Sentences with phrase «for biblical literature»

No book about the Bible is a substitute for the biblical literature itself.

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ddeevviinn, you said; «It is in this land of reality that 90 % (in actuality a little less, but for sake of argument we'll use this figure) of the population has determined that the Judeo - Christian God revealed in the biblical literature is valid.»

It is in this land of reality that 90 % (in actuality a little less, but for sake of argument we'll use this figure) of the population has determined that the Judeo - Christian God revealed in the biblical literature is valid.

Much of this literature argues for the virtue of stewardship, often in part on biblical grounds.

Even as structuralism was being adapted for the study of biblical literature, its assumptions and claims were being challenged in the wider world of philosophical and literary studies.

That noble imagining is reserved for Isaiah, who expresses a rather different current in biblical literature from Psalms.

For it has behind it the momentum of all modern historical research in the field of the biblical literature — Old Testament as well as New.

Enns goes on to examine various passages from Second Temple literature to show how «biblical interpreters exhibit for us an attitude toward biblical interpretation that operates on very different standards from those of modern interpreters.

These teachers are charged with using a biblical faith as a basis for illuminating today's world, and they are frustrated by the difficulty of interpreting first - century Eastern literature to a twentieth - century technological society.

(See S. J. Case, «Kúpios as a Title for Christ,» Journal of Biblical Literature, XXVI (1907), 151 ff.; and The Evolution of Early Christianity, pp. 116 ff.

Citing several films, Trotter turns to the three forms of biblical literature to suggest what is important for a film to provide religious content witn integrity.

Certainly I knew nothing then of the vast grounds for the hymn - writer's protest, but later in the decade of the thirties I joined, incipiently at the level of a graduate student, the ranks of the same critics and with some real enthusiasm learned and cultivated the techniques of «tearing apart» the biblical literature.

(See my «The Spiritual Christ,» Journal of Biblical Literature 54:1 - 15; also the «Note on Christology» in my Frontiers of Christian Thinking (1935), and my essay, The Significance of Critical Study of the Gospels for Religious Thought Today,» in the volume presented to Professor Harris Franklin Rall, Theology and Modern Life, ed.

David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.

The other development is the increased importance of national associations of scholars in religious studies — for example, the Society of Biblical Literature, the American Academy of Religion, and the American Society for Church History.

For the full defense of this view, see Robert Gordis, «Studies in the Esther Narrative,» Journal of Biblical Literature 95:1 (March 1976): 52.

Robinson, in his address as outgoing president of the Society of Biblical Literature in December 1981, presented a detailed case for the argument that the earliest resurrection traditions were luminous appearances of Jesus, while stories of physical resurrection were secondary.

We have lived in a male - dominated world for a very long time and that male dominance is expressed in the biblical literature.

For an excellent summary of the major interpretations of Deuteronomy, see the symposium, «The Problem of Deuteronomy,» Journal of Biblical Literature, LXVII (1928), 305 ff.

Infidelity has been a topic of interest in scholarly literature for at least the past two decades, but humans have been talking about it, and engaging in it, since biblical times.

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For perspective, notice that the classics of literature, going back as far as Gilgamesh and Biblical texts, all feature these themes.

«Sacrifice for the Fleet,» now at L.A. Louver, hosts a series of new and recent works born from the artist's fascination with Greek literature, Biblical texts, and Armenian manuscripts (he is the son of Armenian refugees).

From biblical literature to Buddhist belief, from Oceanic legends to contemporary French poetry, learn how Paul Gauguin incorporated his quest for spirituality and his search for paradise lost (and found) into his imaginative art.