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Independently Published Proverbs for Kids and those who love them: How God Teaches Wisdom Using earthly creatures
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Independently Published Proverbs for Kids and those who love them: How God Teaches Wisdom Using parts of the human body
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Matthews Account of the Massacre of the Innocents
Book SynopsisSung Cho addresses the seeming contradiction of Herod the Great's massacre in Matthew 2:16-18, questioning why such a tragedy had to occur, why it was included in the good news of Jesus, and what connection it has to ancient prophecies. In creating a reception history of the Massacre of the Innocents, Cho progresses through two millennia worth of interpretation and depiction to highlight key works for discussion. Beginning with a close reading of Matthew 2:16-18, Cho moves to analyse depictions of the tragedy in the Early Patristic Tradition, from the sixth century to the early modern period, and thus to the present day; complete with an examination of visual interpretations of the massacre. Cho''s examination provides a positive step to understanding the depths of human suffering with the help of many diverse perspectives.Trade ReviewAn intriguing and well-informed study. * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Matthew and Reception History 2. A Close Reading of Matthew 2:16-18 3. Massacre of the Innocents in Early Patristic Tradition (Second to Fifth Centuries) 4. Massacre of the Innocents from Sixth Century to 1516 5. Massacre of the Innocents from 1517 6. Visual Interpretations of the Massacre of the Innocents 7. Concluding Reflections Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Encountering the Parables in Contexts Old and New
Book SynopsisThomas E. Goud is Associate Professor of Classical and Early Christian Studies at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John, Canada, and co-chair of the Synoptic Gospels section of the international meeting of Society of Biblical Literature. J. Robert C. Cousland is Associate Professor of Early Christianity and Greek Religion & Mythology at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and former co-chair of the Synoptic Gospels section of the international meeting of Society of Biblical Literature. John Harrison is Professor of New Testament and Ministry at Oklahoma Christian University, USA, and co-chair of the Synoptic Gospels section of the international meeting of Society of Biblical Literature.Table of ContentsContributors Abbreviations Introduction: Encountering the Parables - T.E. Goud, University of New Brunswick in Saint John, Canada, J.R.C. Cousland, University of British Columbia, Canada, John P. Harrison, Oklahoma Christian University, USA Chapter Two: Many-fold Yields by Polyvalent Interpretation: The Parable of the Mustard Seed in the Synoptic Tradition - Ruben Zimmermann, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Germany Chapter Three: Harvest Imagery in Q Parables - Dieter Roth, Boston College, USA Chapter Four: Written and Unwritten Obligations: Dependency Relations in Early Roman Galilee - Douglas Oakman, Pacific Lutheran University, USA Chapter Five: A Realistic Reading of the Parable of the Lost Coin in Q: Gaining or Losing Even More? - Ernest van Eck, the University of Pretoria, South Africa Chapter Six: In Ferment: Is Jesus’ Parable of the Leaven - J.R.C. Cousland, University of British Columbia, Canada Chapter Seven: Telling Stories in a Violent World - T.E. Goud, University of New Brunswick in Saint John, Canada Chapter Eight: Oikodespótis, Kýrios, and Vasiléfs: Identifying Those with Slaves in Matthean Parables in Light of the Literary Evidence and Realia of Roman Palestine in the 1st Century - John P. Harrison, Oklahoma Christian University, USA Chapter Nine: Whose Voices Matter? A Persistent Widow in a Polyphonic Parable (Luke 18:1–8) - Ellen Reinertsen, University of Oslo, Norway Chapter Ten: Mirroring and Echoing: The Blend between Reflection of Reality and Evocation of Tradition in Jesus’ Parables - Stephen Wright, Spurgeon’s College, UK Chapter Eleven: The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard or of a Just Manager? - Deborah Storie, Stirling Theological College, Australia Chapter Twelve: Twenty Years of Experiencing the Parables in/of Africa - Glenna Jackson, Otterbein University, USA Chapter Thirteen: Encountering the Parables: Appreciation and Critique - Mary Ann Beavis, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Index
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Time Warner Trade Publishing Angels Among Us: What the Bible Reveals About
Book SynopsisAs a follow-up to This Season of Angels, bestselling author and internationally known minister Perry Stone investigates the angelic encounters of the Bible and explores their meanings and significance.What does the Bible say about angels? And why are they so shrouded in mystery? In This Season of Angels, Perry Stone revealed the pivotal roles angels will play during prophetic seasons. Now, in ANGELS AMONG US, Perry focuses on the angelic encounters of the Bible, and examines why God created them, how their hierarchy works, and more. ANGELS AMONG US will inspire you as you begin or end your day to recognise that you are always protected and guarded by God.
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Verlag Herder Hausbibel: Einheitsubersetzung. Altes Und Neues
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Pennsylvania State University Press Milton and the Parables of Jesus
Book SynopsisExamines Milton’s identification with characters in Jesus’s parables. Connects Milton’s engagement with the parables to his self-representation throughout his poetry and prose.Trade Review“Urban’s book makes a valuable contribution to an understanding of the parables—of Milton’s use of them—as well as to a comprehension of a significant aspect of the Renaissance and the Reformation.”—Jonathan Locke Hart Renaissance and Reformation“A significant addition to Milton scholarship in its own right, the book’s detailed endnotes provide a working critical compendium of major studies of Milton over at least the last half-century, up to and including very recent publications. There is not a significant controversy over Milton’s work that David Urban is unwilling to engage, and he does so with judicious fair-mindedness even to scholars with whom he finds himself disagreeing.”—William Shullenberger Review of English Studies“Shrewdly engaging Milton criticism, both new and old, and fastidiously taking stock of Milton’s major works, early and late, Urban proves himself a faithful steward as well here. Subsequent studies on Milton’s debt to the parables will have to track through Urban’s house.”—Bryan Adams Hampton The Seventeenth Century“Urban’s chapters on the sonnets (especially 7 and 19) and the early poems, as well as his discussion of The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce and De Doctrina Christiana, make a persuasive case for Milton’s reliance on Jesus’s parables as means of ethical self-conception.”—Ryan Netzley SEL: Studies in English Literature“While Urban leaves more work to be done with Milton and parables, this book usefully extends the range of future conversations on that topic. I very much recommend it and urge readers to be sure to read all the notes.”—David Ainsworth Ben Jonson Journal“In this highly readable book, Urban offers a sharp focus on the relationship of the personal and the poetic by arguing that, over the course of his life, Milton found deep connections between his own concerns and four of Jesus’s parables from the book of Matthew.”—Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler Renaissance Quarterly“Perhaps Urban’s most evident strength is his extensive engagement with earlier scholarship and controversies within Milton studies, a prowess surely due at least in part to his role as cocompiler and coeditor of John Milton: An Annotated Bibliography, 1989–1999. With respect to the variety and extensiveness of the notes, Urban is a Miltonist’s Miltonist.”—Joshua R. Held Modern Philology“In seeing Milton through the spectacles of the parables and in projecting that vision into his dramatic and poetic works, Urban sheds light on Milton’s meta-narrative of the self, which is at once artistic, theological and existential. Miltonists and readers of Christianity and Literature may welcome Milton and the Parables of Jesus as a major contribution to the study of Milton’s hermeneutic of the Bible and of self.”—Filippo Falcone Christianity and Literature“Milton and the Parables of Jesus offers the most comprehensive critical discussion of Milton’s engagement with biblical parables and consequently provides a potential model for other studies of early modern engagement with biblical parables. . . . Urban’s study introduces a consistent clarity to the topic of early modern parabolic reading that results in a wide range of insights regarding each of Milton’s major poetic works.”—Phillip J. Donnelley Religion and LiteratureTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Milton’s Hermeneutic of Parables, Milton’s Parabolic ImaginationPart 1: The Parable of the Talents and the Parable of the Laborers1. The Talented Mr. Milton: A Parabolic Laborer and His Identity2. Samson’s Late Call: Parabolic Tension and Resolution in Samson Agonistes3. Abdiel and the Son: Milton’s Ideal Relationship with the Two Parables in Paradise Lost and Paradise RegainedPart 2: The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins4. A “Virgin Wise and Pure”: Parabolic Self-Reference in Sonnet 95. The Wise Virgin in Action: The Lady of A Mask6. Wise Virginity Lost in Paradise Lost7. Perfect and Recovered Virginity in Paradise Regained and Samsom AgonistesPart 3: The Parable of the Householder8. “Out of His Treasury Things New and Old”: The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce and De Doctrina Christiana9. Milton’s Epic Narrators and the Son and Mary in Paradise Regained10. Internal and External Scripture in Samson AgonistesNotesIndex
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia On the Perpetual Strangeness of the Bible
