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	BIBLICAL THEOLOGY AND WESLEYAN THEOLOGY: 1994 WTS Presidential Address
		Biblical theology is an historical and theological discipline in the throes of an identity crisis.
		The discipline of biblical theology is the historical offspring of the unlikely marriage of the Pietism and Rationalism in a chapel constructed jointly by the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution.
		During the nineteenth century biblical theology increasingly shifted from a presentation of the theological concepts of the Bible, systematically arranged, to the history and evolution of the religion of Israel and the early church.
	wesley.nnu.edu /wesleyan_theology/theojrnl/26-30/30-2-01.htm (6753 words)

	Inspiration, Authority and Interpretation
		According to the claims of the Biblical authors, the words they spoke and the words of the people they wrote about were the authorative words of God.
		The extent of Biblical authority is restricted to the message and principles the Biblical author and Holy Spirit intended to communicate (Black and Dockery 1991, p.26).
		Biblical authority extends to the entire Biblical record, unless the context clearly shows that this is not the case.
	www.kulikovskyonline.net /hermeneutics/inspirat.htm (3154 words)

	Biblical Revelation and Inspiration
		In other words, it is possible to profess very piously to be biblical and yet to miss the central meaning of the Bible, to be mightily concerned about tithes and mint and cummin and yet to miss the weightier matters of the Word.
		We are biblical only if our confession, our teaching, our theology, are controlled completely by the great central message of the Bible, and by this we mean centrally the New Testament, where Christ is fully presented.
		The biblical writings manifest so clearly the characteristics and traits of their human writers, and their relation to the historical times and cultural settings in which they were written is so clear, that divine dictation or mechanical inspiration, shutting out human participation, is impossible.
	www.bibleviews.com /bib-rev-ins.html (4787 words)

	The Jehoash Inscription by Prof. Victor Avigdor Hurowitz
		Interestingly, the verb appearing in the biblical account is not עשה (as in the inscription) or בנה but נתן, and it seems that we are not dealing with an architecturally distinct item, but the stepped form of the building.
		In fact, the Jehoash Inscription’s reliance on expressions connected with various biblical chapters, and essentially all the biblical chapters connected with temple building, is precisely one of the proofs for questioning the authenticity of the inscription.
		It is easier to assume that the author of the inscription knew all the mentioned biblical chapters, drew from them and combined them without distinction than assume that two to four biblical authors reflect independently linguistic elements from the inscription and created independent creations, this with one biblical idiom, and that with another.
	www.bibleinterp.com /articles/Hurowitz_report.htm (4545 words)

	Society of Biblical Literature
		Taking into account a range of biblical texts, secondary readings related to economic justice and non-violence, and stories of actual Christian believers (e.g., Martin Luther King, Jr., and Dietrich Bonhoeffer), students considered circumstances and contexts in which Christians encountered difficulty and even danger as a result of acting on their faith convictions.
		Although we biblical scholars sometimes remain enthralled for years with minute grammatical nuances, historical curiosities, and theological puzzles, we are a rare and strange breed.
		Worse, budding biblical scholars tend to work alone in a library, often isolated from the kinds of communities and contexts that arguably give biblical interpretation its primary raison d'etre.
	www.sbl-site.org /Article.aspx?ArticleId=421 (3061 words)

	Body and Soul: Greek and Hebraic Tensions in Scripture
		The biblical writers could certainly distinguish between different aspects of humanity, such as the difference between thought and hunger, or between pain and love, but never developed dualistic notions of a person being made up of divisible parts.
		But it is not a biblical concept, and not one that lies behind the biblical formulations of human beings or God’s work with human beings.
		It is just the biblical perspective, from a certain cultural and world view, and will not always satisfy all of our curiosities or answer all the questions we might want to pose from 2,000 years later in history.
	www.cresourcei.org /bodysoul.html (2731 words)

	The Apocypha and Pseudepigrapha
		Books were attributed to pagan authors, and names drawn from the repertoire of biblical personalities, such as Adam, Noah, Enoch, Abraham, Moses, Elijah, Ezekiel, Baruch, and Jeremiah.
		Certain of the apocryphal works were known in Jewish tradition throughout the Middle Ages, not necessarily in their full texts, but in shortened and retold versions, or in translations back into Hebrew or Aramaic from Christian languages.
		Biblical Antiquities: Sometimes also called Pseudo-Philo, this is a biblical history from the creation to the monarchy and seems to have been written before the destruction of the Temple by the Romans.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Judaism/apocrypha.html (2934 words)

	REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN
		His most valuable training was received during the six months of 1624 that he spent in the studio of a painter of history painter Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam.
		It was Lastman who introduced Rembrandt to the painting of historical and biblical subjects, with a dramatic, theatrical flair.
		In his desire for historical accuracy, he collected numerous works of art, costumes, and props and curiosities, was continually improving and learning from the art and frequently using the various costumes in his portraits.
	www.angelfire.com /wa3/skylarkofthemorning/page86.html (514 words)

