Download Prophecy: Essays presented to Georg Fohrer on his by John A. Emerton PDF

By John A. Emerton

This e-book, a tribute to a widely known outdated testomony pupil, has fifteen articles: six in German, six in English, and 3 in French. a powerful record of Professor Fohrer’s guides contains a few 11 pages on the finish of the amount, and a glance on the record may help to provide an explanation for the alternative of the name Prophecy for this Festschrift.

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Download ’I will be King over you!’: The Rhetoric of Divine Kingship by Terry R. Clark PDF

By Terry R. Clark

This publication examines numerous rhetorical ways that the motif of Yahweh’s Kingship features within the booklet of Ezekiel and explores what those arguments give a contribution to our figuring out of the prophetic ebook as an entire. It concludes that the executive goal for such rhetoric is to reinforce and/or rebuild Yahweh’s attractiveness one of the Judean exiles in Babylon on the way to inspire them to prevent assimilation and to maintain their certain religion and id because the humans of Israel. The ebook offers an summary of the rhetoric of the bigger Ezekiel corpus, an exam of the historic and ideological context of the Babylonian exile, a dialogue of the tactic of rhetorical research hired right here, and a close exegesis of texts during which the motif of Yahweh’s kingship is so much well-liked. on the subject of this crucial motif, appropriate sub-themes resembling paradise and the underworld, divine presence and lack, and the exodus also are explored.

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Download The Rise of Ancient Israel by William G. Dever, Adam Zertal, Norman Gottwald, Israel PDF

By William G. Dever, Adam Zertal, Norman Gottwald, Israel Finkelstein, P. Kyle McCarter Jr., Bruce Halpern, Hershel Shanks

The increase of historic Israel, now on hand during this handy eReader version, is an available and interesting evaluation of 1 of biblical archaeology’s most crucial and hotly debated subjects—the emergence of biblical Israel at the old degree. in line with a 1991 Smithsonian establishment symposium equipped by means of the Biblical Archaeology Society, this handsomely illustrated e-book brings jointly 4 authoritative and insightful lectures from international popular students that rigorously give some thought to the archaeological and ancient facts for historic Israel’s origins. in addition, the hot digital variation of the increase of historical Israel permits readers to take complete good thing about the entire portability and performance in their eReader units, together with handy in-text hyperlinks that leap on to particular chapters and notes.
within the book’s creation, moderator Hershel Shanks, editor of Biblical Archaeology evaluate, not just defines the extensive variety of matters all in favour of tackling Israel’s beginnings, but additionally offers the elemental info had to savor the scholarly debates. William Dever, America’s preeminent Biblical archaeologist, then assesses the archaeological facts that's frequently linked to the Israelite payment in Canaan starting in approximately 1200 B.C.E. the usually arguable perspectives offered by means of Dever are via short responses from prime students who learn Israelite origins, together with Israel Finkelstein, Norman Gottwald and Adam Zertal. within the book’s ultimate chapters, Baruch Halpern, a senior professor of Jewish stories and biblical heritage at Penn kingdom college, describes how the booklet of Exodus may perhaps shield actual ancient thoughts of Israel’s emergence in Egypt, whereas famed biblical pupil P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., discusses the attention-grabbing and maybe unforeseen origins of Israelite faith. The publication concludes with a casual yet revealing panel dialogue spurred through questions from Shanks and the symposium viewers.

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Download The Verbal System of Biblical Aramaic: A Distributional by Michael B. Shepherd PDF

By Michael B. Shepherd

Grammarians were not able to supply a enough reason for the verbal process of Biblical Aramaic by way of the traditional different types of annoying and point. Michael B. Shepherd exposes this case and indicates a fashion out of the current deadlock via distributional research through presenting that Biblical Aramaic has a chief verbal shape for narration and a major verbal shape for discourse. this easy but entire inspiration holds real not just for Biblical Aramaic but in addition for extra-Biblical Aramaic texts. This quantity is an critical source for classes in Biblical Aramaic and for somebody who needs to learn and comprehend the Biblical Aramaic corpus.

