Author: Stanley Rosenbaum
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865547025
Size: 40.23 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Understanding Biblical Israel

by Stanley Rosenbaum, release date 2002, Understanding Biblical Israel Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Understanding Biblical Israel books, According to Stanley Rosenbaum, the Bible resembles what a family would retrieve after a tornado hits a trailer park -- some of the family's own possessions mixed with those of others, overlapping, contradicting, and disordered. Understanding Israelite History is a revolutionary attempt to fill in the many gaps left in the historical record. Rosenbaum begins by demonstrating that Israel's religion was not a clean, divinely inspired break with humanity's past, but derives from the long sweep of events that began when Homo sapiens first acquired language. Strata of earlier religions are still visible beneath the surface of Israelite monotheism. Early Israel was not "one man's family", however dysfunctional. It was a collection of individuals and groups, mainly outcasts or lower social elements, who coalesced into a nation and developed -- though they did not always follow -- a religion of ethical monotheism and principles of democratic government and social justice that still today move and inspire more than half the world's population. Like all religions, Israel's was shaped by the language, in this case Hebrew, in which it is expressed. Expressing monotheism in a language that is essentially dualistic conduced to the suppression of the female elements of earlier religions which had nurtured Israel's religion, and consequently, to a lack of appreciation for the part played by women in Israel's religious life. This skewed view of Israel's religion and its history that the Bible contains is a result of its having been collected, edited and in part written by Judeans, southern survivors, and heirs of David's kingdom who were moved to record it in the wake of the destruction ofJerusalem in 586 BCE.

Author: Doug Hershey
Publisher: Charisma Media
ISBN: 1616384778
Size: 43.18 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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The Christian S Biblical Guide To Understanding Israel

by Doug Hershey, release date 2011, The Christian S Biblical Guide To Understanding Israel Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Christian S Biblical Guide To Understanding Israel books, Gain a richer understanding of God's plan for Israel.

Author: Edward W Klink III
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310492246
Size: 55.82 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Understanding Biblical Theology

by Edward W Klink III, release date 2012-11-06, Understanding Biblical Theology Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Understanding Biblical Theology books, Understanding Biblical Theology clarifies the catch-all term “biblical theology,” a movement that tries to remove the often-held dichotomy between biblical studies for the Church and as an academic pursuit. This book examines the five major schools of thought regarding biblical theology and handles each in turn, defining and giving a brief developmental history for each one, and exploring each method through the lens of one contemporary scholar who champions it. Using a spectrum between history and theology, each of five “types” of biblical theology are identified as either “more theological” or “more historical” in concern and practice: Biblical Theology as Historical Description (James Barr) Biblical Theology as History of Redemption (D. A. Carson) Biblical Theology as Worldview-Story (N. T. Wright) Biblical Theology as Canonical Approach (Brevard Childs) Biblical Theology as Theological Construction (Francis Watson). A conclusion suggests how any student of the Bible can learn from these approaches.

Author: Nahum M. Sarna
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0307760693
Size: 51.62 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Exploring Exodus

by Nahum M. Sarna, release date 2011-08-10, Exploring Exodus Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Exploring Exodus books, The book of Exodus records the pivotal events in the formation of biblical Israel—the deliverance from slavery, the leadership of Moses, the wilderness wanderings, and the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai. Bible scholar Nahum Sarna, whose widely praised Understanding Genesis has become a standard text, examines and illuminates the distinctiveness of the Exodus narrative in light of ancient Near Eastern history and contemporaneous cultures—Egyptian, Assyrian, Canaanite, and Babylonian. In a new foreword to this edition, Sarna takes up the debate over whether the exodus from Egypt really happened, clarifying the arguments on both sides and drawing us back to the uniqueness and enduring significance of biblical text.

Author: H. G. M. Williamson
Publisher: OUP/British Academy
ISBN: 9780197264010
Size: 74.98 MB
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Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Understanding The History Of Ancient Israel

by H. G. M. Williamson, release date 2007, Understanding The History Of Ancient Israel Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Understanding The History Of Ancient Israel books, In popular presentation, some treat the Bible as a reliable source for the history of Israel, while others suggest that archaeology has shown that it cannot be trusted at all. This volume debates the issue of how such widely divergent views have arisen and will become an essential source of reference for the future.

Author: Stanley E. Porter
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004234764
Size: 50.80 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 619
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Christian Origins And Hellenistic Judaism

by Stanley E. Porter, release date 2012-10-23, Christian Origins And Hellenistic Judaism Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Christian Origins And Hellenistic Judaism books, In Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism, Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on reconstructing the social matrix for earliest Christianity through reference to Hellenistic Judaism and its literary forms.

Author: Michael Carasik
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820478487
Size: 69.60 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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Theologies Of The Mind In Biblical Israel

by Michael Carasik, release date 2005, Theologies Of The Mind In Biblical Israel Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Theologies Of The Mind In Biblical Israel books, Did the Hebrew mind work differently from those of people in the Western tradition of civilization? This long-discredited question still lingers in biblical studies. Theologies of the Mind in Biblical Israel approaches the topic of the Israelite mind from a new direction, exploring how the biblical texts themselves, especially Proverbs and Deuteronomy, describe the working of the mind. It demonstrates that the much-discussed role of memory in the Bible is just one part of a general understanding that in the realm of 'knowledge' God and humanity are rivals.

Author: Raymond Westbrook
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 0664234976
Size: 67.82 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Everyday Law In Biblical Israel

by Raymond Westbrook, release date 2009, Everyday Law In Biblical Israel Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Everyday Law In Biblical Israel books, Introduction -- Sources -- Litigation -- Status and family -- Crimes and delicts -- Property and inheritance -- Contracts -- Conclusion

Author: Oxford Old Testament Seminar
Publisher: T&T Clark
ISBN:
Size: 51.88 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 559
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Temple And Worship In Biblical Israel

by Oxford Old Testament Seminar, release date 2005, Temple And Worship In Biblical Israel Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Temple And Worship In Biblical Israel books, A major work on temple and worship in ancient Israel that ranges widely from the ancient Near East, through the Old Testament and into the Late Second Temple (Intertestamental) and New Testament periods.

Author: Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802809902
Size: 79.29 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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Making Wise The Simple

by Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos, release date 2005-09-14, Making Wise The Simple Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Making Wise The Simple books, Too long restricted to children's storybooks and cinematic extravaganzas, the Torah -- comprising the first five books of the Bible -- is an underappreciated mother lode of divine instruction, vitally important for Christians and the church. Convinced that both those who take the Torah too literally and those who neglect it are guilty of a naïve simplicity, Johanna van Wijk-Bos presents guidelines to help ordinary Christians recover this treasure in their faith and practice. Having lived in the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation, van Wijk-Bos recognizes that after the attempted annihilation of the Jews from Christian Europe, it cannot be business as usual for Christianity. In light of the Holocaust, Christians must commit themselves to the restoration of just relations between Christians and Jews. This commitment to address all that fractures human relations undergirds van Wijk-Bos's call for Christians to reengage the Torah. Making Wise the Simple points out how God's care for and engagement with the whole world in the Torah set the tone for the entire biblical story. The book pays special attention to how our treatment of strangers lies at the heart of the Torah's teaching. Without attempting a purely Jewish reading of the Torah, van Wijk-Bos reclaims the Torah as a vibrant word for the Christian community in covenant with God. Written in a personal style conversant with current scholarship but sprinkled with anecdotes, this book is for everyone who has a hunger and enthusiasm for what the biblical text may convey, the courage to ask disturbing questions of the text, and an openness to old words that may bring forth new things, perhaps even making one wise.