Sentences with phrase «figural scriptural»

Radner offers a figural scriptural argument: though Israel was divided because of human sin and divine punishment, «No Jew... is ever asked by God to «choose» between Israel and Judah.»

I was also predisposed to welcome, at a much later date, the work of my Yale colleagues Brevard Childs and Hans Frei on canonical reading and on narrative and figural scriptural interpretation, respectively.

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The coherence of this story made figural interpretation possible; certain events within and outside of scriptural narrative were viewed as having prefigured or reflected the central biblical events.