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Old Testament (old + testament)
Selected AbstractsPriestly Sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible: A Summary of Recent Scholarship and a Narrative ReadingRELIGION COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 1 2008David Janzen The field of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament has come to no consensus on the meaning of sacrifice in ancient Israel. The most influential theory of the meaning of biblical sacrifice, at least in the Priestly Writing (P) of the Pentateuch, is that of Jacob Milgrom. Milgrom argues that the purification sacrifice, as presented by P in Leviticus 1,7, is key to understanding P's sacrificial system, as its blood provided a ritual detergent on the altar for Israel's unintentional sins and impurities, thus permitting the continued presence of God in the sanctuary. Milgrom's theory has recently come under challenge, and a reading of P's narrative throughout the entire Pentateuch, and not only in Leviticus 1,7, shows that, for the Priestly Writing, sacrifice seems to draw Israel's attention to the differences between the divine and human realms, and thus points to Israel's moral failings in relationship to the divine law, as well as to the punishment Israel will suffer for this failure. [source] Old Testament and Church Ministries in Two Ecumenical DialoguesINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 3 2004Joseph G. Mueller A sample of the work of recent ecumenical dialogues (BEM and the international Lutheran, Roman Catholic document on church and justification) shows that their discussions of church institutions have failed to do this adequately. This failure has complicated the efforts at unity to which these dialogues intend to contribute. Attention to the Old Testament roots of church institutions can help ecumenical ecclesiology to focus better on some important issues. [source] From Old Testament to New: A. P. Elkin on Christian Conversion and Cultural AssimilationJOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, Issue 1 2001Russell McGregor [source] Luther's Trinitarian Hermeneutic and the Old TestamentMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 1 2002Christine Helmer In this study, the author shows that Luther's trinitarian understanding is shaped by the royal Psalms' dialogical model as well as informed by a hermeneutics that moors a trinitarian semantics in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. The analysis concentrates on Luther's translation into German of two Hebrew names for God and of passages classically associated with the trinitarian doctrine (Psalm 110:1; Psalm 2:2.12). The result is a trinitarian structure of transparency. The text's syntax, narrative and direct speech mirror literally the transparency of the divine essence through the distinguishing characteristics of each trinitarian person. [source] Paul and the Old Testament , His Legacy and OursNEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 1032 2010Geoffrey Turner Abstract The legacy that Paul received was the Jewish scriptures that he quoted extensively in Greek from the Septuagint. This was a legacy not widely appreciated, for various theological reasons, until relatively recently. However, a count of Paul's citations, quotations from and allusions to scripture comes to over 250. Paul's thinking was framed by his re-reading of scripture and emphasises how Jewish was his historical context and theological frame of reference. How this affects our interpretation of Paul's theology is illustrated by four examples from Wisdom, the Psalms in general, Ps 78 in particular, and Paul's rewriting of the Shema Israel in 1 Cor 8.6. There are some brief comments on the difficulties that Paul's use of scripture leaves us with. [source] Translations of the Bible into KaraimRELIGION COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 4 2009Henryk Jankowski The aim of this paper is to present the state of research on Bible translations into Karaite Turkic, which in Turkic studies is called Karaim. The term Bible is employed in its narrower meaning, which designates the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. This article tries to show how the translators approached the original text and gives a few samples to demonstrate differences between several selected translations. [source] The Composition of the Narrative Books of the Old Testament.THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 6 2009By Reinhard G. Kratz No abstract is available for this article. [source] | ||||||||||