Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - New Testament

Cel ce judeca primul secol după Cristos in baza prezentului este predispus unui numar impresionant de greseli. Cel ce considera Crestinismul din secolul al IV-lea identic cu cel din perioada Noului Testament, se gaseste pe un drum gresit. Cel ce nu analizeaza atent istoria religiilor premergatoare timpului lui Isus Cristos si influentele pagane care înconjurau Crestinismul timpuriu, nu poate ințelege desfasurarea istoriei sale. Cel ce nu se poate ridica deasupra limitelor confesionale si restrictiilor impuse de crez, nu va intelege istoria timpurie a Bisericii, tendinta acesteia...

Scholarship is divided on a point fundamental to the interpretation of 1 Corinthians 1-4: Are these chapters better read as a Pauline apology or as a Pauline censure? This study argues that Paul's argument is simultaneously apology and rebuke. By characterizing the Corinthian community as an ancient school, Paul depicts himself as a good but misunderstood teacher and the Corinthians as lackluster and unruly students. In support of this argument, White identifies numerous parallels between Paul's language, logic, and imagery in 1 Corinthians 1-4 and similar motifs in ancient Greek, Roman,...

The I AM statements exclusive to the Fourth Gospel are seen as the attempt of the author(s) of that Gospel to present the nature and purpose of the earthly life of Jesus by engaging the imaginative faculty of the reader. Succeeding generations of artists are considered as undertaking a similar task by engaging in an imaginative dialogue with the text.

There are five narratives that are peculiar to the Fourth Gospel: The Wedding at Cana, the Woman of Samaria, the Woman Taken in Adultery, the Raising of Lazarus, and the Washing of Feet.

Five paintings...

This series will publish monographs and collected essays on topics concerning religious experience in antiquity. Volumes in this series will address a diverse array of religious experiences and movements, and particular expressions of religious experience, such as ecstatic trances, magic, healing, prophecy, divination, and dreams, as well as other phenomena that contribute to the scholarly exploration of religious experience. Methods will range widely, encompassing contemporary sociological, anthropological, and psychological approaches to religious experience, as well as historical...