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Download THE SWORD OF GOLIATH: David in Heroic Literature by Stanley Jerome Isser PDF

By Stanley Jerome Isser

His booklet shifts the focal point of biblical tales approximately David from historicity to pop culture, suggesting their origins in well known heroic literature of the later monarchy and Persian interval and evaluating them with Homeric and Arthurian heroic literature. Synopsis The Sword of Goliath deals a clean view of the biblical tale of David, transferring the point of interest from historicity to problems with style and pop culture. Isser compares the biblical tales of David with different heroic literature, together with the Greek heroes of Homer, King Arthur, and Robin Hood. He means that the David tales, so much of them now misplaced, originated in renowned heroic literature that persisted to develop through the later monarchy and into the Persian interval. Isser engages a wide range of biblical scholarship to light up the complexity of ascertaining the historicity of a lot of the David traditions. Readers will locate the following a brand new point of view at the biblical David that strikes past the present old debate in religious study.

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Download Be Distinct. Standing Firmly Against the World's Tides by Warren W. Wiersbe PDF

By Warren W. Wiersbe

God's humans have been by no means intended to mixture in. in its place, we are referred to as to stick out from the gang, and develop into a beacon of wish. yet not anything dims our gentle greater than conformity, whilst voices that after proclaimed fact start to quietly yield to a loud global. according to the books of two Kings and a couple of Chronicles, this learn bargains an eye-opening examine the excessive expense of conformity, and stocks how we will remain distinctive from our environment.

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Download The Promise of the Land as Oath: A Key to the Formation of by Suzanne Boorer PDF

By Suzanne Boorer

During this learn, Suzanne Boorer offers a way of comparing many of the present and conflicting paradigms for the formation of the Pentateuch, by means of interpreting chosen texts in Genesis to Numbers that categorical Yahweh's oath of the land to the ancestors, which will ascertain their relative degrees when it comes to their surrounding contexts, when it comes to one another, and when it comes to their parallels in Deuteronomy. The findings more often than not aid Wellhausen's belief, and a few point of Noth's. Of attainable curiosity to these learning the historic reconstruction, hermeneutics, or theology of the previous testomony.

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Download The Sermon on the Mount in the Light of the Temple (Society by John W. Welch PDF

By John W. Welch

No non secular textual content has motivated the realm greater than has the hot Testament's Sermon at the Mount, and but this significant textual content nonetheless begs to be extra in actual fact understood. Why was once it written? What unifying subject matter or function holds all of it jointly? may still or not it's known as a sermon? Or is it another form of composition? How may its earliest listeners have heard its encoded allusions and systematic software? This publication deals new insights into the Sermon at the Mount by means of seeing it within the shadow of the all-pervasive Temple in Jerusalem, which ruled the non secular panorama of the area of Jesus and his earliest disciples. interpreting "Matthew" 5-7 in mild of biblical and Jewish backgrounds, ritual reports, and oral performances in early Christian worship, this interpreting coherently integrates each line within the Sermon. It positions the Sermon because the premiere Christian secret.

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Download Are we not men?: unstable masculinity in the Hebrew prophets by Rhiannon Graybill PDF

By Rhiannon Graybill

Are We now not males? offers an leading edge method of gender and embodiment within the Hebrew Bible, revealing the male physique as a resource of chronic trouble for the Hebrew prophets. Drawing jointly key moments in prophetic embodiment, Graybill demonstrates that the prophetic physique is a queer physique, and its very instability makes attainable new understandings of biblical masculinity. Prophecy disrupts the functionality of masculinity and calls for new methods of inhabiting the physique and negotiating gender.

Graybill explores prophetic masculinity via severe readings of a couple of prophetic our bodies, together with Isaiah, Moses, Hosea, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. as well as shut readings of the biblical texts, this account engages with smooth intertexts drawn from philosophy, psychoanalysis, and horror motion pictures: Isaiah meets the poetry of Anne Carson; Hosea is noticeable throughout the lens of ownership motion pictures and feminist movie concept; Jeremiah intersects with psychoanalytic discourses of tension; and Ezekiel encounters Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My frightened Illness. Graybill additionally deals a cautious research of the physique of Moses. Her tools spotlight unforeseen positive factors of the biblical texts, and light up the atypical intersections of masculinity, prophecy, and the physique in and past the Hebrew Bible. This meeting of prophets, our bodies, and readings makes transparent that getting to prophecy and to prophetic masculinity is a crucial activity for queer studying. Biblical prophecy engenders new sorts of masculinity and embodiment; Are We no longer Men?offers a important map of this still-uncharted terrain.

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