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The Purpose of the Book of Ruth
Collectanea Theologica, 2023 Numerous scholars argue that the book of Ruth, with its story concerning mixed marriages of Judahites with Moabite women, consciously opposes the exclusivist rhetoric of the books of Ezra–Nehemiah.
Bartosz Adamczewski
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Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2009 This conversation with I. Kalimi, An Ancient Israelite Historian: Studies in the Chronicler, his Time, Place and Writing (Van Gorcum, 2005) began at a session of the Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah section of the SBL
Gary N. Knoppers +5 more
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 81-103, February 2025.Abstract During the seventeenth century, thousands of English‐speaking Protestants went to the Maghreb as captives, diplomats, traders, and travellers. Distant from the guiding and controlling hands of monopoly trading companies and the established churches, and placed under various pressures by non‐Christian neighbours, colleagues, and captors, these ...
Nat Cutter
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Ecodomy: Taking risks and overstepping boundaries in the Book of Ruth
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2017 This chapter examined the concept of Ecodomy life in its fullness as it unfolds in the Book of Ruth. The book is dated to the post-exilic period in the history of Israel, and is read as narrative critique against the Moabite paragraph in ...
Gerda De Villiers
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, 1994 Reviewed Book: Throntveit, Mark A. Ezra-Nehemiah. Louisville, Ky: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992.
Becker, Dennis
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In Nehemiah's Footsteps? Uzziah at the Service of the Chronicler's Ideology
Journal of Hebrew ScripturesUzziah ruled in Judah for many years, yet the description of his rule in the book of Kings is laconic. The book of Chronicles, on the other hand, provides an extensive description of his reign that stems from authorial ideology, theology, and processes ...
Eran Gluska, Oded Lipschits
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Verbum et Ecclesia, 2015 It is generally accepted that historically Africa experienced colonialism. Thus, in the neocolonial age articulated by the likes of Sugirtharajah, Segovia and Nkrumah, most African countries are faced with the challenge of power struggle in which ...
Ndikho Mtshiselwa
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The Nicene Creed: Remembering What It Says; Re‐membering What It Forgot to Say
The Ecumenical Review, Volume 77, Issue 1-2, Page 88-100, January–April 2025.Abstract The year 2025 marks the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE and the initial draft of the Nicene Creed. The Nicene Creed continues to be recited and used regularly by almost all Christians today. This demonstrates how instrumental it has been for the Christian church.
Andrew G. Suderman
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European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 1116-1129, December 2024.Abstract This paper argues that Nietzsche is deliberately imprecise in his characterization of what he calls the slave revolt in morality. In particular, none of the people or groups he nominates as instigators of the slave revolt, namely, Jewish priests, the Jewish people, the prophets, Jesus, and Paul, were literally slaves.
Ken Gemes
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Perspectiva Teológica, 2022 FINKELSTEIN, I. Realidades hasmoneias subjacentes aos livros de Esdras, Neemias e Crônicas: perspectivas arqueológicas e históricas. Trad. Paulo F. Valério. São Paulo: Paulinas; Recriar, 2022, 272 p. ISBN: 9786558080978 / 9788553107766.
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