The Hebrew Prophets And Their Social World
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| Author | : Victor H. Matthews |
| Publisher | : Baker Books |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2012-10-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1441240314 |
Social World of the Hebrew Prophets is an introduction to the Hebrew Prophets and the social world of which they spoke. Matthews examines ancient Israel's prophets chronologically, providing sketches of their historical contexts. He explains pertinent aspects of historical geography, economic conditions, and social forces that influence a prophet's life and message. This analysis includes many of the images and metaphors a prophet used to communicate effectively. Thus, for example, the reader only skims the surface of a text without understanding what it meant to be a member of Tekoa's community of hill country farmers and herders, or what an exiled Levite from Anathoth experienced as a prophet in Jerusalem.
| Author | : Ward-Lev, Nahum |
| Publisher | : Orbis Books |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2019-05-22 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 160833791X |
"This book examines the liberation journey that is the heart of the Hebrew Scriptures. The work begins with a careful reading of narrative, prophetic and legal texts from the Hebrew Scriptures. All of these texts reveal exodus, the journey from constriction, as a fundamental biblical concern. After showing how the message of the Hebrew Prophets represents a consistent theme throughout Scripture, the author traces the further refinement of these liberation themes in contemporary writers and prophets such as Abraham Joshua Heschel, Martin Buber, Paulo Freire, Gustavo Guttiâerez, Erich Fromm, Martin Luther King, Beverly Harrison, Maya Angelou, Robin Wall Kimmerer and bell hooks. The book shows how the insights of these prophets, ancient and modern, offer guidance for confronting current challenges for readers of all faiths and backgrounds"--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : Victor Harold Matthews |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| ISBN | : 9781441258694 |
An expert on the world of ancient Israel introduces students to the Hebrew Prophets in this substantially revised and expanded edition of a successful text.
| Author | : Robert R. Wilson |
| Publisher | : Fortress Press |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9781451417456 |
Using comparative anthropology to get at the social dimensions of prophetic activity, Robert Wilson's study brings the study of Isrealite prophecy to a new level. Looking at both modern societies and Ancient Near Eastern ones, Wilson sketches the nature of prophetic activity, its social location, and its social functions. He then shows how these features appear in Israelite prophecy and sketches a history of prophecy in Israel.
| Author | : J. David Pleins |
| Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
| Total Pages | : 610 |
| Release | : 2001-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780664221751 |
J. David Pleins presents a sociological study of the Hebrew Bible, seeking to uncover its social vision by examining biblical statements about social ethics. He does this within the framework provided by Israel's social institutions, the social locations of its actors, and the historical struggles for power and survival that are reflected in the transmission of the texts.
| Author | : James D. Newsome |
| Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 1984-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780804201131 |
This informative survey presents the Old Testament prophets in an orderly format, making them accessible and understandable to readers of the Bible. The key feature of this introductory volume is the systematic outline and form. Each chapter summarizes the essential element of the prophet's message. The reader will have a basic foundation on which to build a growing understanding.
| Author | : Eileen Maddocks |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2020-04-22 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781732451186 |
The opening chapters of the book of Genesis hint at the challenges our species will face. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil symbolizes materialism, and the tree of life the Word of God. Its detail rich pages, and multifaceted allegories, history, hymns and stories, reveal a succession of Divine Messengers right down to the present day
| Author | : Don C Benjamin |
| Publisher | : James Clarke & Company |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2017-04-27 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 022790625X |
The book of Deuteronomy is not an orphan. It belongs to a diverse family of legal traditions and cultures in the world of the Bible. The Social World of Deuteronomy: A New Feminist Commentary brings these traditions and cultures to life and uses them to enrich our understanding and appreciation of Deuteronomy today. Don C. Benjamin uses social-scientific criticism to reconstruct the social institutions where Deuteronomy developed, as well as those that appear in its traditions. He uses feministcriticism to better understand and appreciate how powerful elite males in Deuteronomy view not only the women, daughters, mothers, wives and widows in their households but also their powerless children, liminal people, slaves, prisoners, outsiders, livestock and nature. Through the lens of feminist theory, Benjamin explores important aspects of the daily lives of these often overlooked peoples in ancient Israel.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : SBL Press |
| Total Pages | : 362 |
| Release | : 2013-06-05 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1589837770 |
Because gender is an essential component of societies of all times and places, it is no surprise that every prophetic expression in the ancient social world was a gendered one. In this volume scholars of the biblical literature and of the ancient Mediterranean consider a wide array of prophetic phenomena. In addition to prophetic texts of the Hebrew Bible, the essays also look at prophecy in ancient Mesopotamia and early Christianity. Using the most current theoretical categories, the volume demonstrates how essential a broad definition of gender is for understanding its connection to both the delivery and the content of ancient prophecy. Attention to gender dynamics will continue to reveal the fluidity of prophetic gender performance and to open up the ancient contexts of prophetic texts. The contributors are Roland Boer, Corrine Carvalho, Lester L. Grabbe, Anselm C. Hagedorn, Esther J. Hamori, Dale Launderville, Antti Marjanen, Martti Nissinen, Jonathan Stökl, Hanna Tervanotko, and Ilona Zsolnay.
| Author | : Barry L. Schwartz |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2018-03-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0827613091 |
"Devoted to the legacy of the biblical prophets, identifies the prophetic moment in the lives of 18 biblical characters, offers up an intimate view of their inner thoughts, illuminates their ethical legacies, and challenges each of us to walk the path of the prophets today"--
