. In a final chapter Wright offers a brief survey of how later Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions envisioned the heavenly realms. Accessible to a wide range of readers, this provocative book will interest anyone who is curious about the origins of this extraordinarily pervasive and influential idea.
Author : Victor P. Hamilton
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802823090
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Book of Genesis, Chapters 18-50 written by Victor P. Hamilton and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1995-09-26 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Old Testament we read God s word as it was spoken to his people Israel. Today, thousands of years later, we hear in these thirty-nine books his inspired and authoritative message for us. These twin convictions, shared by all of the contributors to The New International Commentary on the Old Testament, define the goal of this ambitious series of commentaries. For those many modern readers who find the Old Testament to be strange and foreign soil, the NICOT series serves as an authoritative guide bridging the cultural gap between today s world and the world of ancient Israel. Each NICOT volume aims to help us hear God s word as clearly as possible. Scholars, pastors, and serious Bible students will welcome the fresh light that this commentary series casts on ancient yet familiar biblical texts. The contributors apply their proven scholarly expertise and wide experience as teachers to illumine our understanding of the Old Testament. As gifted writers, they present the results of the best recent research in an interesting manner. Each commentary opens with an introduction to the biblical book, looking especially at questions concerning its background, authorship, date, purpose, structure, and theology. A select bibliography also points readers to resources for their own study. The author s own translation from the original Hebrew forms the basis of the commentary proper. Verse-by-verse comments nicely balance in-depth discussions of technical matters textual criticism, critical problems, and so on with exposition of the biblical writer s theology and its implications for the life of faith today.
Author : J. Edward Wright Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism University of Arizona
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198029810
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Early History of Heaven written by J. Edward Wright Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism University of Arizona and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999-12-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think of "heaven," we generally conjure up positive, blissful images. Heaven is, after all, where God is and where good people go after death to receive their reward. But how and why did Western cultures come to imagine the heavenly realm in such terms? Why is heaven usually thought to be "up there," far beyond the visible sky? And what is the source of the idea that the post mortem abode of the righteous is in this heavenly realm with God? Seeking to discover the roots of these familiar notions, this volume traces the backgrounds, origin, and development of early Jewish and Christian speculation about the heavenly realm -- where it is, what it looks like, and who its inhabitants are. Wright begins his study with an examination of the beliefs of ancient Israel's neighbors Egypt and Mesopotamia, reconstructing the intellectual context in which the earliest biblical images of heaven arose. A detailed analysis of the Hebrew biblical texts themselves then reveals that the Israelites were deeply influenced by images drawn from the surrounding cultures. Wright goes on to examine Persian and Greco-Roman beliefs, thus setting the stage for his consideration of early Jewish and Christian images, which he shows to have been formed in the struggle to integrate traditional biblical imagery with the newer Hellenistic ideas about the cosmos. In a final chapter Wright offers a brief survey of how later Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions envisioned the heavenly realms. Accessible to a wide range of readers, this provocative book will interest anyone who is curious about the origins of this extraordinarily pervasive and influential idea.
Author : Bar Shaul
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
ISBN 13 : 0878201068
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (782 download)
Download or read book A Letter That Has Not Been Read written by Bar Shaul and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 2001-12-31 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Freud, the study of dreams has typically involved inquiry into past and present emotional states. The ancients, unfamiliar with the intricate byways of the human soul revealed by modern psychology, typically saw dreams as channels of communication between human beings and external sources. Shaul Bar explores the etymology of key terms for dreams in the Hebrew Bible, presents dozens of examples of biblical dreams and visions, and categorizes them as prophetic, symbolic, or incubation. He studies biblical dreams and visions in the context of similar phenomena in the literature of neighboring cultures and analyzes the functions of dream reports in the biblical corpus. The literature of dream interpretation in Egypt and Mesopotamia informs Bar's treatment of the structure of dream accounts as conforming to the three-part model (setting, message, response) proposed for ancient Near Eastern dream accounts in A. Leo Oppenheim's classic work on dream interpretation. Symbolic dreams, whether or not God is their source, contain no divine appearance and require interpretation to be understood. While oneiro-criticism was a significant profession in ancient Near Eastern cultures, the Hebrew Bible presents only two such experts, Joseph and Daniel. Both were active in royal courts, and the success of both in interpreting the rulers' dreams served to confirm the superiority of the God of Israel. Ambivalence characterizes the attitude toward dreams and visions in prophetic literature. Joel and Job allow that they have some value. But Jeremiah, Zechariah, Isaiah, and Ecclesiates find no religious significance in them and even treat them as tools of deceit. The Talmud presents no consensus about whether dreams are a legitimate form of communication from God. Although a guild of professional interpreters existed in Jerusalem and the Talmud includes a short dream book, many Sages expressed skepticism about such alleged divine messages. Dreams also serve important functions within the literary world of the Hebrew Bible. Bar shows how Jacob's dream at Bethel serves to explain the sanctity of the place and detach it from its Canaanite context, how the dreams in the Joseph cycle show the hand of divine providence in the descent to Egypt followed by the ascent to the Promised Land, how Solomon's dream at Gibeon serves to legitimate Solomon's rule, and how Nebuchadnezzar's dreams served to emphasize once again that it is the Lord who guides universal history.
