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A Handbook to the Exegesis of the New Testament

Author : Stanley E. Porter
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004099210
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis A Handbook to the Exegesis of the New Testament by : Stanley E. Porter

Download or read book A Handbook to the Exegesis of the New Testament written by Stanley E. Porter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a substantial theoretical and practical guide to the multi-faceted discipline of exegesis of the New Testament. It offers succinct and well-informed essays, with plenty of bibliography, written by experts in their respective fields. The handbook will serve well as a textbook, as well as a reference book to the major tools and topics in the area. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

The Ground Has Shifted

Author : Walter Earl Fluker
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479897183
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ground Has Shifted by : Walter Earl Fluker

Download or read book The Ground Has Shifted written by Walter Earl Fluker and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention, Theology and Religious Studies PROSE Award A powerful insight into the historical and cultural roles of the Black church If we are in a post-racial era, then what is the future of the Black Church? If the US will at some time in the future be free from discrimination and prejudices that are based on race how will that affect the church’s very identity? In The Ground Has Shifted, Walter Earl Fluker passionately and thoroughly discusses the historical and current role of the Black church and argues that the older race-based language and metaphors of religious discourse have outlived their utility. He offers instead a larger, global vision for the Black church that focuses on young Black men and other disenfranchised groups who have been left behind in a world of globalized capital. Lyrically written with an emphasis on the dynamic and fluid movement of life itself, Fluker argues that the church must find new ways to use race as an emancipatory instrument if it is to remain central in Black life, and he points the way for a new generation of church leaders, scholars and activists to reclaim the Black church’s historical identity and to turn to the task of infusing character, civility, and a sense of community among its congregants.

Introduction to the Old Testament

Author : Anthony R. Ceresko
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1570753482
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis Introduction to the Old Testament by : Anthony R. Ceresko

Download or read book Introduction to the Old Testament written by Anthony R. Ceresko and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying Norman Gottwald's thesis on Israel's origins, Cereski argues that Israel was formed through a process of social revolution, inspired by the memory of runaway slaves and their worship of a God whose cult mandated radical social equality and justice.

Paul's Letter to the Romans and Roman Imperialism

Author : Ian E Rock
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227906241
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)

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Book Synopsis Paul's Letter to the Romans and Roman Imperialism by : Ian E Rock

Download or read book Paul's Letter to the Romans and Roman Imperialism written by Ian E Rock and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian E. Rock demonstrates that the Letter to the Romans may be seen as an attempt by a subordinate group to redress actual and potential issues of confrontation with the Empire and to offer hope, even in the face of death. Paul demonstrates that it is God's peace and not Rome's peace that is important; that loyalty to the exalted Jesus as Lord and to the kingdom of God - not Jupiter and Rome - leads to salvation; that grace flows from Jesus as Christ and Lord and not from the benefactions of theEmperor. If the resurrection of Jesus - the crucified criminal of the Roman Empire - demonstrates God's power over the universe and death, the very instrument of Roman control, then the Christ-believer is encouraged to face suffering and death in the hope of salvation through this power. Paul's theology emerges from, and is inextricably bound to, the politics of his day, the Scriptures of his people, and to the critical fact that the God who is One and Lord of all is still in charge of the world.

The Politics of Biblical Theology

Author : David Penchansky
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865544628
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (446 download)

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Book Synopsis The Politics of Biblical Theology by : David Penchansky

Download or read book The Politics of Biblical Theology written by David Penchansky and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Zechariah’s Vision Report and Its Earliest Interpreters

Author : Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567668835
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Book Synopsis Zechariah’s Vision Report and Its Earliest Interpreters by : Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

