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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Since 1987, the history of Jewish culture in Parma has found new sources, when some fragments of Medieval Hebrew manuscripts were discovered in the State Archive (Archivio di Stato di Parma).
Pier Francesco Fumagalli
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Monotheism, Polytheism, Monolatry, or Henotheism? Toward an Assessment of Divine Plurality in the Hebrew Bible [PDF]
Israel’s view of God and his relationship to other divine beings in the Hebrew Bible has long been the subject of scholarly debate. The dominant critical consensus since the late nineteenth century holds that Israel’s faith evolved from polytheism or ...
Heiser, Michael
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Orality in Translating Biblical Hebrew Proverbs in Sesotho
This paper evaluates how Sesotho translators have translated Biblical Hebrew proverbs in the 1989 Sesotho translation of the Bible. Because this 1989 translation is undergoing revision by the Bible Society of South Africa, it is important to determine ...
Tshokolo J. Makutoane
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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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This article is a statement of unbridled praise for the present state of software available for Bible studies, particularly in the use of the Biblical text in its original languages and alphabets.
Bain, Michael
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Book review: Samuel Hildebrandt – Ekaterina E. Kozlova (eds.), Loneliness in the Hebrew Bible (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 718; London: Clark 2025) Pp. 248. £ 64.60 (E-Book); £ 108 (Hardback). ISBN: 978-05- 67-71445-9 (E-Book); 978-
Marcin Zieliński
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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac
Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
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This paper examines different translations of the Bible from Hebrew, a Semitic language, into Indo-European languages, using the methodology of root semantics and focusing on the Hebrew terms translated into English as “window”.
Almalech, Mony
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