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Books > Christianity > The Bible
For two centuries scholars have sought to discover the historical
Jesus. Presently such scholarship is dominated not by the question
'Who was Jesus?' but rather 'How do we even go about answering the
question, "Who was Jesus?"?' With this current situation in mind,
Jonathan Bernier undertakes a two-fold task: one, to engage on the
level of the philosophy of history with existing approaches to the
study of the historical Jesus, most notably the criteria approach
and the social memory approach; two, to work with the critical
realism developed by Bernard Lonergan, introduced into New
Testament studies by Ben F. Meyer, and advocated by N.T. Wright in
order to develop a philosophy of history that can elucidate current
debates within historical Jesus studies.
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Jeanne Guyon's Interior Faith
(Hardcover)
Jeanne De La Mothe Guyon; Translated by Nancy Carol James; Foreword by William Bradley Roberts
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R1,159
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Discovery Miles 9 710
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Michael R. Stead introduces the books of Haggai, Zechariah, and
Malachi in light of the latest biblical scholarship. Over the past
four decades, there has been an explosion of interest in the
postexilic prophets and their role within the Book of the Twelve,
which has coincided with paradigm shifts in biblical studies
generally. This study guide integrates insights from both
historio-critical and literary approaches to examine the
authorship, form, structure, and composition of these texts. In
particular, this guide explores how the intertextual connections
with other scriptures help to shape their meaning. It includes a
concise section-by-section overview that highlights key
interpretive issues and guides readers in their approach to the
text.
The biblical apocalyptic books of Daniel and Revelation are, for
better or worse, polarizing. Interpreters have long read and
searched these books for clues about how their worlds will "end,"
which each new interpreter promising to have "unlocked" how Daniel
and Revelation work together to uncover a divine plan for prophetic
fulfillment. Redding uses the Vision of the Fourth Beast from
Daniel 7 as a case study to consider how interpretations of texts
take on lives of their own, eventually wedding interpretation with
text and prompting the question: what even is a text? Is it what is
on the page, something interpreters put there, or a combination of
both? Starting with the literature of the Levant, this work traces
the use of motifs, images, and themes through Daniel, Revelation,
and into pre-Enlightenment Christian thinkers to consider
hermeneutical trajectories that shaped (and continue to shape) how
modern readers engage biblical apocalyptic literature.
Stephanie Day Powell illuminates the myriad forms of persuasion,
inducement, discontent, and heartbreak experienced by readers of
Ruth. Writing from a lesbian perspective, Powell draws upon
biblical scholarship, contemporary film and literature, narrative
studies, feminist and queer theories, trauma studies and
psychoanalytic theory to trace the workings of desire that produced
the book of Ruth and shaped its history of reception. Wrestling
with the arguments for and against reading Ruth as a love story
between women, Powell gleans new insights into the ancient world in
which Ruth was written. Ruth is known as a tale of two courageous
women, the Moabite Ruth and her Israelite mother-in-law Naomi. As
widows with scarce means of financial or social support, Ruth and
Naomi are forced to creatively subvert the economic and legal
systems of their day in order to survive. Through exceptional acts
of loyalty, they, along with their kinsman Boaz, re-establish the
bonds of family and community, while preserving the line of
Israel's great king David. Yet for many, the story of Ruth is
deeply dissatisfying. Scholars increasingly recognize how Ruth's
textual "gaps" and ambiguities render conventional interpretations
of the book's meaning and purpose uncertain. Feminist and queer
interpreters question the appropriation of a woman's story to
uphold patriarchal institutions and heteronormative values. Such
avenues of inquiry lend themselves to questions of narrative
desire, that is, the study of how stories frame our desires and how
our own complex longings affect the way we read.
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