Sentences with phrase «jewish biblical scholar»

The «pathos of God» (as contrasted with the concept of the «impassability» of God), according to the Jewish biblical scholar Abraham Heschel, is the central idea of prophetic theology (Merkle, 494).

«13 Gerhard von Rad recalls with approval the suggestion of the Jewish biblical scholar Franz Rosenzweig: we ought no longer to think of the symbol R as standing for Redactor but rather, for Rab benu, which means, in Hebrew, our master»; since for the final form in which we receive the work, we are indebted to him and to his interpretation.14 His was the same historical perspective which gave rise to this prayer:

Not exact matches

There are several other discrepancies between the two versions which are addressed in «Who Wrote the Bible», which was written by Richard Elliott Friedman, a biblical scholar and the Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Georgia.

Some biblical scholars (including Jewish ones) believe that the Code of Leviticus was intended to apply ONLY to worshippers going up to Jerusalem, and priests and levites going up to the Temple to perform their yearly duties, something similar to the old Roman Catholic communion fast.

And the book also offers a deliberately wide array of approaches to trinitarian issues, including not only historical and systematic theologians, but biblical scholars and analytic philosophers of religion, writing from a variety of theological and communal points of view» Roman Catholic, Protestant, and, in one case, Jewish (the New Testament scholar Alan Segal, who contributes an instructive if somewhat technical chapter on the role of conflicts between Jews and Christians in the emergence of early trinitarian teaching).

Christian theologians, biblical scholars and church historians are becoming increasingly aware of the necessity to rethink what they do in light of Jewish theology, history and...

I'd refer you to «Who Wrote the Bible» by Richard Elliott Friedman, a biblical scholar who is the Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Georgia regarding the authorship of the flood story in the Bible, specifically pages 53 to 60 in the «The Story of Noah — Twice».

The foundations of Hebrew philology and biblical exegesis were laid by Jewish scholars in the early Middle Ages, and carried forward by Christian scholars from the Renaissance to the present.

It does remind me of a public lecture in which Harvard biblical scholar Jon Levenson, who is Jewish, once defined anti-Semitism as «hating Jews more than is necessary», obviously the kind of remark whose success as comedy turns on the context in which it is spoken and the one who speaks it.