Download or read book The Rhetorical Design of Isaiah 40 48 55 written by P. van der Lugt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the `strophic' structure of the poems in Isaiah 40-48 and discusses the consequence of this approach for their interpretation. Among other things, the autor takes a critical stand as to the `redaktionsgeschichtliche' approach of the poems concerned.
Download or read book The Rhetorical Design of Isaiah 40 48 55 written by P. van der Lugt and published by Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old. This book was released on 2022 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this volume, Pieter van der Lugt offers a comprehensive analysis of the rhetorical structure of Isaiah. As in his previous studies on the Book of Job and the Psalter the author demonstrates that classical Hebrew poetry displays a well-defined structure consisting of balanced main parts (cantos) and subdivision into strophes. This rhetorical starting point is of crucial importance for the delimitation of the individual poems in Isaiah 40-48 and in many cases determines their interpretation. Subsequently, it is demonstrated that the successive compositions form well-defined and coherent cycles of poems"--
Download or read book Scripture and Theology written by Tomas Bokedal and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The academic disciplines of Biblical Studies and Systematic Theology were long closely linked to one another. However, in the modern period they became gradually separated which led to increasing subject specialization, but also to a lamentable lacuna within the various branches of Divinity. As the lack of dialogue between Biblical Studies and the various theological disciplines increased, a minority-group of scholars in the past few decades reacted and sought to re-establish the time-honoured bonds between the disciplines. The present volume is part of this intellectual response, with contributions from scholars of various professional and denominational backgrounds. Together, the book's 25 chapters seek to reinvigorate the crucial cross-disciplinary dialogue, involving biblical, narrative, historical, systematic-theological and philosophic-theological perspectives. The book opens the horizon to contemporary research, and fills a lamentable research gap with a number of fresh contributions from scholars in the respective sub-disciplines
Download or read book Prophecy and Persuasion written by Yehoshua Gitay and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Concentricity and Continuity written by Robert H. O'Connell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1994-12-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph explores the structure and rhetoric of the book of Isaiah. Its thesis is twofold. First, the book of Isaiah best manifests its structural unity, thematic choherence and rhetorical emphasis when read as an exemplar of prophetic covenant disputation. Second, the principal arrangement of the book comprises seven asymmetrical concentric sections, each made up of complex (triadic and quadratic) framing patterns. They are: an exordium (1.1, 2-5), two threats of judgment (2.6-21; 3.1-4.1), two programmes for the punishment and restoration of Zion and the nations (4.2-11.16; 13.1-39.8), an exoneration of Yahweh (40.1-54.17), and an appeal for covenant reconciliation (55.1-66.24).
Download or read book The Performative Nature and Function of Isaiah 40 55 written by Jim W. Adams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation presents the basic philosophical concepts of speech act theory in order to accurately implement them alongside other interpretive tools.
Download or read book The Present State of Old Testament Studies in the Low Countries written by Klaas Spronk and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Present State of Old Testament Studies in the Low Countries fifteen leading scholars from Belgium and the Netherlands give an overview of their multifaceted and innovative research.
Download or read book Charged with the Glory of God written by Caroline Batchelder and published by Lexham Academic. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaiah's servant songs reveal a true and better Adam In Charged with the Glory of God, Caroline Batchelder provides a synchronic, theological, and canonical reading of the four Servant Songs in Isaiah (42:1–9; 49:1–13; 50:3–11; 52:13–53:12), showing how they relate to one another and the message of the prophetic book. Reading Isaiah as a compositional unity in conversation with other texts such as Genesis results in a coherent presentation of the mysterious servant. The polemic against idolatry reveals rebellious Israel to be false imagers of God. In contrast, Isaiah's servant is an ideal embodiment of Yahweh's image and likeness. Thus, the servant is a paradigm for those who wish to recapture and realize God's good creation purposes for all humanity. The servant poems are not only a call to reorient oneself as a servant towards God and his creation, but also a map and means for doing so. In this study, Batchelder offers fresh insights from Isaiah for understanding God's true image and its idolatrous counterfeits.
