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The Spirit Says offers a stunning collection of articles by an
influential assemblage of scholars, all of whom lend considerable
insight to the relationship between inspiration and interpretation.
They address this otherwise intractable question with deft and
occasionally daring readings of a variety of texts from the ancient
world, including-but not limited to-the scriptures of early Judaism
and Christianity. The thrust of this book can be summed up not so
much in one question as in four: o What is the role of revelation
in the interpretation of Scripture? o What might it look like for
an author to be inspired? o What motivates a claim to the inspired
interpretation of Scripture? o Who is inspired to interpret
Scripture? More often than not, these questions are submerged in
this volume under the tame rubrics of exegesis and hermeneutics,
but they rise in swells and surges too to the surface, not just
occasionally but often. Combining an assortment of prominent
voices, this book does not merely offer signposts along the way. It
charts a pioneering path toward a model of interpretation that is
at once intellectually robust and unmistakably inspired.
With his latest book, The Holy Spirit before Christianity, John R.
Levison again changes the face and foundation of Christian belief
in the Holy Spirit. The categories Christians have used, the
boundaries they have created, the proprietary claims they have made
- all of these evaporate, now that Levison has looked afresh at
Scripture. In a study that is both poignant and provocative,
Levison takes readers back five hundred years before Jesus, where
he discovers history's first grasp of the Holy Spirit as a personal
agent. The prophet Haggai and the author of Isaiah 56-66, in their
search for ways to grapple with the tragic events of exile and to
articulate hope for the future, took up old exodus traditions of
divine agents - pillars of fire, an angel, God's own presence - and
fused them with belief in God's Spirit. Since it was the Spirit of
God who led Israel up from Egypt and formed them into a holy
nation, now, the prophets assured their hearers, the Spirit of God
would lead and renew those returning from exile. Taking this point
of origin as our guide, Christian pneumatology - belief in the Holy
Spirit - is less about an exclusively Christian experience or
doctrine and more about the presence of God in the grand scheme of
Israel's history, in which Christianity is ancient Israel's heir.
This explosive observation traces the essence of Christian
pneumatology deep into the heart of the Hebrew Scriptures. The
implications are fierce: the priority of Israelite tradition at the
headwaters of pneumatology means that Christians can no longer hold
stubbornly to the Holy Spirit as an exclusively Christian belief.
But the implications are hopeful as well, offering Christians a
richer history, a renewed vocabulary, a shared path with Judaism,
and the promise of a more expansive and authentic experience of the
Holy Spirit.
Synopsis: Should women be priests? Should women submit to their
husbands? Is premarital sex okay? Inflammatory questions such as
these have splintered Christianity and polarized the church. In
Sex, Gender, and Christianity, a cadre of seasoned college
professors offers the modest proposal that honest, fruitful
conversations about these questions will take place only if we
develop the ability to deal with sex, gender, and the Christian
faith with the academic rigor and perspectives of our various
disciplines. This volume contributes an unprecedented collection of
first-rate articles from a variety of disciplines--from the social
sciences to history, from literary criticism to theology--that will
challenge college administrators, professors, and students to
address fractious questions in an atmosphere of scholarly inquiry.
Contributors: David G. Allen, Karen Trimble Alliaume, Brian Bantum,
Mikee C. Delony, James G. Dixon III, Antonios Finitsis Theresa J.
FitzPatrick, Allyson Jule, Patricia O'Connell Killen, Caryn D.
Riswold, and Tina Schermer Sellers Endorsements: "This is a
courageous book. At a time when clouds of fear and confusion hover
over college classrooms when it comes to talking about sex and
gender, here we have a responsible and creative treatment of these
thorny topics. It would be a mistake to bypass this book as yet
another treatment of sex and gender, because you will not find
anything else like it." --Willie James Jennings, Associate
Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies, Duke Divinity
School "Sex, Gender, and Christianity is a much-needed corrective
to polarizing arguments about women's roles and their expectations
for equality. Probing historical exemplars from Eve to Carrie
Bradshaw, the book's authors exchange heat for light on a topic
that sorely needs the latter. This will be an invaluable resource
for undergraduate courses in both religious and gender studies."
--Diane Winston, Knight Chair in Media and Religion, USC Annenberg
School for Communication Author Biography: Priscilla Pope-Levison
is Professor of Theology and Assistant Director of Women's Studies
at Seattle Pacific University, and Affiliate Faculty in Women
Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Turn
the Pulpit Loose: Two Centuries of American Women Evangelists
(2004). John (Jack) R. Levison is Professor of New Testament at
Seattle Pacific University. He is the author of Fresh Air: The Holy
Spirit for an Inspired Life (2012); Filled with the Spirit (2009);
and Texts in Transition: the Greek Life of Adam and Eve (2000).
Together they are the authors of Jesus in Global Contexts (1992)
and editors of Return to Babel: Global Perspectives on the Bible
(1999).
In "Return to Babel," each of ten historically significant
biblical texts is interpreted by three scholars: one Latin
American, one African, and one Asian. Geographic locales range from
a tiny village in the Philippines to the city of Nairobi, Kenya;
from Gwangju, South Korea, with its one million inhabitants, to the
frontier city of Wiwili in the northern mountains of Nicaragua. The
result is a collection of essays that shed new light on familiar
texts and make the reader aware of the ways in which culture can
shape our understanding of Scripture.
Liberator, ancestor, cosmic Christ, and Black Messiah. These are
just some of the ways that Jesus is viewed in the world. This rare
book provides a global tour of the Christologies emerging in Latin
America, Asia, and Africa, and those of North American feminist and
African-American theologies. Bibliography. Indexes.
This book provides the most thorough and systematic analysis of
early Jewish interpretations of Adam currently available. With
detailed exegesis Levison demonstrates that each early Jewish
author painted a unique portrait of Adam by utilizing Adam to
express a particular, preconceived theological Tendenz. This study
therefore displaces the notion that a unified Adam mythology
existed in early Judaism with the recognition that each author
readily adapted the early chapters of Genesis according to specific
needs and aims. Alongside an introduction which surveys studies of
early Jewish interpretations of Adam and studies on the Adam cycle,
this book contains analyses of all relevant passages from Sirach,
Wisdom of Solomon, Philo, Jubilees, Josephus, 4 Ezra, 2 Baruch,
Apocalypse of Moses and Vita Adae et Evae. This monograph is an
indispensable tool for both Old and New Testament studies,
providing a variety of early Jewish examples of biblical exegesis
from c. 200 BCE to 135 CE, as well as insight into the milieu
within which Paul and other early Christian writers formulated
their own unique interpretations of Adam.
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