Reframing Biblical Studies - 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 Reframing Biblical Studies write by Ellen Van Wolde. This book was released on 2009-06-23. Reframing Biblical Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Until recently, biblical studies and studies of the written and material culture of the ancient Near East have been fragmented, governed by experts who are confined within their individual disciplines’ methodological frameworks and patterns of thinking. The consequence has been that, at present, concepts and the terminology for examining the interaction of textual and historical complexes are lacking. However, we can learn from the cognitive sciences. Until the end of the 1980s, neurophysiologists, psychologists, pediatricians, and linguists worked in complete isolation from one another on various aspects of the human brain. Then, beginning in the 1990s, one group began to focus on processes in the brain, thereby requiring that cell biologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, linguists, and other relevant scientists collaborate with each other. Their investigation revealed that the brain integrates all kinds of information; if this were not the case, we would not be able to catch even a glimpse of the brain’s processing activity. By analogy, van Wolde’s proposal for biblical scholarship is to extend its examination of single elements by studying the integrative structures that emerge out of the interconnectivity of the parts. This analysis is based on detailed studies of specific relationships among data of diverse origins, using language as the essential device that links and permits expression. This method can be called a cognitive relational approach. Van Wolde bases her work on cognitive concepts developed by Ronald Langacker. With these concepts, biblical scholars will be able to study emergent cognitive structures that issue from biblical words and texts in interaction with historical complexes. Van Wolde presents a method of analysis that biblical scholars can follow to investigate interactions among words and texts in the Hebrew Bible, material and nonmaterial culture, and comparative textual and historical contexts. In a significant portion of the book, she then exemplifies this method of analysis by applying it to controversial concepts and passages in the Hebrew Bible (the crescent moon; the in-law family; the city gate; differentiation and separation; Genesis 1, 34; Leviticus 18, 20; Numbers 5, 35; Deuteronomy 21; and Ezekiel 18, 22, 33).
Reframing Paul
Reframing Paul - 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 Reframing Paul write by Mark Strom. This book was released on 2000-10-12. Reframing Paul available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mark Strom unveils Paul in his original context and invites us to engage with him in new terms. He courageously draws Paul into vital conversation with contemporary evangelicalism. This book is for anyone who wants to learn how the church can be an attractive community of transforming grace and conversation.
Union with Christ
Union with Christ - 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 Union with Christ write by J. Todd Billings. This book was released on 2011-11. Union with Christ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An accomplished theologian recovers the biblical theme of union with Christ, showing how it affects current theological and ministry issues.
Bible, Gender, Sexuality
Bible, Gender, Sexuality - 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 Bible, Gender, Sexuality write by James V. Brownson. This book was released on 2013-02-03. Bible, Gender, Sexuality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Bible, Gender, Sexuality James Brownson argues that Christians should reconsider whether or not the biblical strictures against same-sex relations as defined in the ancient world should apply to contemporary, committed same-sex relationships. Presenting two sides in the debate -- "traditionalist" and "revisionist" -- Brownson carefully analyzes each of the seven main texts that appear to address intimate same-sex relations. In the process, he explores key concepts that inform our understanding of the biblical texts, including patriarchy, complementarity, purity and impurity, honor and shame. Central to his argument is the need to uncover the moral logic behind the biblical text. Written in order to serve and inform the ongoing debate in many denominations over the questions of homosexuality, Brownson's in-depth study will prove a useful resource for Christians who want to form a considered opinion on this important issue.
Reframing Her
Reframing Her - 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 Reframing Her write by Judith E. McKinlay. This book was released on 2004. Reframing Her available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How does one read the story of Sarah and Hagar, or Jezebel and Rahab today, if one is a woman reader situated in a postcolonial society? This is the question undergirding this work, which considers a selection of biblical texts in which women have significant roles. Employing both a gender and a postcolonial lens, it asks sharp questions both of the interests embedded in the texts themselves and of their impact upon contemporary women readers. Whereas most postcolonial studies have been undertaken from the perspective of the colonized this work reads the texts from the position of a settler descendant, and is an attempt to engage with the disquietening and challenging questions that reading from such a location raises. Letters from early settler women in New Zealand, contemporary fiction, and personal reminiscence become tools for the task, complementing those traditionally employed in critical biblical readings.
