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This book addresses different theories related to the origin of Gnosticism. The author comes to the conclusion that, if we set aside the Christian substance, in Gnostic literature – besides Platonist philosophy – the most numerous influences come from Judaism. As they have, partially, reached Gnostic literature independent from Christianity, it could validate the theory according to which we should be searching for the origin of Gnosticism in certain Judaist circles. The author analyses the use of lore from the Old Testament and Judaism in Gnostic literature. Even though this does not prove that Gnosticism has evolved from Judaism, it still shows how extensively the Judaist world of thought influenced Gnosticism and how it gives us a reason to ask whether we should consider more thoroughly the theory according to which we should be searching for the founders of Gnostic lore within certain Judaist circles of antiquity. Über den Ursprung der antiken Gnosis gibt es verschiedene Theorien, aber noch heute herrscht in dieser Frage in der Forschung kein Konsens. Der Autor dieses Buches betrachtet unterschiedliche Ursprungstheorien der Gnosis und kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass (abgesehen vom christlichen Stoff) neben den Einflüssen des Mittelplatonismus der alttestamentliche und jüdische Stoff in der gnostischen Literatur die wichtigste Rolle spielt. Da der jüdische Stoff teilweise durch die Vermittlung des Christentums in die Gnosis gekommen ist, könnte das die alte Hypothese unterstützen, dass die Gnosis innerhalb des Christentums entstanden sei. Doch gibt es eine Vielzahl gnostischer Texte, die vom Christentum nicht beeinflusst sind, in denen aber der alttestamentliche und jüdische Stoff eine sehr wichtige Rolle spielt. Diese Tatsache könnte nun die zweite alte Theorie unterstützen, nach der die Wurzeln der Gnosis im antiken Judentum liegen. Der Autor der vorliegenden Arbeit analysiert den Gebrauch der alttestamentlichen und jüdischen Überlieferungen und Motive in der gnostischen Literatur und kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass es nicht letztgültig bewiesen ist, dass die Gnosis aus dem Judentum heraus entstand. Doch zeigt die Untersuchung, wie große Bedeutung die alttestamentlichen und jüdischen Motive in der Gnosis gehabt haben. Dies gibt Anlass zu fragen, ob wir dennoch die Theorie ernsthaft zu erwägen haben, nach der der Ursprung der Gnosis in Kreisen des antiken Judentums zu suchen sei.
Judaism --- Gnosticism --- Gnostic literature --- Relations --- Gnosticism. --- Judaism. --- Relation to the Old Testament.
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In this book, Guy Darshan explores stories of origins that lie at the heart of Pentateuchal sources in the context of literature created in neighboring societies of the ancient Mediterranean world. A comparative study, his volume analyses the parallels between Biblical origin stories - the narrative traditions arranged in geneaological sequence that recount the beginnings of humanity and origins of peoples -- in tandem with ancient Greek genealogical writings from the 7-5th centuries BCE onwards. He also considers Phoenician and Anatolian sources from the first millennium, several of which have only been published in recent years. This is the first scholarly study to trace the origins of this genre of narrative and the circumstances that led to appearances in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Mediterranean literature. It sheds new light on our knowledge of the history of literature, as well as the interconnections and interrelations between civilizations of the pre-Hellenistic eastern Mediterranean and Near East.
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"While most of its contemporary religions have faded away, Israelite religion continues to have a major influence in the world. First delivered in 1975 as a Jordan Lecture in Comparative Religion, this volume argues that in its beginnings Israelite religion had much in common with ancient Mesopotamian religion and suggests that its endurance is due to its dynamic development of the concepts it shared with other religions."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
God --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Assyro-Babylonian religion --- Metaphysics --- Misotheism --- Theism --- Bible teaching. --- Relation to the Old Testament. --- Relation to the Old Testament --- Biblical teaching. --- God (Christianity) --- God (Judaism) --- Biblical teaching
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Focusing on the phenomenon of prophecy in the ancient Near East, this study offers a comparison between parts of First Isaiah and the Assyrian prophecies. In the first part, the material from First Isaiah and from seventh-century Assyria is investigated in its own right. The second part is a comparison of the Isaiah tradition in its earliest shape with the prophetic material from seventh-century Assyria. The topics dealt with in the comparison are the interrelation of prophetic oracles and historical events, the functions of the prophets, and the literary development of prophecy. The study shows that ancient Israelite prophecy, of which the historical Isaiah was an exponent, was much in conformity with ancient Near Eastern prophecy in general.
Prophecy --- Prophets --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Assyria --- Judaism. --- Relation to the Old Testament. --- Religion. --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 224.2 --- 221.08*8 --- Assyro-Babylonian religion --- Minor prophets --- Prophethood --- Seers --- Persons --- Forecasting --- Jesaja. Isaias --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: relatie met de klassieke oudheid --- Relation to the Old Testament --- 221.08*8 Theologie van het Oude Testament: relatie met de klassieke oudheid --- Judaism --- Assur (Kingdom) --- Asshur (Kingdom) --- Assyriërs (volk) --- Jesaja (bijbelboek) --- Profeten. --- Prophecy - Comparative studies. --- Prophets - Comparative studies. --- Prophecy - Judaism. --- Assyro-Babylonian literature - Relation to the Old Testament. --- Assyria - Religion.
