Three To Twenty One Daysesthers Progressive Prayer Fast

Author : Dr. Pauline Walley-Daniels
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491718013
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three to Twenty-One Days?Esther?s Progressive Prayer Fast written by Dr. Pauline Walley-Daniels and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you looking for ways to engage in Prayer and fasting more effectively? In this guide, Dr. Pauline Walley-Daniels reveals how Esther led people in an effective prayer fast that changed their circumstances for life. She explains how to fast and provides important prayer points that are applicable to any situation. Every year, Walley-Daniels's home church and its affiliates set themselves apart to perform a progressive prayer fast based on Esther's encounter. Queen Esther declared the fast when she discovered that Haman, the enemy of the Jews, was plotting to destroy her people. It was a time when all came before God, fasting and crying to Him for family members and for breakthrough and deliverance from any Hamanic decrees enacted against them and their lives. Building on that model, this guide is a song of inspiration, an encouragement through each season of the fast. The insights and practical guidelines it offers enable each of us to break through the challenges and difficulties that confront our environment and our spiritual lives. "Dr. Pauline Walley-Daniels fights a good fight of spiritual warfare. ... She presents powerful, effective prayers that are specific to the challenges individuals may face in fulfilling their destiny." -Susan Slusher, Dean, Christian International Equipping Network

Author : Joshua Berman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047413687
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative Analogy in the Hebrew Bible written by Joshua Berman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sheds fresh light upon the phenomenon of narrative doubling in the Hebrew Bible. Through an innovative interdisciplinary model the author defines the notion of narrative analogy in relation to other literatures where it has been studied such as English Renaissance drama and makes extensive critical use of contemporary literary theory, particularly that of the Russian formalist Vladimir Propp. His exploitation of narrative doubling, with a focus upon the metaphorical, reorients our reading by uncovering a major dynamic in biblical literature. The author examines several battle reports and demonstrates how each could be interpreted as an oblique commentary and metaphor for the non-battle account that immediately precedes it. Battle scenes are revealed to stand in metaphoric analogy with, among others, accounts of a trial, a rape, a drinking feast, and a court-deliberation. Joshua Berman offers new insights to the ever-growing concern with the relationship between historiography and literary strategies, and succeeds in articulating a new aspect of biblical ideology concerning human and divine relationship.

Author : Samuel Wells
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 1441241442
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Esther & Daniel (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible) written by Samuel Wells and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible advances the assumption that the Nicene creedal tradition, in all its diversity, provides the proper basis for the interpretation of the Bible as Christian scripture. The series volumes, written by leading theologians, encourage Christians to extend the vital roots of the ancient Christian tradition to our day. In this addition to the acclaimed series, two respected scholars offer a theological exegesis of Esther and Daniel. As with other volumes in the series, this book is ideal for those called to ministry, serving as a rich resource for preachers, teachers, students, and study groups.

Author : Marco Conti
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830897305
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther written by Marco Conti and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church fathers, as they did in earlier books dealing with Israel's history from the time of Joshua to the united monarchy, found ample material for typological and moral interpretation in 1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther. It will be immediately clear to readers of this volume that they gave much more attention to 1-2 Kings than to others; whether this was due to a certain repetitiveness in the story line or other reasons is unclear. But the narratives of wise King Solomon, the construction of the temple, the prophets Elijah and Elisha, and the fates of various faithful and unfaithful kings and other powerful people were well suited to their purposes. Among Greek commentators in this Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture volume, readers will find Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Methodius, Eusebius of Caesarea, Athanasius, Cyril of Jerusalem, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, John Chrysostom, Cyril of Alexandria, Theodoret of Cyr, Procopius of Gaza and John the Monk. Among Latin commentators are Tertullian, Cyprian, Novatian, Lactantius, Ambrose, Jerome, Prudentius, Augustine, Paulinus of Nola, John Cassian, Peter Chrysologus, Maximus of Turin, Salvian the Presbyter, Fulgentius of Ruspe, Caesarius of Arles, Gregory the Great, Bede and Rabanus Maurus. Syriac commentators include Aphrahat, Ephrem, Sahdona, Isaac of Nineveh and Isho'dad of Merv. Together they set before readers a table of delights and theological insights, some of which are here available to English readers for the first time.

Author : Charles V. Dorothy
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567621383
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Books of Esther written by Charles V. Dorothy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Books of Esther applies form-critical tools to the Septuagint and non-Septuagint ('Lucianic') Greek texts of Esther. Differences in vocabulary, content and style show that the Greek books of Esther are independent traditions stemming from, and aimed at, two distinct religious communities. The 'Lucianic' version appears more personal, orthodox, nationalistic and Jewish; its audience is Palestinian and it intends to foster communal identity. The Septuagint version breathes a more matter-of-fact, reportorial, Hellenistic style, with an eye to tolerance of heretics and audience entertainment. The Masoretic version became canonized because it is the most multivalent of the Esthers, appealing to both religious and secular elements of Judaism.

Author : Brevard S. Childs
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9780800605322
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture written by Brevard S. Childs and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Introduction attempts to offer a different model for the discipline from that currently represented. It seeks to describe the form and function of the Hebrew Bible in its role as sacred scripture for Israel. It argues the case that the biblical literature has not been correctly understood or interpreted because its role as religious literature has not been correctly assessed.

Author : Lawrence M. Wills
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725234246
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Novel in the Ancient World written by Lawrence M. Wills and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence M. Wills here traces the literary evolution of popular Jewish narratives written during the period 200 BCE-100 CE. In many ways, these narratives were similar to Greek and Roman novels of the same era, as well as to popular novels of indigenous peoples within the Roman Empire. Yet, as a group, they demonstrated a variety of novelistic innovations: the inclusion of adventurous episodes, passages of description and of dialogue, concern with psychological motivation, and the introduction of female characters. Wills focuses on five novels: Greek Esther, Greek Daniel, Judith, Tobit, and Joseph and Aseneth. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical works, he delineates the techniques and motifs of the Jewish novel, shows how the genre both initiated and distanced itself from nonfictional prose such as historical and philosophical writing, discusses its relation to Greco-Roman romance, and describes the social conditions governing its emergence and reception. Wills also places the novels in historical context, situating them between the Hebrew Bible, on the one hand, and subsequent developments in Jewish and Christian literature on the other. Wills sees the Jewish novel as a popular form of writing that provided amusement for an expanding audience of Jewish entrepreneurs, merchants, and bureaucrats. In an important sense, he maintains, it was a product of the "novelistic impulse": the impulse to transfer oral stories to a written medium to reach a more literate audience.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761820239
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Theological Commentary to the Midrash: Ruth Rabbah and Esther Rabbah I written by Jacob Neusner and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2001 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This theological commentary to the Rabbinic Midrash explores a simple proposition, in three parts: I. The reading of Scripture by principal parts of the Rabbinic Midrash is formed by compositions and composites that are animated by a cogent theological system. II. These primary components of the Midrash-compilations, further, are in part aimed at systematic demonstrations of theorems of a theological character. III. While forming a principal part of a large theological structure and system, each document is unique.

Author : Vern S. Poythress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998005102
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing Christ in All of Scripture written by Vern S. Poythress and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carey A. Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in the Book of Esther written by Carey A. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains reprints of older articles on Esther originally published in several different periodicals.