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Author : Joshua T. James
Publisher : Bloomsbury T & T Clark
ISBN 13 : 9780567675194
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (751 download)
Download or read book The Storied Ethics of the Thanksgiving Psalms written by Joshua T. James and published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark. This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joshua T. James
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567675203
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)
Download or read book The Storied Ethics of the Thanksgiving Psalms written by Joshua T. James and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on research from the field of narrative ethics, The Storied Ethics of the Thanksgiving Psalms argues that story and storytelling function as important instruments in a given community's ethical shaping. While this argument has gained some traction in the field of Old Testament ethics, it has yet to inform an ethical reading of non-narrative texts, such as the Psalter. However, because the thanksgiving psalms are characterized by their inclusion of the worshipper's story, they stand to benefit from the application of a narrative ethical approach. In the present study, this argument is tested through a close reading of three thanksgivings – Psalms 116, 118, and 138 – each of which clearly demonstrates a didactic concern. Yahweh is presented as one who is worthy of trust, even in the midst of personal disaster. The affirmation of Yahweh's character provides the framework for the community's continued (or renewed) commitment and trust, hope and expectancy. The example provided by the worshipper challenges the audience to pray as they prayed, to trust as they trust, to live with hope as they live with hope. In addition, these psalms, and the stories they retell, invite the audience to tell their story when God answers their prayers, and to do so in public, in corporate worship, for the benefit of the community. These intended results – prayer, commitment, trust, hope, expectancy, public storytelling and thanksgiving – are not typically pursued in “ethical” studies, but they are clearly part of the Psalter's comprehensive vision of the ethical life and are, therefore, worthy of careful consideration.
Author : Joshua T. James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (951 download)
Download or read book "From the Narrow Straits, I Called, 'YAH'" written by Joshua T. James and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies focusing on the ethics of the Psalter have become quite prolific in the fields of Psalms studies and Old Testament ethics over the last ten years. Despite this emerging interest, certain aspects have remained underdeveloped, if not completely untouched. One such aspect is the focus of this study – the ethical value of story and storytelling in the thanksgiving psalms. In brief, the argument presented here is that the storied retellings of the worshipper’s (and/or community’s) experience in the thanksgiving psalms should have greatly contributed to the ethical framework or ethos of the ancient Israelite worshipping community. In particular, the stories retold here construct a theological image of Yahweh that should shape the character of the worshipping community into a people who pray in the midst of suffering and despair, who believe that Yahweh will answer their petitions, and who then respond with gratitude and thanks when their requests are, in fact, answered. All of this is because the worshipper’s testimony or story has challenged the audience to trust that Yahweh is present and active, trustworthy and powerful, slow to anger and abounding in commitment. Admittedly, the potential outcomes listed above are not typically identified as overtly “ethical,” at least not in the way this term is currently used in the field of Old Testament ethics. However, they do form an important part of the holistic ethical vision of the life Israel should/could live or should/could have lived as presented in the Old Testament. As such, the studies of Old Testament ethics, in general, and the ethics of the Psalter, in particular, should include the community’s regular participation in the proper cultic activities and its spirituality as important facets of Israel’s ethical life. In order to demonstrate this thesis, the present study engages in a close reading of three thanksgiving psalms – Psalms 116, 118, and 138. In their own distinct ways, these three psalms articulate the storied ethics of the thanksgiving psalms by highlighting the importance of worship and spirituality and their function in the ethical formation of the worshipping community. This has been commonly overlooked in past work on the ethics of the Psalter, and as such, the present study provides an interpretive model for future engagement with the ethics of the thanksgiving psalms.
Author : Christine R. Trotter
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161624750
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Hellenistic Jews and Consolatory Rhetoric written by Christine R. Trotter and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900467828X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Power of Psalms in Post-Biblical Judaism written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful poetry of the Hebrew Psalms articulates a unique range of experience, even in translation. They explore the deepest concerns of individuals and communities. They are central to the performance of religion for both Jews and Christians. New discoveries, such as the famous Dead Sea Scrolls, have transformed our view of their role in Judaism, as has modern re-evaluation of the complicated relationship between Judaism and Christianity. Here a group of leading scholars sheds fresh light on the uses of the Psalms in post-biblical Jewish life in a multi-cultural world.