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"The Odyssey's larger plot is composed of a number of distinct genres of myth, all of which are extant in various Near Eastern cultures (Mesopotamian, West Semitic, Egyptian). Unexpectedly, the Near Eastern culture with which the Odyssey has the most parallels is the Old Testament. Consideration of how much of the Odyssey focuses on non-heroic episodes--hosts receiving guests, a king disguised as a beggar, recognition scenes between long-separated family members--reaffirms the Odyssey's parallels with the Bible. In particular this book argues that the Odyssey is in a dialogic relationship with Genesis, which features the same three types of myth that comprise the majority of the Odyssey: theoxeny, romance (Joseph in Egypt), and Argonautic myth (Jacob winning Rachel from Laban). The Odyssey also offers intriguing parallels to the Book of Jonah, and Odysseus' treatment by the suitors offers close parallels to the gospels' depiction of Christ in Jerusalem."--Jacket.
Mythology in literature --- Greek literature --- Mythology, Greek --- Mythology, Middle-Eastern --- Relation to the Old Testament --- Homer. --- Mythology in literature. --- Mythology, Middle Eastern --- Relation to the Old Testament. --- Bible. --- Extra-canonical parallels. --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Greek literature - Relation to the Old Testament --- Mythology, Greek - Comparative studies --- Mythology, Middle-Eastern - Comparative studies --- Homer. - Odyssey --- Middle Eastern mythology --- Mythology, Oriental --- Oriental mythology --- Greek mythology --- Bible and literature --- Homerus. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento
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Bible --- Evidences, authority, etc --- Hermeneutics --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Congresses --- Relation to the Old Testament --- 231.742.2 --- Openbaring en Heilige Schrift --- Conferences - Meetings --- 231.742.2 Openbaring en Heilige Schrift
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These essays span about a third of a century and include both previously published and some unpublished studies by Robert A. Kraft which focus on interfaces between Jewish materials and the worlds in which they were transmitted and/or perceived, especially Christian contexts. The initial section on general context and methodology is followed by several detailed studies by way of example. The final section touches on some related issues involving Philonic and other texts. The primary concern is with 'scripturesque' materials and traditions, whether they later became canonical or not, that seem to have been respected as “scriptural” by some individuals or communities in the period prior to (or apart from) the development of an exclusivistic canonical consciousness in some Jewish and Christian circles.
Apocryphal books (Old Testament) --- Judaism --- Christianity and other religions --- Christianity --- Relation to the New Testament. --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Judaism. --- History --- Origin. --- Controversial literature --- History and criticism. --- Bible. --- Relation to the Old Testament. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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The issue of how to represent God is a concern both ancient and contemporary. In this wide-ranging and authoritative study, renowned biblical scholar Mark Smith investigates the symbols, meanings, and narratives in the Hebrew Bible, Ugaritic texts, and ancient iconography, which attempt to describe deities in relation to humans. Smith uses a novel approach to show how the Bible depicts God in human and animal forms-and sometimes both together. Mediating between the ancients' theories and the work of modern thinkers, Smith's boldly original work uncovers the foundational understandings of deities and space.
Anthropomorphism. --- Space --- Image of God. --- Gods, Ugaritic. --- Ugaritic literature --- Symbolism in the Bible. --- God --- Religious aspects. --- Relation to the Old Testament. --- Bible teaching. --- Attributes. --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Criticism, Narrative.
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This book compares a variety of biblical narratives with the stories found in several Northwest Semitic inscriptions from the ancient kingdom of Judah and its contemporary Syro-Palestinian neighbors. In genre, language, and cultural context, these epigraphic stories are closer to biblicalnarratives than any other ancient Near Eastern narrative corpus. For the first time, Parker analyzes and appreciates these stories as narratives and sets them beside comparable biblical stories. He illuminates the narrative character and techniques of both epigraphic and biblical stories and in manycases revea
Narration in the Bible. --- Bible. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Inscriptions, Semitic --- Middle Eastern literature --- Narration in the Bible --- 221.06 --- 221.06 Oud Testament: hermeneutiek; exegese --- Oud Testament: hermeneutiek; exegese --- Semitic inscriptions --- Semitic philology --- Relation to the Old Testament --- Inscriptions, Semitic. --- Relation to the Old Testament.
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Middle Eastern literature --- Relation to the Old Testament. --- Bible --- Bible. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Theology. --- Feminist criticism. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- #SBIB:316.331H300 --- #SBIB:316.346H29 --- Relation to the Old Testament --- Godsdienst en samenleving: algemeen --- Positie van de vrouw in de samenleving: andere topics --- Biblia
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