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Truly Well and Joyful - What the Parables Promise (Hardcover): Paula M. S. Paquette MTS MPA Truly Well and Joyful - What the Parables Promise (Hardcover)
Paula M. S. Paquette MTS MPA
R913 Discovery Miles 9 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Artifice of Love - Grotesque Bodies and the Song of Songs (Hardcover): Fiona Black The Artifice of Love - Grotesque Bodies and the Song of Songs (Hardcover)
Fiona Black
R4,477 Discovery Miles 44 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The book reads the descriptions of the body in the Song of Songs as grotesque, as an alternative way of interpreting perplexing imagery and as a means to investigate the Song's politics of gender and love. The lovers' expressions of mutual affection and desire in the Song of Songs include intimate and detailed poetic descriptions of the body. These are challenging to interpret because the imagery used is cryptic, drawing on seemingly incongruous aspects of nature, architecture and war. Biblical scholarship frequently expresses some discomfort or embarrassment over this language, yet largely maintains the view that it should be interpreted positively as a complimentary and loving description of the body. If read without this hermeneutic, however, the imagery appears to construct nonsensical and ridiculous pictures of the human form, which raise interesting questions, and pose definite challenges, for the Song's readers. Fiona Black addresses the problematic nature of the Song's body imagery by using the artistic and literary construct of the grotesque body as a heuristic. The resulting reading investigates some issues for the Song that are often left to the margins, namely, the Song's presentation of desire, its politics of gender, and the affect of the text. The book concludes with the identification of some implications of this reading, including the creation of a new framework in which to understand the relevance of the Song's imagery for its presentation of love.

The Meeting that Changed the World - The Council of Jerusalem AD 49 (Paperback): Michael Knowles The Meeting that Changed the World - The Council of Jerusalem AD 49 (Paperback)
Michael Knowles
R596 R554 Discovery Miles 5 540 Save R42 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
LOADED with DAILY BLESSINGS (Hardcover): James E Temidara LOADED with DAILY BLESSINGS (Hardcover)
James E Temidara
R1,076 Discovery Miles 10 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus - Hellenistic Histories and the Date of the Pentateuch (Hardcover): Russell Gmirkin Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus - Hellenistic Histories and the Date of the Pentateuch (Hardcover)
Russell Gmirkin
R6,162 Discovery Miles 61 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus proposes a provocative new theory regarding the date and circumstances of the composition of the Pentateuch. Gmirkin argues that the Hebrew Pentateuch was composed in its entirety about 273-272 BCE by Jewish scholars at Alexandria that later traditions credited with the Septuagint translation of the Pentateuch into Greek. The primary evidence is literary dependence of Gen. 1-11 on Berossus' Babyloniaca (278 BCE) and of the Exodus story on Manetho's Aegyptiaca (c. 285-280 BCE), and the geo-political data contained in the Table of Nations. A number of indications point to a provenance of Alexandria, Egypt for at least some portions of the Pentateuch. That the Pentateuch, drawing on literary sources found at the Great Library of Alexandria, was composed at almost the same date as the Septuagint translation, provides compelling evidence for some level of communication and collaboration between the authors of the Pentateuch and the Septuagint scholars at Alexandria's Museum. The late date of the Pentateuch, as demonstrated by literary dependence on Berossus and Manetho, has two important consequences: the definitive overthrow of the chronological framework of the Documentary Hypothesis, and a late, 3rd century BCE date for major portions of the Hebrew Bible which show literary dependence on the Pentateuch.

