Joseph's Dilemma - 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 Joseph's Dilemma write by Matthew J Marohl. This book was released on 2015-02-26. Joseph's Dilemma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of the birth of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew is told in eight verses. Embedded in this short narrative is "Joseph's dilemma". Listeners are told that: "When Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit" (1:18). What happens next has long been debated. We are made to assume that Joseph discovers that Mary is pregnant, but that he does not know that she is with child from the Holy Spirit. This information is made known to Joseph later by an angel of the Lord who appeared to him in a dream. In the meantime, Joseph must decide what he will do with Mary. We are told: "Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to dismiss her quietly" (1:19). The discussion of this verse generally focuses on two questions. First, did Joseph suspect Mary of adultery? Second, if he did suspect Mary of adultery, what where his options? While there is some diversity in the way that these questions are answered, the majority of modern interpreters envision only one option - that of divorce. The dilemma, then, is whether Joseph will divorce Mary "publicly" or "privately". While these questions are important, neither adequately addresses Joseph's dilemma. In this book, Matthew J. Marohl argues that early Christ-followers understood Joseph's dilemma to involve an assumption of adultery and the subsequent possibility of the killing of Mary. Worded differently, Joseph's dilemma involves the possibility of an honor killing. If Joseph reveals that Mary is pregnant she will be killed. If Joseph conceals Mary's pregnancy, he will be opposing the law of the Lord. What is a "righteous" man to do?
Joseph's Dilemma
Joseph's Dilemma - 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 Joseph's Dilemma write by Ervin R. Stutzman. This book was released on 2015-06-15. Joseph's Dilemma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book 2 of the Return to Northkill trilogy. Unwilling captive or adopted son? Amish teen Joseph Hochstetler is taken into captivity by Native Americans during the French and Indian War. Initially he resists the Indians’ attempts to help him adapt to their ways—their food, games, and relaxed pace of life. In this story of forbidden love, Joseph finds himself pressed between his unfolding romance with a young Indian woman and the tug of his heritage. His eyes newly opened to the wrongs committed by the white settlers, Joseph determines never to go back to his Amish community. But the encroaching British army soon forces the Indians to give up their captives under threat of death. Based on actual events, Joseph’s Dilemma traces the wrenching dilemma of a young man caught between his Amish past, his love for a woman, and an unknown future. Continues the story started in Jacob’s Choice. Free downloadable study guide available here.
The Inventor's Dilemma
The Inventor's Dilemma - 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 The Inventor's Dilemma write by David Jacques Gerber. This book was released on 2015-01-01. The Inventor's Dilemma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The extraordinary life and career of the iconic twentieth-century inventor, technologist, and business magnate H. Joseph Gerber is described in a fascinating biography written by his son, David, based on unique access to unpublished sources. A Holocaust survivor whose early experiences shaped his ethos of invention, Gerber pioneered important developments in engineering, electronics, printing, apparel, aerospace, and numerous other areas, playing an essential role in the transformation of American industry. Gerber's story is remarkable and inspiring, and his method, redolent of Edison's and Sperry's, holds a key to a restored national economy and American creative vitality in the twenty-first century.
Escaping Shame: Mary's Dilemma and the Birthplace of Jesus
Escaping Shame: Mary's Dilemma and the Birthplace of Jesus - 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 Escaping Shame: Mary's Dilemma and the Birthplace of Jesus write by N. Clayton Croy. This book was released on 2022-08-01. Escaping Shame: Mary's Dilemma and the Birthplace of Jesus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The only narratives of Jesus’ birth locate the event in Bethlehem, but the adult Jesus is consistently associated with Nazareth. How do we reconcile these two indisputable facts? Some dismiss Bethlehem as a theologoumenon, a theological fabrication. Others insist on Bethlehem based on the census of Quirinius. In the present volume, N. Clayton Croy argues that both are wrong. Instead Jesus’ birthplace was determined by the scandalous nature of Mary’s pregnancy, with it being necessary for Mary and Joseph to escape the inevitable shame of an ill-timed conception and decamp to a less hostile environment. In this light, a Bethlehem-born Jesus who grew up in Nazareth should never have been considered problematic.
Joseph Conrad and the Anthropological Dilemma
Joseph Conrad and the Anthropological Dilemma - 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 Joseph Conrad and the Anthropological Dilemma write by John Wylie Griffith. This book was released on 1995. Joseph Conrad and the Anthropological Dilemma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By situating Conrad's work in relation to other writings on 'primitive' peoples, John Griffith shows how his fiction draws on prominent anthropological and biological theories regarding the degenerative potential of contacts between European and other cultures. At the same time, however, Conrad's work reflected an anthropological dilemma: he constantly posed the question of how to bridge conceptual and cultural gaps between various peoples.
