Archive For The “Old Testament” Category
By Walter Brueggemann
ISBN-10: 0800663632
ISBN-13: 9780800663636
Within the pages of the Hebrew Bible, old Israel gave witness to its come upon with a profound and uncontrollable truth skilled via courting. This booklet, drawn from the center of most popular outdated testomony theologian Walter Brueggemann's Theology of the previous testomony, distills a career's worthy of insights into the center message of the Hebrew Bible. God is defined there, Brueggemann observes, as attractive 4 "partners" - Israel, the countries, construction, and the person - within the divine objective. This quantity offers Brueggemann at his most tasty, providing profound insights adapted particularly for the start pupil of the Hebrew Bible
By Ian Young, Robert Rezetko, Martin Ehrensvärd
ISBN-10: 1845530810
ISBN-13: 9781845530815
Since the start of serious scholarship biblical texts were dated utilizing linguistic facts. previously there was no creation to and accomplished assessment of the sphere. quantity 1 introduces the linguistic relationship of biblical texts. The publication examines the foundations and technique used to distinguish Archaic, Early and past due biblical Hebrew; the connection among linguistic features and linguistic chronology or historic origins; the results of dialects and diglossia on textual feedback; and the importance of extra-biblical assets. Key textual content samples and their linguistic positive factors are provided, with concrete illustrations and tips for discussion.
By Stephen Harris, Robert Platzner
ISBN-10: 0072990511
ISBN-13: 9780072990515
Designed for college students project their first systematic learn of the Hebrew Bible, this article has pursuits: to acquaint readers with the content material and significant issues of the biblical files, and to introduce them to matters in biblical scholarship. Pedagogically wealthy and reader-friendly, this article used to be designed for traditional introductory classes utilizing historical-critical method, and also will be priceless in classes learning the Bible as literature, or as a reference textual content within the learn of old faith.
By Williamson, H. G. M.
ISBN-10: 3110207168
ISBN-13: 9783110207163
The current quantity examines Coptic (Sahidic) manuscripts of latest testomony debts of the Resurrection from the 4th to thirteenth centuries. to begin with, textual editions within the Coptic mss. are proven, defined and ordered systematically. Then, transformations among the Greek and Coptic texts are provided utilizing an in depth grammatical research (using dependency grammar for the 1st time) and translational idiosyncrasies of Coptic are mentioned.
By William W. Hallo
ISBN-10: 9004173811
ISBN-13: 9789004173811
Literature starts at Sumer, we could say. provided that this historic crossroads of tin and copper produced not just bronze and the complete Bronze Age, but additionally by way of necessity, the 1st process of record-keeping and the means of writing. Scribal colleges served to propagate the hot approach and their curriculum grew to create, protect and transmit all demeanour of artistic poetry. In a life of learn, the writer has studied a number of elements of this such a lot historical literary oeuvre, together with such questions as chronology and bilingualism, in addition to contributing basic insights into particular genres similar to proverbs, letter-prayers and lamentations. additionally, he has drawn conclusions for the comparative or contextual method of biblical literature. His experiences, generally scattered in diversified courses for almost fifty years, are the following assembled in handy one-volume structure, made extra undemanding by means of wide cross-references and indices.
By D. A. Carson
ISBN-10: 0310238595
ISBN-13: 9780310238591
An creation to the hot testomony makes a speciality of 'special advent' that's historic questions facing authorship, date, assets, goal, vacation spot, and so on. This process stands not like fresh texts that focus extra on literary shape, rhetorical feedback, and old parallels---topics the authors do not reduce, yet as an alternative imagine are greater given prolonged remedy in exegesis classes. by way of refocusing at the necessities, An advent to the hot testomony guarantees that the hot testomony books may be thoroughly understood inside ancient settings. for every New testomony rfile, the authors additionally supply a considerable precis of that book's content material, speak about the book's theological contribution to the general canon, and provides an account of present stories on that booklet, together with contemporary literary and social-science methods to interpretation. This moment version displays major revision and enlargement from the unique, making this hugely acclaimed textual content much more priceless. * a brand new bankruptcy presents a ancient survey interpreting religious study strategy during the a while. * The bankruptcy on Paul has been increased to incorporate an research of debates at the 'new perspective.' * The dialogue of latest testomony epistles has been improved to shape a brand new bankruptcy. This re-creation can help a brand new new release of scholars greater snatch the message of the hot testomony.
By Marion Ann Taylor
ISBN-10: 1429418400
ISBN-13: 9781429418409
ISBN-10: 1932792538
ISBN-13: 9781932792539
The ladies of Genesis (Eve, Sarah, Hagar, Rebekah, Leah, and Rachel) intrigued and knowledgeable the lives of nineteenth-century ladies. those girls learn the biblical tales for themselves and sought for how you can extend, toughen, or problem the conventional knowing of women's lives. They communicated their readings of Genesis utilizing different genres starting from poetry to observation.
By Richard M. Davidson
ISBN-10: 1565638476
ISBN-13: 9781565638471
"Flame of Yahweh" deals a radical exploration of gender relationships and sexual intercourse within the previous testomony. themes contain sexuality in Eden, the elevation vs. the denigration of ladies, exclusivity vs. adultery and premarital intercourse, permanence vs. divorce and remarriage, intimacy vs. incest, and sexuality within the "Song of Songs". Written from a theologically conservative viewpoint, Richard Davidson offers a meticulously researched paintings which makes vast use of alternative old close to jap files on matters starting from homosexuality to gender kin. even as, the writer bargains transparent factors of phrases and ancient context that make the paintings obtainable to the reader.
By Athalya Brenner
ISBN-10: 0905774426
ISBN-13: 9780905774428
ISBN-10: 0905774434
ISBN-13: 9780905774435
By Emanuel Tov, R. A. Kraft, P. J. Parsons
ISBN-10: 0198263279
ISBN-13: 9780198263272
This ebook includes a re-creation of the scroll that represents an early revision of the Septuagint towards a better correspondence with the Hebrew textual content of the Bible. After an intensive creation, the amount presents the textual content with and with no reconstructions, notes on palaeography and reconstructions, and a observation on translation method, orthographic peculiarities, and textual family.