Stefan Alkier's Books

The Promise of Ecumenical Interpretation

Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox

By: Stefan Alkier,Christos Karakolis,Tobias Nicklas

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The Promise of Ecumenical Interpretation

Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox

By: Stefan Alkier,Christos Karakolis,Tobias Nicklas

The Promise of Ecumenical Interpretation pursues its ecumenical goals by allowing the Bible itself to serve as the point of commonality. The volume retains the Bible's centrality as a guideline for individual faith and for the institutional design of churches in the context of contemporary social conflicts. The authors--one Protestant, one Catholic, one Orthodox--present ten unifying theses on the understanding and function of a conception of Scripture under the sign of Sola Scriptura. They agree that only Scripture, when correctly understood, bears witness to good news for everyone, and that only a shared, expectant, and critical turn to Scripture makes sustainable ecumenism possible. This is the basis for bringing biblical insights to the conditions that make community life possible amid the global and local, ecclesiastical and social conflicts of the present.

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315

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Fortress Press

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ISBN 13

9798889831723

New Testament Basics

A Guide for Reading and Interpreting the Text

By: Stefan Alkier,David M. Moffitt

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New Testament Basics

A Guide for Reading and Interpreting the Text

By: Stefan Alkier,David M. Moffitt

New Testament Basics introduces college, university, seminary, and divinity school students to the study of the New Testament. Authors Stefan Alkier and David M. Moffitt adopt five major aims: (i) to explore how the Bible came to exist, dealing with the formation and significance of the Christian canon; (ii) to discuss the ways the Bible continues to exert influence on contemporary culture, demonstrating the ongoing value and importance of biblical literacy; (iii) to introduce readers to some of the most fundamental methods used in the study of the New Testament, including a substantial discussion of semiotics and its usefulness for New Testament interpretation; (iv) to provide a survey of central historical, social, and economic information as important contextual knowledge for interpreting the New Testament; and (v) to offer some brief discussion of the contents of several New Testament texts and consider ways they might inform theological reflection. In the end, Alkier and Moffitt's New Testament Basics fosters within students important competencies needed to read and interpret the New Testament for themselves.

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441

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Fortress Press

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1506483380

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9781506483382

Garments of the Gods

Studies on the Textile Industry and the Pantheon of Sippar According to the Texts from the Ebabbar Archive

By: Stefan Zawadzki

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Garments of the Gods

Studies on the Textile Industry and the Pantheon of Sippar According to the Texts from the Ebabbar Archive

By: Stefan Zawadzki

This volume offers the transliteration, translation and selected copies of over 600 administrative documents on the textile industry in the Ebabbar temple at Neo-Babylonian Sippar. The documents are mostly divided in accordance with the former discussion presented in OBO 218. The aim of the new publication is to enlarge the data base for future studies and to create the possibility of checking and discussing the observations made in the first volume. Indices provide the names of garments and fabrics, and the paleography will allow the reader easy comparison when identifying new texts in the future.

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296

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Saint-Paul

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3727815558

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9783727815553

Allegory Transformed

The Appropriation of Philonic Hermeneutics in the Letter to the Hebrews

By: Stefan Nordgaard Svendsen

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Allegory Transformed

The Appropriation of Philonic Hermeneutics in the Letter to the Hebrews

By: Stefan Nordgaard Svendsen

Based on the author's thesis, University of Copenhagen, 2007.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161499689

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9783161499685

Die Gottesvorstellungen in der antik-jüdischen Apokalyptik

By: Stefan Beyerle

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Die Gottesvorstellungen in der antik-jüdischen Apokalyptik

By: Stefan Beyerle

This monograph studies the theological motivations behind certain Jewish apocalypses by focusing on the mighty acts of God recounted in these writings. In particular, the work examines the various depictions of God’s acts and attributes as a means for learning about the individuals and groups responsible for the transmission of these apocalypses. Three prominent motifs, among others, receive attention here: theophanies (e.g., I Enoch 1:3–9; 25:3; 77:1; Daniel 4:10, 20; 7:9–10, 13–14), portrayals of the resurrection (e.g., I Enoch 102 – 104; Daniel 12:1–3), and interpretations of the (Babylonian) Exile in connection with the “new creation” (e.g., Qumran, Jubilees, Pseudo-Philo). Apocalypticism provides a framework for various theologies. Generally speaking, God is shown as the most prominent figure in these dramas of eschatological events. The authors of these writings typically held that their only deliverance could arise from the imminent arrival of an otherworldly eon ushered in by the power of God.

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