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68 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 4,838 Biblical Studies and Interpretation papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • “theologically restrained” translation is grounded in established translation scholarship that emphasizes disciplined control of ideological and doctrinal intrusion into lexical choice (e.g., Nida & Taber, 1974; Nord, 2005; Munday et al., 2022), and it is here…

    Semantic Anachronism in the Book of Job: A Diachronic Linguistic Study of Hebrew Lexemes in Biblical Translation · 2026 · DOI

  • He furthers his case by pointing out that in the final confrontation between Jesus and this group just days earlier, Jesus had begun by asking whose son the Messiah was and pointing out that a merely Da- vidic Messiah was insufficient in light of Psalm 110 (Marcus 1989: 135–137).

    A Narrative Analysis of Mark’s Use of the <i>Shema</i> · 2026 · DOI

  • The present text argues that the most common arguments for MP are merely interpretations based upon the already existing assumption, are inconclusive or based upon modern Vorverständnis.

    Is the Marcan Priority Really That Obvious? A Contribution to the Problem of Proving the Priority of Any Gospel · 2022 · DOI

  • ) Freud's book, as I said, was mostly disregarded for fifty years, and then had such a glorious comeback in the late 1980s—one could almost speak of the return of the repressed—that today, after another thirty years, it is scarcely necessary to sketch more than the most general features of its content.

    Moses Tragicus: Freud, Schoenberg, and the Defeated Moses: Freud Birthday Lecture, Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna 6.5.2006 Translated by Pamela Cooper-White · 2019 · DOI

  • The notion that christophanic exegesis is, essentially, a pre-Nicene tradition with little or no relevance for the study of later Christian literature is woefully inadequate: it minimizes the continued appeal to theophanies across much of the fourth-century theological spectrum, and does not account for the pervasive and insistent references to theophanies in Byzantine hymnography.

    A Blind Spot in the Study of Fourth-Century Christian Theology: The Christological Exegesis of Theophanies · 2018 · DOI

  • As we shall see, although scholarship on this topic remains sparse, particularly given the organisation's visibility, since 2011 several important books have appeared alongside others which make contributions to the limited sum of our knowledge of the origins and emergence of the organisation and the way it has operated in different historical contexts.

    The History of the Jehovah's Witnesses: An Appraisal of Recent Scholarship · 2017 · DOI

  • Critical study of the Old Testament was more immediately problematic on account of its pre-Christian textual and authorial intention but because the human authors of the New Testament were Christians these 27 texts could be investigated in terms of their human authors’ intentions without any serious break with Christian tradition.

    Liberal Theological Hermeneutics · 2017 · DOI

  • The promise-fulfillmen en t motif, then, en, en, is not limited to a sin in gle predic ic tion orpredic ic tions, but rather fundamen en tally characterize ize ize s God’s plan of salvation for Israelel and for the nations, which is firmly based upon his ete rnal covenant promise made to the patriarchs.

    Abraham w Dziejach Apostolskich · 2014 · DOI

  • Adams has managed to exhume what little is known of Pfefferkorn’s life and, in particular, to illuminate the role he played in the controversy that raged in the church in the second decade of the sixteenth century between the defenders of the old order—scholasticism—and the humanists and their champion, Johannes Reuchlin.

    Lessons in Contempt: Poul Ræff’s Translation and Publication in 1516 of Johannes Pfefferkorn’s The Confession of the Jews by Jonathan Adams · 2014 · DOI

  • 21-31 (thus it is delimited by the author) in which the apostle Paul once more uses arguments from the Old Testament to convince the recipients of the Letter of the right way to reach justification before God.

    Biblické argumenty apoštola Pavla v Gal 4,21-31 · 2009

  • After demonstrating parallels between Plato and Paul in this pericope, this paper examines other possible source texts and why their presence in this text may be ruled out and encourages further study of Greek rhetoric with specific relation to NT discourse.

    The Gorgias in Second Corinthians Five?: Toward a Conceptual Backing of James Kinneavy's Hypothesis in Greek Rhetorical Origins of Christian Faith · 2009 · DOI

  • , (2) Conjecture Paul's assessment of education in Greco-Roman culture, with which early Christians interacted, (3) Itemize implications of Paul's opinion on Greco-Roman education for our understanding on the formation and history of Christian education, and finally (4) Address the need for further study of the subject.

    Philosophers, Scribes, Rhetors … and Paul? The Educational Background of the New Testament · 2005 · DOI

  • Since regular human experience in the material world is not characterized by starkness, this vision must presuppose a different, spiritual reality discoverable through a click (as it happens to Moses in Exodus 33-34).

    The God of Old; Inside the Lost World of the Bible · 2004

  • Although we must be cautious in using such sparse evidence, drawn from a single, often uncorroborated written witness, nevertheless, a judicious comparison of New Testament portrayals of Jesus and Paul before their judges may yet contribute to our understanding of their respective worlds and worldviews.

    The Trials of Jesus and Paul · 1992 · DOI

  • Bloom's wanderings are limited to the city of Dublin on 16 June 1904, yet Joyce has made this day a parallel to both Odysseus and Moses through an elaborate set of correspondences.

    Agendath Netaim: Promised Land or Waste Land · 1986 · DOI

  • 2 The foundations of this reconstruction are summarized in Jesus and the Pharisees (Cambridge, 1973); I have developed these arguments in the Wilde lectures at Oxford, but these remain to be published.

    Mystery and Parable: Mark iv. 1-20 · 1974 · DOI

  • And in all these cases the prophets are not understood as preachers of a coming new time which is the work of God only and which man has only faithfully to wait for. Either the redaction of the Pentateuch must have been finished and it must have been received by the Samaritans before Ezra had come, and this is scarcely possible if it was Ezra who introduced (a part of) the Pentateuch or made it valid; or the Law brought by Ezra was not directed against the Samaritans, and they at that time and later, down to the completion of the Pentateuch, shared the same Torah with their Judaean brothers.

