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Thematic Threads in the Book of the Twelve (Hardcover, Reprint 2012): Paul L. Redditt, Aaron Schart Thematic Threads in the Book of the Twelve (Hardcover, Reprint 2012)
Paul L. Redditt, Aaron Schart
R4,818 Discovery Miles 48 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For some years the view has become established that the Book of the Twelve is a systematically structured literary unity. An exegesis which takes the final canonical text seriously undertakes to understand the structure and theological intention of this unity. The papers collected here attempt to reveal significant structures which overarch the individual components. Particular emphasis is placed on the reconstruction of thematic threads which are created when individual prophets take up topics from their predecessors (e.g. Jehovah's Day, conversion, role of the peoples) and intensify them. The papers were written between 1999 and 2002 under the aegis of the Society of Biblical Literature's Working Group on The Formation of the Book of the Twelve.

Treading On Serpents - A Daily Devotional for Those Who are Bullied, Gang Stalked, or Harassed (Hardcover): Tina Plakinger Treading On Serpents - A Daily Devotional for Those Who are Bullied, Gang Stalked, or Harassed (Hardcover)
Tina Plakinger
R1,229 Discovery Miles 12 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reflections on Dominion Journal (Hardcover): Rose Shiku Reflections on Dominion Journal (Hardcover)
Rose Shiku
R587 Discovery Miles 5 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Christmas Sermons (Hardcover): Friedrich Schleiermacher Christmas Sermons (Hardcover)
Friedrich Schleiermacher; Edited by Terrence N. Tice; Translated by Edwina G. Lawler
R1,168 R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Save R187 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Revelations of God - Finding Your Way Home (Hardcover): Christine Naylor Revelations of God - Finding Your Way Home (Hardcover)
Christine Naylor
R820 Discovery Miles 8 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Timothy - Timothy's Way (Hardcover): Carlo Maria Martini Timothy - Timothy's Way (Hardcover)
Carlo Maria Martini; Translated by Salesians of Don Bosco
R969 Discovery Miles 9 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Spirit and the 'Other' - Social Identity, Ethnicity and Intergroup Reconciliation in Luke-Acts (Hardcover, New):... The Spirit and the 'Other' - Social Identity, Ethnicity and Intergroup Reconciliation in Luke-Acts (Hardcover, New)
Aaron Kuecker
R4,930 Discovery Miles 49 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this title, Kuecker uses social identity theory to examine the interface between the Holy Spirit and ethnicity in "Luke-Acts". Kuecker uses an artillery of social identity theory to demonstrate that in "Luke"'s narrative the Spirit is the central figure in the formation of a new social identity. In his argumenation, Kuecker provides extended exegetical treatments of "Luke" 1-4 and "Acts" 1-15. He shows that "Luke" 1-4 establishes a foundation for "Luke"'s understanding of the relationship between human identity, the Spirit, and the 'other' - especially as it relates to the distribution of in-group benefits beyond group boundaries. With regard to "Acts" 1-15, Kuecker shows that the Spirit acts whenever human identity is in question in order to transform communities and individuals via the formation of a new social identity. Kuecker argues that "Luke" depicts this Spirit-formed social identity as a different way of being human in community, relative to the normative identity processes of other groups in his narrative. This transformed identity produces profound expressions of interethnic reconciliation in "Luke-Acts" expressed through reformed economic practice, impressive intergroup hospitality, and a reoriented use of ethnic language. Formerly the "Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement", this is a book series that explores the many aspects of New Testament study including historical perspectives, social-scientific and literary theory, and theological, cultural and contextual approaches. "The Early Christianity in Context" series, a part of "JSNTS", examines the birth and development of early Christianity up to the end of the third century CE. The series places Christianity in its social, cultural, political and economic context. European Seminar on Christian Origins and "Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus Supplement" are also part of "JSNTS".