Death and Survival in the Book of Job - Desymbolization and Traumatic Experience (Hardcover, New): Dan Mathewson Death and Survival in the Book of Job - Desymbolization and Traumatic Experience (Hardcover, New)
Dan Mathewson
R4,826 Discovery Miles 48 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Book of Job functions as literature of survival where the main character, Job, deals with the trauma of suffering, attempts to come to terms with a collapsed moral and theological world, and eventually re-connects the broken pieces of his world into a new moral universe, which explains and contains the trauma of his recent experiences and renders his life meaningful again. The key is Job's death imagery. In fact, with its depiction of death in the prose tale and its frequent discussions of death in the poetic sections, Job may be the most death-oriented book in the bible. In particular, Job, in his speeches, articulates his experience of suffering as the experience of death. To help understand this focus on death in Job we turn to the psychohistorian, Robert Lifton, who investigates the effects on the human psyche of various traumatic experiences (wars, natural disasters, etc). According to Lifton, survivors of disaster often sense that their world has "collapsed" and they engage in a struggle to go on living. Part of this struggle involves finding meaning in death and locating death's place in the continuity of life. Like many such survivors, Job's understanding of death is a flashpoint indicating his bewilderment (or "desymbolization") in the early portions of his speeches, and then, later on, his arrival at what Lifton calls "resymbolization," the reconfiguration of a world that can account for disaster and render death - and life - meaningful again.

Circumscribing the Prostitute (Hardcover): Mary E Shields Circumscribing the Prostitute (Hardcover)
Mary E Shields
R5,831 Discovery Miles 58 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Jeremiah 3.1-4.4 the prophet employs the image of Israel as God's unfaithful wife, who acts like a prostitute. The entire passage is a rich and complex rhetorical tapestry designed to convince the people of Israel of the error of their political and religious ways, and their need to change before it is too late. As well as metaphor and gender, another important thread in the tapestry is intertextuality, according to which the historical, political and social contexts of both author and reader enter into dialogue and thus produce different interpretations. But, as Shields shows in her final chapter, it is in the end the rhetoric of gender that actually constructs the text, providing the frame, the warp and woof, of the entire tapestry, and thus the prophet's primary means of persuasion.

The Conversational Bible - The New Testament in Story Form (Hardcover): Angela Scott The Conversational Bible - The New Testament in Story Form (Hardcover)
Angela Scott
R499 Discovery Miles 4 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
1 Chronicles (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): John Jarick 1 Chronicles (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
John Jarick
R1,292 Discovery Miles 12 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The books of Chronicles have a certain fantasy quality about them. They create an imaginary world in which things happen just so, and in which any potentially untidy loose ends in their narrative of the past are tied together in a highly systematic way. This is storytelling with the didactic purpose of inculcating a particular ideology, bombarding the reader with a kaleidoscopic procession of heroes and villains and presenting a frontierland of danger and opportunity. John Jarick's focus on the literary world of Chronicles provides a fresh reading of the work, foregrounding the often unrecognized artistry in the telling of the tale-including at times a distinctly musical language and a careful mathematical precision. But at the same time he does not hide the dark underbelly of the writing, with its persistent note of conformity to the political and religious system advocated by the storytellers. This edition is a reprint of the original 2002 edition with different pagination. A companion volume on 2 Chronicles is published for the first time in 2007.

Divine Musings - Reflections on the Word of God (Hardcover): George Thomas Yapuncich Divine Musings - Reflections on the Word of God (Hardcover)
George Thomas Yapuncich
R1,033 Discovery Miles 10 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Bible Study - 52-Week KJV Bible for Women (Hardcover): Denise Gilmore Bible Study - 52-Week KJV Bible for Women (Hardcover)
Denise Gilmore
R596 Discovery Miles 5 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Feasting on the Word Advent Companion - A Thematic Resource for Preaching and Worship (Hardcover): David L. Bartlett, Barbara... Feasting on the Word Advent Companion - A Thematic Resource for Preaching and Worship (Hardcover)
David L. Bartlett, Barbara Brown Taylor, Kimberly Bracken Long
R857 R746 Discovery Miles 7 460 Save R111 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This new volume in the Feasting on the Word series provides an alternative to strict lectionary use for Advent, with six thematically-designed services for the four Sunday in Advent, as well as, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Four midweek services provide a supplemental study of John the Baptist to enhance the congregation's Advent experience. The resources in this companion are a combination of material from existing Feasting on the Word volumes as well as newly written material. In keeping with other Feasting on the Word resources, the Advent Companion offers pastors focused resources for sermon preparation along with ready-to-use liturgies for a complete order of worship. All new material including hymn suggestions, Service of Hope and Healing, and children's sermon make this an invaluable resource for the Advent season.

