Author: Jim Alvin SandersPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725234378
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Suffering as Divine Discipline in the Old Testament and Post-Biblical Judaism
Author: Jim Alvin SandersPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725234378
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Suffering as Divine Discipline in the Old Testament and Post-Biblical Judaism
Author: James A. SandersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Suffering as Divine Discipline in the Old Testament and Post-Biblical Judaism
Author: Jim Alvin SandersPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1625648782
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Jim Alvin Sanders was Assistant Professor of Old Testament Interpretation at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, NY.
Mercer Dictionary of the Bible
Author: Watson E. MillsPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865543737
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description
An encyclopedic guide to the interpretation and understanding of biblical literature. Though written by members of the National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, the 1,450 original entries by some 225 contributors are diverse in viewpoint and devoid of theological prescription. They're
Learning Through Suffering
Author: Charles H. TalbertPublisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814656723
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
From the various biblical explanations of suffering, this volume chooses to focus on one: suffering sometimes possesses an educational value. It explores the differing versions of this view in Paul, James, 1 Peter, Hebrews, and Luke-Acts, and sets these Christian perspectives against the backdrop of similar explanations in Jewish and Greco-Roman cultures.--Publisher's description.
Exile: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Conceptions
Author: Bruce D. ChiltonPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004497714
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
The exiles of Israel and Judah cast a long shadow over the biblical text and the whole subsequent history of Judaism. Scholars have long recognized the importance of the theme of exile for the Hebrew Bible. Indeed, critical study of the Old Testament has, at least since Wellhausen, been dominated by the Babylonian exile of Judah. In 586 BC, several factors, including the destruction of Jerusalem, the cessation of the sacrificial cult and of the monarchy, and the experience of the exile, began to cause a transformation of Israelite religion which supplied the contours of the larger Judaic framework within which the various forms of Judaism, including the early Christian movement, developed. Given the importance of the exile to the development of Judaism and Christianity even to the present day, this volume delves into the conceptions of exile which contributed to that development during the formative period.
Reading Lucke-Acts in Its Mediterranean Milieu
Author: Charles H. TalbertPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004129641
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book begins by offering a reading of the theological views of Luke-Acts in terms of Peter J. Rabinowitz's authorial audience and closes with reflections on how one might assess the historical value of Acts.
Responses to Suffering in Classical Rabbinic Literature
Author: David Charles KraemerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195089006
Category : Rabbinical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The existence of suffering poses an obvious problem for the monotheistic religions. Why does an all-powerful, benevolent God allow humans to suffer? And given that God does, what is the appropriate human response? In modern times Jewish theologians in particular, faced with the enormity of the Holocaust, have struggled to come to grips with these issues. In Responses to Suffering in Classical Rabbinic Literature, David Kraemer offers the first comprehensive history of teachings related to suffering in rabbinic literature of the ancient world. The age of formative Judaism was filled with suffering for its people. From the conquering of Palestine by Rome, and the destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem, to persecution at the hands of Hadrian, Jewish faith in a just and merciful God was tested repeatedly. The seemingly unjustified affliction elicited varying responses from rabbis. Beginning with the Mishnah (c. 200 C.E.), Kraemer examines traditions on suffering, divine justice, national catastrophe, and the like, in all major rabbinic works of late antiquity. The earliest rabbinic works, Kraemer shows, adhere to the "orthodox" biblical opinion which sees suffering as punishment for sins. But rabbis quickly began to record other explanations and responses. Palestinian rabbinic tradition, even at the end of this period, condemns any who would question or deny God's justice. In contrast, the Babylonian Talmud permits such questioning, itself giving voice to lengthy deliberations which reject the efficacy of suffering and question the justice of some suffering which humans are forced to endure. Bringing to bear recent methods in the history of religions, literary criticism, canonical criticism, and the sociology of religion, Kraemer offers an analysis of the development of attitudes that are central to and remain contemporary concerns of any religious society.
Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics
Author: Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441239987
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1691
Book Description
This one-stop reference book on the vital relationship between Scripture and ethics offers needed orientation and perspective for students, pastors, and scholars. Written to respond to the movement among biblical scholars and ethicists to recover the Bible for moral formation, it is the best reference work available on the intersection of these two fields. The volume shows how Christian Scripture and Christian ethics are necessarily intertwined and offers up-to-date treatment of five hundred biblical, traditional, and contemporary topics, ranging from adultery, bioethics, and Colossians to vegetarianism, work, and Zephaniah. The stellar ecumenical list of contributors consists of more than two hundred leading scholars from the fields of biblical studies and ethics, including Darrell Bock, David Gushee, Amy Laura Hall, Daniel Harrington, Dennis Olson, Christine Pohl, Glen Stassen, and Max Stackhouse.
The Temptations of Jesus in Mark's Gospel
Author: Susan R. GarrettPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802842596
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Susan Garrett focuses on the theme of the temptation and testing of Jesus, as reflected in the Gospel of Mark, arguing that by his endurance Jesus opened up the path and provides the example for those who follow the "way of the Lord.