The God Ezekiel Creates (Hardcover): Paul M. Joyce, Dalit Rom-Shiloni The God Ezekiel Creates (Hardcover)
Paul M. Joyce, Dalit Rom-Shiloni
R4,237 Discovery Miles 42 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This powerful collection of essays focuses on the representation of God in the Book of Ezekiel. With topics spanning across projections of God, through to the implications of these creations, the question of the divine presence in Ezekiel is explored. Madhavi Nevader analyses Divine Sovereignty and its relation to creation, while Dexter E. Callender Jnr and Ellen van Wolde route their studies in the image of God, as generated by the character of Ezekiel. The assumption of the title is then inverted, as Stephen L. Cook writes on 'The God that the Temple Blueprint Creates', which is taken to its other extreme by Marvin A. Sweeney in his chapter on 'The Ezekiel that God Creates', and finds a nice reconciliation in Daniel I. Block's chapter, 'The God Ezekiel Wants Us to Meet.' Finally, two essays from Christian biblical scholar Nathan MacDonald and Jewish biblical scholar, Rimon Kasher, offer a reflection on the essays about Ezekiel and his God.

Messiah - Bible Study Guide for Women (Hardcover): Eileen Nyberg Messiah - Bible Study Guide for Women (Hardcover)
Eileen Nyberg
R716 Discovery Miles 7 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lessons Learned from Jonah (Hardcover): Robert Snitko Lessons Learned from Jonah (Hardcover)
Robert Snitko; Foreword by Dan Jacobsen
R815 R704 Discovery Miles 7 040 Save R111 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Solomon Narratives in the Context of the Hebrew Bible - Told and Retold (Hardcover): Sean E. Cook The Solomon Narratives in the Context of the Hebrew Bible - Told and Retold (Hardcover)
Sean E. Cook
R4,578 Discovery Miles 45 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is concerned with ascertaining the value of having two versions of the same monarchic history of Israel within the Hebrew Bible (focusing on the books of Kings and Chronicles). It is furthermore concerned with how the book of Chronicles is read in relation to the book of Kings as Chronicles is so often considered to be a later rewritten text drawing upon an earlier version of the Masoretic Text of Samuel and Kings. The predominant scholarly approach to reading the book of Chronicles is to read it in light of how the Chronicler emended his source texts (additions, omissions, harmonizations). This approach has yielded great success in our understanding of the Chronicler's theology and rhetoric. However, Cook asserts, it has also failed to consider how the book of Chronicles can be read as an autonomous and coherent document. That is, a diachronic approach to reading Chronicles sometimes misses the theological and rhetorical features of the text in its final form. This book shows the great benefit of reading these narratives as autonomous and coherent by using the Solomon narratives as a case study. These narratives are first read individually, and then together, so as to ascertain their uniqueness vis-a-vis one another. Finally, Cook addresses questions related to the concordance of these narratives as well as their purposes within their respective larger literary contexts.

The New, The New Testament of the Bible (Hardcover): Embaye Melekin The New, The New Testament of the Bible (Hardcover)
Embaye Melekin
R1,066 Discovery Miles 10 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
H.I.S. Word Restored Hebrew KJV Apocrypha (Hardcover): Khai Yashua Press H.I.S. Word Restored Hebrew KJV Apocrypha (Hardcover)
Khai Yashua Press; Edited by Jediyah Melek; Translated by Jediyah Melek
R1,067 Discovery Miles 10 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Former Jew - Paul and the Dialectics of Race (Hardcover, New): Love L. Sechrest A Former Jew - Paul and the Dialectics of Race (Hardcover, New)
Love L. Sechrest
R5,272 Discovery Miles 52 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sechrest describes Pauline Christianity as a nascent ancient racial group, drawing on a Jewish understanding of race in Second Temple Judaism. With analysis of nearly five thousand Jewish and non-Jewish passages about identity from around the turn of the era, the models presented describe ancient Greek and Jewish ethnic and racial identity. Further, these models become resources for examining the racial character of Paul's self-identity and the continuities and discontinuities between the three races in his social world: Jews, Gentiles, and Christians/ Using historical and literary methods of exegesis for passages in the Pauline corpus, Sechrest describes Paul as someone who was born a Jew, but who later saw himself as a member of a different race. Analyzing Christian identity in Galatians in terms of membership criteria, membership indicia, and inter-group dynamics, a final section of the book con-trasts the portrait of Paul that emerges from this study with those in Daniel Boyarin's "A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity" and Brad Braxton's "No Longer Slaves: Galatians and African American Experience". This section engages all three of these descriptions of community and identity, and illuminates the problems and opportunities contained in a modern appropriation of a racial construction of Christian identity. Formerly the "Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement", a book series that explores the many aspects of New Testament study including historical perspectives, social-scientific and literary theory, and theological, cultural and contextual approaches. "The Early Christianity in Context" series, a part of "JSNTS", examines the birth and development of early Christianity up to the end of the third century CE. The series places Christianity in its social, cultural, political and economic context. European Seminar on Christian Origins and "Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus Supplement" are also part of "JSNTS".