Simple Praise - The Secret to Weathering Life's Storms Praise God the Three-In-One (Hardcover): Mercy Dworzak Simple Praise - The Secret to Weathering Life's Storms Praise God the Three-In-One (Hardcover)
Mercy Dworzak
R835 Discovery Miles 8 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Trusting YHWH (Hardcover): Lorne E Weaver Trusting YHWH (Hardcover)
Lorne E Weaver; Foreword by James A. Sanders
R1,641 R1,351 Discovery Miles 13 510 Save R290 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Jesus We Forgot - Knowing the God of the Word and Not Just the Word of God (Hardcover): Brent Shores The Jesus We Forgot - Knowing the God of the Word and Not Just the Word of God (Hardcover)
Brent Shores
R1,047 Discovery Miles 10 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Body for the Lord - Sex and Identity in 1 Corinthians 5-7 (Hardcover): Alistair May The Body for the Lord - Sex and Identity in 1 Corinthians 5-7 (Hardcover)
Alistair May
R6,179 Discovery Miles 61 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Alistair May explores the part played by sexual ethics and the rhetoric of sexual morality in the formation of Christian identity by focusing on the longest discussion of sex in the New Testament - 1Corinthians 5-7. Viewing this passage as a unified discourse, he considers how Paul's ethics serve to give his converts a distinct identity. Although tools from the social sciences are used, the major focus of the work is in careful exegesis of the text. As the study progresses through the text of 1Corinthians 5-7, May argues that Paul strives to maintain an absolute distinction between insider and outsider in regard to morality. Immorality belongs exclusively to the outside and to the pre-conversion identity of the Corinthians. Hence those labelled immoral can no longer remain in the community. 1 Corinthians 6.12-20 reveals that, for Paul, sexual sin is unique in its destruction of Christian identity and that any sexual participation is a potential conflict with participation in Christ. Thus, chapter 6 is directly connected with the discussion of the legitimacy of marriage in 1Corinthians 7. Rejecting the scholarly consensus that Paul is reacting to ascetics, May controversially argues that chapter 7 should be read as Paul's commendation of singleness to a reluctant Corinthian audience. This is volume 278 in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement series.

The Good, the Bold, and the Beautiful - The Story of Susanna and its Renaissance Interpretations (Hardcover): Dan W Clanton Jr The Good, the Bold, and the Beautiful - The Story of Susanna and its Renaissance Interpretations (Hardcover)
Dan W Clanton Jr
R5,499 Discovery Miles 54 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The story of Susanna and the Elders is one of the most interpreted and reproduced tales from the "Apocrypha". In its compact narrative, it touches on attempted rape, female sexuality, abuse of power, punishment for the wicked, and voyeurism. "The Good, the Bold, the Beautiful" argues that the story of Susanna was written in the first century BCE, and Clanton provides a brief description of that century. He performs a narrative-rhetorical reading of Susanna, and illustrates that the story uses sexual anxiety and desire to set up a moral dilemma for Susanna. That moral dilemma is resolved in two ways: Susanna's refusal to allow herself to be raped, and Daniel's intervention. Clanton argues that although the story has many mimetic features, it is the thematic function that is overriding, especially after Daniel's appearance. Put another way, the story's emphasis on Susanna, the Elders, and Daniel as "plausible people" is secondary to its stress on what those characters represent and the message it is relaying through those representations. Clanton analyzes chronologically selected aesthetic interpretations of the story found in the Renaissance. He shows that the prevailing artistic interpretation during the Renaissance focused on the mimetic, sexual aspects of the story because it deals with issues of patronage, and sex/gender that were current at the time. "The Good, the Bold, the Beautiful" argues that several Renaissance renderings provide counter readings that focus more on the value and themes in the story. These renderings provide models for readers to resist the sexually exploitative features of both the narrative and its interpretations. Clanton reflects on the need for the reader to resist potentially harmful interpretation, especially those that focus on the mimetic level of the story's rhetoric.

