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Misusing Scripture offers a thorough and critical evaluation of
American evangelical scholarship on the Bible. This strand of
scholarship exerts enormous influence on the religious beliefs and
practices, and even cultural and political perspectives, of
millions of evangelical Christians in the United States and
worldwide. The book brings together a diverse array of authors with
expertise on the Bible, religion, history, and archaeology to
critique the nature and growth of "faith-based" biblical
scholarship. The chapters focus on inerrancy and textual criticism,
archaeology and history, and the Bible in its ancient and
contemporary contexts. They explore how evangelicals approach the
Bible in their biblical interpretation, how "biblical" archaeology
is misused to bolster distinctive views about the Bible, and how
disputed interpretations of the Bible impact issues in the public
square. This unique and timely volume contributes to a greater
understanding and appreciation of how contemporary American
evangelicals understand and use the Bible in their private and
public lives. It will be of particular interest to scholars of
biblical studies, evangelical Christianity, and religion in the
United States.
Despite being one of history's most important women, the story of
Galla Placidia's life has been largely forgotten. Though the Roman
empress witnessed the decline and fall of the Roman Empire in the
5th century and lived a life of almost constant suffering, her
actions helped postpone the fall of Rome and had massive,
widespread impact on the empire that can still be felt today. She
watched the barbarian king Alaric and his horde of Visigoth
warriors sack Rome, slaughter many of the city's inhabitants, and
take her hostage. Surviving captivity, Galla Placidia became the
queen of the barbarians who had imprisoned her. Eventually, she
became the only woman to rule the Roman empire alone. Soldiers
obeyed her commands while Popes and Christian saints alike sought
her advice. Despite all obstacles and likely suffering from PTSD,
she lived to old age. This book uses the letters and writings of
Galla Placidia's contemporaries to reconstruct, in more depth and
detail than has yet been attempted, the remarkable story of her
life and the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
Kenneth Atkinson tells the exciting story of the nine decades of
the Hasmonean rule of Judea (152 - 63 BCE) by going beyond the
accounts of the Hasmoneans in Josephus in order to bring together
new evidence to reconstruct how the Hasmonean family transformed
their kingdom into a state that lasted until the arrival of the
Romans. Atkinson reconstructs the relationships between the
Hasmonean state and the rulers of the Seleucid and the Ptolemaic
Empires, the Itureans, the Nabateans, the Parthians, the Armenians,
the Cappadocians, and the Roman Republic. He draws on a variety of
previously unused sources, including papyrological documentation,
inscriptions, archaeological evidence, numismatics, Dead Sea
Scrolls, pseudepigrapha, and textual sources from the Hellenistic
to the Byzantine periods. Atkinson also explores how Josephus's
political and social situation in Flavian Rome affected his
accounts of the Hasmoneans and why any study of the Hasmonean state
must go beyond Josephus to gain a full appreciation of this unique
historical period that shaped Second Temple Judaism, and created
the conditions for the rise of the Herodian dynasty and the
emergence of Christianity.
In this book, the authors present current research in the study of
the new technologies, challenges and impact assessments of learning
environments. Topics discussed include MyiLOGS online technology
for optimising teachers' instructional progress management; a
three-pronged approach to the design of technology-rich learning
environments; using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in support
of contextually rich learning environments that promote higher
order thinking skills, meaningful learning and authentic
environmental scientific inquiry; LEGO Mindstorms NXT; instruction
via observational learning techniques; the effect of computer use
on Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL); an integrated educational
technology evaluation framework; students' compliance to
technology-supported learning environments; student response
systems and the impact on their learning environment, attitudes and
achievement; visual thinking networking; collaborative approaches
in virtual spaces; and the chemistry classroom environment.
The volumes in the new series Religions of the World surveys
religions that have had a major impact on the history of the world
and that continue to play a role in relationships between nations
and ethnic groups. All aspects--including roots and founding,
primary beliefs and cultural activities, the way the faiths are
viewed by the rest of the world, and the experience of growing up
as a member of the religion--are be examined. As one of the world's
most ancient religions, Judaism serves as a foundation for the
belief systems of two other major faiths--Christianity and Islam.
Although the Jews have faced a long history of persecution, they
have managed to survive and to maintain their religion with many of
its original practices intact.
