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Scribe Trained for the Kingdom of Heaven
2021Stimulated by the signal contributions that New Testament scholar Richard B. Hays has made to Christology and Christian ethics, the essays collected here carry forward conversations involving close studies of particular passages in the Gospels and Epistles and wider-ranging forays into big questions in those fields.
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The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law, 2019
According to the Gospels, Jesus kept of the law of Moses, but he considered the expansionist teachings of the “traditions of the elders” accepted by many of the Jewish leaders and teachers of his day to be overly pedantic, burdensome, and sometimes not ...
R. Averbeck
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According to the Gospels, Jesus kept of the law of Moses, but he considered the expansionist teachings of the “traditions of the elders” accepted by many of the Jewish leaders and teachers of his day to be overly pedantic, burdensome, and sometimes not ...
R. Averbeck
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Information Density in the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:1–12)
The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in SocietyThis study examines the linguistic and communicative complexity of Matthew 5:1–12, commonly known as the Beatitudes, through the lens of Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP), a Praguian framework for analyzing information structure.
Martin Adam
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The Parables of the Mustard Seed and Leaven
Pneumatikos: The Journal of Chafer Theological SeminaryThe parables of the mustard seed and leaven describe the interim period that resulted from Christ’s withdrawal of His kingdom offer. In the parable of the mustard seed, a mustard seed is planted (to represent the kingdom offer), but a different plant ...
Paul Miles
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Songs of Renewal: The language of renewal in the hymns of Charles Wesley
The Journal of Religious History Literature and CultureThis essay discusses Charles Wesley as hymnwriter, focusing on his use of the terms ‘restore’, ‘renew’ and ‘revive’ in the Wesleys’ 1780 Collection of Hymns. Each of these core concepts is itself developed extensively in Charles’s corpus.
P. Chilcote
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The kingdom of the heavens - translator trauma?
2021Bible translations, numbering many thousands at any given time, are evidently different from one another and thus cannot all, or even most, accurately reflect its very text. Yet are there words or phrases that are undeniably and consistently misrepresenting the text on each and every occasion?
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“Spare Thou My Rosebud”: Interiority and Baroque Death in Richardson’s Clarissa
Literary Imagination: The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, 2015A famously sizable chunk of Samuel Richardson’s famously long novel, Clarissa , or the History of a Young Lady , chronicles the slow death of its heroine and the fate of her corpse and worldly remains.
Laura Baudot
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The Homilies of St John Chrysostom on the Passion: I
Life of the Spirit, 1958And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended all these words, he Said to his disciples: You know that after two days shall be the pasch, and the Son of man shall be delivered up to be crucified.
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Life of the Spirit, 1948
Possess silence, brother, as a strong wall. For silence will enable thee to subdue the uprisings of passion, for thou fightest from a height while they lie beneath thy feet.
St Ephrem
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Possess silence, brother, as a strong wall. For silence will enable thee to subdue the uprisings of passion, for thou fightest from a height while they lie beneath thy feet.
St Ephrem
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