Author : W. Edward Glenny
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567692108
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)
Download or read book Canon Formation written by W. Edward Glenny and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors to this volume examine the various collections of canonical sub-units in the canon, considering the state of the question regarding each particular collection. The chapters introduce the issues involved in sub-collections being accepted in the canon, summarize the historical evidence of the acceptance of these collections, and discuss the compositional evidence of “canonical consciousness” in the various collections. The contributors consider paratextual evidence, for example, the arrangement of the books in various manuscripts, the titles of the books, and also include evidence such as the presence of catchwords, framing devices, and themes. The book begins with a consideration of the two overarching collections – the Old and New Testaments. Next, several sub-collections within the Hebrew Bible (OT) are considered, including the Torah, Prophets, the Megilloth, the Twelve (both in their Masoretic Text and Septuagint forms), and the Psalter. In addition, sub-collections in the New Testament include the four-fold Gospel, the Pauline Collection (usually with Hebrews in the early manuscripts), the function of Acts within the New Testament, the Praxapostolos (Acts along with the Catholic Epistles), and the function of Revelation as the end of the canon.
Author : William Schweiker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118610253
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)
Download or read book Religious Ethics written by William Schweiker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inclusive and innovative account of religious ethical thinking and acting in the world. Rather than merely applying existing forms of philosophical ethics, Religious Ethics defines the meaning of the field and presents a distinct and original method for ethical reflection through comparisons of world religious traditions. Written by leading scholars and educators in the field, this unique volume offers an innovative approach that reveals how religions concur and differ on moral matters, and provides practical guidance on thinking and living ethically. The book’s innovative method—integrating descriptive, normative, practical, fundamental, and metaethical dimensions of reflection—enables a far more complex and nuanced exploration of religious ethics than any single philosophical language, method, or theory can equal. First introducing the task of religious ethics, the book moves through each of the five dimensions of reflection to compare concepts such as good and evil, perplexity and wisdom, truth and illusion, and freedom and bondage in various theological contexts. Guides readers on understanding, assessing, and comparing the moral teachings and practices of world religions Applies a disciplined, scholarly approach to the subject of religious ethics Explores the distinctions between religious ethics and moral philosophy Provides a methodology which can be applied to comparative ethics for various religions Compares religious traditions to illuminate each of the five dimensions of ethical and moral reflection Religious Ethics: Meaning and Method will help anyone interested in the relation between religion and ethics in the modern world, including those involved in general and comparative religion studies, religious and comparative ethics, and moral theory.
Author : Stephen E. Fowl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474230954
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Story of Christ in the Ethics of Paul written by Stephen E. Fowl and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Fowl examines the role played by three poetic texts, Phil. 2.6-11, Col. 1.15-20, and 1Tim. 3.16 in the arguments of their epistles. Rather than functioning as criteria of christological orthodoxy, these poetic narrations of Christ's person and work are used by Paul to support various ethical positions. For Paul and the Christians he addresses, these stories of Christ are exemplars for the life and practice of the church.
Author : Daniel C. Owens
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621898466
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Portraits of the Righteous in the Psalms written by Daniel C. Owens and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What have the Psalms to do with ethics? Readers prize the Psalter for its richly theological prayers, but into these prayers are woven a variety of ethical issues. This book explores the ethics of the Psalter by examining the four portraits of the righteous person that punctuate Book I. It begins by studying these psalms as individual compositions and then employs both the canonical approach and dialogic criticism to identify the complex relationship between the portraits' vision of the righteous life and its outcome. Does the righteous person enjoy security and the good life? The answer may be surprising, but joining the psalmist on the rocky path of the interface of faith and experience is certain to prove a formative experience.
Author : Corrine Carvalho
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190634510
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Ezekiel written by Corrine Carvalho and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current state of scholarship on the book of Ezekiel, one of the three Major Prophets, is robust. Ezekiel, unlike most pre-exilic prophetic collections, contains overt clues that its primary circulation was as a literary text and not a collection of oral speeches. The author was highly educated, the theology of the book is "dim," and its view of humanity is overwhelmingly negative. In The Oxford Handbook of Ezekiel, editor Corrine Carvalho brings together scholars from a diverse range of interpretive perspectives to explore one of the Bible's most debated books. Consisting of twenty-seven essays, the Handbook provides introductions to the major trends in the scholarship of Ezekiel, covering its history, current state, and emerging directions. After an introductory overview of these trends, each essay discusses an important element in the scholarly engagement with the book. Several essays discuss the history of the text (its historical context, redactional layers, text criticism, and use of other Israelite and near eastern traditions). Others focus on key themes in the book (such as temple, priesthood, law, and politics), while still others look at the book's reception history and contextual interpretations (including art, Christian use, gender approaches, postcolonial approaches, and trauma theory). Taken together, these essays demonstrate the vibrancy of Ezekiel research in the twenty-first century.
