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Place of Worship in Ancient Israel
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Sacrificial worship in Ancient Israel and its fulfillment in Jesus Christ
… is the nature of the sacrificial system of the ancient Israelites. It is from this sacrificial system that the worship service of Christianity found the seeds of its early development.</p> <p>It is the purpose of this thesis to trace a view of the origin, purposes, and development of this …
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The Empirical Development of a Curriculum on the Issues Concerning the History of Ancient Israel
<p>Problem. An understanding of Israel's history is crucial to a Christian view of history, including its morals and values, and is a foundation stone of most conservative Christians including Seventh-day Adventists and their religious educational philosophy. There is a vital need for a curriculum …
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Exodus 34:6-7 : a canonical analysis.
… covenantal relationship between YHWH and ancient Israel towards an expression of the reign of YHWH over all of creation. The dissertation will also explore the different manifestations of the parallels as found in the canon. Attention will be given to how the different contexts of the …
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Divergent Divine Memories: Divine National Power, Cultural Memory, and the Deuteronomistic History of 1&2 Kings
… by the biblical text as the cultural memory of ancient Israel. Scholars widely regard the historical books (Joshua-2 Kings) as having been influenced by the ideology of Deuteronomy and therefore find a significant compositional level(s) to the text which they call the Deuteronomistic History. …
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Naomi on the crossroads of Umlazi.
… the cultural situation of the childless widow in Ancient Israel visa- vis that of the childless widow in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal in the late 1990s.
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Oscillating Boundaries Between Binaries: Narrative Tools for Understanding Judges 4 & 19
… express anxiety about the ever-changing world of Ancient Israel. In the Deborah narrative of Judges 4, the binaries of masculine/feminine and male/female criss-cross, and in the concubine's narrative, the binaries of out/in and public/domestic become confused as the narrative—along with the events …
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The Political Activities of Jeremiah and the Pro-Babylonian Party
The ancient Israelite prophet is an intriguing character whose presence 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 …
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The Scribal Invention of False Prophecy of Salvation in the Book of Jeremiah
… in shaping scholarly conceptions of prophecy in ancient Israel. My doctoral project returns to the well-travelled fields of false prophecy with a fresh perspective, shifting the focus from historical circumstances of ancient Israelite prophecy to scribal hermeneutics—that is to say, from the …
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Restoration of land : towards a biblical jubilee in South Africa
… the landlessness experienced by deprived Jews in ancient Israel. This model has been adopted by various scholars as a guideline in solving similar problems in modern societies. A theological view is deemed necessary since the legal, political, economic, and agricultural systems have failed to …
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Between rule and responsibility: The role of the 'AB as agent of righteousness in Deuteronomy's domestic ideology
… explores the relationship between the ancient Israelite HOH and the members of his family as portrayed in the prescriptive texts of Deuteronomy. In choosing the prescriptive texts, this study distinguishes between the actual (what was) and the ideal (what should have been). Chapter 2 …
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The Year of the Lord's Favor: An Old Testament Theology of the Jubilee
… argues that the Jubilee is (1) a law of ancient Israel that aimed to preserve Israel’s egalitarian system of land tenure, recalled the Sabbath rest of creation, and reenacted Yahweh’s liberation of Israel from Egypt; and (2) a type of God’s coming eschatological redemption and rest …
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William Faulkner's Hebrew Bible: Empire and the Myths of Origins
… an emphasis on a Hebrew Bible dialogue between ancient Israel and modern America as negotiated by William Faulkner. The ethical imperative, intones Faulkner, is to recognize that oppressive behaviors are no progress at all but rather contemporary realizations of the originary Exodus enslavement, …
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Re-imaging the warrior : divine warrior imagery in the book of Revelation.
… this dissertation is to investigate whether the ancient motif of Divine Warrior imagery can aid in understanding the violent imagery in the book of Revelation. The specific strategy is to examine how John's intended readers would perceive the violent imagery in light of the horizon of …
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Suffering, Soul Care, and Community: The Place of Corporate Lament in Evangelical Worship
… lament practices beginning with the worship of ancient Israel as found in the Psalms, and their continued use by Jesus in his prayers, the gospel writers, and in the epistles of Paul, Peter, and John in the Revelation. It concludes with case studies and recommendations for the inclusion of …
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Drafting Israel’s borders : reassessing the compositional history of Joshua 18—19 in light of later scribal activity.
… of various regions throughout ancient Israel. This study reexamines the compositional development of Joshua 18—19 and reevaluates contemporary literary-critical models through the use of text-critical data. By analyzing the later scribal changes throughout the passage, this …
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The Jephthah Traditions : a Rhetorical and Literary Study in the Deuteronomistic History
… Jephthah which embodies the regular kerygma of ancient Israel, here pressed in to the service of Jephthah's effort at peaceful settlement of Ammonite aggression through diplomacy. Thus, the Jephthah stories are symmetrically arranged. The thematic over-arch is the establishment of a single-head …
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Aspects of the Remnant Concept in the Gospel of Matthew
… review of the complex Traditionsgeschichte of ancient Israelite and primitive Christian self-understanding is stressed.</p> <p>Chapter 1 examines the remnant concept in the OT prophets and select literature of Late Judaism. Chapter 2 investigates the remnant concept in theway Matthew introduces …
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The Embodied Promise: How the Hebrew Covenants Correspond to the Corporal
… by the grand narrative of development of Israel, which itself is composed of many shorter stories. The Tanakh might be described as a sequence of five covenants (pacts or treaties) between Yahweh and human beings. Each of these covenants has a conveyer, to be distinguished from the …
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The Expansion of Judah Under Uzziah into Philistia: The Historical Credibility of 2 Chronicles 26:6-7a in Light of Archaeological Evidence
… and composed his own theological history of ancient Israel and Judah remains a contested issue.</p> <p>The Method</p> <p>This study selected Judah’s war against the Philistines during the reign of Uzziah, as recorded in 2 Chronicles 26:6-7a, as an ideal “test case” for determining the …
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