Download or read book Transforming the Struggles of Tamars written by Lina Androviene and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the unprecedented challenge of involuntary singleness for women, and the implications of disregarding this challenge for the Christian (and particularly, baptistic) communities of faith. It argues that these communities not only fail involuntarily single women, but also in so doing, suffer a serious detriment to their own communal health and Christian witness. Taking the challenge of involuntary singleness as a test case, this book explores the method of convictional theology and argues for a holistic framework that can draw together the personal, communal, and visionary spheres of human existence. Although primarily a work of theological ethics, it also draws from a number of different disciplines, including cultural studies and sociology as well as intersections of science and theology.

Download or read book The Righteousness of God written by Charles Lee Irons and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advocates of the New Perspective on Paul appeal to the view that "righteousness" in biblical theology is a Verhaltnisbegriff (relational concept). This is the view that "righteousness" does not mean conformity to a norm, nor is it an essentially legal concept; rather, "righteousness" denotes the fulfillment of the demands of a relationship, since the relationship itself is the norm. This relational interpretation of "righteousness" was first put forward by Hermann Cremer in 1899 and exercised a profound influence in biblical scholarship throughout the 20th century. It lies at the root of the New Perspective claim that "the righteousness of God" in Paul is a cipher for God's saving faithfulness to his covenant, a view defended by N. T. Wright, among others. Charles Lee Irons provides a critical examination of Cremer's chief arguments for the relational, covenant-faithfulness interpretation. The author argues instead for the view that "the righteousness of God" in Rom 1:17; 3: 21-22; 10:3; 2 Cor 5:21; and Phil 3:9 is the status of righteousness that comes from God as a gift.

Download or read book Judah s Tamar In Her Shoes Trials written by Deidra Bynum and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Rise...In this exciting story, you are invited to an arena of traditional wrestling. A place where checks and balances are the probes for truth and justice, "court." Law student Felecia (the created character for this story) has been given an assignment. Tasked with selecting and developing a simulated mock trial to write about, she has chosen the fascinating story surrounding "Judah and Tamar" from the Bible. Unfolding details of their story reveals a time when surrogacy to continue family legacy was lawful and strongly encouraged. If a man (husband) died, before having a son with his young wife, and he had other immediate male relatives, the law dictated the next of kin was obligated to step in, assume the role of husband and provide an heir for the departed. However, in Tamar's case, after the death of her husband, things did not go accordingly. At the center of it all was her father-in-law, Judah. Presiding over this amazing case is none other than the honorable "Judge Deborah," borrowed from the Bible's book of Judges. Equipped with motive, opportunity, evidence, witnesses, and a surprise verdict, Tamar is taking Judah to court! Cooperating with biblical history, uniquely, Felecia transcribes an exciting version of their story. She brings a fresh perspective, highlights, and revelation to an old, wonderful, yet intriguing story of patience, persistence, perceived prostitution, and the fulfillment of a promise.Also documented here are six modern-day stories displaying the consequences of human emotions vacillating from fear to secret desire. As always, it is wished with great sensitivity in spirit; each reader is enlightened and richly blessed, as we once again engaged the faithfulness of God.

Download or read book Genesis 12 50 written by Mark Sheridan and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genesis 12–50 recounts the history of the patriarchs—Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph—and the early fathers used these passages to draw out the spiritual significance of the patriarchal narrative for Christian believers. In this ACCS volume, ancient commentators provide a wealth of ancient wisdom to stimulate the mind and nourish the soul of the church today.

Download or read book Confronting Our Discomfort written by Tamar Jacobson and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do our own attitudes get in the way of anti-bias in the classroom? In this practical resource, Tamar Jacobson provides a framework for early childhood teachers and education professors to confront this issue head on. And she knows whereof she speaks. Growing up Jewish in the former colony of Rhodesia, Jacobson is in a unique position to challenge us with her disquiet, move us with her perspective, and change our ideas. What's more, she guides us along the tricky path towards an anti-bias curriculum-showing us how to see our own shortcomings, stop the perpetuation of negatives, and clear the way for children to gain a greater understanding of the world and its possibilities.

Download or read book Tamar s Tears written by Andrew Sloane and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evangelical and feminist approaches to Old Testament interpretation often seem to be at odds with each other. The authors of this volume argue to the contrary: feminist and evangelical interpreters of the Old Testament can enter into a constructive dialogue that will be fruitful to both parties. They seek to illustrate this with reference to a number of texts and issues relevant to feminist Old Testament interpretation from an explicitly evangelical point of view. In so doing they raise issues that need to be addressed by both evangelical and feminist interpreters of the Old Testament, and present an invitation to faithful and fruitful reading of these portions of Scripture.

