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Author: Mark S. Smith Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing ISBN: 0802864333 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 409
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God in Translation offers a substantial, extraordinarily broad survey of ancient attitudes toward deities, from the Late Bronze Age through ancient Israel and into the New Testament. Looking closely at relevant biblical texts and at their cultural contexts, Mark S. Smith demonstrates that the biblical attitude toward deities of other cultures is not uniformly negative, as is commonly supposed. He traces the historical development of Israel's "one-god worldview, " linking it to the rise of the surrounding Mesopotamian empires. Smith's study also produces evidence undermining a common modern assumption among historians of religion that polytheism is tolerant while monotheism is prone to intolerance and violence.
Author: Mark S. Smith Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing ISBN: 0802864333 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 409
Book Description
God in Translation offers a substantial, extraordinarily broad survey of ancient attitudes toward deities, from the Late Bronze Age through ancient Israel and into the New Testament. Looking closely at relevant biblical texts and at their cultural contexts, Mark S. Smith demonstrates that the biblical attitude toward deities of other cultures is not uniformly negative, as is commonly supposed. He traces the historical development of Israel's "one-god worldview, " linking it to the rise of the surrounding Mesopotamian empires. Smith's study also produces evidence undermining a common modern assumption among historians of religion that polytheism is tolerant while monotheism is prone to intolerance and violence.
Author: Philip Markowicz Publisher: ISBN: 9781733266420 Category : Languages : en Pages : 144
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This book is a study of a biblical topic. Sources are drawn from the Hebrew Bible, rabbinic literature, and medieval biblical exegetes, as well as philosophical, mystical, and hasidic traditions. The reader is offered glimpses of the author's hasidic schooling in Poland, but also a window onto the world of an autodidact, who steeped himself in the lifelong study of philosophy and science. As such, this book is a valuable cultural artifact, a distillation of the thinking of a treasured member of the Toledo, Ohio community. One need not be religious (Jewish, or otherwise), interested in the Bible, or even agree with the central theses of the book to find it thought-provoking. The book grapples with existential questions on the nature of reality, cognition, free will, and human existence. Despite what the title might insinuate, the book does not advocate for the practice of religion, or even for belief in God.
Author: Sangkeun Kim Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9780820471303 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 344
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One of the most precarious and daunting tasks for sixteenth-century European missionaries in the cross-cultural mission frontiers was translating the name of «God» (Deus) into the local language. When the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) introduced the Chinese term Shangti as the semantic equivalent of Deus, he made one of the most innovative cross-cultural missionary translations. Ricci's employment of Shangti was neither a simple rewording of a Chinese term nor the use of a loan-word, but was indeed a risk-taking «identification» of the Christian God with the Confucian Most-High, Shangti. Strange Names of God investigates the historical progress of the semantic configuration of Shangti as the divine name of the Christian God in China by focusing on Chinese intellectuals' reaction to the strangely translated Chinese name of God.
Author: D. A. Carson Publisher: Crossway ISBN: 1433537966 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 108
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Although it is a foundational confession for all Christians, much of the theological significance of Jesus's identity as "the Son of God" is often overlooked or misunderstood. Moreover, this Christological concept stands at the center of today's Bible translation debates and increased ministry efforts to Muslims. New Testament scholar D. A. Carson sheds light on this important issue with his usual exegetical clarity and theological insight, first by broadly surveying Jesus's biblical name as "the Son of God, and then by focusing on two key texts that speak of Christ's sonship. The book concludes with the implications of Jesus's divine sonship for how modern Christians think and speak about Christ, especially in relation to Bible translation and missionary engagement with Muslims across the globe.
Author: Aviya Kushner Publisher: ISBN: 0385520824 Category : Bibles Languages : en Pages : 274
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"The author recalls how, after becoming very familiar with the Biblical Old Testament in its original Hebrew growing up, an encounter with an English language version led her on a ten-year project of examining various translations of the Old Testament and their histories, "--Novelist.
Author: Aloo Osotsi Mojola Publisher: Langham Publishing ISBN: 1783688246 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 358
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This is the fascinating and important story of how God’s Word came to East Africa. Beginning with the pioneering efforts of Krapf and Rebmann, Aloo Osotsi Mojola traces the history of Bible translation in the region from 1844 to the present. He incorporates four decades of personal conversations and interviews, along with extensive research, to provide the first comprehensive account of the translations undertaken in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The maps and tables included assist the reader, as does a history of the Swahili language – its standardization, role as lingua franca, and impact on the work of translation. Mojola’s writing is a tribute to those who sacrificed much in their quest to see the word of God accessible to all people, in all places – and the many who continue to sacrifice for the peoples of East Africa. This book is a key contribution to the important and ongoing narrative of how God has met us, and continues to meet us, in our own contexts and our own languages.
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