Though a relatively brief passage, John 5:24-29 is bursting with theological content. Verse 24 is a veritable summary of John's Gospel that echoes John 3:16 in terms of belief and eternal life. ...Verses 25-29 address weighty subjects including the identity of Christ, the final judgment and the resurrection of the dead. While multiple aspects of the text merit attention, this essay will explore homiletic possibilities related to three of its salient themes: hearing Christ, passing from death to life, and judgment on the basis of works.
Mezi lety 2003-2014 Lipnická bible přecházela od jednoho kupce ke druhému, až skončila v nově založeném Muzeu bible (Museum of Bibel) ve Washingtonu. Při přípravě velké lucemburské výstavy v New ...Yorku a Mnichově v letech 2005-2006 neunikla sice pozornosti historičky umění Barbary Drake Boehm, v širší známost ji však uvedlo teprve pojednání Lucie Doležalové v kolektivní monografii o středověké knihovně roudnických augustiniánských kanovníků.1 Se značnou pravděpodobností přitom Lipnická bible neměla s roudnickou kanonií nic společného, jak v úvodní stati pravila a novými poznatky obohatila své starší mínění Lucie Doležalová.2 S řadou shodných údajů se setkáváme i v dalších statích, a proto se přidržíme závěrečného shrnutí z pera druhého editora Karla Pacovského.3 Neznámý písař (ruka G) započal s opisem latinské bible nejpozději na jaře 1420 a podle explicitu na foliu 420rc ji dokončil na Lipnici v květnu 1421. Poslední změnu doznal kodex v dnešní podobě asi kolem poloviny 15. století, kdy byly na počátek bible připojeny doplňující texty, na nichž se podílelo šest písařů. Oporou tu je opět Přehled výzdoby od Marie Theisen na s. 314-331, z něhož jednoznačně plyne, že ve třetí fázi (F 3) byly provedeny nejen iniciály na předvázaných foliích 1r-15r a na dodatečně připojených textech foliích 399r-428r, ale i chybějící iniciály a lombardy v samotném textu bible.
Each of the four chapters of the book focuses on a different aspect of the division between Judah and Israel: between the Northern and Southern prophets, between the Jacob and Abraham narratives, ...between the Exodus and the Zion traditions and the circumstances of unification.
Can one hold consistently both that there is suffering in the world and that there is an omniscient, omnipotent, perfectly good God? This book argues that one can. The opening section presents ...current research related to autism spectrum disorder to contend that some philosophical problems, including the problem of evil, are best considered with the help of narratives. Then the book investigates the moral psychology and value theory within which one typical medieval theodicy — that of Thomas Aquinas — is embedded. It also makes use of recent work in developmental psychology to illuminate these views. In the third section, the book presents detailed, innovative exegeses of the stories of Job, Samson, Abraham, and Mary of Bethany, each of which is exemplary of a different form of suffering. In the context of the interpretations of these stories and the previous examination of Aquinas's views, the book then argues that an extended Thomistic theodicy can constitute a consistent and cogent defence for the problem of suffering.
In The Fourth Gospel and the Scriptures, Bynum presents new insights from ancient biblical manuscripts 4QXII and the Minor Prophets Scroll that help unlock the mystery of John's unique form of ...scriptural citation.
This study draws upon the biblical books of Kings, First Isaiah and Chronicles, in conjunction with Assyrian records and ancient Near Eastern archaeology, in order to provide an updated historical ...reconstruction of the influential Judean monarch Hezekiah.
Title Description: Karalina Matskevich examines the structures that map out the construction of gendered and national identities in Genesis 2–3 and 12–36. Matskevich shows how the dominant ‘Subject’ ...– the androcentric ha’adam and the ethnocentric Israel – is perceived in relation to and over against the ‘Other’, represented respectively as female and foreign. Using the tools of narratology, semiotics and psychoanalysis, Matskevich highlights the contradiction inherent in the project of dominance, through which the Subject seeks to suppress the transforming power of difference it relies on for its signification. Thus, in Genesis 2-3 ha’adam can only emerge as a complex Subject in possession of knowledge with the help of woman, the transforming Other to whom the narrator (and Yahweh) attributes both the agency and the blame. Similarly, the narratives of Genesis 12–36 show a conflicted attitude to places of alterity: Egypt, the fertile and seductive space that threatens annihilation, and Haran, the ‘mother’s land’, a complex metaphor for the feminine. The construction of identity in these narratives largely relies on the symbolic fecundity of the Other
Brennan W. Breed claims that biblical interpretation should focus on the shifting capacities of the text, viewing it as a dynamic process rather than a static product. Rather than seeking to ...determine the original text and its meaning, Breed proposes that scholars approach the production, transmission, and interpretation of the biblical text as interwoven elements of its overarching reception history. Grounded in the insights of contemporary literary theory, this approach alters the framing questions of interpretation from "What does this text mean?" to "What can this text do?"
