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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Bible. Old Testament."”.
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The significance of ḥesed in the Old Testament
Th. D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1949
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A comparative translation text analysis of the book of Song of songs in the Mbala And Mushindo Bemba Bibles
Translation of the Bible has played a very critical role in the evangelization Programmes of the Christian Faith throughout the world and Zambia in particular. The translated Bibles have provided an avenue for communication between divergent foreign languages and cultures. In Zambia, however, some …
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A comparative translation text analysis of the book of Song of songs in the Mbala And Mushindo Bemba Bibles
Translation of the Bible has played a very critical role in the evangelization Programmes of the Christian Faith throughout the world and Zambia in particular. The translated Bibles have provided an avenue for communication between divergent foreign languages and cultures. In Zambia, however, some …
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The Development of the Idea of Sacrifice and Atonement in the Old Testament
Th. D. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 1923 Scanned from microfilm source: Publication (Historical Commission, Southern Baptist Convention) ;no. 4511-381; faculty committee initials present after bibliography.
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Recent Developments in Daniel Research
<p>This thesis analyzes and evaluates significant directions in Daniel research during the past fifteen to twenty years. The material is organized in two categories (a) introductory, (b) exegetical, which form the two main parts of the thesis.</p> <p>In the first chapter on introductory material I …
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Characterizing Jesus : a rhetorical analysis on the Fourth Gospel's use of Scripture in its presenation of Jesus.
… with three areas of current Johannine and New Testament scholarship: (1) literary-critical studies on the Fourth Gospel's characterization of Jesus; (2) studies on the presence (or absence) of Greco-Roman rhetoric in the Gospel; and (3) intertextual studies on John and the New Testament. This …
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In heaven as it is on earth : the development of the interpreting angel motif in biblical literature of the neo-Babylonian, Persian and early Hellenistic periods.
The motif of angelic interpretation of symbolic visions is a major feature of late prophetic and apocalyptic literature, yet the development of this literary motif has remained largely unexplored within biblical scholarship. This study fills this gap in scholarship by tracing the development of the …
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A canonical exegesis of the eighth Psalm : YHWH's maintenance of the created order through divine reversal.
… relationship between Psalm 8 and the rest of the Old Testament, and the relationship between Psalm 8 and the New Testament witness. The dissertation describes the place of Psalm 8 within the Christian canon as representing the intersection of three motifs or trajectories: 1) The distinct …
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Family and Identity in the book of Judges
… that in a work of identity-making such as the Bible, the influence of family on the texts’ formation has been under studied. Such an omission may be because the discussion on family in the Bible has largely concentrated upon reconstructing day-to-day life as background to our reading. Scholars …
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The Figure of the Widow in the Hebrew Bible
… of the presentation of the widow in the Hebrew Bible, paying particular attention to her relationship to family structures, economic issues and sexuality. A literary historical-critical methodological approach that is informed by anthropological work on widows from a range of contemporary global …
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Worship as Interpretation: The Liturgical Reception of Isaiah 6
… is an investigation into how the Hebrew Bible is used in (Rabbinic) Jewish and Christian liturgical settings, and how this impacts biblical scholars. I argue against the neglect of liturgy and ritual in reception studies and make the case that liturgy is one of the major influential forms …
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The Ark of the Covenant as a Material Actant: Adapting New Materialist Concepts for Cause and Effect
The discussion of cause-and-effect in Hebrew Bible narratives has been limited by assumptions restricting agency to will and intention and causation to a strict linearity from subject to object. The field of new materialisms through its explorations of the meaning of matter — the materiality of the …
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Open Proverbs: Exploring Genre and Openness in Proverbs 10:1-22:16
… and meanings; and some fresh perspectives on old debates.
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The Benjamin Region and the Judahite 'State': A History of the Long Seventh Century B.C.E.
The history of Benjamin in the so-called monarchic period has been the subject of considerable recent interest from both biblical scholars and archaeologists, but with relatively few broad syntheses that explore the economic and political foundations of Benjamin’s distinctiveness. In this thesis, I …
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The Scribal Invention of False Prophecy of Salvation in the Book of Jeremiah
… product of ancient exegetical imagination. I unfold this argument in four key stages. In Chapter 1, I provide an overview of scholarship on false prophecy in the Hebrew Bible to date and identify key trajectories within it—namely, socio-religious, hermeneutical, ideological, canonical, and …