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Sage, Priest, Prophet

Author : Joseph Blenkinsopp

Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press

Page : 208 pages

File Size : 37,12 MB

Release : 1995-01-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9780664226749

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Publisher description: Blenkinsopp investigates three forms of biblical Israel's religious leadership, and examines the development and character of these roles and how they functioned in their particular time and place. Based on sociological insights regarding role theory and audience expectations, the book demonstrates how Israel's prophets, priests, and sages represented their own traditions while responding to the political and professional pressures of their unique situations.





Leadership Roles of the Old Testament

Author : Marty E. Stevens

Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers

Page : 135 pages

File Size : 27,75 MB

Release : 2012-05-18

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1610974085

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The Old Testament is an ancient collection of theological reflections of life with God that the church has claimed as authoritative Scripture. Whereas most introductory books march from Genesis to Malachi, this book engages four important leadership roles across the breadth of the Old Testament canon: king, prophet, priest, and sage. Despite the obvious differences between the societies of ancient Israel and modern America, lessons can be learned from our ancestors in the faith. This engaging volume is intended for people who want to know more about the Old Testament, whether in personal study, church groups, college classrooms, or seminary courses. The book may be used profitably in concert with Theological Themes of the Old Testament: Creation, Covenant, Cultus, and Character (Cascade Books, 2010).



Exploring the Religion of Ancient Israel

Author : Aaron Chalmers

Publisher : IVP Academic

Page : 159 pages

File Size : 25,15 MB

Release : 2013-01-03

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9780830825455

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Aaron Chalmers gives students a unique introduction to the religious and social world of ancient Israel. The first part explores the major religious offices mentioned in the Old Testament, including prophets, priests, sages and kings. As well as considering what these key people said and did, the author traces the process through which one became recognized as a prophet, priest or sage, and where each of these offices were located in ancient Israel. The second part of the book focuses on the beliefs and practices of the common people--the group that made up the majority of ancient Israel s population.



Christianity Without God

Author : Lloyd Geering

Publisher : Bridget Williams Books

Page : 135 pages

File Size : 50,75 MB

Release : 2015-12-23

Category : Religion

ISBN : 187724256X

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Does the failure of the conventional idea of God spell the end of the Christian tradition? Or does it simply mean the end of conventional Christian doctrine? Christianity without God affirms the latter, treating Christian culture as a living and evolving stream. In this cogently argued book, Lloyd Geering brings the resources of his deep scholarship to look at what the world really needs from contemporary religion. His inspiration is the cultivation of the wisdom of Christianity, not a dependence on beliefs about a supernatural saviour.



Exploring the Religion of Ancient Israel

Author : Aaron Chalmers

Publisher : SPCK Publishing

Page : 180 pages

File Size : 19,78 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Religion

ISBN :

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In this new textbook, Aaron Chalmers examines the major religious offices mentioned in the Old Testament (including prophet, priest, sage and king) alongside the beliefs and practices of the common people, giving students a unique introduction to the religious and social world of ancient Israel.



A History of Prophecy in Israel, Revised and Enlarged

Author : Joseph Blenkinsopp

Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 36,48 MB

Release : 1996-10-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1611642361

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This revised and enlarged edition of a classic in Old Testament scholarship reflects the most up-to-date research on the prophetic books and offers substantially expanded discussions of important new insight on Isaiah and the other prophets.



Covenant and Conversation

Author : Jonathan Sacks

Publisher : Maggid

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 44,39 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9781592640218

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In this second volume of his long-anticipated five-volume collection of parashat hashavua commentaries, Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks explores these intersections as they relate to universal concerns of freedom, love, responsibility, identity, and destiny. Chief Rabbi Sacks fuses Jewish tradition, Western philosophy, and literature to present a highly developed understanding of the human condition under Gods sovereignty. Erudite and eloquent, Covenant Conversation allows us to experience Chief Rabbi Sacks sophisticated approach to life lived in an ongoing dialogue with the Torah.



The Priest and the Prophetess

Author : Terry Rey

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 345 pages

File Size : 41,82 MB

Release : 2017

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0190625848

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"Romaine-la-Prophetesse led a devastating insurgency during the first year of the Haitian Revolution. His advisor was a white French Catholic priest, Abbe Ouviere. This book answers who the priest and the prophetess were, what they achieved, and what their lives tell us about the revolutionary Atlantic world"--



Sage, Saint and Sophist

Author : Graham Anderson

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 289 pages

File Size : 19,63 MB

Release : 2014-01-27

Category : History

ISBN : 1317799666

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Holy men, both pagan and Christian are persistent and puzzling figures in the religious life of the Roman Empire. In this first historical study of Holy Men for more than half a century, Dr Anderson applies techniques of literary analysis to throw light on the lifestyles and behaviour of these figures, from Jesus Christ to Peregrinus Proteus to dio Chrysostom, stressing their individuality as much as their common features. Sage, Saint and Sophist examines the variety of services, real or imaginary, that these colouful figures had to offer and how they maintained their credibility to become the objects of successful religious cults.