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Browsing Old Testament Studies by Type "Postprint Article"
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(Società Editrice il Mulino, 2020-05)The Book of Deuteronomy employs a variety of literary techniques to promote its reception, which makes it a paradigmatic case of proto-canonical literature. Deuteronomy’s claim to authority is derived in two ways. It reacts ...
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(De Gruyter, 2023-06)Binitarianism is the belief in two persons within one godhead. This is usually distinguished from bitheism—belief in two gods, but this distinction is not always clear in the scholarly literature. In this entry we take ...
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(University of Stellenbosch, Department of Old and New Testament, 2019)The language of prostitution is used in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in both literal and metaphorical senses. Although harlots (prostitutes) and prostitution are mentioned in the HB/OT (Lev 18; 21:1–15 and Deut 23), these ...
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(Sage, 2019-03)A recurrent myth in the Bible about God “slaying a dragon,” primarily in the Old Testament, provides a test case for using the “study of Scripture as the soul of theology” without depending on historical accuracy or indeed ...
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(Sage, 2020-09)Ezekiel’s sign-act of the two sticks is an interpretive quagmire. Interpretive issues include the association of ‘Israel’ with both sticks, the use of the name ‘Joseph’ to identify the entity associated with the second ...
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(Sage, 2022-06)Walter Houston’s article on the death of Nadab and Abihu is one of the few attempts to bring a social science model of honor and shame to bear on the Pentateuch. This article will argue that he did not go far enough in ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2024-01)In recent years an increasing scepticism has arisen concerning the Deuteronomistic character of the Book of the Four (Hos, Amos, Mic, Zeph). Many themes and motifs have been regarded as “inspired” by or “oriented” towards ...
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(Brill Academic Publisher, 2022-01)Rabbinic texts apply the metaphor of the vineyard to the Torah as well as to Israel. Conceptual Metaphor Theory allows us to explain the parallel use of the vineyard metaphor for the two target domains, Israel and the ...
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(Universität Salzburg; Bibelwissenschaft und Kirchengeschichte, 2023)Typisierungen Elijas sind vielfältig: Prophet, Priester, heiliger Mann, Wundertäter, Streitschlichter, Vorläufer des Messias. In der rabbinischen Tradition findet man sie alle, oft mit legendären Zügen. Auch in der ...
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(Routledge, 2023)The Ark of the Covenant, or Ark of Yhwh, has stimulated the imagination of many people from biblical times up to today: it has served as the inspiration for many stories, as the subject of paintings, and even the fodder ...
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(Society of Biblical Literature, 2014)This article explores the question of why the history of Israel and Judah, according to the books of Kings, ends in disaster (2 Kings 25). Although this question has been intensely discussed, especially since Martin ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2015-09)This article investigates the textual history of the explicit quotations of Isaiah in the Acts of the Apostles of Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis (Acts 7:49-50; 13:34; 13:47) by introducing the concept of “Old Testament ...
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(Sage, 2020-06)The depiction of Yhwh’s marriage to Rebellious Israel and Treacherous Judah in Jeremiah 3 has resisted interpretation in terms that cohere with the text’s surroundings or our wider historical and theological understanding ...
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(Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Limpopo, 2009)Psalm 133 celebrates brotherly unity as an ideal that commands divine blessing. Similarly, the African philosophical outlook of “ubuntu” upholds that ideal. With that common ideological perspective within the biblical and ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2020-11)The different scribal hands show that the Qumran Cave 4 manuscript 4Q24 (4QLevb) actually consists of two different manuscripts: a first-century BCE manuscript with parts of Leviticus 1–3 (4Q24a), and a second-century BCE ...
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(Society of Biblical Literature, 2020)This essay endeavors to provide the possible sociohistorical contexts of the nonpriestly layers of the scout narrative in Num 13-14. I suggest that the scout motif in these chapters is a literary invention that belongs to ...
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(Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2014)In 2001, Michael Witzel called for “exploring the historical development” of the Indo-European and Near Eastern myth-families “by setting up a family tree of such groupings,” to “fill the gap between, say, the reconstructed ...
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(Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2020)The current paper takes the literary and theological devaluation of the book of Numbers in classical Pentateuch studies as its starting point and, in contrast to this, develops a higher estimation of the book by relating ...
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(Wiley, 2019-01)No abstract available.
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(De Gruyter, 2017-03)This essay argues that Saul’s encounter with the medium was located by the author at Endor because of the place’s proximity to Mount Tabor. In addition to allusions to Tabor’s sanctity in the Hebrew Bible, the etymology ...
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