Download or read book Destructive Desires written by Robert J. Patterson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite rhythm and blues culture’s undeniable role in molding, reflecting, and reshaping black cultural production, consciousness, and politics, it has yet to receive the serious scholarly examination it deserves. Destructive Desires corrects this omission by analyzing how post-Civil Rights era rhythm and blues culture articulates competing and conflicting political, social, familial, and economic desires within and for African American communities. As an important form of black cultural production, rhythm and blues music helps us to understand black political and cultural desires and longings in light of neo-liberalism’s increased codification in America’s racial politics and policies since the 1970s. Robert J. Patterson provides a thorough analysis of four artists—Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Adina Howard, Whitney Houston, and Toni Braxton—to examine black cultural longings by demonstrating how our reading of specific moments in their lives, careers, and performances serve as metacommentaries for broader issues in black culture and politics.

Download or read book Bodies Embodiment and Theology of the Hebrew Bible written by S. Tamar Kamionkowski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing that human experience is very much influenced by inhabiting bodies, the past decade has seen a surge in studies about representation of bodies in religious experience and human imaginations regarding the Divine. The understanding of embodiment as central to human experience has made a big impact within religious studies particularly in contemporary Christian theology, feminist, cultural and ideological criticism and anthropological approaches to the Hebrew Bible. Within the sub-field of theology of the Hebrew Bible, the conversation is still dominated by assumptions that the God of the Hebrew Bible does not have a body and that embodiment of the divine is a new concept introduced outside of the Hebrew Bible. To a great extent, the insights regarding how body discourse can communicate information have not yet been incorporated into theological studies.

Download or read book Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in Al Andalus written by Shari Lowin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems in al-Andalus investigates a largely overlooked subset of Muslim and Jewish love poetry in medieval Spain: hetero- and homo-erotic love poems written by Muslim and Jewish religious scholars, in which the lover and his sensual experience of the beloved are compared to scriptural characters and storylines. This book examines the ways in which the scriptural referents fit in with, or differ from, the traditional Andalusian poetic conventions. The study then proceeds to compare the scriptural stories and characters as presented in the poems with their scriptural and exegetical sources. This new intertextual analysis reveals that the Jewish and Muslim scholar-poets utilized their sacred literature in their poems of desire as more than poetic ornamentation; in employing Qur’ānic heroes in their secular verses, the Muslim poets presented a justification of profane love and sanctification of erotic human passions. In the Hebrew lust poems, which utilize biblical heroes, we can detect subtle, subversive, and surprisingly placed interpretations of biblical accounts. Moving beyond the concern with literary history to challenge the traditional boundaries between secular and religious poetry, this book provides a new, multidisciplinary, approach to existing materials and will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers of Islamic and Jewish Studies as well as to those with an interest in Hebrew and Arabic poetry of Islamic Spain.

Download or read book Dangerous Sisters of the Hebrew Bible written by Amy Kalmanofsky and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fathers, sons, and mothers take center stage in the Bibles grand narratives, Amy Kalmanofsky observes. Sisters and sisterhood receive less attention in scholarship but, she argues, play an important role in narratives, revealing anxieties related to desire, agency, and solidarity among women playing out (and playing against) their roles in a patrilineal society. Most often, she shows, sisters are destabilizing figures in narratives about family crisis, where property, patrimony, and the resilience of community boundaries are at risk. Kalmanofsky demonstrates that the particular role of sisters had important narrative effects, revealing previously underappreciated dynamics in Israelite society.

Download or read book The Cry of Tamar written by Pamela Cooper-White and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive, practical, and gripping assessment of various forms of violence against women, Pamela Cooper-White challenges the Christian churches to examine their own responses to the cry of Tamar in our time. She describes specific forms of such violence and outlines appropriate pastoral responses. The second edition of this groundbreaking work is thoroughly updated and examines not only where the church has made progress since 1995 but also where women remain at unchanged or even greater risk of violence.

Download or read book Tamar s Healing written by Kasim Ali Sidney Jones and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Exerts from the Introduction) Tamar's Healing will not only address negative, toxic shame, but also speak to healthy, true shame, which is necessary as we journey toward our true selves. That's God's desire for this, God's people. My position is that African (Black) Americans' dealings with shame is a uniquely different phenomena because of the historical "training" or socialization African Americans have acquired and became accustomed to during and since slavery. Tamar's Healing will address many types of abuse, but will predominately deal with sexual abuse as depicted in 1 Samuel 13: 1 - 22. Sexual abuse must be discussed more openly because it is still a forbidden subject matter in many African American families and communities. Therefore, the overall goal of Tamar's Healing is to help bring people out of the darkness of misery and hopelessness into the light of God's glorious love. Far too countless people have experienced dark, traumatic events in their lives, and cannot find or see their way out. For many, it grows and festers, and has adverse affects on their lives. In this book, I will not only address negative, toxic shame, but also speak to healthy, true shame, which is necessary as we journey toward our true selves. That's God's desire for this, God's people. Prayerfully, Tamar's Healing will help me to "flesh out," so to speak, the concepts and direction I feel God will have me to utilize in order to serve others in the counseling context.

