Die Studie analysiert die Bedeutsamkeit von religiöser Sprache in avantgardistischen technologischen Kontexten. Es zeigt sich, dass auch die Spitzenforschenden im Bereich der KI sehr gerne auf ...theologische Terminologie zurückgreifen, um die herausragende Wichtigkeit ihrer Errungenschaften zu explizieren. Sie definieren „Gott als das intelligenteste denkbare Wesen“ und identifizieren dieses mit den in der Entwicklung befindlichen Höchstleistungscomputern. KI gewinnt damit den Charakter eines Heilsereignisses und wird zum finalen Evolutionsschritt wahrer Religion. Die Verheißung göttliche Intelligenz fungiert – wo wird in einem zweiten Teil gezeigt – in der gegenwärtigen Werbung als Lockmittel für bewusstseinserweiternde Techniken und Psychopharmaka. Demgegenüber ist die biblische Literatur sehr nüchtern und realistisch. Wie der dritte Teil aufzeigt, klärt die alttestamentliche Weisheit bei aller Wertschätzung der menschlichen Vernunft deren Grenzen kritisch auf und fungiert als Warnung vor leichtfertigen Heilsversprechen der KI und einer Hybris von Menschen, die das Menschliche und das Göttliche aus den Augen zu verlieren
This is part of a three-volume final report of the renewed excavations at Ramat Raḥel by the Tel Aviv–Heidelberg Expedition (2005−2010). It presents the finds from the ...Babylonian-Persian pit, one of the most dramatic find-spots at Ramat Raḥel. The pit yielded a rich assemblage of pottery vessels and yhwd , lion, and sixth-century “private” stamp impressions, including, for the first time, complete restored stamped jars, jars bearing two handles stamped with different yhwd impressions, and jars bearing both lion and “private” stamp impressions on their bodies. Residue analysis was conducted on many of the vessels excavated from the pit to analyze their contents, yielding surprising results. The finds contribute to our understanding of the pottery of the Babylonian and early Persian periods (6th−5th centuries BCE) and to the study of the development of the stamped-jar administration in the province of Yehud under Babylonian and Persian rule.
Also available from Eisenbrauns: Ramat Raḥel III: Final Publication of Aharoni'’s Excavations at Ramat Raḥel (1954, 1959–1962) by Oded Lipschits, Yuval Gadot, and Liora Freud; and Ramat Raḥel IV: The Renewed Excavations by the Tel Aviv–Heidelberg Expedition (2005–2010): Stratigraphy and Architecture , by Oded Lipschits, Mandred Oeming, and Yuval Gadot.
Tel Ramat Ra?el, located halfway between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, holds the key to understanding much of the political, economic, and social history of Judah during the Iron, Persian, Hellenistic, ...Roman, Byzantine, and Early Islamic periods. Yohanan Aharoni’s excavations at the site between 1954 and 1962 began the process of unraveling the site’s millennial secrets, but his reports were preliminary, and he left many issues unresolved.
In 2005, Oded Lipschits of Tel Aviv University and Manfred Oeming of Heidelberg University began an extended expedition at the site. The two main missions of their project were to complete publication of Aharoni’s excavations (a White-Levy project) and to open up new areas of excavation at the site. The combination of the two missions has enabled their team to challenge Aharoni’s reconstruction of the site and to present an innovative, alternative depiction of the stratigraphy, architecture, and material culture of Ramat Ra?el. This new perception of the site has also served as the basis for a comprehensive reevaluation of the political, social, and economic history of the kingdom of Judah.
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This article asserts that human artists create works that are ambiguous and cannot be reduced to one single meaning, a concept that we accept into our daily lives. If we can understand and negotiate ...uncertainty in art and in our everday lives, surely we must consider a biblical hermeneutic that prizes ambiguity and the possibility of multiple and conflicting interpretations.
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Job's Journey Oeming, Manfred; Schmid, Konrad
2015, Volume:
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From the Introduction: "The book of Job does not promote silence about God because we cannot say anything about him. Otherwise, this book would never have been written. But the book of Job does bid ...farewell to certain types of theology-and we need not bemoan their loss: theology as the wisdom of the world projected into heaven; theology as pious reflection on a higher being that then mistakes traditional or innovative ideas about God entirely for God himself; theology that purports to communicate direct revelation from God. The book of Job distrusts and disbelieves all this to its core. Instead, it states clearly that this is not God; these are only graven images. Such fundamental criticism of all pseudo-theology is-and here we can only agree with the book of Job-not the end but the very beginning of theology." This book is not an attempt to cover every angle and answer every question that we have about the book of Job. Instead, Konrad Schmid, in the introductory chapter, provides us with an analysis of the structure of the book that helps us to see the book as a whole. And Manfred Oeming, in the chapters that follow, provides clear snapshots of various elements of the book, including a summary of the dialogues, Job's monologue, Elihu's speech ("the Anti-Monologue"), Job's encounter with God, and the destination (of Job's journey). Between them, the two authors provide an accessible scholarly and theological approach to the book that is richly satisfying.
The Late Bronze Age in the Levant is a period of much interest to archaeologists, historians and biblical scholars. This is a period with intense international relations, rich in ancient sources, ...which provide historical data for the period, and is a crucial formative period for the peoples and cultures who play central roles in the Hebrew Bible. Recent archaeological research in Israel and surrounding countries has provided new, exciting, and in some cases, groundbreaking finds, interpretations and understanding of this period. The fourteen papers in this volume represent the proceedings of a conference held at Bar-Ilan University in 2014 (with the additional of several invited papers not presented at the conference), which provide both overviews of Late Bronze Age finds from several important sites in Israel and surrounding countries, as well as several synthetic studies on the various issues relating to the period. These papers, by and large, represent a broad view of cuttting edge research in the archaeology of the ancient Levant in general, and on the Late Bronze Age specifically.
