Author: NordheimPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004331964
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Die Lehre der Alten
Author: NordheimPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004331964
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The Great Controversy
Author: Tom de BruinPublisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN: 3647540358
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (T12P), one of the longest texts of the so-called "Old Testament Pseudepigrapha," presents the fictitious farewell speeches that the twelve sons of Jacob held on their respective deathbeds. Tom de Bruin examines these twelve monologues as literary products in order to understand the function of the text for the setting in which it was composed. He approaches T12P from three directions: an analysis of the paraenetic parts, a discussion of the anthropology, and a comparative examination of other contemporaneous works documenting a world-view similar to T12P.These three approaches merge into a detailed discussion about the reasoning behind the admonition in T12P, and identifies the fundamental message of the text, namely that each person stands between the forces of good and evil and that this person is called to constantly decide which way to follow. Though T12P is still familiar with the apocalyptic origin and plays with the cosmological implications of this 'great controversy', the text clearly puts the emphasis on the battle inside each individual. It is thereby an important witness for reinterpreting and reapplying apocalyptic traditions through ethicizing them and focusing on the individual. Such an individualistic application of the 'great controversy' theme can be found in a number of other (mostly Christian) works, revealing a similar understanding of mankind's existence and development as in T12P. The analysis of the ethical reappropriation of apocalyptic traditions in T12P provides important insights into the foundations of early Christian ethics, ancient anthropology, and the Jewish and Christian understanding of the struggle between good and evil.
Schmidt's Jahrbuecher
Author: A Biblical Theology of Gerassapience
Author: Joel A. A. AjayiPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433107856
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Ancient cultures, such as that of the Hebrews, commonly associated wisdom with advanced years. In A Biblical Theology of Gerassapience the author investigates the validity of this correlation through an eclectic approach - including linguistic semantic, tradition-historical, and socio-anthropological methods - to pertinent biblical and extra-biblical texts. There are significant variations in the estimation of gerassapience (or «old-age wisdom») in each period of ancient Israel's life - that is, in pre-monarchical, monarchical, and post-monarchical Israel. Throughout this study, appropriate cross-cultural parallels are drawn from the cultures of ancient Israel's neighbors and of modern societies, such as the West African Yoruba tribe. The overall results are bi-dimensional. On the one hand, there are semantic elements of gerassapience, such as the elusiveness of «wisdom» and the mild fluidity of «old age». Both terms have strong contextual affinity with minimal exceptions. Thus, the attribution of wisdom to old age is evident but not absolute in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). On the other hand, gerassapience is depicted as primarily didactic, through direct and indirect instructions and counsels of the elderly, fostering the saging fear-of-Yahweh legacies. On the whole, socio-anthropocentric tendencies of gerassapience (that is, of making old age a repertoire of wisdom) are checked by theological warrants of theosapience (Yahwistic wisdom). Therefore, in the Hebrew Bible, the fear of Yahweh is also the beginning of growing old and wise.
The Spurious Texts of Philo of Alexandria
Author: James Ronald RoysePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004095113
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A study of the Greek texts (ranging from brief lines in florilegia to complete books) which have been incorrectly ascribed to Philo of Alexandria. Analysis of the sources of these texts (especially the catenae and florilegia), and the correct identifications of many texts, often for the first time.
Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author: North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Contains list of members.
Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author: Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year
Author: A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures
Author: Johann Peter LangePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Exodus, Leviticus
Author: Johann Peter LangePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description