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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"Hebrew Bible."”.
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Woman to woman : relationships in the Hebrew Bible
… to woman relationships that are presented in the Hebrew Bible. In the entire corpus, there are only three such relationships portrayed with any details, these being the ones between Leah and Rachel, Sarah and Hagar, and Ruth and Naomi. The examination has a twofold purpose: to probe the …
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The "Throne of God" Motif in the Hebrew Bible
… an exegetical investigation of the texts of the Hebrew Bible which have direct reference to it.</p> <p>Chapter I states the problems which the biblical "throne of God" motif poses, and also theobjectives, limitations, methodology, and procedure of this study.</p> <p>Chapter II reviews pertinent …
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Jerome's sources in his translation of the Hebrew Bible
… the Vulgate as Jerome’s translation of the Hebrew Bible. Jerome himself, who produced this Latin translation between the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century CE, argued that it followed the Hebrew Bible, which in his view conveyed the “true” meaning of Scripture (the …
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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 …
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Intertextuality and Allusion in the Study of the Hebrew Bible
… refers to another text that appears elsewhere in Bible. This study examines the way such academic language is shaped by and shapes the assumptions of biblical scholarship. It examines the nature of linguistic signs and applies the insights of this examination to evaluating the language of …
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William Faulkner's Hebrew Bible: Empire and the Myths of Origins
… a Jewish sensibility rooted in reverence for the Bible as a text that is as vital and relevant in his time as in any since its composition. The Hebrew Bible's narrative method of compiling, redacting, doubling, and retelling, and its attention to curses, genealogies, covenants, and …
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The construction of shame in the Hebrew Bible: the prophetic contribution
… the phenomenon of shame in the context of the Hebrew Bible, focusing particularly on the three major Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel), because it is here that shame vocabulary is most prevalent. Shame is prominently discussed in the literature of psychology and anthropology. In the first …
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Animal names and categorisation in the Hebrew Bible : a textual and cognitive approach
… matter of this study is animal names in the Hebrew Bible. Centring on a corpus-linguistic analysis of every word for an animal or type of animal used within the text, it sheds light on the methods and paradigms of categorisation used by the ancient Hebrews and thus on previously unknown …
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Horn-Motifs in the Hebrew Bible and Related Ancient Near Eastern Literature and Iconography
… in both the ancient Near Eastern context and the Hebrew Bible.</p> <p>The first chapter is devoted to a review of prior studies, particularly in the twentieth century. Throughout almost all this century, the "history-of-religion" school and the "form-critical" school have taken the lead in …
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The Heavenly Sanctuary/Temple Motif in the Hebrew Bible : Function and Relationship to the Earthly Counterparts
… as reflected in forty-three passages of Hebrew Bible.</p> <p>Following an introductory chapter, the second chapter of this dissertation is devoted to a survey of the heavenly sanctuary/temple motif in the ANE literature, as represented by Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Ugaritic, and …
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The Small Masorah: Genealogical Relationships in 112 Early Hebrew Bible Codices Based upon the Masorah Parva
… study of the Tiberian Masorah parva of 112 early Hebrew Bible manuscripts. Most codices can be dated to the 10–12th centuries. In order to integrate the vast amount of data available, select subsections of the Masorah of these 112 manuscripts were collated, amounting to ca. 43,000 Masorah parva …
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Astrology in the Torah: a comparative study of astrological themes in the Hebrew Bible and Babylonian Talmund.
… by paganism and astrolatry, emerged the Jewish Bible. A millennium later, in quiet enclaves of the Sasanian Empire of pre-Islamic Iran, a melting-pot of heterogeneous religious and ethnic communities, dominated by Zoroastrian culture, the Babylonian Talmud, the culmina- tion of generations of …
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David’s political mourning in the Hebrew Bible: an analysis of how David mourns in instances of political significance
With growing research indicating that mourning is culturally bound, criticisms of David’s political mourning by scholars such as Pamela Reis and Malul Meier seem increasingly uninformed. Both sympathetic and critical readers of David can often make conclusions without considering that David lives …
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"The windows of heaven" : temple windows in the Hebrew Bible and in comparative ancient Near Eastern evidence.
… features and symbolism of windows in the Hebrew Bible (HB) and Ancient Near East (ANE). This analysis includes textual, architectural, and iconographic evidence categories. The textual evidence occurs across genres and provides examples of monumental windows, cosmological windows, and …
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Ammon in the Hebrew Bible: a Textual Analysis and Archaeological Context of Selected References to the Ammonites of Transjordan
… state of Ammon is important to students of the Bible because of the numerous references to the Ammonites (bene 'ammon) included in the historical and prophetic sections of the Hebrew canon. The book of Genesis traces the ancestry of the "Sons of Ammon" to an eponymous ancestor named Ben …
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Seeking Meaning in the Hebrew Bible: A Lexicographical Study of בקש and דרש using Structuralist and Cognitivist Linguistic Tools.
… lexical and grammatical aspects of Biblical Hebrew with insights from contemporary Structuralist and Cognitive Linguistics, to present an original diachronic analysis of the relationship between the Hebrew Bible’s verbs of ‘Seeking’ and their semantic interdependence. Key concepts from …
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The genre of suffering in the 'ancient near eastern literature, the Hebrew bible, and in some examples of modern literature.
The aim of this thesis is to compare works of drama regarding the suffering of the human being in the context of life and literature and in relation to the issue of justice, which revolves around the impact of Justice, Humanity and God. My aim is to look at the development of the genre of suffering …
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The genre of suffering in the ancient Near Eastern literature, the Hebrew Bible, and in some examples of modern literature
The aim of this thesis is to compare works of drama regarding the suffering of the human being in the context of life and literature and in relation to the issue of justice, which revolves around the impact of Justice, Humanity and God. My aim is to look at the development of the genre of suffering …
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“Do Not Covet”: The Tenth Commandment In Pauline Ethics
… canonical study of the Tenth Commandment in the Hebrew Bible, early Jewish literature, and Paul. Over the course of this investigation, it is demonstrated that the Tenth Word plays a more influential role in the ethical thought of Paul than previously recognized. Chapter 1 details the thesis, …
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Land, People, Space, and Place: Constructing a Decolonized Reparative Understanding of the Biblical Creation Myth Through Dialogue Between the Hebrew Bible and Haudenosaunee Creation Stories
Cosmogonies are not only ubiquitous, but they also help us understand the worldviews and value systems of different societies. This is especially helpful when interactions between two distinct cultural groups lead to unfavourable outcomes, as was the case between the colonial settlers and the …
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