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    Visualizing a Woman’s Journey Through the Old Testament Prophetic Books: Improving Female Study Methods Through Visual Supplementation

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    Christians are often less likely to read the Old Testament prophetic literature compared to other books in Scripture. This poses a problem within the Church for Biblical literacy and understanding Scripture as one complete narrative that points to Christ. The aim of this research was to discover what causes a struggle for Christian women understanding the prophetic literature, why Old Testament prophetic literature is important for women to study, and the best methods for communicating this information to a female audience. The following research questions were asked: 1. What is the standard perspective of an average Christian when studying Old Testament prophetic literature? 2. Why are the Old Testament prophetic books difficult to understand? 3. How does understanding the biblical definition of “prophet” assist in approaching prophetic literature with confidence? 4. Why does Old Testament prophetic literature matter to Christians under the New Covenant? 5. What resources already exist in teaching women Old Testament prophetic literature? Is there a gap in these resources that needs to be filled? 6. How does a resource best illuminate and explain a complex topic? 7. What makes content memorable and eye-catching to a female audience? After researching these questions through a literature review, visual analyses, and content analyses, a solution was created to enhance study methods for women who desire to read the prophetic books of the Old Testament. A handbook was designed, with the target audience of women in mind, to lead women through important things to know when approaching the more difficult prophetic books. Research revealed how the design of the handbook directly impacts cognition and study methods; therefore, the handbook was designed according to that research to make maximum impact. In conclusion, this handbook is a way to solve the problem of Christian women not reading the prophetic literature of the Old Testament

    Old Testament Speaks: A Complete Survey of Old Testament History and Literature (Book Review)

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    Reviewed Title: The Old Testament Speaks: A Complete Survey of Old Testament History and Literature, fourth edition, by Samuel J. Schultz (New York: Harper & Row) 1990. 426 pages

    The Literary Background of the Epistile of Jude

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    This writer felt that this study was necessary and worthwhile for two reasons. First, he desired to reach some reasonable conclusion for the problem stated above on the basis of an objective scrutiny of the material, influenced neither by ·preconceived conclusions about the problem nor by emotional concerns which would have, and often have, answered the question without a fair study. This latter concern arises from the fact that many commentators have argued against Jude\u27s use of apocryphal literature on the basis of their view of inspiration, revelation, and canonicity rather than on the basis of an objective handling of the various documents. Secondly, this writer is very much interested in the use which the New Testament writers made of the Old Testament and, hence, other literature and found here a possibility to study the influence of the Old Testament on one book of the New Testament. This study was of value because it helped this writer to appreciate more fully the little letter of Jude as well as realize the tremendous network of Jewish background--Old Testament, Jewish literature, tradition, and rabbinic literature and tradition--which forms a major context for all of the New Testament writings

    In the Old Testament Prophetic Literature

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    Lehre und Wehre Volume 58

