Thinking of Water in the Early Second Temple Period - 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 Thinking of Water in the Early Second Temple Period write by Ehud Ben Zvi. This book was released on 2014-10-14. Thinking of Water in the Early Second Temple Period available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Water is a vital resource and is widely acknowledged as such. Thus it often serves as an ideological and linguistic symbol that stands for and evokes concepts central within a community. This volume explores ‘thinking of water’ and concepts expressed through references to water within the symbolic system of the late Persian/early Hellenistic period and as it does so it sheds light on the social mindscape of the early Second Temple community.
Water and Water-Related Phenomena in the Old Testament Wisdom Literature
Water and Water-Related Phenomena in the Old Testament Wisdom Literature - 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 Water and Water-Related Phenomena in the Old Testament Wisdom Literature write by Kivatsi Jonathan Kavusa. This book was released on 2019-10-17. Water and Water-Related Phenomena in the Old Testament Wisdom Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kivatsi Jonathan Kavusa addresses a gap in the field of ecological readings of the Old Testament, exploring the theme of water in the Wisdom books, including the often-ignored deuterocanonical works. Kavusa focuses on both the negative and positive potential of water, drawing in particular on four of the Earth Bible principles: intrinsic worth, interconnectedness, voice, and purpose. Kavusa begins with a summary of the extant studies and literature reviews on water and water-related motifs in the Old Testament. He then analyses the books of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Deutero-canonical wisdom, examining the various references to water as life-giving or life-threatening entities, and expanding upon the themes of water management and sustainability, the intrinsic worth of nature and the unpredicatable, chaotic state of water. This volume concludes with several insights for ecological responsibility and valuable wisdom for an eco-theological perspective, both in Kavusa's African context and with a more universal application.
Social Memory among the Literati of Yehud
Social Memory among the Literati of Yehud - 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 Social Memory among the Literati of Yehud write by Ehud Ben Zvi. This book was released on 2019-07-22. Social Memory among the Literati of Yehud available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ehud Ben Zvi has been at the forefront of exploring how the study of social memory contributes to our understanding of the intellectual worldof the literati of the early Second Temple period and their textual repertoire. Many of his studies on the matter and several new relevant works are here collected together providing a very useful resource for furthering research and teaching in this area. The essays included here address, inter alia, prophets as sites of memory, kings as sites memory, Jerusalem as a site of memory, a mnemonic system shaped by two interacting ‘national’ histories, matters of identity and othering as framed and explored via memories, mnemonic metanarratives making sense of the past and serving various didactic purposes and their problems, memories of past and futures events shared by the literati, issues of gender constructions and memory, memories understood by the group as ‘counterfactual’ and their importance, and, in multiple ways, how and why shared memories served as a (safe) playground for exploring multiple, central ideological issues within the group and of generative grammars governing systemic preferences and dis-preferences for particular memories.
From the Fjords to the Nile: Essays in honour of Richard Holton Pierce on his 80th birthday
From the Fjords to the Nile: Essays in honour of Richard Holton Pierce on his 80th birthday - 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 From the Fjords to the Nile: Essays in honour of Richard Holton Pierce on his 80th birthday write by Pål Steiner. This book was released on 2018-02-28. From the Fjords to the Nile: Essays in honour of Richard Holton Pierce on his 80th birthday available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the Fjords to the Nile' brings together essays by students and colleagues of Richard Holton Pierce (b. 1935), presented on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Topics focus on Egypt, the Near East and the wider ancient world.
The Didache
The Didache - 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 Didache write by Shawn J. Wilhite. This book was released on 2020-03-26. The Didache available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shawn J. Wilhite's commentary on the Didache complements the study of early Christianity through historical, literary, and theological readings of the Apostolic Fathers, seeking to be mindful of critical scholarship while commenting on a final-form text. The Didache includes a brief introduction to this relevant text, the use of Scripture by the Didachist, and the theology of the Didache. The commentary proceeds section by section with a close ear to the text of the Didache, relevant early Christian literature, and current scholarship.
