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Reza Rezaie Khanghah deposited Who Is Imam Mahdi, Prophesied In Other Religions, And From Holy Fatima lineage? in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Purpose: In this article, we will discuss the narrations and prophecies that exist in Islam, both in Shia, Sunni and other religions regarding Imam Mahdi. This article also attempts to deal with Holy Fatima and her characteristics. Also, we will show that Imam Mahdi is mentioned not only in other religions but also in other books. Also, this…[Read more]
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Reza Rezaie Khanghah deposited Imam Mahdi And Jesus Christ Role In Establishing The Divine Government in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Purpose: This article covers the events and incidents predicted before and after the appearance of Imam Mahdi and Jesus Christ. This article seeks to address the facts and inform you about the system of government of Imam Mahdi and Jesus Christ. Also, miracles and the titles of Imam Mahdi are other topics that were mentioned in this article. Also,…[Read more]
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Reza Rezaie Khanghah deposited Imam Mahdi, Antichrist Or A Promised Saviour Besides Jesus Christ? in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Purpose: In this article, we discussed whether Imam Mahdi is an Antichrist or a Promised Saviour Besides Jesus Christ and other topics. This article attempts to deal with the concepts “Occultation”, “Imamat”, “Mahdaviat”, “Mahdism” and Who is Antichrist that prophesied both in Islam and Christianity. Also, this research was conducted to answer and…[Read more]
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Christian Frevel deposited Gotteshäuser en miniature? Architekturbezug, Funktion und Medialität der sogenannten Tempelmodelle der südlichen Levante in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
proofs, to be published in a volume 2023
Gotteshäuser en miniature? Architekturbezug, Funktion und Medialität der sogenannten Tempelmodelle der südlichen Levante, in: Jens Kamlah/Markus Witte (Hg.), Sacred Architecture in Ancient Palestine from the Bronze Age to Medieval Times (ADPV 49), Wiesbaden 2023, 153-234.
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Collin Cornell deposited The Value of Egyptian Aramaic for Biblical Studies in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Biblical Aramaic accounts for a small fraction within the two-testament Christian Bible. Studying it would seem therefore to present a modest value for biblical studies, and Egyptian Aramaic, a nonbiblical counterpart from the same historical era, even more so. The present article argues, however, that comparing Egyptian Aramaic with biblical…[Read more]
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Jonathan Rivett Robinson deposited “To See Your Face Is Like Seeing the Face of God”: Pastoral and Systemic Reflections on Forgiveness and Theosis in the Jacob Story in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 9 months ago
[Chapter in The Art of Forgiveness, 2018] This paper considers the story of Jacob and Esau’s reconciliation (Gen 32-33) through the lens of my own experience in pastoral ministry and of Family Systems Theory. In one sense it is a psychological reading of the narrative of Gen 32-33. In another it is an attempt to explore the practical and…[Read more]
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Michael Miller deposited Name Theology: Judaism in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks ago
An entry for the Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception on the topic of Name Theology, how this has evolved in different Abrahamic religions from the scriptural origins.
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Nick Posegay deposited Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
In the first few centuries of Islam, Middle Eastern Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike all faced the challenges of preserving their holy texts in the midst of a changing religious landscape. This situation led Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew scholars to develop new fields of linguistic science in order to better analyse the languages of the Bible and…[Read more]
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Jonathan Rivett Robinson deposited Jonah’s Gourd and Mark’s Gethsemane: A Study in Allegorical Messianic Intertextuality [accepted version] in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
[NB. PDF is accepted copy, not published version – to cite, please use published version, JSNT 43:3, 2021, 370-388)] A number of scholars have recognized a verbal allusion to Jon. 4.9 in Mk 14.34. However, the Gethsemane account (Mk 14.32-42) may allude to the narrative of Jon. 4 in other ways not previously observed. Some modern interpreters have…[Read more]
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Christine Mitchell deposited David and Darics: Reconsidering an Anachronism in 1 Chronicles 29 in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
This note examines the use of the term “daric” in 1 Chr 29:7 for its ideological purposes, concluding that the anachronism was deployed purposely to signal resistance to imperial rule.