Book SynopsisThe language of the Bible can be beautiful but profoundly elusive, possessing a strangeness that only deepens the committed reader’s sense of its impenetrability. This book offers a close reading of the Bible itself, directing attention to the text rather than to commentaries or to ostensible lessons to be discovered by paraphrase.Table of Contents 1. Preliminary 2. On Eating Honey 3. Paul on Life and Death 4. Heaven is Here 5. Seeing Revelation: The Writing 6. Seeing Revelation: The Images 7. Seeing Revelation: The Timing
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Faithlife Corporation Reading the Psalms Theologically
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Liverpool University Press Bede: Commentary on the Gospel of Luke
Book SynopsisCommenting on the Bible was the principal way in which early medieval Christians conducted the work of theology; commentaries also open a window for modern readers onto the way in which these people strove to understand humanity, the world and history through complex acts of layered winterpretation and cross-referencing within the sacred text. Bede's commentary on Luke, composed in the first half of the 710s, is a turning point in his career as an exegete. It is ambitious in its length, but also in its subject-matter, because the life of Christ is the key to the meaning of the entire Bible. To expound a Gospel also entails engaging with a formidable body of commentary by the Church Fathers. In Bede's case, the Luke commentary marks as well the moment when he publically asserts his own intellectual authority by displaying his mastery of the Patristic tradition, and by deftly confronting criticisms of his earlier works. Finally, Bede's treatment of Luke was highly influential in the Carolingian Renaissance, and in the compilation of the Glossa Ordinaria in the twelfth century. This translation is thus an important resource for historians, as well as scholars interested in the role of the Bible in medieval culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Why did Bede compose a Commentary on Luke? 2. The structure of On Luke. 3. Bede's expository strategies. 4. Key themes in On Luke. 5. Bede's style and vocabulary. 6. The manuscripts and the transmission of the text. 7. List of full manuscripts and manuscripts of extracts of Bede's Commentary on Luke. 8. Editions of Bede's Commentary on Luke. 9. Principles governing the present translation. Bede: Commentary on Luke Appendix 1. Emendations to text of CCSL 120. Appendix 2. Chapter numbers and Eusebian canon section numbers. Appendix 3. Luke canon section and table number with equivalent canon section numbers and modern chapter/verse parallels in Matthew, Mark, and John. Bibliography Index of Sources General Index
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Cambridge University Press An Augustinian Christology
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Zondervan Psalms
Book SynopsisA companion to the acclaimed Word Biblical Commentary, the Word Biblical Themes series helps readers discover the most important themes of a book of the Bible. This series distills the theological essence of a given book of Scripture and serves it up in ways that enrich the preaching, teaching, worship, and discipleship of God’s people.
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New Paradigm Pub. Searching for Wisdom
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Thomas Nelson Publishers Traveling Light
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Tyndale House Publishers Psalms 141 A Christian Union Bible Study
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Tyndale House Publishers Psalms 90150 A Christian Union Bible Study
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Rose Publishing Psalms
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Theologischer Verlag Die Erste Zurcherbibel: Erstmalige Teilweise
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Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Heilige Schriften Heute Verstehen: Christen Und
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Talking God in Society: Multidisciplinary (Re)constructions of Ancient (Con)texts. Festschrift for Peter Lampe
Book SynopsisPeter Lampe's work has covered a wide range of fields, the common denominator being his interest in contextualising belief systems. Mirroring his multifaced work, the authors pursue his interest from different interdisciplinary angles, addressing the interdependence between religious expressions and their situations or contexts. The application of theoretical models to texts examples flank the inspiring theoretical -- epistemological and methodological -- reflections. Studies in socio-economic and political history adjoin archaeological, epigraphic, papyrological and iconographic investigations. (Soci-)psychological interpretations of texts complement rhetorical analyses. The hermeneutical reception of biblical materials in, for example, the Koran and Christian Chinese or Orthodox contexts, as well as in religious education and homiletics, rounds off the volumes.
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Vida Publishers El Tesoro de David II: La Revelación Escritural a
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Vida Publishers Comentario Al Texto Hebreo del Antiguo Testamento
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