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The theme of recompense in Matthew's Gospel
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ISBN: 1850753857 1474231357 9781850753858 Year: 1992 Volume: 79 Publisher: Sheffield JSOT

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Matthew's theology of the Spirit has received scant scholarly attention, a regrettable oversight since the evangelist is careful to note that the eschatological redemption described in his Gospel is the direct result of the activity of God's Spirit. Matthew's narrative of God's restoring work, which begins with Jesus and continues through his followers, is informed by, even as it extends, the larger biblical narrative concerning God's creative, redemptive, and restorative work at the centre of which stands his Spirit, his active presence. As the study elaborates upon the broad sweep of Matthew

Reward, punishment, and forgiveness : the thinking and beliefs of ancient Israel in the light of Greek and modern views
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ISSN: 00835889 ISBN: 9004114432 9004276033 9789004114432 Year: 1999 Volume: v. 78 Publisher: Leiden : E.J. Brill,

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This book deals with central and universal issues of reward, punishment and forgiveness for the first time in a compact and comprehensive way. Until now these themes have received far too little attention in scholarly research both in their own right and in their interrelationship. The scope of this study is to present them in relation to the foundations of our culture. These and related issues are treated primarily within the Hebrew Bible, using the methods of literary analysis. The centrality of these themes in all religions and all cultures has resulted, however, in a comparative investigation, drawing attention to the problem of terminology, the importance of Greek culture for the European tradition, and the fusion of Greek and Jewish-Christian cultures in our modern philosophical and theological systems. This broad perspective shows that the biblical personalist understanding of divine authority and of human righteousness or guilt provides the personalist key to the search for reconciliation in a divided world.


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Ancient Jewish and Christian perceptions of crucifixion.
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ISBN: 9783161495793 3161495799 Year: 2008 Volume: 244 Publisher: Tübingen Mohr

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Enduring exile : the metaphorization of exile in the Hebrew Bible
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ISBN: 1283119307 9786613119308 9004203710 9789004203716 9789004160972 9004160973 9781283119306 661311930X Year: 2011 Publisher: Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill,

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During the Second Temple period, the Babylonian exile came to signify not only the deportations and forced migrations of the sixth century B.C.E., but also a variety of other alienations. These alienations included political disenfranchisement, dissatisfaction with the status quo, and an existential alienation from God. Enduring Exile charts the transformation of exile from a historically bound and geographically constrained concept into a symbol for physical, mental, and spiritual distress. Beginning with preexilic materials, Halvorson-Taylor locates antecedents for the metaphorization of exile in the articulation of exile as treaty curse; continuing through the early postexilic period, she recovers an evolving concept of exile within the intricate redaction of Jeremiah’s Book of Consolation (Jeremiah 30–31), Second and Third Isaiah (Isaiah 40–66), and First Zechariah (Zechariah 1–8). The formation of these works illustrates the thought, description, and exegesis that fostered the use of exile as a metaphor for problems that could not be resolved by a return to the land— and gave rise to a powerful trope within Judaism and Christianity: the motif of the “enduring exile.”

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