In Search Of God In The Hebrew Bible

Author : David Penchansky
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664256456
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Rough Beast? written by David Penchansky and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number of texts in the Hebrew Bible consistently command attention and yet defy easy explanation: Why did God try to kill Moses? Why did God kill the man who touched the ark to keep it from falling? Why did God put a tree in the middle of the Garden? David Penchansky tackles these tough questions and in so doing opens up for readers a new understanding of how the Hebrew Bible portrays God. Penchansky examines six biblical narratives that depict God negatively, outlining their social, political, and theological ramifications. He believes the stories provide an important key to the Israelites' understanding of their God. He also believes the stories provide a structure for understanding experiences of evil and suffering within our own century, and for accepting the ambiguity that permeates all human existence. - Christian Book Center.

Author : Tryggve N. D. Mettinger
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451419351
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of God in the Hebrew Bible written by Tryggve N. D. Mettinger and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tryggve Mettinger's much-praised work analyzes the major names for God in the Old Testament to trace, through the many confrontations and challenges of individuals and groups that mark Israel's story, the historical development of Israel's conception of God.

Author : Chaim Bentorah
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490715460
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hebrew Word Study written by Chaim Bentorah and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his third book Chaim Bentorah finds that after having discovered and exploring God's heart, He found himself moving more in an Eastern or Semitic approach to his word studies. Rather than allowing his mind to rule his heart he found God's heart ruling his mind in his word studies. He began to feel a freedom to allow God's heart to rule His mind. When He did this He discovered that He was no longer searching or exploring the Heart of God, He was now resting in the Heart of God.

Author : Aviya Kushner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0385520824
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grammar of God written by Aviya Kushner and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author recalls how, after becoming very familiar with the Biblical Old Testament in its original Hebrew growing up, an encounter with an English language version led her on a ten-year project of examining various translations of the Old Testament and their histories, "--Novelist.

Author : Joel S. Burnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780800662974
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where is God? written by Joel S. Burnett and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodicy-defending God in the face of historical catastrophe and evil-is a central concern in the Hebrew Bible. Joel S. Burnett shows that the theme of divine absence was important in ancient near eastern reflection on the mystery of the divine and that it served both as a way of asking about the justice of God and of affirming God's justice in ancient Israel. Where is God? explores themes of divine presence and absence in creation and wisdom thought, in ritual, in prophetic threat, in narrative, and in apocalypse throughout the Hebrew Bible.

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374513317
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God in Search of Man written by Abraham Joshua Heschel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1976-06 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of the most revered religious leaders of the 20th century, and God in Search of Man and its companion volume, Man Is Not Alone, two of his most important books, are classics of modern Jewish theology. God in Search of Man combines scholarship with lucidity, reverence, and compassion as Dr. Heschel discusses not man's search for God but God's for man--the notion of a Chosen People, an idea which, he writes, "signifies not a quality inherent in the people but a relationship between the people and God." It is an extraordinary description of the nature of Biblical thought, and how that thought becomes faith.

Author : Various Authors,
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310294142
Total Pages : 6637 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Bible (NIV) written by Various Authors, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 6637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.

Author : B. Barry Levy
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 019514113X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fixing God's Torah written by B. Barry Levy and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2001 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many scholars and obervant Jews assume that rabbinic Judaism includes a dogmatic commitment to the notion that the Bible text, particularly the Torah text, is letter perfect. This study offers a very different picture of the textual reality.

Author : James L. Kugel
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544520572
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Shift written by James L. Kugel and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned author of How to Read the Biblereveals how a pivotal transformation in spiritual experience during the biblical era made us who we are today. A great mystery lies at the heart of the Bible. Early on, people seem to live in a world entirely foreign to our own. God appears to Abraham and Sarah, Jacob and others; God buttonholes Moses and Isaiah and Jeremiah and tells them what to say. Then comes the Great Shift, and Israelites stop seeing God or hearing the divine voice. Instead, later Israelites are “in search of God,” reaching out to a distant, omniscient deity in prayers, as people have done ever since. What brought about this change? The answers come from ancient texts, archaeology and anthropology, and even modern neuroscience. They concern the origins of the modern sense of self and the birth of a worldview that has been ours ever since. James Kugel, whose strong religious faith shines through his scientific reckoning with the Bible and the ancient world, has written a masterwork that will be of interest to believers and nonbelievers alike, a profound meditation on encountering God, then and now. “Fascinating.”—The New York Times Book Review “Biblical exegesis at its best: a brilliant and sensitive reading of ancient texts, all with an eye to making them meaningful to our time by making sense of what they meant in their own.”—Kirkus Reviews(starred review) “A magnificent job of bringing important ideas from the academy to a broad readership . . . Kugel gives readers a sense of history’s convoluted texture, its ironies, and thus its beauty.”—The Jewish Review of Books

Author : Paula Fredriksen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300164106
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Jesus to Christ written by Paula Fredriksen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Magisterial. . . . A learned, brilliant and enjoyable study."—Géza Vermès, Times Literary Supplement In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. This edition includes an introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus and its implications for both history and theology. "Brilliant and lucidly written, full of original and fascinating insights."—Reginald H. Fuller, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "This is a first-rate work of a first-rate historian."—James D. Tabor, Journal of Religion "Fredriksen confronts her documents—principally the writings of the New Testament—as an archaeologist would an especially rich complex site. With great care she distinguishes the literary images from historical fact. As she does so, she explains the images of Jesus in terms of the strategies and purposes of the writers Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."—Thomas D’Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor