Male Obstetric Competence in Ancient Israel

2016 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Makujina
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Ancient Israel ◽  
Sociological Studies

According to two recent sociological studies on childbirth in the OT, the (androcentric) OT displays both insensitivity to the parturient and ignorance of the basics of parturition. One of the studies specifies that the biblical authors were unaware of the normally presenting fetal member, the head. The present article, however, comes to decidedly different conclusions: 1) the position that the Israelite male was insensitive to women experiencing childbirth either goes beyond the available evidence or is a distortion thereof; 2) both studies overlook information that undermines their conclusions; and 3) the OT authors were sufficiently aware of the fundamentals of childbirth.

scholarly journals AS SAGRADAS DE ASHERAH: CULTO À DEUSA NO ANTIGO ISRAEL

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 352
Author(s):  
Sue'Hellen Monteiro De Matos
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Textual Evidence ◽  
Ancient Israel

O presente artigo propõe realizar um levantamento acerca do culto da fertilidade e os papéis das sagradas (qedoshot) de Asherah, e também dos sagrados (qedoshim) que faziam parte deste ambiente cultual, tendo em vista a religião popular e estatal no Antigo Israel. Para tal, se faz necessário um breve comentário acerca da dinâmica religião popular x estatal no Antigo Israel e as os indícios arqueológicos e textuais sobre o culto à Deusa Asherah, para que então possamos discorrer sobre o culto da fertilidade e as mulheres sagradas a serviço da Deusa. THE SACREDES OF ASHERAH: WHORSHIP TO THE GODDESS IN ANCIENT ISRAEL The present article proposes to make a survey about the fertility cult and the roles of the women sacred (qedoshot) of Asherah, and also of the men sacred (qedoshim) that were part of this cultic environment, considering the popular and state religion in Ancient Israel. For this, a brief commentary is needed on the dynamics between popular and state religion in Ancient Israel and the archaeological and textual evidence on the worship of the Goddess Asherah, so that one may discuss the fertility cult and the sacred women to service of the Goddess.

Die „Erfindung“ der Barmherzigkeit im Alten Israel. Biblische und nachbiblische Perspektiven

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-306
Author(s):  
Shimon Gesundheit
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Ancient Israel ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The One

Abstract For quite a long time it has been part of the opinio communis within Hebrew Bible scholarship that compassion and empathy with persona miserae is in its very meaning invented by Ancient Israel. This view has been challenged by a comparative study of Frank C. Fensham. The present article shows on the one hand that care for the poor, widows and orphans is in fact not innovative. On the other hand, a closer analysis is able to show that the biblical and Jewish care for the strangers, slaves and animals is indeed unique.

Historiography in the Ancient Israel and the Scribes of the King Hezekiah

2019 ◽  
pp. 138-162
Author(s):  
Андрей Выдрин
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Ancient Israel ◽  
Written Traditions

В настоящей статье анализируются теории о времени возникновения и специфике небиблейской письменности в Древнем Израиле. При этом основное внимание уделяется попытке обнаружить письменные предания, вошедшие и ставшие основой для написания 1-4 Цар. Несмотря на многообразные и зачастую противоречивые теории библейских критиков, рассмотренных в данной работе, есть все основания полагать, что древнеизраильская литература появилась, по крайней мере, при царях Давиде и Соломоне; второй этап её развития был связан с деятельностью иудейского царя Езекии. In the present article analyzes theories about the time of the occurrence and the specifics of non-biblical writing in the Ancient Israel. At the same time, the main attention is paid to the attempt to discover the written traditions that entered and became the basis for writing 1-4 Kings. Despite the diverse and often contradictory theories of biblical critics examined in this work, there is all reason to suppose that the Ancient Israel’ literature appeared, at least during the kings David and Solomon; the second stage of its development was associated with the activities of the Jewish king Hezekiah.

scholarly journals A educação em Portugal: princípios e fundamentos constitucionais

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Abrantes
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Education System ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Democracy And Education ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
The Way

As the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic (CRP) reaches its fortieth birthday, the present article looks at how leading national and international sociological studies view its stance on education. The way the CRP has been interpreted and the impacts it has had on the Portuguese education system are discussed, and a number of controversies, tensions and areas for future development are identified. Questions such as relations between the public and private sectors, the struggle against inequalities, lifelong learning, the management of democracy and education for citizenship are broached. In broad terms, the article argues that the CRP has played a leading role in changing the education system, and continues to be not only a fundamental instrument for promoting stability, but also a framework for transformative policies.

scholarly journals Religion at Kuntillet ʿAjrud

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Smoak ◽  
William Schniedewind
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Religious Ideology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ancient Israel ◽  
Considerable Discussion

The discovery of early Hebrew inscriptions at the site of Kuntillet ʿAjrud has generated considerable discussion among scholars over the past few decades. The fact that the inscriptions contain explicitly religious themes led some to conclude that the site had a cultic function. In the present article, we challenge this assumption and argue that the inscriptions with religious themes are embedded in daily life as religion converges with scribal curriculum in ancient Israel. The inscriptions provide insights into conceptions of the Israelite pantheon, divine theophany, and theomachy in early Israelian religious ideology.

The African Traditional Ritual of Cleansing the Chest of Grudges as a Ritual of Reconciliation

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-106
Author(s):  
Claudia Nolte-Schamm
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Present Article ◽  
South African Context ◽  
The South ◽  
Interpretive Analysis ◽  
African Context ◽  
Sociological Studies

AbstractThis article describes a Southern African traditional cultural ritual which is employed in order to reconcile hostile parties, namely parties who are at loggerheads about something and wish to resolve the conflict that is dividing them. Using resources gleaned from ritual and sociological studies, as well as from theology, the author offers an interpretive analysis of the ritual. The aim of the article is to illuminate the value and significance of traditional African rituals for the promotion of social reconciliation in the South African context. The present article is one of two essays that consider the named ritual.

›Writing on the Heart‹ in Jeremiah 31:31–34 in Light of Recent Insights into the Oral-Written Interface and Scribal Education in Ancient Israel

2020 ◽  
Vol 132 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-249
Author(s):  
Joachim J. Krause
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
New Covenant ◽  
Ancient Israel

AbstractThe interpretation of the »new covenant« in Jer 31:31–34 hinges on how to understand Yhwh’s promise to write his Torah on the heart of the Israelites. According to a widely held view, the latter aims at abrogating the institutions of the book of the Torah and its handing down by means of teaching and learning. From this point of view, Jer 31:31–34 seems to exhibit a decidedly anti-Deuteronomistic outlook. In the present article, this view is confronted with more recent insights into the oral-written interface and its role in scribal education, the basic assumption being that such education is the lifeworld presupposition behind the promise of writing on the heart.

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