Kenneth Atkinson adds to an already impressive body of work on the
Hasmoneans, proposing that the history and theological beliefs of
Jews during the period of the Hasmonean state cannot be understood
without a close investigation of the histories of the Ptolemaic and
Seleucid Empires, as well as the Roman Republic. Citing evidence
from the Dead Sea Scrolls and classical sources, Atkinson offers a
new reconstruction of this vital historical period, when the
Hasmonean family changed the fates of their neighbors, the Roman
Republic, the religion of Judaism, and created the foundation for
the development of the nascent Christian faith. Atkinson
additionally provides reconstructions of events in classical
history, including the most detailed examination of Pompey the
Great's assassination in light of Jewish sources; by focusing on
his death, this volume uncovers new information that explains the
discrepancies in the classical accounts of this pivotal event that
shaped Middle Eastern and Roman history, and which helped end the
Republic. Collecting sources ranging from the beginning of the
Hasmonean monarchy, through its religious strife and golden age, to
its eventual downfall, Atkinson concludes that that Jewish
sectarianism and messianism played far greater roles in the
Hasmonean state than has previously be assumed.
Kenneth Atkinson adds to an already impressive body of work on the
Hasmoneans, proposing that the history and theological beliefs of
Jews during the period of the Hasmonean state cannot be understood
without a close investigation of the histories of the Ptolemaic and
Seleucid Empires, as well as the Roman Republic. Citing evidence
from the Dead Sea Scrolls and classical sources, Atkinson offers a
new reconstruction of this vital historical period, when the
Hasmonean family changed the fates of their neighbors, the Roman
Republic, the religion of Judaism, and created the foundation for
the development of the nascent Christian faith. Atkinson
additionally provides reconstructions of events in classical
history, including the most detailed examination of Pompey the
Great's assassination in light of Jewish sources; by focusing on
his death, this volume uncovers new information that explains the
discrepancies in the classical accounts of this pivotal event that
shaped Middle Eastern and Roman history, and which helped end the
Republic. Collecting sources ranging from the beginning of the
Hasmonean monarchy, through its religious strife and golden age, to
its eventual downfall, Atkinson concludes that that Jewish
sectarianism and messianism played far greater roles in the
Hasmonean state than has previously be assumed.
Receptions of Paul during the First Two Centuries: Exploration of
the Jewish Matrix of Early Christianity examines the historical
context of Paul and the way Paul’s Jewish heritage was received.
Contributors take into consideration the aftermath of the Jewish
War and its impact on the development of the Jesus movement and
early Christian-Jewish relations in the following period. The
chapters come to the conclusion that after the Jewish War, the
reception of the authentic Paul was transformed more and more into
the tradition about Paul, based and established by the second and
third generations of Jesus-believing Gentiles, which perceived Paul
as a convert from what is labeled “Judaism”
(Ἰουδαϊσμός) to the complete opposite of it,
“Christianity” (Χριστιανισμός).
This book provides various perspectives of leading contemporary
scholars concerning Paul's message, particularly his expressed
expectation of the end-time redemption of Israel and its relation
to the Gentiles, the non-Jewish nations, in the context of Jewish
eschatological expectation. The contributors engage the
increasingly contentious enigmas relating to Paul's Jewishness: had
his perception of living in a new era in Christ and anticipating an
imminent final consummation moved him beyond the bounds of what his
contemporaries would have considered Judaism, or did Paul continue
to think and act "within Judaism"?
Kenneth Atkinson tells the exciting story of the nine decades of
the Hasmonean rule of Judea (152 - 63 BCE) by going beyond the
accounts of the Hasmoneans in Josephus in order to bring together
new evidence to reconstruct how the Hasmonean family transformed
their kingdom into a state that lasted until the arrival of the
Romans. Atkinson reconstructs the relationships between the
Hasmonean state and the rulers of the Seleucid and the Ptolemaic
Empires, the Itureans, the Nabateans, the Parthians, the Armenians,
the Cappadocians, and the Roman Republic. He draws on a variety of
previously unused sources, including papyrological documentation,
inscriptions, archaeological evidence, numismatics, Dead Sea
Scrolls, pseudepigrapha, and textual sources from the Hellenistic
to the Byzantine periods. Atkinson also explores how Josephus's
political and social situation in Flavian Rome affected his
accounts of the Hasmoneans and why any study of the Hasmonean state
must go beyond Josephus to gain a full appreciation of this unique
historical period that shaped Second Temple Judaism, and created
the conditions for the rise of the Herodian dynasty and the
emergence of Christianity.
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