44 research outputs found
Review of \u3ci\u3e The ‘Grammar of Sacrifice’: A Generativist Study of the Israelite Sacrificial System in the Priestly Writings with a ‘Grammar’ of Σ\u3c/i\u3e
Review of \u3ci\u3e Mesopotamian Ritual-prayers of Hand-lifting” (Akkadian Šuillas): An Investigation in Light of the Idiomatic Meaning of the Rubric\u3c/i\u3e
Review of \u3ci\u3eCourt Oracles in the Psalms: The So-Called Royal Psalms in their Ancient Near Eastern Context\u3c/i\u3e
Review of \u3ci\u3eSymbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past: Canaan, Ancient Israel, and Their Neighbors from the Late Bronze Age through Roman Palaestina. Proceedings of the Centennial Symposium, W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research and American Schools of Oriental Research, Jerusalem, May 29-31, 2000\u3c/i\u3e
Resurrection: Love Conquers Death
When a loved one is on his or her final journey home to God, we who keep vigil recognize that a momentous event is happening before us. As believers, we live in hope that this journey will bring the loved one to a better place. We regard the dying process as the one by which a believer is born into eternal life. As communication with the loved one fades, it is as if a veil descends between the dying person and those gathered around. This fading of communication marks the transformation of the loved one’s earthly body into a heavenly one
Review of \u3ci\u3eA Star is Rising: The Historical Development of the Old Testament Royal Ideology and the Rise of the Jewish Messianic Expectations\u3c/i\u3e
Ezekiel\u27s Priestly Imaginary: A Symbolic or Idolatrous Reality?
The images and genres as well as the structure of the Book of Ezekiel aim to promote symbolic thinking in which the reader receives the word of Yhwh as an engagement with the divine Other. Such engagement fosters a priestly imaginary in which the Judean exiles are called to look beyond appearances as they wrestle with the contradictions generated by the exile and the destruction of the Jerusalem temple. The readers, like Ezekiel and the exiles, can become living symbols of Yhwh. Such symbolic thinking will be illustrated through a focus on chaps. 17-20 in which the tensions between individual and collective responsibility are encompassed within Yhwh\u27s promise of an everlasting covenant with the House of Israel. Does Ezekiel\u27s emphasis on the priestly system foster the covenant relationship or replace it? The predominantly oral communication of the prophecy of Ezekiel to the majority of Jewish and Christian audiences until the nineteenth century C.E. challenged individuals to decide for or against Yhwh