Download or read book The Rhetorical Use of Numbers in the Deuteronomistic History written by Denise C. Flanders and published by Vetus Testamentum, Supplements. This book was released on 2022 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Deuteronomistic History contains many vast troop and casualty numbers. What purpose does this literary device of numerical hyperbole serve? What rhetorical purposes do any of the numbers in this text serve? In The Rhetorical Use of Numbers in the Deuteronomistic History: "Saul Has Killed His Thousands, David His Tens of Thousands," Denise Flanders explores the variety of rhetorical effects that numbers have on the narrative of Joshua-2 Kings. Flanders demonstrates that numbers in Joshua-2 Kings often work in surprising and subversive ways. Rather than regularly glorifying a leader, large casualty numbers may actually anticipate a ruler's downfall. Rather than underscoring an Israelite battle victory, numbers sometimes qualify or undermine the triumph of victories"--

Download or read book Developing a Contextualized Church Planting Model written by Joshua Aslanbek and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church planting ministries in Kyrgyzstan have been going on for over twenty-five years since Kyrgyzstan became independent from the former Soviet Union. There were great advances in the many people in Kyrgyzstan who came to Christ and for the churches that were planted in many different places in Kyrgyzstan. In spite of the great advances in the past, nowadays many local church pastors or leaders and expatriates are expressing that the churches in Kyrgyzstan are facing stagnation or even decreasing in numbers. This study seeks to understand the fruitful practices for church planting among Muslims being used by indigenous churches in Bishkek Kyrgyzstan, theoretical frameworks of the church planting models, and the socio-cultural and historic-religious characteristics of Muslims in Kyrgyzstan. Field research was conducted at three, registered, Kyrgyz-speaking churches using participant observation and with seven Kyrgyz church pastors who have church planting experience and are engaged in church ministry in the Bishkek area using semi-structured interviews. Field research revealed historical church planting factors of government-registered, Kyrgyz churches in Bishkek, some significant characteristics of Kyrgyz church leaders/pastors, and fruitful church planting practices among Muslims in Kyrgyzstan. In addition, findings from the literature review and the field research were integrated to classify the church planting process and identify fruitful practices of church planting among Muslims in Kyrgyzstan. Finally, this dissertation addresses a strategic plan of action for implementing a contextualized church planting model in the Kyrgyz context and church planting team setting. Additionally, application and recommendation are presented for local church planters, expat church planters and organizational agents. The central claim of this dissertation addresses the relationship of church planting models and fruitful practices of indigenous churches for developing a church planting model among Muslims in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Download or read book The Rhetoric of Remembrance written by Jerry Hwang and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To whom is Moses speaking in Deuteronomy? This question is controversial in OT scholarship. Some passages in Deuteronomy indicate that Moses is addressing the first exodus generation that witnessed Horeb (Deut 5:3–4), while other passages point to the second exodus generation that survived the wilderness (Deut 1:35; 2:14–16). Redaction critics such as Thomas Römer and John Van Seters view the chronological problems in Deuteronomy as evidence of multiple tradition layers. Although other scholars have suggested that Deuteronomy’s conflation of chronology is a rhetorical move to unify Israel’s generations, no analysis has thus far explored in detail how the blending of “you” and the “fathers” functions as a rhetorical device. However, a rhetorical approach to the “fathers” is especially appropriate in light of three features of Deuteronomy. First, a rhetorical approach recognizes that the repetitiveness of the Deuteronomic style is a homiletical strategy designed to inculcate the audience with memory. The book is shot through with exhortations for Israel to remember the past. Second, a rhetorical approach recognizes that collective memory entails the transformation of the past through actualization for the present. Third, a rhetorical approach to Deuteronomy accords well with the book’s self-presentation as “the words that Moses spoke” (1:1). The book of Deuteronomy assumes a canonical posture by embedding the means of its own oral and written propagation, thereby ensuring that the voice of Moses speaking in the book of Deuteronomy resounds in Israel’s ears as a perpetually authoritative speech-act. The Rhetoric of Remembrance demonstrates that Deuteronomy depicts the corporate solidarity of Israel in the land promised to the “fathers” (part 1), under the sovereignty of the same “God of the fathers” across the nation’s history (part 2), as governed by a timeless covenant of the “fathers” between YHWH and his people (part 3). In the narrative world of Deuteronomy, the “fathers” begin as the patriarchs, while frequently scrolling forward in time to include every generation that has received YHWH’s promises but nonetheless continues to await their fulfillment. Hwang’s study is an insightful, innovative approach that addresses crucial aspects of the Deuteronomic style with a view to the theological effect of that style. Jerry Hwang (Ph.D., Wheaton College) serves as Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Singapore Bible College.

