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Spinoza and the Language of Scripture

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In his works Spinoza remarks on the relationship between Hebrew and the culture of the ancient Israelites. Thus, the more we unerstand Hebrew, the better we understand the Bible.
Nadler, Steven
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Linking Emotion, Cognition, and Action within a Social Frame: Old Testament Perspectives on Preaching the Fear of the LORD

International Journal of Homiletics, 2019
Modern accounts of the meaning of “fear of the LORD” in the Hebrew Bible have tended to distance this important concept from the emotion of fear, offering alternative understandings as worship, obedience, or wisdom.
Anathea E. Portier-Young
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Introduction

Nordisk Judaistik, 2003
In this introduction the author gives some comments on the Hebrew or Jewish Bible and the literature of the rabbis, based on the Bible, and then presents the background of the articles included in this volume.
Hanne Trautner-Kromann
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Theorizing in the Absence of a Theory:The Case of the Aramaic Targums to the Pentateuch

TranscUlturAl, 2009
Targums are a kind of ancient Jewish translation literature that may have played an important role in synagogues, private devotion, and education. The reason scholars adduce such widespread use for the targums is because they translate the Hebrew Bible ...
Simon Lasair
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Ψυχή as an Equivalent to ֶנ ֶפשׁ in the Septuagint: Problems of Translation and Interpretation [PDF]

Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2018
The article explores the correlation between the meanings of the Hebrew word Both . ֶנ ֶפשׁ and the Greek word ψυχή used to translate the Hebrew word ֶנ ֶפשׁ words are among the basic concepts of biblical anthropology. The word “dusha” (“soul”) in Church
Vyacheslav Zykov
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Yhwh, the Goddess and Evil: Is 'monotheism' an adequate concept to describe the Hebrew Bible's discourses about the God of Israel?

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2013
The concept of monotheism has become a matter of debate in Hebrew Bible scholarship. This article investigates whether the concept should still be used, starting with Second Isaiah, who in the early Persian period elaborated a discourse that presented ...
Thomas C. R�mer
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Pentecostal pacifist impulse and the violent God of the Hebrew Bible: A balancing act of hermeneutics

Old Testament Essays, 2018
Most early Pentecostals took a pacifist stance toward violence and war, based on Jesus’ example of love for the enemies, and relegated human violence promoted as God’s will in the Hebrew Bible to a description of broken and sinful human behaviour that ...
Marius Nel
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A bibliai héber nevek megjelenítése a nemzeti bibliafordításokban, különös tekintettel a legújabb protestáns bibliafordításainkra [The equivalents of biblical Hebrew names in national Bible translations and the latest Hungarian Protestant Bible translations in particular]

Névtani Értesítő, 2015
The transcription of biblical Hebrew names may seem a relatively easy subtask of Bible translation, but, in reality, it is a serious challenge, requiring clearly established philological principles, transcription rules, and – with respect to church use –
Kustár, Zoltán
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Ancient Travellers, Intercultural Contact, and the Fear of Gods

Religions
Although the fear of Yhwh has been presented as an intrinsic feature of the ancient Israelite religion, the fear of God(s) is not limited to the people of Israel in the Hebrew Bible, and similar ideas of fearing deities occur in various texts produced by
Elisa Uusimäki
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Is Jethro an Ingroup or an Outgroup

Old Testament Essays, 2023
A social scientific approach to the Hebrew Bible allows us to ask questions that were not central to writers of the biblical narrative. Thus, the article uses concepts from group processes in social psychology to analyse the group identity of Moses ...
Rota Stone
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