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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Hebrew scriptures"”.
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Theology of Blindness in the Hebrew Scriptures
<p>Problem: A number of passages in the Hebrew Scriptures discuss blindness. Scholars have studied them individually, but not with a view to developing a theology of blindness. The purpose of the present dissertation, then, is to analyze theological implications of blindness in the Hebrew …
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The Fatherhood of God: an Exegetical Study From the Hebrew Scriptures
… a theology of the fatherhood of God from the Hebrew Scriptures. Although many studies have explored the topic from the perspective of other disciplines, the actual theology of God's fatherhood, as revealed in the Hebrew Scriptures, has been neglected until now. This has resulted in the …
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The symbolic and theological significance of the olive tree in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew scriptures
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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Israelite Interactions with Gentiles in the Old Testament and the Implications Regarding Missions
… interactions with Gentiles found in the Hebrew Scriptures. Chapter 1 defines what is meant in this study concerning mission and Israelite interactions with Gentiles. In addition, foundation is laid for the study by detailing presuppositions, history of perspectives on the topic, and the …
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Re-imaging the warrior : divine warrior imagery in the book of Revelation.
… discusses the various ways the texts of the Hebrew Scriptures adapt the ancient Near Eastern imagery into the context of ancient Israel. The literature of early Judaism then appropriates the same imagery, primarily through the foundation of authoritative scriptural texts. A number of …
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Divine Judgment in the Book of Revelation
<p>Judgment themes in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament are described and classified. Special attention is given to recurring themes of remedial judgment and annihilation. John's Revelation is analyzed for consistency of judgment themes, and John's theology of judgment is compared and …
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The Eschatological Role of the Jerusalem Temple: An Examination of Jewish Writings Dating from 586 BCE to 70 CE
… has investigated the Jerusalem temple in the Hebrew Scriptures as well as later writings. This research reports that in some second temple period Jewish writings, the Jerusalem temple plays an eschatological role in the sense that it is expected to hasten or speed up the conclusion of the …
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The enduring yod: an examination of Torah observance in the prophetic ministry and teaching of Jesus
… examines Jesus’ most explicit endorsement of the Hebrew Scriptures and the ethical injunctions of the Sermon on the Mount, and Jesus is presented as one expounding and elucidating the will of God as revealed in the Law and Prophets. Using three major controversy stories recorded in Mark, this …
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God, Land, Identity: Divine Fluidity and a Spatial Ecclesiology in West Africa
… revelation, a string of tradition extant in the Hebrew Scriptures, in traditions that lay claim to the Hebrew Bible (notably Catholicism), and in African traditional religious cosmology, this dissertation establishes the West African sacred space as an independent revelatory economy. I contend …
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Robert Lowth's Hebraic Sublime and the "Ample Field of Poetry"
… be used inconspicuously, Lowth argues from the Hebrew Scriptures that the conspicuity of the rhetorical construction is key to the excitation of the passions that follows the sublime encounter. Seeking to contextualize Lowth’s theorizing within intersecting critical, social and literary …
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The Topography of utopia : Revelation 21-22 in light of ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman utopianism.
… point of reference is Jewish traditions and the Hebrew Scriptures, and the point of view of a Greco-Roman-minded auditor whose point of reference is Greco-Roman traditions. In this way, I wish to account for some of the diversity that would have existed in the first audience that received the …
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Speaking on the brink of sheol: Form and theology of Old Testament death stories
… and classifies the various death accounts in the Hebrew Scriptures as notices, reports, or stories. In addition, this chapter justifies the classification of some accounts as stories instead of reports, and it establishes and describes the typical "death story." Chapter 4 engages in a form …
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Cleansing the Common: A Narrative-Intertextual Study of Mark 7:1-23
… examination of purity issues arising out of the Hebrew Scriptures and the Second Temple period in the later part.</p> <p>The narrative analysis in chapters 2–3 reveals that Mark uses space, time, props, movement, prefixes, verb tenses, and technical terminology meticulously and astutely to …
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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 Embodied Promise: How the Hebrew Covenants Correspond to the Corporal
The book often called the Hebrew Scriptures or the Old Testament, appropriately called the Tanakh, consists of a creation poem (the "Heptameria") followed by the grand narrative of development of Israel, which itself is composed of many shorter stories. The Tanakh might be described as a sequence …
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It is Time: Theology of Time in the Book of Revelation as Reflected in the Interpretation of Scripture and the Temple Cult
… thought, culture, traditions and the entire Hebrew scriptures since the text is infused with allusions and direct references to the Hebrew scriptures. The Greek text also contains words that hearken back to the Semitic language either by transliteration or by the importation of descriptions, …