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    Lehre und Wehre Band 58 herausgegeben von Fakultät des Concordia-Seminars aus dem Jahr 1912. (Lehre und Wehre Volume 58 edited by Concordia Seminary Faculty from 1912.) Januar (January) Vorwort. .1 (Preface. . 1) Pauli Lehrstellung. .8 (Paul\u27s apprenticeship position. . 8) Die Assyriologie und das Alte Testament. .14 (Assyriology and the Old Testament. . 14) Vermischtes. .26 (Miscellaneous. . 26) Literatur. .28 (Literature. . 28) Kirchlich - Zeitgeschichtliches. .33 (Ecclesiastical - contemporary history. . 33) Februar (February) Pauli Lehrstellung. .49 (Paul\u27s apprenticeship position. . 49) Die Assyriologie und das Alte Testament. .58 (Assyriology and the Old Testament. . 58) Literatur. .69 (Literature. . 69) Kirchlich - Zeitgeschichtliches. .72 (Ecclesiastical - contemporary history. . 72) März (March) Das römisch - katholische Glaubensbekenntnis und die Religionsfreiheit. .97 (The Roman Catholic Creed and Freedom of Religion. . 97) Die Assyriologie und das Alte Testament. .104 (Assyriology and the Old Testament. . 104) Vermischtes. .115 (Miscellaneous. . 115) Literatur. .120 (Literature. . 120) Kirchlich - Zeitgeschichtliches. .129 (Ecclesiastical - contemporary history. . 129) April Das römisch - katholische Glaubensbekenntnis und die Religionsfreiheit. .145 (The Roman Catholic Creed and Freedom of Religion. . 145) Dr Martin Luther. .155 (Dr Martin Luther. . 155) Vermischtes. .165 (Miscellaneous. . 165) Literatur. .167 (Literature. . 167) Kirchlich - Zeitgeschichtliches. .176 (Ecclesiastical - contemporary history. . 176) Mai (May) Welche Schwierigkeiten es für Lutheraner macht, in der Lehre von der Gnadenwahl, wie sie in der Schrift gelehrt und im Bekenntnis unserer Kirche bekannt ist, nicht einig zu sein. .193 (How difficult it is for Lutherans to disagree on the doctrine of grace as taught in scripture and as known in the confession of our church. . 193) Pauli Lehrstellung. .198 (Paul\u27s apprenticeship position. . 198) Das römisch - katholische Glaubensbekenntnis und die Religionsfreiheit. .209 (The Roman Catholic Creed and Freedom of Religion. . 209) Literatur. .218 (Literature. . 218) Kirchlich - Zeitgeschichtliches. .222 (Ecclesiastical - contemporary history. . 222) Juni (June) Welche Schwierigkeiten es für Lutheraner macht, in der Lehre von der Gnadenwahl, wie sie in der Schrift gelehrt und im Bekenntnis unserer Kirche bekannt ist, nicht einig zu sein. .241 (How difficult it is for Lutherans to disagree on the doctrine of grace as taught in scripture and as known in the confession of our church. . 241) Die Modernisten im Papsttum nach ihrer eigenen Darstellung. .251 (The modernists in the papacy according to their own account. . 251) Die Assyriologie und das Alte Testament. .258 (Assyriology and the Old Testament. . 258) Literatur. .266 (Literature. . 266) Kirchlich - Zeitgeschichtliches. .270 (Ecclesiastical - contemporary history. . 270) Juli (July) Die Modernisten im Papsttum nach ihrer eigenen Darstellung. .289 (The modernists in the papacy according to their own account. . 289) Die Assyriologie und das Alte Testament. .297 (Assyriology and the Old Testament. . 297) Dr Martin Luther. .305 (Dr Martin Luther. . 305) Literatur. .313 (Literature. . 313) Kirchlich - Zeitgeschichtliches. .319 (Ecclesiastical - contemporary history. . 319) August Die Modernisten im Papsttum nach ihrer eigenen Darstellung. .337 (The modernists in the papacy according to their own account. . 337) Die Assyriologie und das Alte Testament. .343 (Assyriology and the Old Testament. . 343) Dr Martin Luther. .359 (Dr Martin Luther. . 359) Literatur. .363 (Literature. . 363) Kirchlich - Zeitgeschichtliches. .367 (Ecclesiastical - contemporary history. . 367) September Etliche Paragraphen über die synergistische Lösung des Geheimnisses in der Bekehrung und Gnadenwahl. .385 (Several paragraphs about the synergistic solution of the mystery in conversion and choice of grace. . 385) Die Göttlichkeit des Berufs mit Berücksichtigung geschehender Abirrungen. .403 (The divinity of the profession, taking into account deviations that occur. . 403) Literatur. .409 (Literature. . 409) Kirchlich - Zeitgeschichtliches. .412 (Ecclesiastical - contemporary history. . 412) October Die Assyriologie und das Alte Testament. .433 (Assyriology and the Old Testament. . 433) Die Göttlichkeit des Berufs mit Berücksichtigung geschehender Abirrungen. .444 (The divinity of the profession, taking into account deviations that occur. . 444) Dr Martin Luther. .453 (Dr Martin Luther. . 453) Literatur. .461 (Literature. . 461) Kirchlich - Zeitgeschichtliches. .468 (Ecclesiastical - contemporary history. . 468) November Pauli Lehrstellung. .481 (Paul\u27s apprenticeship position. . 481) Die Assyriologie und das Alte Testament. .486 (Assyriology and the Old Testament. . 486) Dr Martin Luther. .500 (Dr Martin Luther. . 500) Literatur. .507 (Literature. . 507) Kirchlich - Zeitgeschichtliches. .511 (Ecclesiastical - contemporary history. . 511) December Marienfeste der römischen Kirche. .529 (Feasts of Mary of the Roman Church. . 529) Die trunkene Wissenschaft; was sie will, und warum wir wenig Respekt vor ihr haben. .541 (Drunken science (knowledge); what she wants and why we have little respect for her. . 541) Dr Martin Luther. .553 (Dr Martin Luther. . 553) Literatur. .557 (Literature. . 557) Kirchlich - Zeitgeschichtliches. .562 (Ecclesiastical - contemporary history. . 562)https://scholar.csl.edu/lehreundwehre/1057/thumbnail.jp

    Re-interpretation as transformation. Perspectives and challenges for Old Testament interpretation

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    This contribution explains that the re-interpretation of theological motifs or ideas leads to transforming theology and religion.  This phenomenon takes place within the corpus and boundaries of the Old Testament. Innerbiblical debate or “later” texts that re-interpret “earlier” texts underscore this process and confirm a transformed theology that is relevant and life-giving for the “new” or “later” context. Because these processes happened within the range of a long history of development of OldTestament literature, the article first discusses important hermeneutical realities or directives for Old Testament interpretation. It then mentions a few approaches to, and challenges of interpreting Old Testament literature. Finally, it briefly portrays how the book of Ruth re-interpreted certain pentateuchal texts as an act of transforming theology

    The Theological Background of the Marcan Account of the Baptism and Temptation of Jesus

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    The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the Old Testament and intertestamental background of the words and concepts appearing in Mark 1:1-13. Our study will show that almost every word and phrase in these verses is charged with a complex of theological associations stemming from the Old Testament and the Apocrypha and Pseudopigraha. We will attempt to show what these associations are, the different nuances given to them by the writers of the Old Testament and the intertestamental literature, and the varying ways which they were combined in these writings

    Old Testament Literature for Teacher Continuing Education

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    Christian elementary and secondary teachers have turned to Cedarville over the years for professional development, but now for the first time, they are able to earn continuing education units (CEUs) using videos from the university’s popular Old Testament (OT) Literature class

    The Sonata Form and its Use in Beethoven\u27s First Seventeen Piano Sonatas

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    Beethoven\u27s piano sonatas are possibly the greatest achievement in piano literature, perhaps in all musical literature. It has been said that if the forty-eight preludes and fuges of Bach\u27s Well-tempered Clavier were to be considered the Old Testament of music, then Beethoven\u27s thirty-two sonatas would have to be the New Testament

    Старозавітна повістева притча: історико-літературний контекст

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    The links between the Old Testament parable and the Hebrew histiric and literary realitics are considered in the article. The Old Testament canon parable stories such as books of Ruth, Esther and Jonah as the original genre of the Hebrew literature are accentuatedВ статье рассмотрены связи ветхозаветной притчи с историко-литературными реалиями древних евреев. Особенное внимание акцентируется на повестях-притчах ветхозаветного канона (Книга Руфи, Книга Эсфирь, Книга Ионы) – оригинальном жанре древнееврейской литератур
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