Download or read book The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records written by Lorraine Cook White and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2002 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 48 of the Barbour Collection is devoted entirely to the Connecticut town of Wallingford. Herein the researcher will find references to over 40,000 early inhabitants.

Download or read book Tamar s Dress written by Melissa Russell and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHAT ARE YOU CLOTHED IN? Our story begins in 2 Samuel 13. This is the story of Tamar. She was the beautiful daughter of King David. Tamar was clothed in beauty and grace until she was violated. Afterward all she could see was shame and disgrace. Tamar chose to remain clothed in it. Sadly, we are no different than Tamar. We are clothed with words, labels and false identities. These garments claim to be our identity and value but are they? We are going to look at what Christ has to say about us. It is time to change our wardrobe. There is power in what we are clothed in. Take a walk with us and learn what you can be clothed in. You do not have to remain clothed in your desolation. Melissa Russell is a wife and mother of 3 children. She has one terrific son-in-law. She has been a Women's Ministry leader for 9 years. Her passion is to study and teach the Word of God and the history of our faith. She shares a love of words with her co-writer and dear friend. Her desire is to teach women that they do not have to remain clothed in their desolation. We have a new garment called Enabling GRACE! Jeanine Murrow is a wife to an amazing husband. She is a devoted mom and home school teacher to two wonderful boys. She is a part time ER nurse and a full time friend to the author of this beautiful book. Her passion is to study the Word of God and share it with other women. Jeanine aspires to be a woman of integrity with the Proverbs 31 woman as her role model and Proverbs 31:25 as her life verse.

Download or read book First Degree Incest and the Hebrew Bible written by Johanna Stiebert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Incest' refers to illegal sexual relations between family members. Its precise contours, however, are culturally specific. Hence, an illegal incestuous union in one social context may be a legal close-kin union in another. First-degree sexual unions, between a parent and child, or between siblings, are most widely prohibited and abhorred. This book discusses all overt and covert first-degree incest relations in the Hebrew Bible and also probes the significance of gaps and what these imply about projected sexual and social values. As the dominant opinion on the origin of first-degree incest continues to be shaped, new voices such as those of queer and post-feminist criticism have joined the conversation. It navigates not only the incest laws of Leviticus and the narratives of Lot and his daughters and of Amnon and Tamar but pursues subtler intimations of first-degree sexual unions, such as between Adam and his (absent but arguably implied) mother, Haran and Terah's wife, Ham and Noah. In pursuing the psycho-social values that may be drawn from the Hebrew Bible regarding first-degree incest, this book will provide a thorough review of incest studies from the early 20th century onward and explain and assess the contribution of very recent critical approaches from queer and post-feminist perspectives.

Download or read book Feeling Like It written by Tamar Schapiro and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may have an inclination to do it, but there is still a moment when you can decide to do it or not. This "moment of drama" is more puzzling than it first appears. When you are inclined to do something, are you related to your inclination as rider to horse? As ruler to subject? As thinker to thoughts? Schapiro shows that these familiar pictures fail to confront the central puzzle. Inclinations are motives with respect to which we are distinctively passive. But to be motivated is to be active—to be self-moved. How can you be passive in relation to your own activity? Schapiro puts forward an "inner animal" view, inspired by Kant, which holds that when you are merely inclined to act, the instinctive part of yourself is already active, while the rest of you is not. At this moment, your will is at a crossroads. You can humanize your inclination, or you can dehumanize yourself. Feeling Like It provides a concise and accessible investigation of a new problem at the intersection of ethics, philosophy of action, and philosophy of mind.

Download or read book Bad Girls of the Bible written by Liz Curtis Higgs and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten of the Bible’s best-known femmes fatales parade across the pages of this popular and unforgettable study with situations that sound oh-so-familiar. Women everywhere marvel at those “good girls” in Scripture–Sarah, Mary, Esther–but on most days, that’s not who they see when they look in the mirror. Most women (if they’re honest) see the selfishness of Sapphira or the deception of Delilah. They catch of glimpse of Jezebel’s take-charge pride or Eve’s disastrous disobedience. Like Bathsheba, Herodias, and the rest, today’s modern woman is surrounded by temptations, exhausted by the demands of daily living, and burdened by her own desires. So what’s a good girl to do? Learn from their lives, says beloved Bible study teacher and speaker Liz Curtis Higgs, and choose a better path. Whether they were “Bad to the Bone,” “Bad for a Season, but Not Forever” or only “Bad for a Moment,” these infamous sisters show women how not to handle the challenges of life. With her trademark humor and encouragement, Higgs combines a contemporary retelling of the stories of these “other women” in Scripture with a solid, verse-by-verse study to teach us how to avoid their tragic mistakes and joyfully embrace grace. Let these Bad Girls show you why studying the Bible has never been more fun! Includes Discussion Questions and Study Guide