Within this introduction, he lays out some key theoretical assumptions: 1) the notion of individual authorship is anachronistic in the historical context of the Hebrew Bible and its formative years in the first millennium BCE (p. 1) and 2) notions of individual authorship “assume the convenience...
Suffice to say that when there is a physical description of some kind, it is consistent with what we’ve seen so far – humanoid, but often impressive, powerful, or even terrifying (in action, if not appearance). Here are a few relevant quotes from mostly unrelated events and passages. A...
When it is stated that this department of Biblical exegesis is interspersed with homiletics, the beautiful maxims and ethical sayings of illustrious men, attractive mystical expositions about angels and demons, paradise and hell, Messiah and the Prince of Darkness; poetical allegories, symbolical ...
Seems they have to find some more human description of Jesus from a four year old higher authority. You have to be a really brave man to dare to tell one of those women that this kid really did not go to heaven. You take your life in your hands. There were also several othe...
Therefore, he gave a wider view or description of Jesus’ temptation. Mark's gospel author is unknow, but the Goespel very likely took shape in Rome in the late 60s. It was probably written c.66-70 CE when the Christian community was being persecuted for their supposed guilt in the ...
You see in verse 24 the first word "therefore," this means we're now going to see a description that connects to what has been said. If you go back to verse 18, "The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men," and we could stop at ...
turned to alternative medicines or to renowned healers of their day. A basic pattern common to the healing stories at the Ascelpius temple in Greece, in the gospels, and in other ancient sources is as follows: (1) a description of the illness and the ...
21Though Goody’s analysis in this book and others depends largely upon anthropological fieldwork in Africa, his description of the cognitive effect of a ‘list’ aptly cap-tures some of the most important features of the Eusebian canon tables, features that people like ourselves, who are ...