    EZRA ADN THE ORIGIANS OF JUDAISM · 1974 · DOI

  • ' It is scarcely likely that Jesus chose a language understood by the educated in preference to a language used by ordinary people, and 821.

    THE PROBLEM OF VERNACULAR HEBREW IN THE FIRST CENTURY A. D. AND THE LANGUAGE OF JESUS<sup>1</sup> · 1973 · DOI

  • The banquet scene in lQSa 2:11, at which the Messiah might appear, is scarcely the occasion for a virgin to conceive and bring forth a messianic child.

    The Problem of the Virginal Conception of Jesus · 1972 · DOI

  • xix, 18), and 'iḇrīṯ ‘Hebrew’ (first attested in the prologue to Ben Sira) are wholly identical is—as I have endeavoured to show elsewhere—not fully established.

    Is Biblical Hebrew a language? · 1971 · DOI

  • One limitation of the method, at least in its present form, is that it is not possible to incorporate the readings of an additional witness and to locate it in the spectrum-line, once the variants for the chosen section have been amassed and the count begun, unless one is prepared to go right back to the start. It is interesting to note, however, the minimum degree of singularity which, 1 A is lacking for John 6: 50-8: 52; 8: 54 is thus an obvious starting-point.

    NUMERICAL TAXONOMY AND SOME PRIMARY MANUSCRIPTS OF THE GOSPELS · 1969 · DOI

  • Arthur Gilbert Staff Consultant, National Conference of Christians and Jews, New York City I T is NOT possible to find in the Bible one passage that dearly commands: "You shall not segregate man by the color of his skin nor should you maintain separate facilities, but all men should be given equal opportunity to obtain education, gainful employment, a place of residence and access to public facilities. You must integrate all men into one society for at one creation did man come into being and all men are equal in my sight. Artificial distinctions based on racial inheritance are an abomination. Thus says the Lord." Some of us believe that were the Bible to be written in our day this is how it might read, but it does not. In fact, the Bible written in another time, reflecting the economic and social conditions of that period, allows for slavery. Bible students, therefore, have eschewed the praaice of justifying political positions by quoting isolated scriptural passages frequently drawn out of context. It is not one sentence here or there that justifies our moral behavior; but rather an understanding in full of the spirit and attitudes that inform the entire Bible. We know God's will not alone through the written word which remains after all the text by which our fathers sought to express their understanding of the ineffable One; but rather God's will is made manifest within the context of historic experience. Nor is God's revelation to man a thing of the past. The living God is present in every age and generation making known his will to all who would hear and understand. "The word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it" (Deut. 30:14). 14 It is required, therefore, that we examine those principles, values, and attitudes that are consistently communicated through the scriptural accounts in order to ascertain biblical teaching on race relations, mindful all the while that God's Word must be spoken, experienced and performed within the confines of our own history. II races need IF THE PROPONENTS of a new order of to relations among human wrestle over the Word so must those who would defend the old order. One Southern churchman wrote in his denominational magazine "... valid inferences may be drawn from the Old Testament in support of the general principle of segregation as an important feature of the divine purpose and providence the ages" ("Arguments in Defense of Racial Segregation," by G. T. Gillespie, Presbyterian Outlook, March 14, 1955).

    3. BIBLICAL TEACHING ABOUT RACE RELATIONS ‐ AN OLD TESTAMENT PERSPECTIVE · 1964 · DOI

  • Arthur Gilbert a a Staff Consultant, National Conference of Christians and Jews, New York City Published online: 10 Jul 2006. To cite this article: Arthur Gilbert (1964) 3. BIBLICAL TEACHING ABOUT RACE RELATIONS ‐ AN OLD TESTAMENT PERSPECTIVE, Religious Education: The official journal of the Religious Education Association, 59:1, 14-17, DOI: 10.1080/0034408640590105 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0034408640590105 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in the publications on our platform. However, Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. Any opinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors, and are not the views of or endorsed by Taylor & Francis. The accuracy of the Content should not be relied upon and should be independently verified with primary sources of information. Taylor and Francis shall not be liable for any losses, actions, claims, proceedings, demands, costs, expenses, damages, and other liabilities whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with, in relation to or arising out of the use of the Content. This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution, reselling, loan, sublicensing, systematic supply, or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http:// www.tandfonline.com/page/terms-and-conditions Downloaded by [University of Tasmania] at 06:19 19 January 2015 BIBLICAL TEACHING ABOUT RACE RELATIONS - AN OLD TESTAMENT 3.

    3. BIBLICAL TEACHING ABOUT RACE RELATIONS ‐ AN OLD TESTAMENT PERSPECTIVE · 1964 · DOI

  • The attribution of the Gibeonite story to the sphere of his- torical reality relates only to the early traditions, in which the element of Gibeonite deception was lacking. o r g / a t R y e r s o n U n i v e r s i t y o n J u n e 1 9 , 2 0 1 5 THE LITERARY HISTORY OF JOSHUA IX and Solomon's servants—in itself doubtful1—they were scarcely distinguished from the other Temple servants.

    THE LITERARY HISTORY OF JOSHUA IX · 1963 · DOI

  • It was scarcely by mere coincidence or by the casual influence of Stoicism or Philo Judaeus that John has begun his prologue with the Word, thus concluding what Edmond Jacob calls "a unique history which begins with the word of God pronounced in creation and ends with the word made flesh.

    The Word of God in the Old Testament · 1960 · DOI

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