Download or read book Zechariah’s Vision Report and Its Earliest Interpreters written by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Zechariah's vision report (Zechariah 1.8-6.8) reflects the seer's visionary experience, how does that impact our understanding of the gradual growth of the text? Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer builds on the work done in her previous book Zechariah and His Visions (Bloomsbury-T&T Clark, 2014), to demonstrate that the visionary material forms the primary textual layer. The oracular texts constitute chronologically later interpretations. Zechariah and/or later authors/editors sought guidance in the earlier vision accounts, and the oracular material reflects these endeavours. Tiemeyer's investigation is guided by the question: what is the latter material doing with the former? Is it enforcing, contradicting, or adding to it? Using a ratio composed of the difference between the intratexts and intertexts of Zech 1-8, Tiemeyer shows how this ratio is higher in the oracular material than in the visionary material. This difference points to the different origin and the different purpose of the two sets of material. While the earlier vision report draws on images found primarily in other biblical vision reports, the later oracular material has the characteristics of scribal interpretation. By drawing on earlier material, it seeks to anchor its proposed interpretations of the various vision accounts within the Israelite textual tradition. It is clear that the divine oracles were added to give, modify, and specify the meaning of the earlier vision report.

The Concept of Exile in Ancient Israel and its Historical Contexts

Author : Ehud Ben Zvi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110221780
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis The Concept of Exile in Ancient Israel and its Historical Contexts by : Ehud Ben Zvi

Download or read book The Concept of Exile in Ancient Israel and its Historical Contexts written by Ehud Ben Zvi and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Israelite literature Exile is seen as a central turning point within the course of the history of Israel. In these texts “the Exile” is a central ideological concept. It serves to explain the destruction of the monarchic polities and the social and economic disasters associated with them in terms that YHWH punished Israel/Judah for having abandoned his ways. As it develops an image of an unjust Israel, it creates one of a just deity. But YHWH is not only imagined as just, but also as loving and forgiving, for the exile is presented as a transitory state: Exile is deeply intertwined with its discursive counterpart, the certain “Return”. As the Exile comes to be understood as a necessary purification or preparation for a renewal of YHWH’s proper relationship with Israel, the seemingly unpleasant Exilic conditions begin, discursively, to shape an image of YHWH as loving Israel and teaching it. Exile is dystopia, but one that carries in itself all the seeds of utopia. The concept of Exile continued to exercise an important influence in the discourses of Israel in the Second Temple period, and was eventually influential in the production of eschatological visions.

Feminist Companion to Wisdom Literature

Author : Athalya Brenner
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1850757356
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Companion to Wisdom Literature written by Athalya Brenner and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Relating to the Text

Author : Timothy Sandoval
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567004287
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Book Synopsis Relating to the Text by : Timothy Sandoval

Download or read book Relating to the Text written by Timothy Sandoval and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains studies reflecting the contribution of Martin Buss to biblical scholarship, focusing on the forms and genres of biblical literature and on interdisciplinary approaches to biblical interpretation. Contributors to the volume include J.H. Hayes, J. Kuan, A. Siedlecki, B. Green, M. Miller, R. Bailey, S. Melcher, B. Long, N. Walls, C. Newsom, D. Blumenthal, T. Linafelt, T. Beal, E. Ben Zvi, N. Stipe, N. Habel, F. Gorman, Y. Gitay, J. Lapsley, M. Sweeney, E. Gerstenberger, V. Robbins, D. Jobling, R. Weems, C. Mandolfo, and T. Sandoval.

Revelation and the Marble Economy of Roman Ephesus

Author : Anna M. V. Bowden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1978710186
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (787 download)

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Book Synopsis Revelation and the Marble Economy of Roman Ephesus by : Anna M. V. Bowden

Download or read book Revelation and the Marble Economy of Roman Ephesus written by Anna M. V. Bowden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an effort to bring the (im)practicalities of John’s command for withdrawal from cultural participation in 18:4 to the forefront of scholarly discourse, this book reconstructs the marble economy of ancient Ephesus and proceeds to read Revelation by foregrounding the daily lives of its marble-workers. This book argues that Ephesus was a major center of the marble economy in the Roman world and that the infrastructure that went into creating, building, and sustaining such an enterprise generated the need for a large workforce. Anna M. V. Bowden further demonstrates that the majority of marble-workers endured poor working conditions and struggled on a daily basis to ensure subsistence. Finally, Bowden explores the ways marble-workers participated in empire “through the work of their hands” (9:20) and questions John’s characterization of marble-workers as idolaters, sorcerers, murderers, fornicators, and thieves. Bowden concludes that the praxis Revelation requires from its audience of complete withdrawal is pragmatically not sustainable and is ultimately a manifesto leaving marble-workers jobless, hungry, and with a heightened risk for malnutrition, disease, injury, and even death.

Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics within a Caribbean Context

Author : Oral A. W. Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134939779
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Book Synopsis Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics within a Caribbean Context by : Oral A. W. Thomas

Download or read book Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics within a Caribbean Context written by Oral A. W. Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible is of central importance within Caribbean life but is rarely used as an agent for social change. Caribbean biblical hermeneutics focus more on the meaning of biblical texts for today and less on the context in which the texts themselves were written. 'Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics within a Caribbean Context' offers a biblical hermeneutic that acknowledges the importance of the socio-ideological interests, theological agendas, and social practices that produced the biblical texts, as well as the socio-cultural context of the contemporary reader. The book examines the social context of post-independence Caribbean and outlines the difficulties of biblical interpretation within Christian communities that descend from a history of slavery. Current hermeneutical practices in the Caribbean are critiqued and a biblical resistant reading offered that enables the Bible to be used as a cultural weapon of resistance.

Biblical Criticism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Eryl W. Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567331911
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (673 download)

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Book Synopsis Biblical Criticism: A Guide for the Perplexed by : Eryl W. Davies

Download or read book Biblical Criticism: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Eryl W. Davies and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Guide for the Perplexed will demonstrate how modern biblical scholars have expressed dissatisfaction with a one-sided historical-critical approach to biblical texts and have argued that developments in secular literary theory should be applied in biblical studies. Whereas the historical-critical approach was concerned with the moment of a text's production (authorship, date, place of writing etc), the literary approach is concerned with the moment of the text's reception. Eryl W. Davies shows how and why approaches such as 'reader-response criticism', 'feminist criticism', 'ideological criticism', 'canonical criticism' and 'post-colonial criticism' are now becoming more popular in many quarters. The volume explains to the uninitiated in a readable and accessible form how strategies originally derived from secular literary criticism have been adopted by biblical scholars in order to understand the text of Scripture and to appreciate its relevance.

Psalms Book 2: An Earth Bible Commentary

Author : Arthur Walker-Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567689425
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Book Synopsis Psalms Book 2: An Earth Bible Commentary by : Arthur Walker-Jones

Download or read book Psalms Book 2: An Earth Bible Commentary written by Arthur Walker-Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Walker-Jones presents an Earth-focused reading of the second book of Psalms, focusing upon the many nonhuman animals that appear repeatedly within the text. In the first commentary to explore the implications of the natural and cultural history of animals for the interpretation of Psalms, Walker-Jones moves beyond the standard treatment of animals as mere metaphors for human concerns, or background to human stories. Instead, Walker-Jones draws upon the interdisciplinary field of animal studies, incorporating this into ecocritical analysis and arguing for the similarity between the two approaches, including recognizing that the oppression and liberation of humans is interrelated with the oppression and liberation of Earth and all its creatures. Walker-Jones looks at foxes, sheep, goats, cattle, doves, snakes, lions, snails, dogs, and deer, which all appear in Psalms 42–72, taking into account that many of these animals co-evolved with humans and created the particular ecological niche of the highlands east of the Mediterranean. Perceiving Earth in various ways-as refuge, as enemy, as Rock, and as fertile and joyous-this volume brings an entirely new ecological perspective to the Psalms.

