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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"testaments"”.
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Typological Structures in the Old and New Testaments
<p>This dissertation seeks to ascertain the nature of biblical typology by allowing its conceptual structures to emerge from within Scripture through a semasiological analysis of the term τύπος and NT cognates and an exegetical investigation of NT hermeneutical τύπος passages.</p> <p>In the first …
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"I Have Thought Proper to Inform the World": Reading Unconventional Testaments of 18th-Century New England Women
… also their audience: who were the heirs to these testaments and how were the records preserved through centuries of movement through archives? What happens when we look to unconventional genres for evidence of women's self-fashioning?</p> <p>Through an examination of four testaments - the petition …
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The Shining Face of Moses: The Interpretation of Exodus 34:29-35 and Its Use in the Old and New Testaments
… how the passage is used in both the Old and New Testaments. Chapter 1 is a historical overview of how this passage has been interpreted through the centuries. Chapter 2 provides an exegetical discussion of Exodus 32-34, which makes up the context of the passage in question. Chapter 3 argues that …
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A study of wills and will-making in the period 1500-1533 with special reference to the copy wills in the probate registers of the Archdeacon of Bedford 1489-1533
… of which they do not fully understand. Wills and testaments from the medieval and early modem periods provide a notable example of this practice; they have been used by historians for the information which they provide on a variety of subjects but have rarely been studied as documents in their own …
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The Trajectory of the "Warrior Messiah" Motif in Scripture and Intertestamental Writings
… the continuity/discontinuity between the Testaments with the Warrior Messiah motif as a test. The intertestamental writings (IW) were also included with their interpretive role to assess the continuity. The approach of "canonical biblical theology" was adopted as the methodology.</p> …
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The Fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant
… whole. Chapter 5 explores the Old and New Testaments for traces of these typological fulfillments. Chapter 6 provides some applications and charts a path between a covenantal and dispensational reading of the Davidic Covenant.
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Augustine's Method of Teaching Religion
… Augustine referred constantly to the Old and New Testaments—the Bible. Hence, the return to his idea that both Bible and Church history to the present period should be taught on the level of the pupil and only to the degree that the material could be absorbed. From this plan of teaching religion …
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Inmitten der Götter
… in ausgewählten poetischen Texten des Alten Testaments, insbesondere in Psalm 82, Deuteronomium 32 und Psalm 89. Ziel ist es, zentrale Merkmale dieses Motivs herauszuarbeiten und zu klären, weshalb es von den jeweiligen Autoren verwendet wurde. Methodisch verbindet die Arbeit literarische, …
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The Voices of Victimhood and Survivorship
… Victimhood and Survivorship takes the firsthand testaments of selected victims and survivors of sexual violence and analyzes how these cases reflect the inequal dynamics of power over their own stories. Pertinent to this analysis are the disciplines of: rhetorical studies, media studies, English …
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The contribution of Scottish covenant thought to the discussions of the Westminster Assembly (1643-1648) and its continuing significance to the Marrow controversy (1717-1723)
… of covenant is central in both the Old and New Testaments; it mostly denotes God's relationship with his people as distinct from his relationship to the world. For the Covenanters, it became the central hermeneutical key for interpreting Scripture. Covenant theology had been familiar to the …
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Aux frontières de l'au-delà: les attitudes devant la mort à Poitiers sous le règne de Louis XIV
L'analyse des données retrouvées dans nos testaments poitevins a été effectuée à la fois en s'inspirant de la fiche élaborée par Etienne Richer et en suivant la logique interne du document. Par conséquent, le premier chapitre débutera par une description externe et interne du testament type de …
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A leader behavior profile analysis of senior pastors in growing Southern Baptist churches
… how leadership differed from the Old and New Testaments. The review of the literature also includes a brief analysis of secular leadership models and development. The methodological design details how the research is organized. Included in the methodological design section is a restatement of …
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A Theological Comparison Between Social Science Models and a Biblcal Perspective of Servant Leadership
… servant theology that is consistent through both Testaments. As well it introduces the idea that servant leaders are slaves of God, servants to the Body of Christ, and Ambassadors to the world. Chapter 2 explores servant leadership theory by connecting the theory to its biblical origins. It …
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ΙΟΥΣΤΙΝΟΣ. Ο ΜΑΡΤΥΣ ΚΑΙ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΣ ΩΣ ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΤΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΑΛΑΙΑΣ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗΣ
… IN THE O.T. AND TO THE UNITY OF THE TWO TESTAMENTS, ARGUING AGAINST THE GNOSTIS. THE MAIN TENETS OF HIS INTERPRETATION ARE THE APPEARANCESOF THE LOGOS, THE "PRESEMIOSIS" IN THE O.T. ANDTHE MESSIONIC PROPHECIES . HE IDENTIFIES THE MESSIA WITH THE ETERNAL LOGOS OFGOD AND WITH JESUS CHRIST, …
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Pastoral Preaching: A Reformation and Redefinition of a Pastor’s Call to Preach for the Purpose of Sanctification
… of the shepherd metaphor in both the Old and New Testaments. It focuses on four passages that describe God’s shepherding work and how it has been passed down to pastors. Chapter 4 describes in detail the shepherding work to which God has commissioned pastors: the work of progressive …
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Salvation of the Damned Within the 'Periphyseon'
… apokatastasis appears in both the Old and New Testaments. The first reference is found in Malachi 4:2-6, and speaks of the divine bond between children and their fathers, a them which will have special significance in this dissertation. The New Testament reference is found in Acts 3:21, where …
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Queer-Diva Collaboration in 20th Century Pop Music
… forms of “gender collapse” (Butler 41, 121) and testaments to “Queer world-making” (Muñoz 22) in order to recover the Diva’s crucial relationship with LGBTQ art directors, stylists, choreographers and music producers. This study historicises and analyses two pivotal Queer-Diva collaborations as …
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The unity of Biblical man
… to develop this thesis, both the Old and the New Testaments have been researched for ideas pertaining to Biblical Man. Of importance to the background of New Testament thought are the "extraneous" compositions comprising the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. Therefore, this literature has also been …
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Mission as Encounterology – a Kenotic Approach
… The very acts of God in both the Old and New Testaments attest to this. The following section is the New Testament, where God Himself is revealed through the incarnation of His Son. The kenosis of the Triune God is displayed in its fullness, as the Son emptied Himself to the point of death on …
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Portrait of a Heretic: The Development of Walter Kaufmann's Philosophy of Religion
… analysis of the merits of the Old and New Testaments, specifically how they address the problem of suffering and their respective ethics and worldviews. Finally, some attention is given to Kaufmann’s attempts to construct his own heretical ethic and tragic worldview. The ultimate goal of …
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