Sentences with phrase «in biblical literature»

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

We find the most penetrating understanding of power and politics in the biblical literature.

The imperial powers of Babylon, Egypt, Assyria, Greece and Rome are regarded as powers of darkness and chaos in the Biblical literature, especially in the Apocalyptic writings.

We find the most penetrating understanding of the power and politics in the biblical literature.

The following facts support this belief: the participation of the churches in the theological conversations of the ecumenical movement, which perforce have had to find their common starting point and common vocabulary in biblical literature and theology; the growing body of specifically biblical theology, produced by the very vitality of fragmentary and monographic studies.

The modern study of the «forms» of literature, their origin and early development, has found an exceptionally rich field in the biblical literature, so varied as it is, and extending over so long a period of time.

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

Nevertheless, there were certain historical dimensions to this early work in biblical literature.

Most important are the moral norms and teachings in biblical literature.

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.

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.»

1 In identifying this strain in the Biblical literature, I gladly acknowledge my profound debt to José Porfirio Miranda.

Not exact matches

(See Morton S. Enslin, «The Date of Peter's Confession,» in Quantulacumque (1937), pp. 117.22; also S. V. McCasland, «Peter's Vision of the Risen Christ,» Journal of Biblical Literature, 47:41 - 59.)

Not only do my own private experiences of the bible's truth claims give me good reason to believe it's assessment, but the success and consistency of biblical anthropology in other quarters (not least literature and philosophy) means that I have absolutely no reason to be ashamed.

Readers unaccustomed to think of the Biblical literature in terms of its chronological development are advised to consult the approximate dating of the documents presented in the Appendix.

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

Excepting parts of Proverbs and Psalms and the tenth chapter of I Kings (in which the uncritical praise of «Solomon in all his glory» is based on his power, pleasure and wealth), the biblical literature exposes the American success dream as mythical and full of false confidence.

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.

Giving further impetus to literary study of the Bible was the work of several scholars of English and comparative literature, who extended their expertise in the analysis of literature to biblical texts.

He belonged to the Christian church in that city — a church still meeting in the house of one of the great families, (See F. V. Filson, «The Significance of the Early House Churches,» Journal of Biblical Literature 58: 105 - 12.)

I certainly wouldn't assume as much about the undergraduate English students I teach, and I have ceased to be surprised by blithe ignorance about Western literature's biblical groundings in otherwise brilliant and intellectually agile doctoral students.

Ninian Smart has shown that although Western religious traditions have been predominantly numinous and Eastern traditions predominantly mystical, all the major world religions have in fact included both types of experience.18 Early Israel gave priority to the numinous; biblical literature portrays the overwhelming sense of encounter, the prophetic experience of the holy as personal, the acknowledgment of the gulf between the worshipper and the object of worship.

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.

A second basic approach to biblical studies is historicism in which Scripture is treated in the same way as any worthy literature of a given cultural tradition.

See further N. M. Sarna, «Epic Substratum in the Prose of Job,» Journal of Biblical Literature, LXXIV (March, 1957), 13 ff.

in biblical languages, literature and history from Yale University.

The comment in quotes is by Shawn Kelley from an article entitled «Poststructuralism and / or Afrocentrism,» in Eugene H. Lovering, Jr., ed., Society of Biblical Literature: 1995 Seminar Papers (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995), p. 243.

(In this century, scholars have analyzed biblical literature to see what traces remain from the time when the stories and sayings were told before they were written.

This highly conservative Calvinist argues that because biblical interpretation «deals with a book that is unique in the realm of literature, viz. with the Bible as the inspired Word of God,» we must develop a sacred interpretative science of a «very special character (page 11).

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.

«63 We see this by giving primacy to what is said in all the variety of biblical literature.

What guides the recent interest in «biblical storytelling» is the conviction that since Biblical literature existed as oral traditions which were then put into script, it was intended to be spoken in the faith commbiblical storytelling» is the conviction that since Biblical literature existed as oral traditions which were then put into script, it was intended to be spoken in the faith commBiblical literature existed as oral traditions which were then put into script, it was intended to be spoken in the faith communities.

(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.

See also Donald W. Riddle, Early Christian Life as Reflected in Its Literature (1936) and «Early Christian Hospitality: a Factor in the Gospel Transmission,» Journal of Biblical Literature, 57:141 - 154.)

On the importance of the teacher in the early church — distinct from the preacher — see B. S. Easton, «The First Evangelic Tradition,» Journal of Biblical Literature, 50:148 - 55; F. V. Filson, «The Christian Teacher in the First Century,» ibid., 60:317 - 28.)

But other interpretations will likely be offered when Dr. Biran describes the results at meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Schools of Oriental Research this week in Washington.

11 See R. H. Pfeiffer, «Facts and Faith in Biblical History» Journal of Biblical Literature Vol.70, no. 1 (March, 1951), p. 5

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 Jewin 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 Jewin 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 Jewin 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 JewIn 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 Jewin 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 participants in this poll were those who chose to take part over a span of eight years in a seminar sponsored, not by one of the major scholarly societies such as the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas or the Society of Biblical Literature, but by Funk's maverick entrepreneurial venture, the Westar Institute, located in Sonoma, California.

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.

11:8, which he translates as «My heart transforms itself upon me / My change of mind grows fervent,» God's love can overwhelm and transform such wrath, although preserving and including it within a greater integration: «Metaphor and Reality in Hosea 11,» Society of Biblical Literature 1976 Seminar Papers, ed.

The major emphasis on moral conduct inculcated in biblical and rabbinic literature is ignored.

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

And of the highest importance have been my conversations, oral and written, with my American colleagues in the parables seminar of the Society of Biblical Literature and those with whom I have been associated in the founding of Semeia, a new journal established specifically to do biblical studies experimentally, drawing on tools from other discBiblical Literature and those with whom I have been associated in the founding of Semeia, a new journal established specifically to do biblical studies experimentally, drawing on tools from other discbiblical studies experimentally, drawing on tools from other disciplines.

Hebrew language and literature, Jewish history, modern Jewish theology and philosophy, even undue absorption in the study of the biblical text — all are proscribed as evidence of defection from Torah - true Judaism.

Enns first highlights the impact of Akkadian Literature, which likely predates the biblical text and which includes creation and flood accounts remarkably similar to those we find in the Bible.

They are major participants in groups within the American Philosophical Association, the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion.

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.

Perhaps in our day it is wisdom literature (whether biblical or fictional) that can again open secular humanity to the presence or at least the possibility of the divine.

There are a few fundamental misunderstandings in this article that are inconsistent with biblical literature.