Download or read book The Composition of the Deuteronomistic History written by Brian Peckham and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Deuteronomist s History written by Hans Ausloos and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Deuteronomist’s History, Hans Ausloos provides for the first time a detailed status quaestionis concerning the relationship between the books Genesis–Numbers and the so-called Deuteronom(ist)ic literature. After a presentation of the origins of the 18th and 19th century hypothesis of a Deuteronom(ist)ic redaction, specific attention is paid to the argumentation used during the last century. Particular interest also is paid to the concept of the proto-Deuteronomist and the mostly tentative approaches of the Deuteronom(ist)ic ‘redaction’ of the Pentateuch during the last decades. The book concludes with a critical review and preview of the Deuteronom(ist)ic problem. Each phase in the Deuteronomist’s history is illustrated on the basis of the epilogue of the Book of the Covenant (Exod. 23:20-33).

Download or read book The Chroniclers Use of the Deuteronomistic History written by Steven L. McKenzie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Deuteronomistic History written by Martin Noth and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1991 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Deuteronomy in the Pentateuch Hexateuch and the Deuteronomistic History written by Konrad Schmid and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mainly revised papers from sessions of the Pentateuch Section and the Deuteronomistic History Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, held at the Society's 2010 annual meeting in Atlanta.

Download or read book Reading Law written by James W. Watts and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watts here argues that conventions of oral rhetoric were adapted to shape the literary form and contents of the Pentateuch. The large-scale structure-stories introducing lists of laws that conclude with divine sanctions-reproduces a common ancient strategy for persuasion. The laws' use of direct address, historical motivations and frequent repetitions serve rhetorical ends, and even the legal contradictions seem designed to appeal to competing constituencies. The instructional speeches of God and Moses reinforce the persuasive appeal by characterizing God as a just ruler and Moses as a faithful scribe. The Pentateuch was designed to persuade Persian-period Judaeans that this Torah should define their identity as Israel.

Download or read book The Deuteronomic History and the Book of Chronicles written by Raymond F. Person and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2010 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reexamines and reconstructs the relationship between the Deuteronomistic History and the book of Chronicles, building on recent developments such as the Persian -period dating of the Deuteronomistic History, the contribution of oral traditional studies to understanding the production of biblical texts, and the reassessment of Standard Biblical Hebrew and Late Biblical Hebrew. These new perspectives challenge widely held understandings of the relationship between the two scribal works and strongly suggest that they were competing historiographies during the Persian period that nevertheless descended from a common source. This new reconstruction leads to new readings of the literature.

Download or read book The Deuteronomistic History Hypothesis written by Mark A. O'Brien and published by Saint-Paul. This book was released on 1989 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision of author's doctoral thesis submitted to the Melbourne College of Divinity in 1987.

Download or read book Miracle in Isaiah written by John Goldingay and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book of Isaiah places a distinctive emphasis on the miraculous. It speaks about the miraculous more than any other book of Scripture. Because miracle runs through the whole of the prophecy, careful attention to it, as John Goldingay gives it here, not only unfolds the message of Isaiah but allows the theme to become a detailed commentary on the God of miracles. Miracle is a tricky word, so Goldingay defines what is meant by the miraculous in Isaiah before considering the miraculous features throughout the book: in testimonies to Yahweh's extraordinary communication with people such as prophets, in reminders of Yahweh's extraordinary acts long ago, in reports of the extraordinary acts whereby Yahweh rescues his people within the book's temporal framework, in promises of Yahweh's extraordinary acts of restoration in the future, and in Yahweh's extraordinary acts toward other peoples. What of the miracles of long ago? Did God create the world, devastate it and then start it off again, summon Abraham, deliver Israel from Egypt, drown the Egyptian army in the Red Sea, take the Israelites through the wilderness, dispossess the Canaanites, defeat the Midianites? What about the miracles that come after, including those witnessed in the New Testament--especially the raising of Jesus from the grave? Goldingay points to the interweaving of miracle with narrative in Isaiah itself to provide a clue: these are stories about real events which, with the help of the Spirit of God, have become narratives that captivate and edify.

Download or read book The Authors of the Deuteronomistic History written by Brian Neil Peterson and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peterson engages the identities and provenances of the authors of the various "editions" of the Deteronomistic History. Peterson asks where we might locate a figure with both motive and opportunity to draw up a proto-narrative including elements of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and the first part of 1 Kings. Peterson identifies a particular candidate in the time of David qualified to write the first edition. He then identifies the particular circle of custodians of the Deuteronomistic narrative and supplies successive redactions down to the time of Jeremiah.

Download or read book The Death of the Old and the Birth of the New written by Dennis T. Olson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Double Redaction of the Deuteronomistic History written by Richard Donald Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The So called Deuteronomistic History written by Thomas Römer and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The so-called Deuteronomistic History' is an introduction to the social setting and the composition of the books from the Deuteronomy to Kings.

Download or read book Prophets Priests and Promises written by Gary N. Knoppers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents collected essays of Gary N. Knoppers (1956–2018) on the historical books of the Hebrew Bible, among them seven thoroughly revised and eight newly published ones. An introduction by H.G.M. Williamson acknowledges their significance for Knoppers’ oeuvre.