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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Prophetic literature"”.
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Locust Imagery and the Problem of Genre in the Book of Joel
… the text. Scholars classify Joel as either prophetic, proto-apocalyptic, or apocalyptic literature based on different approaches to the text. This thesis will argue that Joel should be seen as part of the body of prophetic literature based on the usage of locust imagery within the text. The …
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Election, Brotherhood and Inheritance: A Canonical Reading of the Esau and Edom Traditions
… Israel’s neighbor Edom treated so harshly in the prophetic literature? And how might one understand the relationship of these traditions? This study engages these questions by offering a canonical reading of the Esau and Edom traditions of the Hebrew Bible in light of the theological issue of …
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Life in his name: water, the Spirit and the covenant people of God in the Gospel of John
… water symbol alludes to the promises in the OT prophetic literature of the Spirit and his work in the new covenant, in which the Spirit’s life-giving work is understood specifically as the bringing about and sustaining of new covenant life for God’s chosen people, i.e., the people’s entering into …
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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.
… 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 interpreting angel motif from …
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Luke and the Law: A Defence of Christian Law-Observance
… argue that Luke, in line with nearly all Jewish literature of the late Second Temple period, views the Law of Moses as containing both regulative commands and predictive prophecies. For Luke, neither of these functions ceases in the age of the Church. In Chapter Two, I observe that Luke’s …
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Ammon in the Hebrew Bible: a Textual Analysis and Archaeological Context of Selected References to the Ammonites of Transjordan
… (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 Ammi--son/grandson of Abraham's nephew Lot (Gen 39:17).</p> <p>Chapter 1 points out how Ammon--though often …
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The Political Activities of Jeremiah and the Pro-Babylonian Party
… in the Old Testament is impossible to overlook. Prophetic literature alone comprises nearly one-third of the Old Testament, while many of the other books include in their contents accounts of various prophets and their activities. This is clearly indicative of the relative importance of the …
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The Scribal Invention of False Prophecy of Salvation in the Book of Jeremiah
… textual realities of the developing Israelite prophetic literature. My argument is that false prophecy of salvation in the book of Jeremiah is best understood as a scribal construct. That is to say, it is a scribal literary invention; it is, at its heart, a product of ancient exegetical …