Download or read book Isaiah 40 55 written by George A.F. Knight and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1984-12-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "George Knight has produced a very fluent and readable commentary on these important chapters of the book of Isaiah, which, more than any other part of the Old Testament, anticipate the Cross of Christ. By concentrating on the theological issues that are raised and by adopting a non-technical style of presentation, Knight introduces the reader to some of the leading motifs of biblical theology. In view of the complex questions which relate to the structure and unity of the book of Isaiah, I believe that all who share an evangelical faith and who have regard for the theological importance of the Old Testament will find this commentary rewarding and enriching." — R.E. Clements, King's College, University of London.
Download or read book A Prophet Reads Scripture written by Benjamin D. Sommer and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining literary allusion in Isaiah 40-66, the author illuminates the changes that led to the demise of biblical prophecy and the rise of hermeneutically based religions in the post-biblical era.
Download or read book New Testament Interpretation Through Rhetorical Criticism written by George A. Kennedy and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Testament Interpretation through Rhetorical Criticism provides readers of the Bible with an important tool for understanding the Scriptures. Based on the theory and practice of Greek rhetoric in the New Testament, George Kennedy's approach acknowledges that New Testament writers wrote to persuade an audience of the truth of their messages. These writers employed rhetorical conventions that were widely known and imitated in the society of the times. Sometimes confirming but often challenging common interpretations of texts, this is the first systematic study of the rhetorical composition of the New Testament. As a complement to form criticism, historical criticism, and other methods of biblical analysis, rhetorical criticism focuses on the text as we have it and seeks to discover the basis of its powerful appeal and the intent of its authors. Kennedy shows that biblical writers employed both "external" modes of persuasion, such as scriptural authority, the evidence of miracles, and the testimony of witnesses, and "internal" methods, such as ethos (authority and character of the speaker), pathos (emotional appeal to the audience), and logos (deductive and inductive argument in the text). In the opening chapter Kennedy presents a survey of how rhetoric was taught in the New Testament period and outlines a rigorous method of rhetorical criticism that involves a series of steps. He provides in succeeding chapters examples of rhetorical analysis, looking closely at the Sermon on the Mount, the Sermon on the Plain, Jesus' farewell to the disciples in John's Gospel, the distinctive rhetoric of Jesus, the speeches in Acts, and the approach of Saint Paul in Second Corinthians, Thessalonians, Galatians, and Romans.
Download or read book The Message of Isaiah 40 55 written by John Goldingay and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2005 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Message of Isaiah 40-55 traces the argument of Isaiah 40-55 to show how the chapters bring a message of encouragement and challenge about God's intention to restore the Judean community, some of whose members are in exile in Babylon, others living in the city of Jerusalem that has lain devastated since it fell to the Babylonians in 587. The chapters hold before this community's eyes a vision of the nature of its God as the powerful creator and the loving restorer. In the course of following the argument, the reader becomes aware that the chapters have to deal with their audience's mysterious resistance to their message. It cannot give God the kind of response the message needs and deserves, nor can it fulfil the role as God's servant that is designed for it. God nevertheless remains committed to it. The prophet eventually becomes aware of a distinctive personal calling to embody that response, until the people are ready to do so. brings) that embodies the kind of ministry that needs to be exercised to them so that they may be brought back to God and find a restoration of spirit, as well as a physical restoration.