Ideology, Class, and the Hebrew Bible

Author : Norman K. Gottwald
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498290590
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Book Synopsis Ideology, Class, and the Hebrew Bible by : Norman K. Gottwald

Download or read book Ideology, Class, and the Hebrew Bible written by Norman K. Gottwald and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief volume brings together three of Norman Gottwald's classic essays that address issues of social class and ideology as they pertain to the interpretation of the biblical documents. The small format makes them useful for classroom and small-group use, providing definitions, theoretical concerns, and applications to specific texts. The author has been a leader in the social-scientific analysis of the Bible for almost fifty years. Contents Social Class as an Analytic and Hermeneutical Category in Biblical Studies Social Class and Ideology in Isaiah 40-55: An Eagletonian Reading Ideology and Ideologies in Israelite Prophecy

Present and Future of Biblical Studies

Author : Tat-siong Benny Liew
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004363548
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Present and Future of Biblical Studies by : Tat-siong Benny Liew

Download or read book Present and Future of Biblical Studies written by Tat-siong Benny Liew and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the current state of the field known as biblical studies? How will biblical studies continue to develop in this diverse, globalized, and digital age? In this book, a diverse group of scholars who are known for their innovative practice of biblical interpretation come together to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the critically acclaimed journal, Biblical Interpretation, by sharing their thoughts on and questions about the assumptions, practices, and parameters of biblical studies as well as their desires and fears about its disciplinary future. Covering a wide range of topics, geographical regions, resources, understandings, and viewpoints, this exceptional collection of essays will make you and help you rethink the conventions and convictions of biblical studies as an academic discipline.

Social Justice and the Hebrew Bible, Volume Three

Author : Norman K. Gottwald
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498292216
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Book Synopsis Social Justice and the Hebrew Bible, Volume Three by : Norman K. Gottwald

Download or read book Social Justice and the Hebrew Bible, Volume Three written by Norman K. Gottwald and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PART 1: EXAMINING TEXTS 1. Social Drama in the Psalms of Individual Lament 2. Kingship in the Book of Psalms 3. Abusing the Bible: The Case of Deuteronomy 15 4. Do not Fear What They Fear: A Post-9/11 Reflection(Isaiah 8:11-15) 5. The Expropriated and the Expropriators in Nehemiah 5 6. How Do Extrabiblical Sociopolitical Data Illuminate Obscure Biblical Texts? The Case of Ecclesiastes 5:8-9 [Heb. 5:7-8] 7. On the Alleged Wisdom of Kings: An Application of Adorno's Immanent Criticism to Ecclesiastes PART 2: ENGAGING PRACTICES 8. Framing Biblical Interpretation at New York Theological Seminary: A Student Self Inventory on Biblical Hermeneutics 9. Theological Education as a Theory-Praxis Loop: Situating the Book of Joshua in a Cultural, Social Ethical, and Theological Matrix 10. The Bible as Nurturer of Passive and Active Worldviews 11. Biblical Scholarship in Public Discourse 12. On Framing Elections: The Stories We Tell Ourselves 13. Values and Economic Structures

Handel's Israelite Oratorio Libretti

Author : Deborah W. Rooke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191613304
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Handel's Israelite Oratorio Libretti written by Deborah W. Rooke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handel's Israelite oratorios are today little known among non-specialists, but in their own day they were unique, pioneering and extremely popular. Dating from the period 1732-1752, they combine the musical conventions of Italian opera with dramatic plots in English that are adaptations of Old Testament narratives. They constitute a form of biblical interpretation, but to date, there has been no thoroughgoing study of the theological ideas or the attitudes towards the biblical text that might be conveyed in the oratorios' libretti. This book aims to fill that gap from an interdisciplinary perspective. Combining the insights of present-day biblical studies with those of Handelian studies, Deborah W. Rooke examines the libretti of ten oratorios - Esther, Deborah, Athalia, Saul, Samson, Joseph and his Brethren, Judas Macchabaeus, Solomon, Susanna and Jephtha - and evaluates the relationship between each libretto and the biblical story on which it is based. Rooke comments on each biblical text from a modern scholarly perspective, and then compares the modern interpretation with the version of the biblical narrative that appears in the relevant libretto. Where the libretto is based on a prior dramatic or literary adaptation of the biblical narrative, she also discusses the prior adaptation and how it relates to both the biblical text and the corresponding oratorio libretto. In this way the distinctive nuances of the oratorio libretti are highlighted, and each libretto is then analysed and interpreted in the light of eighteenth-century religion, scholarship, culture and politics. The result is a fascinating exploration not only of the oratorio libretti but also of how culture and context determines the nature of biblical interpretation.