Author : Harm W. Hollander
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004063877
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (638 download)
Download or read book Joseph As an Ethical Model in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs written by Harm W. Hollander and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1981 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy J. Ramsay
Publisher : Chalice Press
ISBN 13 : 0827223803
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Military Moral Injury and Spiritual Care written by Nancy J. Ramsay and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military Moral Injury and Spiritual Care offers resources to inform and support practices of spiritual care for veterans and others affected by moral injury incurred in the context of military service. A dozen contributors, all experienced in the field, contributed to this work first published in Pastoral Psychology and now widely available. This book is published with the support of the Soul Repair Center at Brite Divinity School. Interreligious in its focus, the Center sponsors research and creates resources to inform and support religious leaders and communities of faith as they respond to veterans and their families and others affected by military moral injury. Proceeds from the book support the Center's work.
Author : Bruce K. Waltke
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802868096
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Psalms as Christian Lament written by Bruce K. Waltke and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Psalms as Christian Lament, a companion volume to The Psalms as Christian Worship, uniquely blends verse-by-verse commentary with a history of Psalms interpretation in the church from the time of the apostles to the present. Bruce Waltke, James Houston, and Erika Moore examine ten lament psalms, including six of the seven traditional penitential psalms, covering Psalms 5, 6, 7, 32, 38, 39, 44, 102, 130, and 143. The authors -- experts in the subject area -- skillfully establish the meaning of the Hebrew text through careful exegesis and trace the church's historical interpretation and use of these psalms, highlighting their deep spiritual significance to Christians through the ages. Though C. S. Lewis called the "imprecatory" psalms "contemptible," Waltke, Houston, and Moore show that they too are profitable for sound doctrine and so for spiritual health, demonstrating that lament is an important aspect of the Christian life.
Author : Peter W. Flint
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004136428
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Book of Psalms written by Peter W. Flint and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark volume covers the main aspects of modern Psalms study from the formation of individual Psalms down into the first centuries of the Common Era: the formation of the Psalter, individual Psalms and smaller collections, social setting, literary context, textual history, nachleben, and theology.
Author : Carol A. Newsom
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199731152
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The Book of Job written by Carol A. Newsom and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol Newsom illuminates the relation between the aesthetic forms of Job and the claims made by its various characters. Her innovative approach makes possible a new understanding of the unity of the book that rejects its dismantling in historical criticism and the flattening of the text that characterizes many final form readings. Additionally, she rehabilitates the moral perspectives represented by certain voices of the book that modern critics have treated with disdain.
Author : Michael Banner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198722060
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book The Ethics of Everyday Life written by Michael Banner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moments in Christ's human life noted in the creeds (his conception, birth, suffering, death, and burial) are events which would likely appear in a syllabus for a course in social anthropology, for they are of special interest and concern in human life, and also sites of contention and controversy, where what it is to be human is discovered, constructed, and contested. In other words, these are the occasions for profound and continuing questioning regarding the meaning of human life, as controversies to do with IVF, abortion, euthanasia, and the use of bodies or body parts post mortem plainly indicate. Thus the following questions arise, how do the instances in Christ's life represent human life, and how do these representations relate to present day cultural norms, expectations, and newly emerging modes of relationship, themselves shaping and framing human life? How does the Christian imagination of human life, which dwells on and draws from the life of Christ, not only articulate its own, but also come into conversation with and engage other moral imaginaries of the human? Michael Banner argues that consideration of these questions requires study of moral theology, therefore, he reconceives its nature and tasks, and in particular, its engagement with social anthropology. Drawing from social anthropology and Christian thought and practice from many periods, and influenced especially by his engagement in public policy matters including as a member of the UK's Human Tissue Authority, Banner aims to develop the outlines of an everyday ethics, stretching from before the cradle to after the grave.
Author : V. Steven Parrish
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814629062
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book A Story of the Psalms written by V. Steven Parrish and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Story of the Psalms is an interdisciplinary project that is informed especially by synchronic approaches to reading the Bible and the work of social scientists and theologians who have studies the contemporary landscape confronting religious communities, particularly congregations. Specifically, insights from narrative analysis are used to discern in the Book of Psalms a story with a plot that is told by multiple voices - engaged with one another and with God - as they address crucial junctures in Israel's life. These enduring voices offer guidance to congregations of an emerging church in a Post-Christendom era.
