Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

After a survey of recent approaches to the study of Paul's use of Scripture, the four main chapters explore the use of Isa.

The festive meal texts of Deuteronomy 12-26 depict Israel as a unified people participating in cultic banquets - a powerful and earthy image for both preexilic Judahite and later audiences.

Let's face it-sometimes the Bible is confusing.

The social and intellectual context of the material in the book of Proverbs has given rise to several proposals concerning the nature of the constituent compendia within the document as well as the function of the discourse as a whole.

Apart from Genesis, Tobit contains more information about marriage than any other biblical book.

Recent scholars have tended to interpret 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 as an attempt to belittle ecstatic experiences, such as Paul's ascent to paradise, in favor of suffering in the service of the gospel.

This study demonstrates the importance of including narrative ethics in a construction of Old Testament ethics, as a correction for the current state of marginalisation of narrative in this discipline.

The 19th century saw the rise of Biblical Criticism in German universities, culminating in Wellhausen's radical revision of the history of biblical times and religion.

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The book investigates Ben Sira's attitudes toward all matters pertaining to sexuality in the context of family relations and gender issues.

Nowadays many scholars are intensively studying the Book of Ben Sira in its different versions.

Im Zentrum von Origenes’ Arbeit stand stets die Exegese der Hl.

Das Buch setzt sich zum Ziel, die literarische Genese der beiden Prophetenschriften Haggai und Protosacharja (Sach 1-8) nachzuzeichnen.

Damit, dass Elifas, Bildad und Zofar ganz im Sinne der Tradition von Hiob das Nachdenken über das Verhältnis zwischen Gott und Mensch verlangen, aber am Ende doch von Gott verurteilt werden, wirft das Buch Hiob eine der großen und komplizierten Fragen der alttestamentlichen Exegese auf.

Die Studie untersucht aus einem religionshistorischen Blickwinkel Aussagegehalt und Theologie des Wächterbuches (1 Henoch 1–36) als eigenständiger frühjüdischer Schrift des 3.

Rabbinic midrash included Egyptian religious concepts.

This book, emphasizing Genesis 14 and Psalm 110, contributes to the history of composition of the patriarchal narratives in the book of Genesis and to the history of theology of the Second Temple period.

This book examines Paul's use of temple, priesthood, and sacrificial metaphors from a cognitive and socio-literary perspective.

This volume presents selected papers read at the first meeting of the Society for Jewish and Biblical Studies in Central Europe, in Piliscsaba, Hungary, February 2009, but does not publish the proceedings of this meeting (for a clarification see here).

In ancient Israelite literature Exile is seen as a central turning point within the course of the history of Israel.

Scholars have long recognized the importance of Paul's citations from the Pentateuch for understanding the argument of Galatians.

This book is dedicated entirely to the interpretation of Paul's Letter to Philemon.

In this book the author thoroughly examines the pentateuchal elohistic source, its structural unity and its relationship to the yahwistic source.

This monograph on John 9 makes extensive use of premodern Christian exegesis as a resource for New Testament studies.

In one form or another, the Trisagion, "e;Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory"e;, entered Jewish and Christian liturgy at an early stage from Isaiah's account of his vision as recorded in Isaiah 6.

Manuscripts of the New Testament frequently contain, in addition to the text, supplementary information such as excerpts from the Fathers, chapter lists, quotation lists, introductions to sections, for example, the Pauline letters, and to individual books.

Das biblische Buch Esther erzählt den Aufstieg des jüdischen Waisenkindes zur Königin Persiens und die Erhebung des loyalen Juden Mordechai zum zweiten Mann nach dem König sowie die gleichsam wunderbare Errettung des Gottesvolkes Israel, dessen Existenz durch den perfiden Statthalter Haman bedroht ist.

This volume contains the proceedings of a Symposium "e;Prophecy in the Book of Jeremiah"e;, arranged by the Edinburgh Prophecy Network in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, 11-12 May 2007.

Gegenstand der vorliegenden Studie ist die Textgeschichte der Samuel- und Königebücher, die in der Forschung nach wie vor kontrovers diskutiert wird.

Der im Nubian Museum (Assuan) aufbewahrte Kasr el-Wizz Kodex, der gegen Mitte des IX.

This Oxford dissertation offers a fresh redactional analysis of the Book of Amos.

Die deutschsprachige Evangelienharmonie des Fabel- und Kirchenliederdichters Erasmus Alber (um 1500-1553) ist in einer Handschrift überliefert, die seit dem zweiten Weltkrieg als verschollen galt.

Die vielschichtigen Beziehungen zwischen Israel und Phönizien im 1.

Der Band enthält die Beiträge eines internationalen Symposiums des Göttinger Graduiertenkollegs Götterbilder – Gottesbilder – Weltbilder: Polytheismus und Monotheismus in der Welt der Antike aus dem Jahr 2007.

The theology of Isaiah 40-55 has two seemingly contradictory aspects: the tension between the consolatory message of deliverance, and the harsh tone of accusation and the call to repentance.

Recent advances in cognitive linguistics provide new avenues for reading and interpreting Biblical Hebrew prophetic text.

This study examines the physical form and cultic function of the biblical cherubim.

The Zechariah Tradition and the Gospel of Matthew is a comprehensive study of the ways Matthew utilizes Zechariah texts and traditions.

Mit seiner asketischen Paulusexegese, die in dem Apostel das Bild des Vollkommenen erblickt, bewegt sich der anonyme Autor des Liber Graduum, ein Zeitgenosse des Johannes Chrysostomos, zunächst im Rahmen der Paulusrenaissance des ausgehenden vierten Jahrhunderts.

This monograph examines the concept of Jesus' perfection in the Epistle to the Hebrews in relation to the broader theological themes of divine beneficence and divine "e;philanthropia"e;.

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