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Nick Posegay deposited Hissing, Gnashing, Piercing, Cracking: Naming Vowels in Medieval Hebrew in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
The modern names for the Hebrew vowels (qameṣ, pataḥ, segol, ṣere, ḥiriq/ḥireq, ḥolem, shuruq/shureq, qibbuṣ/qubbuṣ) are derived from a variety of medieval sources. The pair of qameṣ and pataḥ are the oldest, both having evolved in the earliest stages of Masoretic analysis of vocalisation. The remaining names are products of three different…[Read more]
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Pamela Barmash deposited Blood Feud and State Control: Differing Legal Institutions for the Remedy of Homicide During the Second and First Millennia B.C.E. in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Since the discovery of the Laws of Hammurapi in December 1901–January 1902,1
the dependence of biblical law upon Mesopotamian law has been hotly debated. Among
the most contentious issues is the abjudication of homicide, and the discussion has focused
on particular odd cases in biblical law, such as an ox that gored or assault on a p…[Read more] -
Pamela Barmash deposited Ancient Near Eastern Law in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Ancient Near Eastern Law. The oldest documented law comes from the ancient Near East. The earliest legal texts come from about 2600 B.C.E., a few hundred years after the invention of writing, and they predate by millennia the documentation for law from the other early civilizations of China and India.
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Pamela Barmash deposited Amnesty and Reform Texts in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Amnesty and Reform Texts. Edicts of amnesty and reform decreed by a king intervened in economy and society, invalidating loans, pledges and sales, cancelling debts, and issuing behavioral instructions to government officials. They were dated to a specific time at which their provisions would come into effect.
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Christian Frevel deposited Theologie der Geschichte – Geschichte der Theologie in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Selbst Gott hat eine Geschichte. Vom Vergessen der Geschichte und der Notwendigkeit einer geschichtlichen Dimension in der Exegese – am Beispiel der Frühgeschichte des Gottes Israels, G. Essen/C. Frevel (Hg.), Theologie der Geschichte – Geschichte der Theologie (QD 294), Freiburg 2018, 10-39
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Nick Posegay deposited To Belabour the Points: Encoding Vowel Phonology in Syriac and Hebrew Vocalization in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Medieval Hebrew and Syriac scribes both indicated vowels by placing dots above or below their consonantal writing. These vowel points were created in the Late Antique and early Islamic periods to disambiguate the vocalization of important texts, especially the Bible. The earliest step in this process was the implementation of the Syriac ‘diacritic…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay deposited Three Fragments of a Judaeo-Arabic Translation of Ecclesiastes with Full Tiberian Vocalisation in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts with complete vocalisation are rare, a problem which makes reconstructing the pronunciation of the medieval language challenging. This study presents an edition of a Judaeo-Arabic translation of Ecclesiastes from the Cairo Genizah with full Tiberian vocalisation. This manuscript exhibits noteworthy features of dialectal…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay deposited Connecting the Dots: The Shared Phonological Tradition in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew Vocalisation in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
This article presents new data on links between the various medieval vocalisation traditions of Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic. These include the identification of overlaps in the Aramaic terminology used by Jewish Masoretes and Syriac Christian grammarians and in the phonological theories that underlie them, as well as connections between Syriac and…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay deposited A Judaeo-Arabic Biblical Glossary as a Source for Arabic Historical Dialectology in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
MS T-S Ar.5.58 is a translation glossary from the Cairo Geniza that contains a list of Judaeo-Arabic glosses for Hebrew words from the biblical book of Samuel. These Arabic words are fully vocalised with the Tiberian Hebrew pointing system, providing more precise phonetic information about the scribe’s native Arabic dialect than could be e…[Read more]
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RONALD VINCE deposited The Aaronic Blessing: An Introductory Commentary on Numbers 6:22-27 in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
The Priestly or Aaronic Blessing contained in Numbers 6:22-27 is treasured by both Jewish and Christian communities. This commentary on the text and the context of the Blessing offers no radical exegesis. It is intended simply as guide to a few of the textual and interpretive issues embodied in this brief and ostensibly simple pericope.
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