Iron Sharpens Iron - Daily Proverbs for Today's Martial Artist (Hardcover): Melinda Rangel Iron Sharpens Iron - Daily Proverbs for Today's Martial Artist (Hardcover)
Melinda Rangel
R761 Discovery Miles 7 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
State of the Union - The Church, The State, and Her People (Hardcover): Derrick Gooden State of the Union - The Church, The State, and Her People (Hardcover)
Derrick Gooden
R671 Discovery Miles 6 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord? - A Theology Of The Book Of Leviticus (Paperback): L Michael Morales Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord? - A Theology Of The Book Of Leviticus (Paperback)
L Michael Morales
R611 R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Save R68 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'This is an exceptional piece of biblical theology ... Preachers will find this work a rich source of sermon material and all who are interested in the Bible will be amazed at its unity.' Evangelical Times Who shall ascend the mountain of the LORD?' (Psalm 24:3). This stimulating study explores the narrative context, literary structure and theology of Leviticus. Morales follows its dramatic movement, examines the tabernacle cult and the Day of Atonement, and tracks the development from Sinai's tabernacle to Zion's temple - and from the earthly to the heavenly Mount Zion in the New Testament. He shows how life with God in the house of God was the original goal of the creation of the cosmos, and became the goal of redemption and the new creation.

A Graeco-Roman Rhetorical Reading of the Farewell Discourse (Hardcover): John C. Stube A Graeco-Roman Rhetorical Reading of the Farewell Discourse (Hardcover)
John C. Stube
R6,298 Discovery Miles 62 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"The Farewell Discourse" (John 13-17) is an unique and climactic portion of "John's Gospel", which serves as a hinge on which the entire Gospel narrative pivots from Jesus' public ministry to his Passion. Shallow readings of this Discourse often pass over or ignore significant aspects of the text, especially the instruction and preparation Jesus was giving, both in words and actions, to make ready his disciples to continue his mission to the world after his departure. Other readings (notably form-critical) see the text as disarranged and therefore not a coherent whole. A thorough analysis employing the elements of Greco-Roman rhetoric has shown that there is a rhetorical dimension to the Discourse which makes sense of the text as a coherent whole. "The Farewell Discourse" was found to follow a rhetorical arrangement which gives a literary explanation to some assumed form-critical problems, such as the ending at 14:31. Not only does this rhetorical structure give appropriate closure and transition with movement from one topic to another, it does so with a chiastic arrangement of the major topics. Jesus is presented by the evangelist, with his words and actions, defining and modeling what his disciples are to be in their own soon-approaching ministry to the community of believers and to the world. He is shown giving persuasive words of comfort, encouragement, instruction, and motivation to his disciples as he prepares them to continue his mission after his departure.

