Download or read book Stockmen from Tekoa Sycamores from Sheba written by Richard C. Steiner and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brief but far-ranging book, Steiner addresses key issues concerning the descriptions of Amos's occupations. It features a thorough linguistic analysis of each relevant term or phrase, analyses of the how such professions were carried out, and an examination of the social role and standing of those so engaged. S. convincingly solves the apparent contradiction of Amos's claim to be a "cattleman" (boqer, 7:14) and his being taken "from behind the flock" (so'n, 7:15). Moreover, Steiner finds Amos's life as a stockman to be compatible with that of a harvester of sycomore figs (boles siqmim, 7:14; note the spelling "sycomore," to differentiate between ficus sycomorus and the unrelated "sycamore" of North America and Europe).
Download or read book Stockmen from Tekoa Sycomores from Sheba written by Richard C. Steiner and published by Catholic Biblical Assn of Amer. This book was released on 2003 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brief but far-ranging book, Steiner addresses key issues concerning the descriptions of Amos's occupations. It features a thorough linguistic analysis of each relevant term or phrase, analyses of the how such professions were carried out, and an examination of the social role and standing of those so engaged. S. convincingly solves the apparent contradiction of Amos's claim to be a "cattleman" (bôqer, 7:14) and his being taken "from behind the flock" (so'n, 7:15). Moreover, Steiner finds Amos's life as a stockman to be compatible with that of a harvester of sycomore figs (bôles siqmîm, 7:14; note the spelling "sycomore," to differentiate between ficus sycomorus and the unrelated "sycamore" of North America and Europe).
Download or read book Stockmen from Tekoa Sycamores from Sheba written by Richard C. Steiner and published by Pickwick Publications. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brief but far-ranging book, Steiner addresses key issues concerning the descriptions of Amos's occupations. It features a thorough linguistic analysis of each relevant term or phrase, analyses of the how such professions were carried out, and an examination of the social role and standing of those so engaged. S. convincingly solves the apparent contradiction of Amos's claim to be a "cattleman" (boqer, 7:14) and his being taken "from behind the flock" (so'n, 7:15). Moreover, Steiner finds Amos's life as a stockman to be compatible with that of a harvester of sycomore figs (boles siqmim, 7:14; note the spelling "sycomore," to differentiate between ficus sycomorus and the unrelated "sycamore" of North America and Europe).
Download or read book Celebrating Paul written by Peter Spitaler and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The significance of the Pauline writings / Joseph A. Fitzmyer -- Divisions are necessary (1 Corinthians 11:19) / Jerome Murphy-O'Connor -- In search of the historical Paul / James D.G. Dunn -- "I rate all things as loss": Paul's puzzling accounting system: Judaism as loss or the re-evaluation of all things in Christ? / William S. Campbell -- Paul and the Jewish tradition: the ideology of the Shema / Mark D. Nanos -- Paul, a change agent: model for the twenty-first century / John J. Pilch -- Paul's four discourses about sin / Stanley K. Stowers -- Adam and Christ in the Pauline Epistles / Pheme Perkins -- Living in newness of life: Paul's understanding of the moral life / Frank J. Matera -- Ecocentric or anthropocentric?: a reading of Romans 8:18-25 / Jan Lambrecht -- "Set apart for the gospel" (Romans 1:1): Paul's self-introduction in the letter to the Romans / Ekkehard W. Stegemann -- Adam, Christ, and the law in Romans 5-8 / Brendan Byrne --, and in Paul's writings / Helmut Koester -- Interpreting Romans 11:14: what is at stake? / Jean-Noël Aletti -- Reinterpreting Romans 13 within its broader context / Robert Jewett -- "To the Jew first" (Romans 1:16): Paul's defense of Jewish privilege in Romans / Gregory Tatum -- Paul, ritual purity, and the ritual baths south of the Temple Mount (Acts 21:15-28) / David E. Aune -- Where have all my siblings gone?: a reflection on the use of kinship language in the Pastoral Epistles / Raymond F. Collins -- Augustine's Pauline method: 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 as a case study / Thomas F. Martin.
