Sentences with phrase «of biblical texts»

A study of the biblical texts allows a classification of religious coping strategies according to their phenomenology: the preventive strategy, the «quest for meaning» strategy and the «prayer» strategy.

Abstract: A study of the biblical texts allows a classification of religious coping strategies according to their phenomenology: the preventive strategy, the «quest for meaning» strategy and the «prayer» strategy.

Have you bothered to compare old copies of the biblical texts to new ones?

[Shira Faigenbaum - Golovin et al, Algorithmic handwriting analysis of Judah's military correspondence sheds light on composition of biblical texts]

Scientists have debated whether the first significant phase of the compilation of biblical texts happened before or after the fall of the first Temple, in 586 B.C. To get at the potential answers to that question, a group of researchers in Israel analyzed mundane inscriptions about the needs of daily life on 16 ceramic shards written about 600 B.C. from an ancient military fortress in Arad, at the northern edge of the Negev desert.

Others — most notably Ricoeur — have made the same observation, arguing that metaphor contributes to the multivalency of biblical meaning and thus to the enduring appeal of biblical texts.8 But Frye's argument is different.

Those that are not - «Transfiguration,»» Proverbs,» the title poem - imitate the forms of the biblical texts on which they are based.

She actually is quite adept at Biblical interpretation and has done some good reading and research and exegetical spade work when she is dealing with any kinds of Biblical texts, including the so - called «texts of terror».

The literal / inerrant view of the Bible is a fairly recent development in the life of the biblical texts and is strongest in the United States.

The literal / inerrant view was born out of ignorance — ignorance of the biblical texts in their original language and of their metaphorical context and ignorance / misunderstanding of scientific discoveries and theories.

In part this was due to my discovery of more competent readers of the biblical texts (Meir Sternberg and Yair Zakovitch, for example).

Lay leaders responding to these new developments pummel their pastors with questions about creationism, faith healing and the verbal inspiration of Scripture, and are overtly suspicious of the historical and critical interpretations of biblical texts.

Origen, for example, may have been one of the most creative Bible scholars the church has ever seen, and he came up with some great interpretations of Biblical texts.

What literary critics and biblical scholars share, according to the editors of The Literary Guide, is not so much an interest in the referential qualities of the biblical texts as an interest in their internal relationships, particularly as these relationships are controlled by language.

In this book, basing himself, upon the direct meaning of Biblical texts as construed by him in a literal fashion, he denied the existence of the antipodes, and asserted that the world is a flat parallelogram whose length is double its breadth.

While many variations have been discovered between early copies of biblical texts, almost all have no importance, as they are variations in spelling, punctuation, or grammar.

Today we finally begin our discussion of those biblical texts often used to condemn same - sex relationships.

However, we are also heirs of a false and one sided understanding of the biblical texts which deal with the Christian attitude towards a state and authorities.

Whenever you tell a Bible story to a child in response to an urgent question, or recite a verse to yourself during a time of crisis or thankfulness — whenever you incorporate the meanings of the Biblical texts in your daily life — you are being an interpreter.

But the work is filled with theological reflection and exegesis of biblical texts (Ex.

For Catholics and for Protestants, the stories that identify Jesus are the focus of a much larger set of biblical texts.

Think about these Suggestions for Appropriating the meaning of the Biblical texts in relation to your way of interpreting what the Bible says about homosexuality.

Under the rubrics «oral interpretation,» «expression,» and «elocution,» this performance studies has had much to say on how a preacher might improve his or her skill in the oral presentation of Biblical texts in Christian worship.

At mid-century, oral interpreters of the Bible followed the overall trend in the discipline and turned their attention away from the minister's problems with «delivery» to focus on the study of Biblical texts themselves:

«No one who pretended to any sort of theology or religious reflection at all wanted to go counter to the «real» applicative meaning of biblical texts, once it had been determined what it was, even if one did not believe them on their own authority,» he remarked.

Written in informed engagement with current debates over the possibility of knowledge and truth, this small book will reward careful reading also by those who may dispute the author's interpretation of biblical texts.

I learned Hebrew and Greek to gain a better understanding of the original words of the biblical texts.

In the first place, one can note that in the history - of religions school, the model of evolution was applied to the analysis of biblical texts.

At one level every hermeneutic is exclusive in practice, as when «process hermeneutics» centers attention on the metaphysical claims of Biblical texts about the reality of God (e.g., see MEH).2 But «process hermeneutics» refuses to be reductionist in its theory of interpretation, understanding, and meaning; hence, its inclusive hospitality to «any and all disciplined methods of interpretation,» as Kelsey puts it (compare, e.g., RPIPS, especially 106 - 15).

Though most African and Asian churches have a high view of biblical origins and authority, this does not prevent a creative and even radical application of biblical texts to contemporary debates and dilemmas.

I want this to be an exciting first foray into the world of the biblical texts, so that as you enter this adventure the journey is fun and filled with meaning.

A postmodern approach to the New Testament witness to Jesus» resurrection, as it is developed by Marianne Sawicki in her book Seeing the Lord: Ressurrection and Early Christian Practices, [10] is more efficacious in enabling access to the reality of resurrection than any analysis of the biblical texts that is determined by a critical methodology founded on a Kantian epistemology.

For those watching such things, keep in mind that most atheists have never read the Bible through even one time, even though they seem to be perfect experts of the biblical texts.

We must at one and the same time interpret both the social situations and the literary idioms of the biblical texts and the social situations and literary idioms of ourselves as interpreters / actors.

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

Dale Vree came back in the New Oxford Review with an article titled «If Everyone Is Saved...,» defending Regis Scanlon and rejecting Neuhaus» exegesis of the biblical texts he had quoted.

The heroes of modern - day evangelicalism, from scholars like N.T. Wright to pastors like Rob Bell, are passionately and unapologetically contextual textualists, working diligently with a host of ancient literary and archaeological sources to make sense of biblical texts as they would have been understood in their day.

Surveying the past several election cycles, Berlinerblau finds that personal piety need not correlate to effective leveraging of biblical texts.

But it's an interesting story if you find the political edits of biblical texts to be a topic you find amusing.

Archaeologists have found new evidence about the time frame of the biblical texts, based on what's essentially a shopping list.

[6] More recent authors, among them Joel Goldsmith, Jack Addington, and Ervin Seale, have published further discussions of the metaphysical interpretation of Biblical texts.

In later posts we will look at some of the biblical texts used to support and defend this Calvinistic interpretation of people being dead in sin.

There are all sorts of biblical texts that all of us know aren't literally true, ranging from the obviously poetic («Your breasts are clumps of dates») to the obviously symbolic («I saw a beast coming out of the sea, Revelation 13:1) and the obviously hyperbolic («gouge [your eye] out and throw it away», see Matthew 5:29).

Levenson's reading of biblical texts suggests a view of creation as «combat» against the onslaughts of chaos.

They choose, for whatever reason (spiritual experience, fear, apathy) to not waiver from their interpretation and understanding of biblical texts even in the face of reason and logic.

As for the area of creation and science, has not reason compelled us to abandon the referential meaning of the biblical texts in Genesis and forced us to treat them in a theological and even mythological way?

Letting any such «predescription» set the theological agenda leads to distorting the meaning of the biblical texts.

It has many sources, from redaction critics who started looking at each Gospel as a whole to literary scholars like Northrop Frye and Frank Kermode who have called renewed attention to the narrative shape of biblical texts.

That view will reflect the enigmas and ambiguities of the biblical texts, and it will be a view of the whole world.

He thought the narrative character of the biblical texts had some implications for how those texts ought to be interpreted.