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Cult Statuary in the Judean Temple at Yeb [PDF]
, 2016 A revisitation of the Yeb archives with an eye to the question of cult statuary. The present article inventories the state of the question and makes several constructive suggestions.
Collin Cornell
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What happened to Kemosh? [PDF]
, 2016 What happened to Kemosh in the era after Moab’s loss of political independence? The present article first argues that this question is of interest to scholarship on the Hebrew Bible because Kemosh and Yhwh were initially twinlike: both were patron ...
Collin Cornell
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Redefined prophecy as Deuteronomic alternative to divination in Deut 18:9-22
Acta Theologica, 1996 Anthropological research has shown that no rigid distinction can be maintained between prophets, priests, diviners and necromancers. All of them function as religious intermediaries and act as repositories and interpreters of religious tradition and as ...
H L Bosman
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Women in Israelite Religion: The State of Research Is All New Research
Religions, 2019 Historically, those studying Israelite religion have ignored the existence of women in Iron Age Israel (1200⁻587 BCE). They have, therefore, accounted neither for the religious beliefs of half of ancient Israel’s population nor for the ...
Beth Alpert Nakhai
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Fra bibelske til rabbinske opfattelser af askese: Jødedommens verdensbekræftende praksis
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2016 The purpose of this article is to supplement scholarly positions that define asceticism either as a matter of world renouncement and elitist self-exclusion from the world or as always oriented toward transcendent goals or practices of improvement because
Marianne Schleicher
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What is a god? Metatheistic assumptions in Old Testament Yahwism(s)
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2006 In this article, the author provides a prolegomena to further research attempting to answer a most undamental and basic question much more so than what has thus far been the case in the disciplines of Old Testament theology and history of Israelite ...
J W Gericke
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Holy Mutability: Religionsgeschichte and Theological Ontology [PDF]
, 2016 The Christian community characteristically confesses the constancy of God. But historians of religion know by contrast that the deity Yhwh evolved over time. How might scholars who belong to both these camps negotiate the disconnect?
Collin Cornell
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Critical Theory of Religion by Erich Fromm: from Messianic Judaism to Radical Humanism
Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2021 This paper studies Erich Fromm’s critical theory of religion and looks into the evolution of the philosopher’s views. We analyze key concepts of Fromm’s humanistic psychology, including biophilia, rejection of idolatry, X-experience, classification of ...
E. I. Korostichenko
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Possible objections to a philosophical approach to ancient Israelite religion: A critical refutation
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2011 There exists a certain consensus amongst biblical scholars that involving philosophy in the attempt to understand ancient Israelite religion is hermeneutically fallacious.
Jacobus W. Gericke
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Religions, 2019 The discovery of early Hebrew inscriptions at the site of Kuntillet ʿAjrud has generated considerable discussion among scholars over the past few decades.
Jeremy Smoak, William Schniedewind
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