scholarly journals The metaphor of Yahweh as healer in the prophetic books of the Old Testament

2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. F. O’Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Significant Role

Yahweh as healer is not a major metaphor in the Old Tes- tament, but it nevertheless plays a significant role in the proph- etic books.

scholarly journals A silent unheard voice in the Old Testament: The Cushite woman whom Moses married in Numbers 12:1–10

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David T. Adamo
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
African Women ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Women In The Bible ◽  
The Bible

Most of the time, women’s names are not mentioned, words are not put in their mouths or they are not allowed to say a word, and their achievements are behind the scene in the narratives. Passages that mention the presence and contribution of African women in the Bible are especially neglected, perhaps because there are few African women biblical scholars and also deep prejudices against women. References to the African wife of Moses (Numbers 12) are so scanty in the Bible that very few critical biblical scholars noticed them. The purpose of this article is to discuss critically the narrative of the Cushite woman whom Moses married and her marginalisation by the author of the story in Numbers 12:1-10. The narrator of the text did not only refuse to give her a name, there is no single word put in her mouth despite the dominant and significant role her presence played in the narrative. Why is she silent and what does her silence mean? The answers to these questions are discussed in this article.

Contributions of Commentaries on the Minor Prophets to the Formation of Distinctive Lutheran and Reformed Confessional Identities

2012 ◽  
Vol 92 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 237-260
Author(s):  
G. Sujin Pak
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Confessional Identity ◽  
Sacred History ◽  
Minor Prophets

The essay explores the question of the evidence of distinct Lutheran and Reformed confessional practices of exegesis particularly concerning interpretations of Old Testament prophecy. It begins by outlining differences in Martin Luther and John Calvin’s practices of christological exegesis and vision of sacred history in their interpretations of the Minor Prophets. Next, it traces the evolution of these differences in a set of figures from the next generation of Lutheran and Reformed exegetes in order to discern whether consistent patterns emerge to indicate ways in which biblical interpretation shaped confessional identity. Through a survey of commentaries on the Minor Prophets by a set of next generation Lutherans (Philip Melanchthon, Aegidius Hunnius, Lucas Osiander, and Nicolas Selnecker) and next generation Reformed (David Pareus, Lambert Daneau, Johannes Drusius, and Johannes Piscator) the author provides a picture of how biblical interpretation did indeed play a significant role in the formation and expression of confessional identity in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Learning Truth from the Sages

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-128
Author(s):  
Edward M. Curtis
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Teaching Methods

The Old Testament sages regularly taught in ways that involved ambiguity and created tension in the minds of their students. Such teaching methods were intended to stimulate thought and reflection on the part of their students as they sought to answer the questions raised by these dilemmas. These intellectual and applicational struggles played a significant role in moving students toward the goal of developing skill in living according to Yahweh's order. An understanding of this methodology may be useful in understanding a difficult book like Ecclesiastes. at the same time the use of such teaching strategies may have relevance for teaching in various educational contexts today.

scholarly journals MENDALAMI GELAR-GELAR SANTA PERAWAN MARIA BUNDA ALLAH DALAM PENGAKUAN DAN AJARAN FRANSISKUS

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
Philipus Benitius Metom
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Triune God ◽  
The Church

There is a line of titles of Saint Mary mentioned by Pope Francis in his published encyclicals and apostolic exortations. However, we summarize them into seven new titles, namely, Saint Mary is the daughter of Zion, mother, queen, woman, star, bride, and the spring of happiness for the little people. We consider that the number seven title has opened the minds of the faithful about the joy of believing in the Triune God who saves the world and the significant role of Saint Mary in the success of this exalted work. The recognition of the seven new titles aims to support the understanding of the faith of the Catholic faithful in the Blessed Mary as Mother of God and Virgin. Apart from that, another goal is that the quality of the Church's faith in the virginity of Saint Mary and her mother of God will be strengthened. What kind of quality do you want to affirm? What he wants to affirm is the quality of the Church's faith which is rooted in the past of the Old Testament, which is flourishing and expanding in the present, and which will bear fruit to await eternal happiness in the future (eschatological). Thus, the seven new titles of Saint Mary can reveal the faith of the Church to live at all times.

scholarly journals Exempla starotestamentalnych kobiet w interpretacji Prima Clementis

Vox Patrum ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 9-23
Author(s):  
Waldemar Turek
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Proper Place ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Harmonious Community

Some scholars have recently tried to show that the problems in the Christian community at Corinth were caused in a particular way by women wishing to have a more significant role within the community, and that the primary purpose of Saint Clement’s Letter to the Corinthians was to bring them to order and to show them their proper place in the community’s life and activity. The current study primarily tries to show that Prima Clementis was addressed to the entire Corin­thian community. This is followed by an analysis of the passages in which Saint Clement presents the feminine figures of the Old Testament: Miriam (the sister of Moses and Aaron), Lot’s wife, Rahab, Judith, and Esther, and interprets them in the context of the Christian situation at Corinth. In this way, it is shown that Cle­ment, by using the exempla method, creates the image of a perfect, ordered, and harmonious community in which women are outstanding for their strong faith, love, and hospitality.

Can Theological Interpretation Soften the Protestant Problem of Old Testament Textual Plurality? : Jeremiah as a Test Case

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-178
Author(s):  
Benjamin D. Giffone
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Textual Criticism ◽  
The Self ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Theological Interpretation ◽  
Masoretic Text ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Church

Summary Discoveries in the last century which contribute to the field of Old Testament textual criticism raise challenges for Protestant use of the Masoretic Text and canon, and for evangelical doctrines of the authority and perspicuity of Scripture. Protestants maintain that the authority of the New Testament is self-attesting, not derived from the Church. Difficulties arise when Protestants apply this understanding to the Old Testament, particularly to the Masoretic Text and canon used to exclude the Apocrypha. Of particular interest is the Masoretic Text of Jeremiah, which is widely acknowledged by textual critics to represent a later version of the book than the LXX text of Jeremiah. Protestant use of the Masoretic canon (and later text of Jeremiah) in light of the early church’s preference for the LXX (text and canon) entails 1) a recognition that community reception plays a significant role in determining the extent of the canon ‐ and that, through Jerome, Rabbinic Judaism’s Bible served to ‘correct’ the Spirit-filled church’s canon; and 2) that catholicity cannot be an adequate basis for recognizing the Old Testament canon, given that the Church has never been unanimous on this point. Through the lens of the self-attesting witness of the New Testament to Christ, ‘theological interpretation’ of the Old Testament may allow evangelicals to maintain a high view of the Old Testament as Scripture while tolerating some uncertainties concerning the precise text and outer canonical bounds of the Old Testament.

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