Download or read book Amos written by Göran Eidevall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes -- Comments -- Reinterpretations of the Words of Amos (8:4-14) -- Introduction to 8:4-14 -- Notes -- Comments -- A Vision of Inescapable Destruction (9:1-4) -- Introduction to 9:1-4, the So-Called Fifth Vision -- Notes -- Comments -- The Last Doxology (9:5-6) -- Introduction to 9:5-6 -- Notes -- Comments -- The Turning Point (9:7-10) -- Introduction to 9:7-10 -- Notes -- Comments -- A Hopeful Epilogue (9:11-15) -- Introduction to 9:11-15 -- Notes -- Comments -- Notes -- Index of Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Index of Authors -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Index of Ancient Sources
Download or read book Intertextual Studies in Ben Sira and Tobit written by Jeremy Corley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers 17 essays on the apocryphal/deuterocanonical books of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus) and Tobit. Four essays explore Tobit's connections with Genesis (Irene Nowell), Job (Anathea Portier-Young), Psalms (Stephen Ryan), and the New Testament (Vincent Skemp), with a fifth considering the medieval Hebrew and Aramaic Tobit texts (Loren Stuckenbruck and Stuart Weeks). Five further essays examine Ben Sira's links with Genesis (Maurice Gilbert), Exodus (Friedrich Reiterer), Kings (Pancratius Beentjes), Prophets (Leo Perdue), and Proverbs (Jeremy Corley). Seven more essays on Ben Sira refer to the patriarch Joseph (Robert Hayward), Ezra (Michael Duggan), fear of God (Renate Egger-Wenzel), Qoheleth (Edward Owens), First Enoch (Benjamin Wright), Letter of James (Nuria Calduch-Benages), and Matthew's Gospel (James Aitken).
Download or read book The Arabic Ethiopic Glossary by al Malik al Af al written by Maria Bulakh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arabic-Ethiopic Glossary by al-Malik al-Afḍal by Maria Bulakh and Leonid Kogan is a detailed annotated edition of a unique monument of Late Medieval Arabic lexicography, comprising 475 Arabic lexemes (some of them post-classical Yemeni dialectisms) translated into several Ethiopian idioms and put down in Arabic letters in a late-fourteenth century manuscript from a codex in a private Yemeni collection. For the many languages involved, the Glossary provides the earliest written records, by several centuries pre-dating the most ancient attestations known so far. The edition, preceded by a comprehensive linguistic introduction, gives a full account of the comparative material from all known Ethiopian Semitic languages. A detailed index ensures the reader’s orientation in the lexical treasures revealed from the Glossary.
Download or read book Rethinking Biblical Scholarship written by Philip R. Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rethinking Biblical Scholarship" brings together seminal essays to provide readers with an assessment of the archaeological and exegetical research which has transformed the discipline of biblical studies over the last two decades. The essays focus on history and historiography, exploring how scholarly constructs and ideologies mould historical, literary and cultural data and shape scholarly discourse. Most of the essays illustrate the development of what has been called a "minimalist" methodology. Among the many central topics examined are the formation of the Jewish scriptural canon and how the concepts of "prophecy" and "apocalypse" illuminate the emergence of Judaism in the late Persian and Hellenistic periods.
Download or read book Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency Commentaries on Amos and Jonah With Selections from Isaiah and Ezekiel written by Robert A Harris and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency represents the pinnacle of twelfth-century rabbinic exegesis of the Bible. A proponent of the literal school, Eliezer completely abandoned traditional rabbinic midrash in his explication of biblical texts, and innovated a literary approach that anticipated the fruits of modern scholarship in virtually every paragraph. This volume presents, for the first time in English translation, an extended window into the oeuvre of this master interpreter.
Download or read book Amos and the Cosmic Imagination written by James R. Linville and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Said to contain the words of the earliest of the biblical prophets (8th century BCE), the book of Amos is reinterpreted by the author in light of new and sometimes controversial historical approaches to the Bible. Amos is read as the literary product of the Persian-era community in Judah. Its representations of divine-human communication are investigated in the context of the ancient writers' own role as transmitters and shapers of religious traditions. Amos's extraordinary poetry expresses mythical conceptions of divine manifestation and a process of destruction and recreation of the cosmos which reveals that behind the appearances of the natural world is a heavenly, cosmic temple.