Setting Your Sights on the Intersection - 90-Day Devotional & Journal (Hardcover): Johnny Mcwilliams Setting Your Sights on the Intersection - 90-Day Devotional & Journal (Hardcover)
Johnny Mcwilliams
R666 R628 Discovery Miles 6 280 Save R38 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Second Epistle of PETER (Hardcover): King James, Peter The Second Epistle of PETER (Hardcover)
King James, Peter
R452 Discovery Miles 4 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg Vol. II - White Horse, Brief Exposition, De Verbo, God the Savior, Interaction of the Soul... The Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg Vol. II - White Horse, Brief Exposition, De Verbo, God the Savior, Interaction of the Soul and Body, The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine (Hardcover)
Emanuel Swedenborg
R949 Discovery Miles 9 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Discourse Analysis of 1 Peter (Hardcover): Ervin Ray Starwalt A Discourse Analysis of 1 Peter (Hardcover)
Ervin Ray Starwalt
R1,325 Discovery Miles 13 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Performative Nature and Function of Isaiah 40-55 (Hardcover): Jim W. Adams The Performative Nature and Function of Isaiah 40-55 (Hardcover)
Jim W. Adams
R5,956 Discovery Miles 59 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Among linguistic philosophers, speech act theory has illuminated the fact that uttering a sentence does not merely convey information; it may also involve the performing of an action. The concept of communicative action provides additional tools to the exegetical process as it points the interpreter beyond the assumption that the use of language is merely for descriptive purposes. Language can also have performative and self-involving dimensions. Despite their clear hermeneutical importance, the notions expressed within speech act theory have been generally neglected by biblical interpreters. The few who have applied speech act theory to the OT typically subsume the discipline into an eclectic type of literary/rhetorical criticism. Such an approach, though, tends to discount the distinctive notions expressed by theoreticians. This dissertation presents the basic philosophical concepts of speech act theory in order to accurately implement them alongside other interpretive tools. The above analysis leads to applying these concepts to "Isaiah" 41:21-29, 49:1-6, 50:4-10, and 52:13-53:12. These four sections intricately function within the overall prophetic strategy of chapters 40-55: the call to return or turn to Yahweh. The way these chapters describe the nature of this return is for the reader to forsake sin, acknowledge and confess Yahweh as God alone. The first passage represents the basic concerns of chapters 40-48 and specifically Jacob-Israel's deliverance from Babylon through Yahweh's Cyrus illocutionary act. The final three passages represent the servant leitmotif running throughout the chapters and implore the reader through self-involvement to embrace the role of Yahweh's servant.

The Original Gospel of Thomas in Translation - With a Commentary and New English Translation of the Complete Gospel... The Original Gospel of Thomas in Translation - With a Commentary and New English Translation of the Complete Gospel (Hardcover)
April D Deconick
R6,653 Discovery Miles 66 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An enigmatic collection of 114 sayings of Jesus, the 'Gospel of Thomas' was discovered in the sands of Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in the 1940's. Since its discovery, scholars and the public alike have been intrigued to know what the Gospel says and what light it sheds on the formation of early Christianity. In Recovering the Original Gospel of Thomas, April DeConick argued that the gospel was a 'rolling corpus, ' a book of sayings that grew over time, beginning as a simple written gospel containing oracles of the prophet Jesus. As the community faced various crises and constituency changes, including the delay of the Eschaton and the need to accommodate Gentiles within the group, its traditions were reinterpreted and the sayings in their gospel updated, accommodating the present experiences of the community. Here, DeConick provides a new English translation of the entire Gospel of Thomas, which includes the original 'kernel' of the Gospel and all the sayings. Whilst most other translations are of the Coptic text with only occasional reference to the Greek fragment variants, this translation integrates the Greek and offers new solutions to complete the lacunae. Gospel are also included. This is volume 287 in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement series and is part of the Early Christianity in Context series

Amazing Grace Addiction Bible Study (Hardcover): Michael K Mason Amazing Grace Addiction Bible Study (Hardcover)
Michael K Mason
R819 Discovery Miles 8 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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