Sentences with phrase «midrash as»

It was always an «inclination» rather than an essence and was seen in many midrash as a necessary motivator to building up a life in the world.

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(II, 105) Having established the historicity of the baptism event, Meier is adamant that the narrative must be seen as a Christian midrash, drawing on various OT themes to assert the primacy of Jesus over John.

It is also possible to recognize other ways of reading the New Testament: not only midrash, but also typology and allegory are modes of reading which, given their assumptions and rules of discourse, are every bit as disciplined and «true» as that offered by the literalist renderings of the historical - critical method.

Aronofsky sees his interpretation of the Genesis story as part of the midrash tradition, in which Jewish teachers create stories meant to explain the deeper truths of the Tanakh.

During that time, we studied the story of Joseph as it appears in both of our traditions — in holy text (Torah and Qur «an) and in commentary (midrash and tafsir)-- and also learned a lot about each other.

Instead of seeing such traditional readings as naïve or simply wrong, interpreters now ask about the assumptions and values that govern the reading practices of Christian typological and allegorical exegesis and of Rabbinic midrash.

Most Christian scholars would agree that the Gospels are midrashes upon the historic events of Jesus» life, midrashes that clarify Jesus» position as promised Messiah and eschatological Lord.

Messer leads the Simchat Torah Beit Midrash congregation in Colorado, which describes itself as a community of Jewish and non-Jewish believers in «Yeshua,» or Jesus Christ.

Any exposition which intended to penetrate beneath the simple straightforward meaning of the text and gain from it all that it might be regarded as saying by implication was called a midrash.8 There were two types of midrash.

The story of the flight into Egypt by Joseph, Mary and the infant Jesus may have originated as a midrash inspired from the text by Hosea, «1 called my son out of Egypt».11 If the story of the burial by Joseph of Arimathea owes anything at all to the influence of such a verse as Isaiah 53:9, then it would be a further example of the midrashic study of the Bible as a method of answering current problems.

How can the Tanakh, Talmud, Midrash, New Testament, Quran, Sunnah, Nahjul Balagha, Avesta, Vedas, Upanisahds, Bhagavad Gita, Puranas, Tantras, Sutras, Vachanas, Adi Granth, Purvas, Samayasara, Niyamasara, Pravacanasara, and Pancastikaya; Anupreksa; Samadhishataka of Pujyapada; Tattvarthasutra of Umasvati, Tattvarthasutra, Pali Tripitaka, Jataka,, Visuddimagga, Tripitaka, Lotus Sutra, Garland Sutra, Analects; the Great Learning; the Doctrine of the Mean; the Mencius, Tao Te Ching, Chuang - tzu, Kojiki, Nihon Shoki, K - oki, Ofudesaki, Mikagura - uta, Michi - no - Shiori, Johrei, Goseigen, Netarean Shower of Holy Doctrines, Chun Boo Kyung, Kitab - i - Iqan, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, Book of Mormon, Dianetics, or Revelation X be dismissed as Holy Books since they all claim to be The Truth?

McKnight describes it as «the ongoing reworking of the biblical Story by new authors so they can speak the old story in new ways for their day... The Bible contains an ongoing series of midrashes, or interpretive telling, of the one Story God wants us to know and hear... None of the wiki - stories is final; none of them is comprehensive; none of them is absolute; none of them is exhaustive.»

In addition to a helpful glossary and an indispensable index, The Literary Guide features some useful and, in several instances, excellent general essays such as Helen Elsom's superb treatment of the New Testament and Greco - Roman literature, Gerald L. Bruns's brilliant study of midrash and allegory, and an interesting essay by Alter on the characteristics of ancient Hebrew poetry.