Sentences with phrase «ancient biblical cultures»

In ancient biblical cultures, the term was often used in connection with a person being bought from the slave markets and then being given their freedom.

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What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

The biblical faith, with roots in revolutionary messianic hope which is itself rooted in the prophetism of ancient Israel / Judah, is even now, and daily, used to sanctify and perpetuate the life, culture, security, and privilege not now of imperialist Rome but of the imperialist United States.

The use of biblical language to express a Victorian worldview makes it very difficult for most Protestants to remember that the books of the Bible address questions posed in another time in terms of the worldviews of ancient cultures.

In most ancient near Eastern cultures, including Israel, unmarried women were considered the property of their fathers (or the male head - of - house), and under biblical law could either be sold into slavery to pay off debt or married for a bride price (Exodus 21:7, Nehemiah 5:5; Genesis 29:1 - 10).

As I said before, the modern - day «biblical womanhood» movement as expressed by complementarianism, has its roots, not in the ancient near Eastern culture in which the Bible was written, but in the pre-feminist American culture.

Of course, different cultures had different myths, but the point is that they all had them... What makes Genesis different from its ancient Near Eastern counterparts is that it begins to make the point to Abraham and his seed that the God they are bound to, the God who called them into existence, is different from the gods around them... The biblical worldview described in Genesis is an Ancient Near Easteancient Near Eastern counterparts is that it begins to make the point to Abraham and his seed that the God they are bound to, the God who called them into existence, is different from the gods around them... The biblical worldview described in Genesis is an Ancient Near EasteAncient Near Eastern one.

With this introduction, we will look at the extent of the Wisdom Tradition in the Biblical books, the renewed interest of the scholars in the wisdom studies, and the Wisdom parallels in the Ancient Near Eastern Cultures.

Did ancient culture impact the biblical ethics of slavery but not that of women?

In its participation in the life of the Biblical communities it participates with them in their conversation and conflict with ancient cultures; in its re-enactment of the life of the Church in history it also re-enacts the conversations of theologians with Platonists and Neo-Platonists, with Aristotelians and Averroists, with idealists and realists; it recapitulates the encounters of the institutional Church with Church - reforming and Church - deforming states, of the Christian community with rising and declining cultures.

Blind faith, virgin birth, crucifixion — nothing is sacred in this epic send - up of ancient times, which draws on the cornball biblical blockbusters of the 1950s to lampoon celebrity culture in any era.

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Although left unnamed in most cultures, in French culture the Kings found on playing cards are named; The King of Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, and Clubs are named after King David (of the Biblical fame), King Charles (Charlemagne), Ceasar (the Roman dictator), and King Alexander (of ancient Macedonia), respectively.