Author: William Robertson Smith
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Category : Prophets
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Author: William Robertson Smith
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Author: Lee Rainwater
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351475983
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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In the history of nineteenth-century religious thought, William Robertson Smith occupies an ambiguous position. More than any other writer, he stimulated the theories of religion later advanced by Frazer, Durkheim, and Freud. Smith himself was not an original scholar, but was rather ""clever at presenting other men's theories"" within new and sometimes hostile contexts. Smith was an important contributor to two of the most serious challenges to Christian orthodoxy of the last century, the ""Higher Criticism"" of the Bible and the comparative study of religion, and was also the victim of the last successful heresy trial in Great Britain. Yet he was an utterly devout Protestant, whose views on Biblical criticism (for which he was damned) are now considered as true as his views on totemism and sacrifice (for which he was praised) are now considered false. Despite Smith's enormous significance for the history of religious ideas, he has been written about relatively little, and most of what we know about his life and work comes from a source almost a century old. Originally published in 1882, The Prophets of Israel is a collection of eight lectures, including ""Israel and Jehovah;"" ""Jehovah and the Gods of the Nations,"" ""Amos and the House of Jehu,"" ""Hosea and the Fall of Ephraim,"" ""The Kingdom of Judah and the Beginnings of Isaiah's Work,"" ""The Earlier Prophesies of Isaiah,"" ""Isaiah and Micah in the Reign of Hezekiah,"" and ""The Deliverance from Assyria.""A new introduction by Robert Alun Jones discusses Smith's early life, the heresy trial, Smith's early view of prophecy, and the classic text itself. The book will be of interest to students and teachers of religious studies, and general readers interested in Robertson Smith.

Author: Carl Heinrich Cornill
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Carl Heinrich Cornill
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Author: Carl Heinrich Cornill
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Author: Herbert Lockwood Willett
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Mark McEntire
Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN: 0664239986
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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While there are many textbooks about the prophetic literature, most have taken either a historical or literary approach to studying the prophets. A Chorus of Prophetic Voices, by contrast, draws on both historical and literary approaches by paying careful attention to the prophets as narrative characters. It considers each unique prophetic voice in the canon, in its fully developed literary form, while also listening to what these voices say together about a particular experience in Israel's story. It presents these four scrolls--Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Book of the Twelve--as works produced in the aftermath of destruction, works that employ prophetic characters, and as the words uttered during the crises. The prophetic literature became for Israel, living in a context of dispersion and imperial domination, a portable and adaptable resource at once both challenging and comforting. This book provides the fullest picture available for introducing students to the prophetic literature by valuing the role of the original prophetic characters, the finished state of the books that bear their names, the separate historical crises in the life of Israel they address, and the "chorus of prophetic voices" one hears when reading them as part of a coherent literary corpus.

Author: Stephen L. Cook
Publisher: Introducing Israel's Scriptures
ISBN: 0800699513
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 611

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The Prophets introduces students to the rise of prophecy in ancient Israel, the messages of individual prophets, the significance of the compositional history of the prophetic writings, and insights for interpreting the message of the prophets today. This textbook includes numerous images, charts, and maps to enhance the experience of the students.

Author: Carl Heinrich Cornill
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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