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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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PECULIARITIES OF BIBLICAL THEMES IN THE COPTIC TEXT “THE MYSTERIES OF JOHN THE APOSTLE” [PDF]
Вестник Екатеринбургской духовной семинарииThe article deals with the analysis of biblical themes in the Coptic apocryphon the detailed title of which can be translated as “The Mysteries of John, the Apostle and Holy Virgin, That (the mysteries) Were Taught to Him in Heaven”.
Evgenia S. Kalchenko
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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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Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how consumer responses to religious advertising are influenced by two dimensions of open‐mindedness: rational and intuitive. Across three experiments, participants viewed ads that varied in the strength of their religious cue.
Yeqing Bao +3 more
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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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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.‘Greening’ is often depicted as an inherently benevolent practice, turning arid stretches of land into arable and fertile plots. However, by considering a longer history of place and taking archival records into account, such transformations are rendered more complex and, often, more fraught.
Zsuzsanna Ihar
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ReligionsThis 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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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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Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The khipu knotted string records in the ancient Andes were accounting systems, but they did not indicate any concepts of commensurability or exchange value. They were not incipient money; instead, monetized commerce appears to have predated the economic organization of the Inca society. The article begins by tracing the emergence of coinage in
Alf Hornborg
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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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