Diaspora in critical studies of the New Testament is evolving as a varied scholarly conversation. Some scholars talk about diaspora in relation to the history of Jewish dispersion from Judea, be it at the time of Babylon or beyond. Others talk about diaspora in the writings of the Christian Te...
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First, using Proverb’s Lady Wisdom as a jumping point for women’s literacy in ancient Judah and Israel, he provides an overview of other evidence for woman scribes in the ancient Near East and the bureaucratic role of queen mothers, who likely had a degree of scribal education. Second, ...
To tie existence of the immaterial nature of man to an arbitrarily defined degree of development of the body would in my mind force one to conclude that children who are so severely developmentally disabled that their immaterial nature is not self evident or elderly who are suffering the final ...
In this study I describe Mieke Bal's interdisciplinary hermeneutic and its contribution to biblical studies in general, and feminist biblical criticism in particular. As such, I have organized my study into four chapters that unfold along these lines: Bal's contribution in the form of her ...
This also shows the high degree of sophistication in the Astronomy of the Biblical Patriarchs at a very early time in the antediluvian age. This is a witness to the ancient knowledge of the Sothic cycle in Job, based on the cycles of the dog-star Sirius, related to Orion's belt. The...
A graduate of the University of South Florida, he holds a master of theology degree and Ph.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary. As a nationally recognized expert in worldview, Brown has authored three books (Making Sense of Your Faith; Where Have All the Dreamers Gone?: Observations from a...
There is nothing particularly novel or revolutionary in the videos that is not already covered to some degree in the textbook. But especially for a student who is making her or his way through the book alone, the video lectures serve to reinforce the material in a new medium. Even a studen...
The materialist has imported a degree of Descartes’ (and whether Descartes is the culprit here or merely the shorthand makes no difference to my argument) brain – mind split. There is no metaphysical switch in the pineal gland.[2] I find no such segregation in the Scripture, but rather ...
(at leastpotentially) be constantly interrupted by his or her perusalof a second codex in order to compare multiple texts side-by-side. To this degree, Codex Fuldensis supports Kelber’sargument that the canon tables enforce a certain kindof closure, by distancing the text of the gospels ...