God in Translation - 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 God in Translation write by Mark S. Smith. This book was released on 2010-06-28. God in Translation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. God in Translation offers a substantial, extraordinarily broad survey of ancient attitudes toward deities, from the Late Bronze Age through ancient Israel and into the New Testament. Looking closely at relevant biblical texts and at their cultural contexts, Mark S. Smith demonstrates that the biblical attitude toward deities of other cultures is not uniformly negative, as is commonly supposed. He traces the historical development of Israel's "one-god worldview, " linking it to the rise of the surrounding Mesopotamian empires. Smith's study also produces evidence undermining a common modern assumption among historians of religion that polytheism is tolerant while monotheism is prone to intolerance and violence.
Losing God in Translation
Losing God in Translation - 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 Losing God in Translation write by Philip Markowicz. This book was released on 2020-04-23. Losing God in Translation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a study of a biblical topic. Sources are drawn from the Hebrew Bible, rabbinic literature, and medieval biblical exegetes, as well as philosophical, mystical, and hasidic traditions. The reader is offered glimpses of the author's hasidic schooling in Poland, but also a window onto the world of an autodidact, who steeped himself in the lifelong study of philosophy and science. As such, this book is a valuable cultural artifact, a distillation of the thinking of a treasured member of the Toledo, Ohio community. One need not be religious (Jewish, or otherwise), interested in the Bible, or even agree with the central theses of the book to find it thought-provoking. The book grapples with existential questions on the nature of reality, cognition, free will, and human existence. Despite what the title might insinuate, the book does not advocate for the practice of religion, or even for belief in God.
Strange Names of God
Strange Names 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 Strange Names of God write by Sangkeun Kim. This book was released on 2004. Strange Names of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most precarious and daunting tasks for sixteenth-century European missionaries in the cross-cultural mission frontiers was translating the name of «God» (Deus) into the local language. When the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) introduced the Chinese term Shangti as the semantic equivalent of Deus, he made one of the most innovative cross-cultural missionary translations. Ricci's employment of Shangti was neither a simple rewording of a Chinese term nor the use of a loan-word, but was indeed a risk-taking «identification» of the Christian God with the Confucian Most-High, Shangti. Strange Names of God investigates the historical progress of the semantic configuration of Shangti as the divine name of the Christian God in China by focusing on Chinese intellectuals' reaction to the strangely translated Chinese name of God.
God's Word Into English
God's Word Into English - 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 God's Word Into English write by Dewey M. Beegle. This book was released on 1960. God's Word Into English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
God Speaks My Language
God Speaks My Language - 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 God Speaks My Language write by Aloo Osotsi Mojola. This book was released on 2020-03-31. God Speaks My Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the fascinating and important story of how God’s Word came to East Africa. Beginning with the pioneering efforts of Krapf and Rebmann, Aloo Osotsi Mojola traces the history of Bible translation in the region from 1844 to the present. He incorporates four decades of personal conversations and interviews, along with extensive research, to provide the first comprehensive account of the translations undertaken in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The maps and tables included assist the reader, as does a history of the Swahili language – its standardization, role as lingua franca, and impact on the work of translation. Mojola’s writing is a tribute to those who sacrificed much in their quest to see the word of God accessible to all people, in all places – and the many who continue to sacrifice for the peoples of East Africa. This book is a key contribution to the important and ongoing narrative of how God has met us, and continues to meet us, in our own contexts and our own languages.
