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Dieu, le diable et les idoles : esquisses de théologie biblique
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ISBN: 9782204104319 2204104310 Year: 2015 Volume: 187 Publisher: Paris Cerf

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Comment distinguer l'oeuvre de Dieu et la part du diable ? Buisson-ardent, voix, souffle parfois aux confins du silence : dans sa révélation, Dieu demeure insaisissable. Pour tenter de le connaître, de le rencontrer, l'homme doit se frayer un chemin. Quitte à confondre Celui qui est avec ce qu'il n'est pas, voire avec le diable. Dans la Bible, l'adversaire travestit la vérité pour mieux conduire qui il égare à sa perte. Le démasquer revient alors à dévoiler le mensonge. Ce qui revient à rechercher la voie droite. Est-ce à dire que connaître les contours de la vérité divine résiderait d'abord dans la connaissance de son contraire ? Ce contraire est l'idole, ce faux-semblant dans lequel l'homme s'enferme quand il se fait un dieu à l'image de ses désirs et de ses peurs. Croyant trouver le divin, il ne fait que s'aliéner, en devenant l'otage de ce qui l'habite et le hante de trop humain. Or, au commencement, l'image inaugurale n'est autre que le diable, figuré par le serpent du jardin d'Eden. En rendant manifeste ce que l'histoire du salut et l'odyssée de la conscience ont d'intriqué, André Wénin donne ici une leçon non seulement d'exégèse, mais encore de spiritualité.


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Searching the scriptures : studies in context and intertextuality
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ISBN: 9780567663825 0567663825 9780567663832 Year: 2015 Publisher: London Bloomsbury T&T Clark


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The Oxford handbook of biblical narrative
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ISBN: 9780199967728 0199967725 9780199967735 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York, NY Oxford University Press


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The Bible in the British Museum : interpreting the evidence
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ISBN: 071411698X 9780714116983 Year: 1988 Publisher: London Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications

The Oxford companion to the bible
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ISBN: 0195046455 0199891028 0191913707 Year: 1993 Publisher: Cambridge Oxford University Press

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The Bible has had an immeasurable influence on Western culture, touching on virtually every aspect of our lives. This authoritative one-volume reference to the people, places, events, books, and secular influence of the Bible was written by over 250 scholars from 20 nations.

The Bible and the Third World : precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial encounters
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ISBN: 0521773350 0521005248 0511012241 9780511012242 9780521773355 9780521005241 9780511612619 0511612613 9780511049903 0511049900 0511152728 9780511152726 1280429569 9781280429569 1107119855 9781107119857 0511173598 9780511173592 0511327668 9780511327667 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This innovative study moves briskly but comprehensively through three phases of the Third World's encounter with the Bible - precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial. It recounts the remarkable story of how an inaccessible and marginal book in the ancient churches of India, China and North Africa became an important tool in the hands of both coloniser and colonised; how it has been reclaimed in the postcolonial world; and how it is now being reread by various indigenes, Native Americans, dalits and women. Drawing on substantial exegetical examples, Sugirtharajah examines reading practices ranging from the vernacular to liberation and the newly-emerging postcolonial criticism. His study emphasises the often overlooked biblical reflections of people such as Equiano and Ramabai as well as better-known contemporaries like Gutiérrez and Tamez. Partly historical and partly hermeneutical, the volume will serve as an invaluable introduction to the Bible in the Third World for students and interested general readers.


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Treasuring the word : an introduction to biblical manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Library
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ISBN: 1860591647 Year: 2003 Publisher: Dublin TownHouse


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Women and the Bible in early modern England : religious reading and writing
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ISBN: 9780199665402 Year: 2013 Publisher: London Oxford University Press


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The Danielic discourse on empire in Second Temple literature
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ISBN: 9789004331297 9004331298 9789004331310 900433131X Year: 2017 Volume: 176 Publisher: Leiden Koninklijke Brill NV

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"In The Danielic Discourse on Empire in Second Temple Literature, Alexandria Frisch asks: how did Jews in the Second Temple period understand the phenomenon of foreign empire? In answering this question, a remarkable trend reveals itself--the book of Daniel, which situates its narrative in an imperial context and apocalyptically envisions empires, was overwhelmingly used by Jewish writers when they wanted to say something about empires. This study examines Daniel, as well as antecedents to and interpretations of Daniel, in order to identify the diachronic changes in perceptions of empire during this period. Oftentimes, this Danielic discourse directly reacted to imperial ideologies, either copying, subverting, or adapting those ideologies. Throughout this study, postcolonial criticism, therefore, provides a hermeneutical lens through which to ask a second question: in an imperial context, is the Jewish conception of empire actually Jewish?"


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Christian apocalyptic texts in Islamic messianic discourse : the 'Christian chapter' of the Javidan-nama-yi kabir by Fadl Allah Astarabadi (d. 796/1394)
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ISSN: 15707350 ISBN: 9789004328662 9004328661 9004330852 Year: 2017 Volume: 30 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill,

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In Christian Apocalyptic Texts in Islamic Messianic Discourse Orkhan Mir-Kasimov offers an account of the interpretation of these Christian texts by Faḍl Allāh Astarābādī (d. 796/1394), the founder of a mystical and messianic movement which was influential in medieval Iran and Anatolia. This interpretation can be situated within the tradition of ‘positive’ Muslim hermeneutics of the Christian and Jewish scriptures which was particularly developed in Shıīʿī and especially Ismaīʿlī circles. Faḍl Allāh incorporates the Christian apocalyptic texts into an Islamic eschatological context, combining them with Qurʾān and ḥadīth material. In addition to an introductory study, the book contains a critical edition and an English translation of the relevant passages from Faḍl Allāh’s magnum opus, the Jāvidān-nāma-yi kabīr .

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