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Second Temple Literature (UPDATED)
Second Temple period Literature UPDATED
2021 •
Doug Mason
An outline of Second Temple literature from the early post-exilic period through to the literature produced in the immediate aftermath of the destruction of the Second Temple. This is an expanded and restructured presentation.
Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions about Sex and Desire
Jennifer Knust
Biblical scholar Jennifer Wright Knust addressed the big questions that dominate today's discussions and debates when it comes to sex and the Bible: Is premarital sex a sin? When, and in what contexts, is sexual desire appropriate? With whom can I legitimately have sex? Are same-sex relations permissible? In an era where the phrases, "the Bible says," and "God says," are so often exploited, it is time to consider what the Bible actually does--or does not--say about monogamy, polygamy, hom*osexuality, gender roles, and sex.
Jesus Man Messenger Messiah by Abu Zakariya
Abubakar Surajo Ibrahim Kirare
Nearly two billion Christians and over 1.5 billion Muslims believe in him, yet Jesus is perhaps the most misunderstood and misrepresented person in history. This book explores and demystifies Jesus – his life, teachings, personality and mission. It highlights commonalities but also examines differences between Christianity and Islam. This book explains where and how the Qur’an challenges the traditional Church narrative.In doing so, it presents the reader with a compelling and clear understanding of Jesus and his true message. The book also demonstrates why the Qur’an is the ‘missing link’, that all important ‘bridge’ connecting Judaism and Christianity, uniting all of the Abrahamic faiths. Fully referenced and packed with up-to-date research, yet written in a readable style, this book will change your perspective on Jesus and his message forever!
Jesus Darkly: Remembering Jesus with the New Testament
Jesus Darkly: Remembering Jesus with the New Testament
2018 •
Rafael Rodriguez
New Testament students have not always been well served by study of the historical Jesus, which tends to segregate Jesus from his significance vis-à-vis Israel’s scriptures and God’s agenda as this is developed among the New Testament writers in the living context of a faith community’s memory. The witness of scripture does in fact help us remember Jesus well. From beginning to end, the Bible tells the story of God putting God’s family back together. Its plot develops in multiple, sometimes competing, ways. It exhibits the full range of human emotions and, perhaps surprisingly, it claims that these are also God’s emotions. But on every page, we hear the call of a God whose family has chosen an early inheritance instead of an intimate relationship. That God – pictured as a parent, often a father – beckons God’s children, inviting them to return and to sit at the table, clothed by mercy and affirmed as God’s very family.
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Hebraic Analysis for John 7:1-13
2022 •
Michael H Koplitz
The World Jesus Entered
2022 •
Jon Davies
The World Jesus Entered traces the roots of what would become the Christian religion during its first two centuries, from the time of Jesus to the second and third generations of Christian believers. Although Jesus was a Jew among Jews who focused his ministry within a Jewish milieu, the Jewish people were themselves part of a wider world that had heavily impacted their culture and society by the time of Jesus; that world would in turn eventually help shape what would become the religions of both Judaism and Christianity. As different parties fought to control Jewish adaptation to a post-Jerusalem-centered mindset, the teachings of Jesus would become subsumed by ideas and practices quite different from those recorded as belonging to the first generation of his followers. Four discrete chapters focus on differing influences--Jewish, non-Jewish, alt-Jewish, and Gnostic--as an introduction to the societies and cultures the teachings of Jesus entered. The book closes with two chapters showing how such influences impacted both Christian practice and doctrine, in the form of missionary activity and worship and in teachings regarding the afterlife and the very nature of existence proposed by the new Christian sect. As Jewish elites fought to define their culture and as non-Jewish Christians aimed to distinguish themselves from Jewish rebels fighting the Roman Empire and come to an understanding of the man-God Jesus who had been introduced to them, the faith Jesus founded would transform the world as much as it would be transformed by it.
The Lamb of God Title in John\u27s Gospel: Background, Exegesis, and Major Themes
2016 •
Christiane Shaker
This study focuses on the testimony of John the Baptist—“Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” [ἴδε ὁ ἀμνὸς τοῦ θεοῦ ὁ αἴρων τὴν ἁμαρτίαν τοῦ κόσμου] (John 1:29, 36)—and its impact on the narrative of the Fourth Gospel. The goal is to provide a deeper understanding of this rich image and its influence on the Gospel. In an attempt to do so, three areas of concentration are explored. First, the most common and accepted views of the background of the “Lamb of God” title in first century Judaism and Christianity are reviewed. An effort is made to determine the intended reference underlying the word “lamb,” whether taken literally or figuratively, and to analyze the title in light of the use of the lamb in the Old Testament Jewish animal sacrifices. The New Testament and Christian first century writings are also examined. Second, the study analyzes the literary structure of John 1, includes an exegesis of John 1:29-34, and discusses the Lamb of God title as well ...
The "Lamb of God" Title in John's Gospel: Background, Exegesis, and Major Themes
2016 •
Christiane Shaker
This study focuses on the testimony of John the Baptist—“Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” [ἴδε ὁ ἀμνὸς τοῦ θεοῦ ὁ αἴρων τὴν ἁμαρτίαν τοῦ κόσμου] (John 1:29, 36)—and its impact on the narrative of the Fourth Gospel. The goal is to provide a deeper understanding of this rich image and its influence on the Gospel. In an attempt to do so, three areas of concentration are explored. First, the most common and accepted views of the background of the “Lamb of God” title in first century Judaism and Christianity are reviewed. An effort is made to determine the intended reference underlying the word “lamb,” whether taken literally or figuratively, and to analyze the title in light of the use of the lamb in the Old Testament Jewish animal sacrifices. The New Testament and Christian first century writings are also examined. Second, the study analyzes the literary structure of John 1, includes an exegesis of John 1:29-34, and discusses the Lamb of God title as well ...
Exploring the Old Testament: Creation, Covenant, Prophecy, Kingship
2018 •
Andrew R Davis
This book introduces readers to four central themes of the Old Testament: creation, covenant, prophecy, and kingship. By exploring these themes in the order of their appearance in the Bible, the book traces the biblical narrative as it unfolds from the Book of Genesis through the Book of Kings. Each chapter concludes with a brief section called “Looking Ahead,” which discusses how each theme recurs in later parts of the Bible (e.g., the prophets, the wisdom books, and the New Testament). This purpose of this section is to show that these four themes are open-ended; they shaped the theological imaginations of later biblical writers, who adapted the themes to their own historical moment and their style of writing.
An Encyclopedia of the Biblical World Two Volumes
ALESSANDRO NEGRONI
