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Imaging Evil in the First Chapters of Genesis: Texts behind the Images in Eastern Orthodox Art [PDF]
, 2016 Satan’s interference in the events described in the first chapters of the book of Genesis and in the life of the protoplasts is not mentioned at all in the biblical text. This happens, however, in pseudo-canonical texts.
Kuyumdzhieva, Margarita
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Euphemism in Biblical Hebrew and the euphemistic ‘bless’ in the Septuagint of Job
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 The Septuagint (LXX) generally approached the antiphrastic, euphemistic use of ברך [bless] with a literal translation of ברך with εὐλογέω. This choice produced a Hebraism, as the Greek verb is not generally used antiphrastically.
Douglas T. Mangum
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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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Renaissance Culture, Emblems, and Interdisciplinary Research: The Reception of Alciato in Coimbra☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 394-418, June 2025.Abstract Bearing in mind that emblem books were a manifestation of humanistic culture and its natural interdisciplinary, this paper discusses how the early reception of Alciato's Emblemata in Coimbra (Portugal) had an impact on artists, literary authors, jurists, and Jesuit teachers.
Filipa Araújo
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Russian Bible: between the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2011 The article lays down a short overview of history of the so-called Synodal translation of the Bible made in the XIX century and still being the main Russian version of the Bible. The principles of this translation are analyzed.
Mikhail Seleznyov
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 This article examines the early Christian reception of the apocryphal book Tobit, focusing on Greek and Latin Christian interpretations from the 2nd to the 5th century CE. The study asks: how did early Christians read Tobit and for what purposes?
Chris L. de Wet
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The Challenge of Biblical Textual Criticism: The Case of the Dutch Edition of the Septuagint (1709)
Religions, 2022 An overview of the main European biblical tradition of the Septuagint shows that much work has been carried out in this field of research. Prominent scholars investigated the Old Testament from a thematic diversity point of view, from the history of the ...
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A Pastor’s Kid Finds the Catholic Church [PDF]
, 2019 In this essay, I describe my journey to Catholicism and explain one of the many reasons I became Catholic--namely, an argument from the canon of ...
Gage, Logan Paul
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Treating Pox, Pests and Worms: Saints, Sympathy and Materiality in Late‐Medieval English Charms
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 3-20, March 2025.Charms were a commonplace form of medical intervention in late‐medieval England, as they allowed afflicted and ailing devotees to seek the aid of saints and biblical figures. Those holy dead who had suffered something on earth were considered particularly adept at posthumously treating the same in their devotees, with the words used to recount their ...
Elizabeth Burrell
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, 2007 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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