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Teaching the Pentateuch: Challenges and Opportunities
Teaching Theology &Religion, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 81-83, July 2025.ABSTRACT What are best practices for teaching the Pentateuch and the Hebrew Bible more broadly? How can we introduce students to ways of reading biblical texts that are eye‐opening, empowering, and accessible? In this paper, I explore some of the challenges and opportunities that we face as biblical studies professors, and I profile a handful of ...
Sara Milstein
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The Person and the Challenges, 2014 As the fifth book of the Pentateuch, Deuteronomy depicts a panoramic synthesis of the entire history of Israel. Consequently, its message is very important for Old Testament theology.
Mirosław Łanoszka
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Why Teach the Composition of the Pentateuch? It's Complicated, but Necessarily So
Teaching Theology &Religion, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 70-72, July 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores three issues in teaching the Pentateuch, namely its composition, its place in the history of ancient Israel, and our responsibilities to its past and present interpreters. Although the certainties are few and new ideas and theories emerge, attending to these issues fosters a decentering of the biblical text and invites ...
Philip Y. Yoo
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The Magistracy of Moses: The Old Testament in Local Government, 1689–1750
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 199-215, June 2025.Abstract This article explores the popularity of Moses as a model for government in the early eighteenth century. It examines references to Moses in sermons preached at civic or political events such as assizes, elections of mayors, and meetings of reform societies.
Daniel Rignall
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, 1996 (Excerpt) Jews and Christians share a common foundation of Scripture. It is within this common, sacred text that we shall find the source of Grace upon Grace: Living Water.
Edelheit, Joseph A
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Re-Examining Israelite Patriarchy through Marriage Laws of Deuteronomy
Spectrum, 2019 The book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible contains an extensive list of laws, from cultic regulations to laws addressing everyday affairs. As a legal collection, it can be observed as a symbol of practices and values of the ancient Israelites (the ...
Hyun-Joo Lim
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Bakhtin Revisits Deuteronomy: Narrative Theory and the Dialogical Event of Deut. 31:2 and 34:7
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 1999 In 1980 Robert Polzin engaged the narrative structure of Deuteronomy and introduced Mikhail Bakhtin's literary theory to biblical studies. Few however have carried forward the implications of this pioneering
David A. Bergen
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Reclaiming Heaven from History: A Theological Critique of Martin Hägglund's This Life
International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 248-269, April 2025.Abstract Martin Hägglund's This Life offers an incisive critique of Christian visions of eternal life. Theological responses to Hägglund emphasize the ‘worldly’ nature of heaven over‐against overly Platonic, ‘otherworldly’ accounts of everlasting life.
Jared Michelson
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Dunamis: Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Kristiani. Bible scholars have suggested that the book of Deuteronomy was redacted by the Deuteromonist. This group compiled the book of Deuteronomy as a response to foreign domination or imperialism against Israel.
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, 2015 The phrase “cutting a covenant” is familiar to us from texts of the Hebrew Bible. In Gen 15:18, for example, God makes a covenant with Abram that is accompanied by a ritual enactment.
Ramos, Melissa
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