Download or read book The Concept of God in Isaiah 40 55 written by Ray Emerson Leppard and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most profound and exciting quest of the ages is the search for the ultimate meaning of the universe,And not infrequently is the vocabulary of religion involved in the articulation of this inquiry particularly the word "God", Thus, the content and value of this idea in the Old Testament is of great importance, since this literature, along with the New Testament, contains the major portion of the Western world's religious vocabulary. In the Old Testament itself, the single concept of paramount importance is God. Although descriptive terms may vary with the preference, experience, historical and cultural setting of the various authors, there is still a "peculiar quality of the 'revelation'" running through the Old Testament. Goethe employs the metaphor of "the roaring loom of time" on which is woven a garment to make God visible. In the following thesis, an attempt will be made to learn as much as we can of the shape and texture of that garment, as it was woven by the hands and mind of "the evangelist of the Old Testament", the author of chapters 40 to 55 of the book of Isaiah. Here such lofty themes as the imminent coming of God (chapters 40-48) and the redemption of Israel and all the nations (chapters 49-55) receive the skilled treatment of a master-poet, a 1. O.J. Baab: The Theo lo gy of the Old Te stament; p. 23. 2. H.W. Robinson: In spiration and R evelation in the Old Testament ; p. 63* 3. Ibid., Citing Goethe, in Faust , Erster Theil, 11508-9. 4. J.A. Bewer: The Book of Isaiah ; p. 0 9* profound thinker, and an inspired prophet, who is equally at home whether describing the matchless power or the tender compassion of God, His uniqueness or Fis nearness. "Fere Febrew prophecy reaches its highest peak and makes its sublimest disclosures of the Eternal."^ The textual sources used to assist in this investigation are, (a) The King James Version, with Introduction and Critical Notes by Julias A. Bewer, in The Book of Isaiah, Volume II, Hamer and Brothers, 1950, (b) The Masoretic text (that of Ben Asher, edited by P. Kahle) presented in R. Kittle's Bibli ca Hebraica, Leipzig, 1906; seventh edition, edited by A. Alt and 0. Eissfeldt, Stuttgart, 1929-19*31. (c) An English translation of Isaiah 40-55 by P.A.F. de Boer, Leiden, Oegstgeest, 1956, as published in Sec ond-Isaiah's Me ssage, same author, E.J. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands. (d) An English translation, Deutero Isaiah, by R. Levy, Oxford Fniver- sity Press, London, 1925* Translations of words or phrases from the Masoretic text into English were accomplished with the aid of A Febrew and Engli sh Lexicon of t he Ol d Testament, edited by Francis Brown, S.R. Priver and Charles A. Briggs, Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1907* The chronology followed is basically that of W.F. Albright. 1. S. Schilling: Isaiah Spe aks; p. 85. 2. W.F. Albright: The Biblical Perio d; p. 66.
Download or read book Isaiah 40 55 written by Joseph Blenkinsopp and published by Anchor Bible. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have traditionally isolated three distinct sections of what is known as the Book of Isaiah, and inIsaiah 40–55, distinguished biblical scholar Joseph Blenkinsopp provides a new translation and critical commentary on the section usually referred to as Second or Deutero Isaiah. The second volume in a three-volume commentary, it easily maintains the high standards of academic excellence established byIsaiah 1–39. Second Isaiah was written in the sixth century b.c.e., in the years just before the fall of the mighty Babylonian Empire, by an anonymous prophet whom history has erroneously identified with the real Isaiah (born ca. 765 b.c.e.). Scholars know that Second Isaiah was written by someone other than Isaiah because the contexts of these prophecies are so very different. When Second Isaiah was written, the prophet believed that Israel’s time of suffering was drawing to a close. There was, he insisted, a new age upon them, a time of hope, peace, and renewed national prosperity. The main thrust of the prophet’s argument was intended to rally the spirits of a people devastated by war and conquest. One of the most famous examples of this optimistic tone is the well-known and beloved Song of the Suffering Servant, which is found in Chapters 52–53, and about which Blenkinsopp has some challenging new ideas. The final chapters of Second Isaiah, however, are in an entirely different key as it becomes clear that the new world the prophet foresaw earlier was not going to come to pass. This despair finds its most poignant expression in the final section of the Book of Isaiah, which Blenkinsopp will address in his forthcoming third volume.
Download or read book Invention Arrangement and Style written by Duane Frederick Watson and published by Society of Biblical Literature. This book was released on 1988 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Psalms in Form written by J. P. Fokkelman and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable tool for scholars and students working on the Hebrew text of the Psalms. For the first time, the text of each psalm is presented at a glance with original poetic divisions. An introduction provides the theoretical justification for the divisions.
Download or read book Religion Index One written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
