The Appropriation of Passover in Luke-Acts - 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 Appropriation of Passover in Luke-Acts write by Dany Christopher. This book was released on 2018-10-16. The Appropriation of Passover in Luke-Acts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most studies on the theme of Passover in the Gospel of Luke have been confined to the story of the Last Supper (Luke 22:1--20). Dany Christopher, on the contrary, seeks to show where, how, and why Luke uses the theme of Passover throughout his two writings (Luke-Acts).
Luke’s Characters in their Jewish World
Luke’s Characters in their Jewish World - 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 Luke’s Characters in their Jewish World write by Jenny Read-Heimerdinger. This book was released on 2024-08-22. Luke’s Characters in their Jewish World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jenny Read-Heimerdinger explores the characters of Luke-Acts in order to situate them in the Jewish world to which they belong. Through a close reading of the Greek text, she argues that Luke emerges as a person thoroughly steeped in a Jewish view of Scripture, familiar with a range of associated oral traditions; and that taking account of the Jewish features allows new insights into the way that the author situates events and characters firmly within the history of Israel, before the Church was a separate institution or religion. Read-Heimerdinger proposes that such a view of his work implies an addressee capable of understanding what he received and that one eminently qualified candidate is Theophilus, the high priest in Jerusalem 37-41 and brother-in-law of Caiaphas. The Jewish perspective of Luke's two volumes is more visible in forms of the text not used for modern translations, notably that of Codex Bezae and the early versions, which are rejected by the editors of the Greek New Testament on which translations are based. Read-Heimerdinger draws on the analysis of the variants of the Greek text analysed in her previous Luke in his Own Words (2022), in a manner more accessible to readers unfamiliar with Greek. The variant readings make use of a sophisticated knowledge of Jewish exegetical techniques that would generally be discarded by later generations of Christians but which are increasingly being recognized by NT scholars, in line with Jewish historical studies of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism. Seeing the characters of Luke-Acts through Theophilus' eyes brings exciting insights and a fresh understanding of the author's message.
Review of Biblical Literature, 2020
Review of Biblical Literature, 2020 - 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 Review of Biblical Literature, 2020 write by Alicia J. Batten. This book was released on 2021-01-29. Review of Biblical Literature, 2020 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The annual Review of Biblical Literature presents a selection of reviews of the most recent books in biblical studies and related fields, including topical monographs, multi-author volumes, reference works, commentaries, and dictionaries. RBL reviews German, French, Italian, and English books and offers reviews in those languages. Features: Reviews of new books written by top scholars Topical divisions make research easy Indexes of authors and editors, reviewers, and publishers
Purifying the Consciousness in Hebrews
Purifying the Consciousness in Hebrews - 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 Purifying the Consciousness in Hebrews write by Joshua D. A. Bloor. This book was released on 2023-02-23. Purifying the Consciousness in Hebrews available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Joshua D. A. Bloor argues that the purification of the consciousness of sin, via Jesus' perpetual heavenly blood offering, is a vital motif for understanding Hebrews' sacrificial argumentation, and vice-versa. Jesus' 'objective' earthly achievements are many, yet only his 'subjective' heavenly blood offering purges the heavenly tabernacle and subsequently the consciousness of sin. Bloor views the Levitical cult as having a positive role in Hebrews, with Levitical 'guilt' foreshadowing and informing Hebrews' notion of the 'consciousness of sin'. Levitical sacrifices could purge the consciousness, but only Jesus' heavenly blood can offer complete perpetual purgation. This blood is a qualitative type of purgation which continually speaks in heaven, offering eternal assurance for the recipients regarding their consciousness of sin. Bloor begins with the 'defiled consciousness' and situates the world of Hebrews within cultic defilement, enabling the consciousness of sin and its cosmic implications to be properly understood. From here, the solution to a defiled consciousness is explored by examining Hebrews' cultic argumentation. Bloor highlights the distinctive purposes inherent in both Jesus' earthly and heavenly achievements, with the latter concerned particularly with Yom Kippur imagery and the purgation of the consciousness. Bloor concludes by differentiating between Jesus' session, present heavenly activity and perpetual heavenly blood offering. Throughout this volume, Bloor engages, critiques and advances current discourse concerning the nature and timing of Jesus' offering in Hebrews.
The Devil, Demons, Judas, and "the Jews"
The Devil, Demons, Judas, and "the Jews" - 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 Devil, Demons, Judas, and "the Jews" write by Torsten Lofstedt. This book was released on 2021-11-09. The Devil, Demons, Judas, and "the Jews" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What place do the four Gospels give Satan, demons, and Jesus’ human opponents (including Jewish leaders but also Jesus’ disciples) in their accounts of Jesus’ life? This study takes a literary-historical approach to the Gospels, examining them as narratives. It shows how the authors were in the process of developing the devil as a character and determining which roles he filled. New interpretations of individual passages in the Gospels are given as well as new understandings of the theological emphases of each author. This study is also a contribution to redaction criticism and the relative chronology of the Gospels. It employs the theory of Matthean posteriority which revolutionizes our understanding of the literary relations between the Gospels and allows for a new understanding of theological development in early Christianity.
