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The Significance of the Rhetorical Ambiguity in Isaiah 54:16

Old Testament Essays, 2018
: The ambiguity in Isa 54:16a concerning the identity of the subject (YHWH or the smith) of the two verbs evoking a metallurgical action (to blow and to cast) is identified here as a rhetorical device intending to conceal the essential relation of YHWH ...
Nissim Amzallag, Shamir Yona
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THE ROLE OF THE PROPHET MOTHERS IN THE PREPARATION OF THE PROPHETS FOR PROPHETHOOD

Danisname Beşeri ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2020
The Prophets are the messengers who have undertaken the task of preaching the religion of Allah and exemplifying it with their own lives so that people may live happier and in accordance with the religion. The most sacred duty among people is surely that
Hilal Demir
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Holy Things: Foundations for Liturgical Theology [PDF]

, 1991
(Excerpt) Christian corporate worship has biblical foundations. This is so, of course, in the most obvious ways: at the heart of the meeting the book called the Bible is read and then interpreted as having to do with us.
Lathrop, Gordon
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
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The True Jesus Church and the Bible in Republican China

Religions, 2020
During China’s Republican Era (1912−1949), the True Jesus Church, comprising one of the largest indigenous Pentecostal/charismatic churches in China, created a whole set of exclusive salvation doctrines based on its unique biblical ...
Pan Zhao
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Violence, Volition, and Volatility: The Embodied Subjectivity of Women in Cults

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This paper explores the embodied experience of 25 women who are former cult members. By delving into the stories of three protagonists, we examine how these women engaged with and possibly redefined the cult's socially constructed notion of womanhood.
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Michal Morag
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Towards a Better Denialism

Religions
This article uses two case studies to promote the idea that British evangelicalism is sometimes marked by the denial of inconvenient facts. First, it takes a critical look at the apologetic impulse to explain away the problems that Scripture sometimes ...
Helen Paynter
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Jews in the Bible: A persistent anachronism

Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium, 2017
The aim of the paper is to provide evidence for the claim that the Polish word ‘Żyd’ and its derivatives as used with reference to the “chosen people” taking part in the events described in the Bible is a linguistic anachronism. The word in its present
Tomasz Paweł Krzeszowski
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Millennium of perception of the Holy Scripture in Russia

Российский журнал истории Церкви, 2020
The article offers a variant of designing the Russian part of the new exposition of the Museum of the Bible of the Joseph Volokolamsk Monastery, which considers the principles of creating an exhibition that allows showing the distribution of the text of ...
I. V. Pozdeeva
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Lutheran preaching and drama: an attempt at a comparative typology [PDF]

Религия, церковь, общество, 2015
The article deals with formal and thematic peculiarities of the Lutheran sermon in its evolution as a prototype of other didactic genres. Biblical drama that appeared soon after the Reformation as independent and prevailing type of dramatic works was in
Zinaida Andreevna Lurie
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