Author : G. Johannes Botterweck
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802823394
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament written by G. Johannes Botterweck and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1974 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multivolume work is still proving to be as fundamental to Old Testament studies as its companion set, the Kittel-Friedrich Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, has been to New Testament studies. Beginning with father, and continuing through the alphabet, the TDOT volumes present in-depth discussions of the key Hebrew and Aramaic words in the Old Testament. Leading scholars of various religious traditions (including Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, Greek Orthodox, and Jewish) and from many parts of the world (Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States) have been carefully selected for each article by editors Botterweck, Ringgren, and Fabry and their consultants, George W. Anderson, Henri Cazelles, David Noel Freedman, Shemaryahu Talmon, and Gerhard Wallis. The intention of the writers is to concentrate on meaning, starting from the more general, everyday senses and building to an understanding of theologically significant concepts. To avoid artificially restricting the focus of the articles, TDOT considers under each keyword the larger groups of words that are related linguistically or semantically. The lexical work includes detailed surveys of a word s occurrences, not only in biblical material but also in other ancient Near Eastern writings. Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, Ethiopic, Ugaritic, and Northwest Semitic sources are surveyed, among others, as well as the Qumran texts and the Septuagint; and in cultures where no cognate word exists, the authors often consider cognate ideas. TDOT s emphasis, though, is on Hebrew terminology and on biblical usage. The contributors employ philology as well as form-critical and traditio-historical methods, with the aim of understanding the religious statements in the Old Testament. Extensive bibliographical information adds to the value of this reference work. This English edition attempts to serve the needs of Old Testament students without the linguistic background of more advanced scholars; it does so, however, without sacrificing the needs of the latter. Ancient scripts (Hebrew, Greek, etc.) are regularly transliterated in a readable way, and meanings of foreign words are given in many cases where the meanings might be obvious to advanced scholars. Where the Hebrew text versification differs from that of English Bibles, the English verse appears in parentheses. Such features will help all earnest students of the Bible to avail themselves of the manifold theological insights contained in this monumental work.
Author : Paul Vrolijk
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900420959X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Jacob’s Wealth written by Paul Vrolijk and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To study the nature and role of material possessions in the Jacob-cycle will result in a deeper understanding of the Jacob-story itself within the wider context of Genesis and the Pentateuch.
Author : Charles Larom
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Gate of Heaven written by Charles Larom and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald S. Hendel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004369465
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Epic of the Patriarch written by Ronald S. Hendel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I: A history of interpretation -- Part II: The Jacob cycle and Canaanite epic -- 1. The forms of tradition -- The birth story -- Revelation at Bethel -- 2. Epic and cult -- Aqhat and Anat -- The deception of Isaac -- 3. A literary interlude -- Pughat and Rachel -- Part III: The Jacob cycle and Israelite epic -- 1. The hero and the other -- Encounter at Penuel -- Jacob and Esau -- 2. The life of the hero -- Jacob and Moses -- Conclusions.
Author : Witness Lee
Publisher : Living Stream Ministry
ISBN 13 : 0736306269
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (363 download)
Download or read book The Building of God written by Witness Lee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 1999 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Bunyan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Entire Works of John Bunyan written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Bunyan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Entire Works written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Gwyn Griffiths
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004378588
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Origins of Osiris and his cult written by John Gwyn Griffiths and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /J. Gwyn Griffiths -- The Original Myth /J. Gwyn Griffiths -- The Original Cult /J. Gwyn Griffiths -- An Upper Egyptian God of The Royal Dead /J. Gwyn Griffiths -- The Association with Water and Vegetation /J. Gwyn Griffiths -- The Ruler and Judge of the Dead /J. Gwyn Griffiths -- The Cult and the Society /J. Gwyn Griffiths -- An Embryonic System of Salvation /J. Gwyn Griffiths -- Addenda /J. Gwyn Griffiths -- Bibliography /J. Gwyn Griffiths -- Index of Texts Cited /J. Gwyn Griffiths -- General Index /J. Gwyn Griffiths -- Linguistic Indices /J. Gwyn Griffiths.
Author : Gnuse
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004332502
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Dreams and Dream Reports in the Writings of Josephus written by Gnuse and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes the understanding of dreams and the corresponding literary forms used by Josephus in his writings. Josephus reports dreams as either auditory message dreams, symbolic visual dreams, or dream image appearances. In this regard he uses the format for auditory and visual dreams found in ancient Near Eastern and biblical texts, while his dream image appearance reports show familiarity with traditional Greek modes of reporting dreams. Close attention is given to the following topics: 1) the development of dream reports in the ancient Near East, the Bible, and the Hellenistic world; 2) Josephus' views on dreams and prophecy; 3) a form-critical assessment of Josephus' dream reports; and 4) an evaluation of Josephan dream reports which exhibit a more complex traditio-historical development.
Author : John Bunyan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Practical Works of John Bunyan written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Karl Gnuse
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004106161
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Dreams and Dream Reports in the Writings of Josephus written by Robert Karl Gnuse and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1996 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume evaluates the understanding of dreams and the form of dream reports in Josephus' writings, and it compares Josephan texts with ancient Near Eastern, biblical, and Hellenistic dream reports to discern Josephus' sources of literary inspiration and intellectual assumptions.