Wethair (Hardcover): Phil Scott Wethair (Hardcover)
Phil Scott
R847 Discovery Miles 8 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
2 Corinthians, Volume 40 - Second Edition (Hardcover, Special edition): Ralph P. Martin 2 Corinthians, Volume 40 - Second Edition (Hardcover, Special edition)
Ralph P. Martin; Series edited by Nancy L DeClaiss e-Walford, Lynn Allan Losie
R1,352 Discovery Miles 13 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Pastors and students will appreciate this new edition with its up-to-date bibliography and discussion of pertinent issues.

The 1986 commentary of veteran scholar Ralph P. Martin on 2 Corinthians has been thoroughly updated by the author, with assistance from a young promising scholar, Carl N. Toney, along with the help of David J. Downs and Mark W. Linder. New sections on the Collection and Rhetoric have been added, and the issues of Composition and Social Setting of the letter have been included, along with topics such as the Spirit, the Opponents, Paul's Theology, and the Resurrection in this epistle.


In a penetrating analysis of Paul's responses to the various crises within the Corinthian congregation, Dr. Martin gives insight into the particular problems of Christianity as expressed in the hedonistic, cosmopolitan setting of Corinth. He shows how Paul's attempt to clearly distinguish the gospel from Hellenistic Judaism and Hellenistic Jewish Christian ideology results in a moving statement of the Christian message. Rather than the "theology of glory" prevalent in Corinth, Paul articulates hist theology of the Cross as a "theology of weakness," of servanthood and ministry. What was at stake at Corinth, says Dr. Martin, was "nothing less than the essence of the kerygma as in expressed in the way of the cross. . . for proclamation and daily living."

The Word Biblical Commentary series offers the best in critical scholarship firmly committed to the authority of Scripture as divine revelation. It is perfect for scholars, students of the Bible, ministers, and anyone who wants a theological understanding of Scripture

The Word Biblical Commentary series has sold over 1.4 million copies.

Divine Directions from the Car Seat - Thirty-One Meditations from God Through Reagan to Me and Now to You (Hardcover): Deborah... Divine Directions from the Car Seat - Thirty-One Meditations from God Through Reagan to Me and Now to You (Hardcover)
Deborah Denison Bailey
R837 Discovery Miles 8 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Walk Through David's Garden - A Daily Devotional Through the Psalms (Hardcover): Richard Hallahan A Walk Through David's Garden - A Daily Devotional Through the Psalms (Hardcover)
Richard Hallahan
R1,417 Discovery Miles 14 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Refuge in Faith (Hardcover): Carolyn M Bay Refuge in Faith (Hardcover)
Carolyn M Bay
R1,004 Discovery Miles 10 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Retelling the Torah - The Deuternonmistic Historian's Use of Tetrateuchal Narratives (Hardcover): John E. Harvey Retelling the Torah - The Deuternonmistic Historian's Use of Tetrateuchal Narratives (Hardcover)
John E. Harvey
R5,487 Discovery Miles 54 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Deuteronomistic Historian patterned more than four dozen of his narratives after those in Genesis-Numbers. The stories that make up Genesis-Numbers were indelibly impressed on the Deuteronomistic Historian's mind, to such an extent that in Deuteronomy-Kings he tells the stories of the nation through the lens of Genesis-Numbers. John Harvey discusses the eight criteria which may be used as evidence that the given stories in Deuteronomy-Kings were based on those in Genesis-Numbers. Unified accounts in the Deuteronomistic History, for instance, often share striking parallels with two or more redactional layers of their corresponding accounts in Genesis-Numbers, showing that the given accounts in the Deuteronomistic History were written after the corresponding accounts in Genesis-Numbers had been written. Furthermore, the Deuteronomistic Historian calls the reader's attention to accounts in Genesis-Numbers by explicitly citing and referring to them, by using personal names, and by drawing thematic and verbal parallels. Retelling the Torah, the first book to focus on these parallel narratives, contains far-reaching implications for Hebrew Bible scholarship.

Dear Soul - A Manual for the Rightful Art of Dying (Hardcover): Martin Moller Dear Soul - A Manual for the Rightful Art of Dying (Hardcover)
Martin Moller
R595 Discovery Miles 5 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Prizing His Passion (Hardcover): John S. Oldfield Prizing His Passion (Hardcover)
John S. Oldfield
R1,168 R978 Discovery Miles 9 780 Save R190 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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