This revised edition includes a bibliographical essay by Silva,'Recent Developments in Semantics,'and an appendix by Karen H. Jobes,'Distinguishing the Meaning of Greek Verbs in the Semantic Domain for Worship,'that provides the reader with a substantive example of lexical study....
The meaning of the word would thus seem to be, in the N.T., the whole company of God's elect, those whom he has called to be his people under the new dispensation, as he did the Israelites under the old. Such is the signification in one of the two instances in which Christ uses...
This verse could be literal interpretation – that Jesus will keep His Body of believers who are living at this time out of the hands of the Antichrist. He obviously will do it by either rapturing them off the face of the earth, or by providing them with some kind of physical protection...
Suggests effective methods to understand the meaning of the biblical text Surveys the literary, cultural, social, and historical issues that impact any text Evaluates both traditional and modern approaches to Bible interpretation Examines the reader’s role as an interpreter of the text and helps iden...
Allegoricalinterpretation of the Bible is an interpretive method (exegesis) that assumes that the Bible has various levels of meaning and tends to focus on the spiritual sense, which includes the allegorical sense, the moral (or tropological) sense, and the anagogical sense, as opposed to the ...
I point out that Others in the Bible, as elsewhere, are textually and socially constructed, then illustrate the tension in the Bible regarding insider-outsider relations, a crucial site for embodying social holiness.3 This entails discussing the meaning of holiness/qadosh and how it gathers ...
Dr. Forrest E. Harris, Sr.President ofAmerican Baptist College: Survival of a Whole People: The Meaning of the African American Church(Townsend Press, 1998). What does it mean to be Black and Christian? Pulpit, Pew, and Academy in Dialogue(Townsend Press, 1996). ...
The answer is found in the definition of 'love', and that the fact that Biblical love is NOT a warm, gooey feeling inside, meaning that our feelings can align with true love, but it is not the foundation of it. Based on the above definitions of love, it is obvious that the Lord Go...
— The constitution declares that "the sole object of this society shall be to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment;" and "the only copies in the English language to be circulated by the society shall be of the version now in common use," meaning ...
What is the meaning of the expression, ‘according to the space between each one, with loyot’?—‘Like a man embracing his mate.’ Resh Lakish said, ‘When the foreigners entered the Sanctuary, they saw the cherubim with their bodies intertwined. They carried them out and said, ‘These...