Download or read book The Levites and the Boundaries of Israelite Identity written by Mark Leuchter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Levites and the Boundaries of Israelite Identity brings renewed attention to the place of the Levites in the definition of Israelite concepts and myths of identity, from the early Iron Age through the late Persian period
Download or read book Non Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible written by Benjamin J. Noonan and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Palestine served as a land bridge between the continents of Asia, Africa, and Europe, and as a result, the ancient Israelites frequently interacted with speakers of non-Semitic languages, including Egyptian, Greek, Hittite and Luwian, Hurrian, Old Indic, and Old Iranian. This linguistic contact led the ancient Israelites to adopt non-Semitic words, many of which appear in the Hebrew Bible. Benjamin J. Noonan explores this process in Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible, which presents a comprehensive, up-to-date, and linguistically informed analysis of the Hebrew Bible’s non-Semitic terminology. In this volume, Noonan identifies all the Hebrew Bible’s foreign loanwords and presents them in the form of an annotated lexicon. An appendix to the book analyzes words commonly proposed to be non-Semitic that are, in fact, Semitic, along with the reason for considering them as such. Noonan’s study enriches our understanding of the lexical semantics of the Hebrew Bible’s non-Semitic terminology, which leads to better translation and exegesis of the biblical text. It also enhances our linguistic understanding of the ancient world, in that the linguistic features it discusses provide significant insight into the phonology, orthography, and morphology of the languages of the ancient Near East. Finally, by tying together linguistic evidence with textual and archaeological data, this work extends our picture of ancient Israel’s interactions with non-Semitic peoples. A valuable resource for biblical scholars, historians, archaeologists, and others interested in linguistic and cultural contact between the ancient Israelites and non-Semitic peoples, this book provides significant insight into foreign contact in ancient Israel.
Download or read book Rashi Biblical Interpretation and Latin Learning in Medieval Europe written by Mordechai Z. Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new look at Rashi's innovative commentary that sheds unique light on medieval Jewish and Christian learning and Bible interpretation.
Download or read book Early Northwest Semitic Serpent Spells in the Pyramid Texts written by Richard C. Steiner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword / by Robert K. Ritner -- Introduction -- R'r-R?', the Two-Headed mother snake -- The Semitic spells and their Egyptian context -- Old Egyptian phonology -- Conclusions.
Download or read book Studies in the Greek Bible written by Jeremy Corley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword, written by Alexander A. Di Lella appears after "Contents" and a photo of the honoree; then, Introduction, by the editors. The contributions, thirteen in all, are divided into four parts: One: Genesis Creation Traditions; Two: Later Septuagintal Books; Three: New Testament Texts; and Four: Linguistic Studies. Next there is a bibliography of Fr. Gignac; a list of the contributors, with their academic locations; Index of Ancient Sources; Index of Authors; Index of Subjects.
Download or read book The Book of Amos and its Audiences Prophecy Poetry and Rhetoric written by Andrew R. Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the poetic audiences of the book of Amos by distinguishing the textual addressee from its actual audiences.
Download or read book The Rule of Peshat written by Mordechai Z. Cohen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the theoretical underpinnings of the philological method of Jewish Bible interpretation known as peshat Within the rich tradition of Jewish biblical interpretation, few concepts are as vital as peshat, often rendered as the "plain sense" of Scripture. Generally contrasted with midrash—the creative and at times fanciful mode of reading put forth by the rabbis of Late Antiquity—peshat came to connote the systematic, philological-contextual, and historically sensitive analysis of the Hebrew Bible, coupled with an appreciation of the text's literary quality. In The Rule of "Peshat," Mordechai Z. Cohen explores the historical, geographical, and theoretical underpinnings of peshat as it emerged between 900 and 1270. Adopting a comparative approach that explores Jewish interactions with Muslim and Christian learning, Cohen sheds new light on the key turns in the vibrant medieval tradition of Jewish Bible interpretation. Beginning in the tenth century, Jews in the Middle East drew upon Arabic linguistics and Qur'anic study to open new avenues of philological-literary exegesis. This Judeo-Arabic school later moved westward, flourishing in al-Andalus in the eleventh century. At the same time, a revolutionary peshat school was pioneered in northern France by the Ashkenazic scholar Rashi and his circle of students, whose methods are illuminated by contemporaneous trends in Latinate learning in the Cathedral Schools of France. Cohen goes on to explore the heretofore little-known Byzantine Jewish exegetical tradition, basing his examination on recently discovered eleventh-century commentaries and their offshoots in southern Italy in the twelfth century. Lastly, this study focuses on three pivotal figures who represent the culmination of the medieval Jewish exegetical tradition: Abraham Ibn Ezra, Moses Maimonides, and Moses Nahmanides. Cohen weaves together disparate Jewish disciplines and external cultural influences through chapters that trace the increasing force acquired by the peshat model until it could be characterized, finally, as the "rule of peshat": the central, defining feature of Jewish hermeneutics into the modern period.
