Biblical Portraits of Exile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biblical Portraits of Exile write by Abi Doukhan. This book was released on 2016-05-26. Biblical Portraits of Exile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exile constitutes one of the most central experiences in the Bible, notably in the book of Genesis. The question has rarely been asked however as to why exile plays such an important role in the lives of Biblical characters. Biblical Portraits of Exile proposes a philosophical reading largely inspired by the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas of the experience of exile in the book of Genesis. Focusing on the 8 central figures of exile Adam, Eve, Cain, the sons of Shem, Abraham, Rebekah, Jacob and the sons of Levy the book draws out the ethical and redemptive implications of exile and thereby paves the way for a renewed description of the human subject, one that situates ethics at its very core.
Rebels and Exiles
Rebels and Exiles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rebels and Exiles write by Matthew S. Harmon. This book was released on 2020-10-27. Rebels and Exiles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We all share an experience of exile—of longing for our true home. In this ESBT volume, Matthew S. Harmon explores how the theme of sin and exile is developed throughout Scripture, tracing a common pattern of human rebellion, God's judgment, and the hope of restored relationship, beginning with the first humans and concluding with the end of exile in a new creation.
Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity
Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity write by Rebekah Merkle. This book was released on 2016-09-27. Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The swooning Victorian ladies and the 1950s housewives genuinely needed to be liberated. That much is indisputable. So, First-Wave feminists held rallies for women's suffrage. Second-Wave feminists marched for Prohibition, jobs, and abortion. Today, Third-Wave feminists stand firmly for nobody's quite sure what. But modern women--who use psychotherapeutic antidepressants at a rate never before seen in history--need liberating now more than ever. The truth is, feminists don't know what liberation is. They have led us into a very boring dead end. Eve in Exile sets aside all stereotypes of mid-century housewives, of China-doll femininity, of Victorians fainting, of women not allowed to think for themselves or talk to the men about anything interesting or important. It dismisses the pencil-skirted and stiletto-heeled executives of TV, the outspoken feminists freed from all that hinders them, the brave career women in charge of their own destinies. Once those fictionalized stereotypes are out of the way--whether they're things that make you gag or things you think look pretty fun--Christians can focus on real women. What did God make real women for?
Messengers of God
Messengers of God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Messengers of God write by Elie Wiesel. This book was released on 2013-02-12. Messengers of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Nobel winner’s classic look at Job and seven other Biblical characters as they grapple with their relationship with God and the question of His justice. “[Elie] Wiesel has never allowed himself to be diverted from the role of witness for the martyred Jews and survivors of the Holocaust, and by extension for all those who through the centuries have asked Job’s question: ‘What is God doing and where is His justice?’ Here in a masterful series of mythic portraits, drawing upon Bible tales and the Midrashim (a body of commentary), Wiesel explores ‘the distant and haunting figures that molded him’: Adam, Cain and Abel, Abraham and Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and Job. With the dramatic invention of a Father Mapple and the exquisite care of a Talmudic scholar, Wiesel interprets the wellsprings of Jewish religious tradition as the many faces of man’s greatness facing the inexplicable. In an intimate relationship with God it is possible to complain, to demand. Adam and Eve in sinning ‘cried out’ against the injustice of their entrapment; Cain assaulted God rather than his brother; and Abraham’s agreement to sacrifice his son placed the burden of guilt on Him who demanded it. As for Job, Wiesel concludes that he abdicated his defiance as did the confessing Communists of Stalin’s time to ‘underline the implausibility’ of his trial, and thus become the accuser. Wiesel’s concern with the imponderables of fate seems to move from strength to strength.” —Kirkus Reviews “The extraordinary thing that Elie Wiesel has done in this book is to take ancient tales and make them contemporary, in ways that are both dazzling and disturbing. Messengers of God is captivating.” —Robert McAfee Brown, author of Unexpected News
Prophets Before the Exile
Prophets Before the Exile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prophets Before the Exile write by Christopher R. Smith. This book was released on 2013-07-15. Prophets Before the Exile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The latest installment in Christopher R. Smith's innovative Understanding the Books of the Bible series brings you and your group into a direct encounter with the words of the poets and outcasts who were entrusted with the message of divine reproof for a community falling headlong into a exile.
