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Deuteronomy portrays Yahweh as both willing (e.g. Dt 28:63) and unwilling (Dt 4:31; 10:10) to destroy Israel, which creates one tension worthy of exploration.
Izaak J.L. Connoway
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Kathryn Tanner on Divine Agency and the Problem of Providential Evil
Abstract In this article I engage with Kathryn Tanner's theological framework for understanding God's agency, focusing on the way her rules of non‐contrastive transcendence and non‐competitive immanence govern her account of God's acts of creation, providence, incarnation, and atonement.
Sameer Yadav
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Perlindungan Terhadap Orang Asing: Hermeneutika Kontekstual Kitab Perjanjian dan Hukum Deuteronomium
. The foreigners are not new issues in human civilization. In the Old Testament, the foreigners received serious attention in social, economic, legal, and religious contexts. Biblical texts that discuss foreigner demonsrate their importance. They must be
Hulman Sinaga
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To Make a Rainbow - God’s Work in Nature [PDF]
The Torah lays out a rich idea of God’s governance in the Scroll of Esther: Circumstance lays the warp, but human choices weave the woof of destiny. God remains unseen.
Goodman, Lenn E.
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A Spiritual Dimension of Human–Animal Relations?
ABSTRACT A close relationship with nature and animals is widely acknowledged to support human physical, social, and mental health, but is more seldom considered relevant for human spirituality. Using theological resources, this paper argues that some human–animal relations may possess spiritual qualities.
Per T. Sangild, Pui Him Ip
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Doing as the elect do: Matthew 7:21 within Deuteronomistic and Matthean election theology
Matthew 7:21 is an exegetically challenging verse: it provides a complex formulation of Matthew’s election theology. Simultaneously, this text is systematically theologically challenging, due to its emphasis on doing the will of God.
Arjan van den Os
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Deserts of Development: How God Shapes Leaders in the Wilderness [PDF]
A wilderness experience in the life of a believer is often a tool used by God to shape him for some leadership position or specific calling. While the desert one is thrust into may be physical in nature or purely psychological, wilderness experiences ...
Dickson, Jeffrey R
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God knows all: An intertextual study of Hebrews 4:12–13 and Deuteronomy 29:28
While most scholars view Hebrews 4:12–13 as the author’s own composition which contains various parallels with Old Testament language and thought, very few consider Deuteronomy 29:28 (29:29 ET) as one of the possible conceptual backgrounds of the passage.
Albert J. Coetsee
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The Pedagogy of the Pentateuch: The Undergraduate Classroom at a Large State University
ABSTRACT In response to the three questions suggested for this symposium on the pedagogy of the Pentateuch, I focus here less on what we teach and instead emphasize the values within our discipline. Students need to learn how to read the Bible as part of the humanities: as the work of thinkers who were reflecting on their place in the world and ...
Bernard M. Levinson
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�The Messianic Dimensions of Kingship in Deuteronomy 17:14-20 as fulfilled by Jesus in Matthew�
This article examines a brief statement made by Patrick D Miller in his commentary on Deuteronomy, namely that scholars quite likely have missed the most important Old Testament passage relating to the kind of kingship Jesus manifested in his earthly ...
Robin Branch
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