Prophets and Portents
Author : Rolfe Boswell
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Prophecies
ISBN :
Author : Rolfe Boswell
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Prophecies
ISBN :
Author : Rolfe Boswell
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781258905477
This is a new release of the original 1942 edition.
Author : Robert L. Webb
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1597529869
This volume, a revised version of a doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Sheffield in 1990, places John the Baptist within his first-century Jewish context by exploring his public roles and activities as a baptizer and a prophet as they would have been understood within the sociohistorical context of Second Temple Judaism. After surveying the relevant traditions concerning John the Baptist (in particular, Josephus, canonical Gospels, and extracanonical sources), the volume turns to the use of ablutions and immersions in the Hebrew Bible, in Second Temple Jewish literature, and especially in the Qumran literature. In light of this context, several functions of John's baptism are proposed both in continuity with his context and in distinction from it. Then, Webb explores John's role as a prophet in two respects. First, after surveying the expectation of eschatological figures of judgment and restoration in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Jewish literature, John's own proclamation of a coming one is understood as describing Yahweh's coming to judge and restore, but through an unspecified human agent. Second, in light of the varieties of prophetic figures in the Second Temple period, John is best understood as a popular prophet who uses the symbolic event of the people's baptism in the Jordan River and their return home to symbolize not only their entrance into the true remnant Israel but also their entrance into the Promised Land. When this symbolic activity is placed alongside John's prophetic critique of Herod Antipas and of Herod's marriage, the social and political implications of this critique become evident. The symbolic activity and strong critique led to the Baptist's death under Herod Antipas.
Author : Michael Carasik
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827609396
For the first time, Miqra'ot Gedolot is available in an accessible English edition. First published 500 years ago as the "Rabbinic Bible," the biblical commentaries known as the Miqra'ot Gedolot have inspired and educated generations of Hebrew readers. With this edition, the voices of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Nahmanides, Rashbam, and other medieval commentators come alive once more, speaking in a contemporary English translation annotated and explicated for lay readers. Each page of The Commentators' Bible contains several Hebrew verses from the book of Exodus, surrounded by both the 1917 and 1985 JPS translations and new English translations of the major commentators. This large-format volume is beautifully designed for ease of navigation among the many elements on each page, including explanatory notes and selected additional comments from the works of Bekhor Shor, Hizkuni, Abarbanel, Sforno, Gersonides, and others. - Publisher.
Author : Leroy Hahn Stafford
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,62 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Theophanies in the Bible
ISBN :
Author : Richard A. Horsley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1666730718
In this innovative study, Horsley builds on his earlier works concerning the problematic and misleading categories of “magic” and “miracle” to examine in-depth the meaning and importance of the narratives of healing and exorcism in the Gospels. Incorporating his work on oral performance and turning to important works in medical anthropology, a new image emerges of how these narratives help us re-evaluate Jesus’s place in first-century Galilee and Judea. In his exorcisms and healings, Jesus-in-interaction was empowering the villagers in their struggles for renewal of personal and communal dignity in resistance to invasive Roman rule.
Author : Dean Miller
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1627126775
Find a path to the future as you discover the great traditions of fortune telling of the past.
Author : Richard A. Horsley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 13,15 MB
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1498201733
It has become standard in modern interpretation to say that Jesus performed miracles, and even mainline scholarly interpreters classify Jesus's healings and exorcisms as miracles. Some highly regarded scholars have argued, more provocatively, that the healings and exorcisms were magic, and that Jesus was a magician. As Richard Horsley points out, if we make a critical comparison between modern interpretation of Jesus's healing and exorcism, on the one hand, and the Gospel stories and other ancient texts, on the other hand, it becomes clear that the miracle and magic are modern concepts, products of Enlightenment thinking. Jesus and Magic asserts that Gospel stories do not have the concepts of miracle and magic. What scholars constructed as magic turns out to have been ritual practices such as songs (incantations), medicines (potions), and appeals to higher powers for protection. Horsley offers a critical reading of the healing and exorcism episodes in the Gospel stories. This reading reveals a dynamic relationship between Jesus the healer, the trust of those coming for healing, and their support networks in local communities. Horsley's reading of the Gospel stories gives little or no indication of divine intervention. Rather, the healing and exorcism stories portray healings and exorcisms.
Author : Matthew Anslow
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 26,38 MB
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1666731196
Matthew’s Gospel makes mention of prophets and prophecy more than any other canonical Gospel. Yet its perspective on prophecy has generally been neglected within biblical scholarship when, in fact, Jesus’ prophetic vocation is a central christological theme for Matthew. This new study by Matthew Anslow seeks to draw attention to this underdeveloped focus within Matthean studies. The central claim of the book is that in Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus’ prophetic vocation is presented as a multi-faceted phenomenon, drawing on several prophetic traditions. Like biblical and popular prophets before him, Jesus is depicted by Matthew as calling Israel back to covenantal faithfulness, thereby providing guidance for the identity, theology, and communal life of God’s people.
Author : Herbert Thurston
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Prophecies
ISBN :