	Journal of Hebrew Scriptures (JHS) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Three pertinent questions are discussed: the Jacob-Esau saga in the biblical scholarship; the presence of Southern Jordanian “Edomite” material culture in the Negev; and the issue of kinship, segmentation and orality in ancient societies.
		The biblical picture of ancient Israel does not fit in, but is contrary to any image of ancient Palestinian society that can be established on the basis of ancient sources from Palestine or referring to Palestine.
		The (biblical) text is basically understood as an "aesthetic subject" in order to stress that the interrelation between the text and its readers proceeds from the productive encounter between both.
	www.arts.ualberta.ca /JHS/abstracts-articles.html (9484 words)

	Robert Kirk - Walker Between Worlds(Pages 112-121) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kirk is, of course, correct in all of this argument, though the modern reader might not appreciate his Biblical presentation of certain proofs.
		We need to remember that the Bible was taken literally by most people of the seventeenth century, and that to suggest that most of it was a carefully edited reworking of mythology and Semitic folklore would have been shocking, sacrilegious and, of course, punishable.
		Biblical evidence is again cited, but Kirk proceeds to say that initially the seer is put into a transport similar to death.
	www.dreampower.com /Kirk_WBW/pg_112.htm (2491 words)

	NC Museum of Art - Art in the Age of Rubens and Rembrandt
		The Museum has also organized an exhibition of 17th-century Dutch biblical paintings, a related show of Rembrandt etchings focused on biblical themes and the permanent installation of a 17th-century kunstskamer, or "art room," paying homage to a type of kunstkamer found in the home of Peter Paul Rubens.
		This type of room was popular in Antwerp and elsewhere during this period, and the Museum's kunstkamer, modeled after one found in the home of Peter Paul Rubens, will include a mixture of paintings, sculpture, period furniture, books and decorative objects such as a seven-arm chandelier and a silver Renaissance cup.
		The final components of the festival are the exhibitions Dutch Seventeenth-Century Biblical Paintings, drawn largely from the Museum's own collection, and Rembrandt's Etchings of the Bible, featuring 25 works on loan from several North American museums and one private collection.
	ncartmuseum.org /exhibitions/exhibitions/rubens/rubens.shtml (1259 words)

	Excerpts from missionary's teaching questioned by IMB
		The drafting of the Biblical books was not as simple a process as that pointed to in recourse to the "autographs." The book of Daniel, for instance, suffered various well-attested modifications as seen in varying versions in Greek, Syriac, Aramaic, and Hebrew.
		Biblical passages that express "scientific" declarations that are considered invalid today simply reflect the non-scientific perspective of the people through whom God revealed His will.
		Setting aside questions of historical curiosity, this text is very rich in giving continuity to the question of sin and how God deals with the sinner.
	www.baptiststandard.com /2002/11_25/pages/harbin_excerpts.html (3454 words)

	Society of Biblical Literature
		The museum is not affiliated with any specific denomination, which enables it to stress the binding force of the biblical themes across the borders of the various Christian churches and even across the borders of the Jewish-Christian traditions.
		As a result, he considered his collection of replicas and biblical realia (stones, animals, and artifacts from Palestine, but also a mummy from Egypt and small archeological objects) as an effective means to preach the Gospel to the public.
		Although biblical scholars will not find him in their handbooks on biblical archeology, they do in fact owe to him and a pupil of his the rediscovery and publication of the famous Siloam inscription in 1880.
	www.sbl-site.org /Article.aspx?ArticleId=412 (2249 words)

	Ruysch's anatomical curiosities
		Objects which produce a sense of wonderment for their rarity, or for their curious unfamiliarity, will probably always be a source of intrigue and inquiry.
		And his curiosities, held open to public viewing in a number of Amsterdam houses, were known as the 8th wonder of the world.
		Among the curiosities of the Russian emperor Peter the Great was a two-headed sheep, a four-legged rooster, the teeth of a singer and a tablecloth maker (which Peter himself had extracted), and the bones of a giant footman.
	www.bl.uk /learning/artimages/bodies/ruysch/curiosities.html (607 words)

	Amazon.com: The Cabinet of Curiosities: Books: Douglas Preston,Lincoln Child,Rene Auberjonois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The book opens when the excavation of a turn of the century "cabinet of curiosities" reveals the remains of about thirty orphans, and closes after a number of brutal, senseless killings lead the characters to an abandoned old house on the Upper West Side and into the lair of the murderer himself.
		Cabinet of Curiosities is my fourth book by these authors (Relic, Reliquary, and Brimstone) and while it wasn't without a few annoying faults I found it to be extremely interesting and entertaining at the same time.
		All of this is connected with a Cabinet of Curiosities (collections of items of historical and/or archeological interest, these predated museums like the New York Museum of Natural History...some of the items were genuine -- others contrived to bring in the public and their money) that was once located on the site.
	www.amazon.com /Cabinet-Curiosities-Douglas-Preston/dp/158621280X (2838 words)

	The Bible! Truth or legend?
		Writings by Roman officials have been discovered, often referring to Christ as being "the one crucified." In the common era, historic examples of Christ leave the impression that He, quite possibly walked the Earth, although this still does not prove Him to be the Son of God.
		eologists frequently argue the biblical account of the flood of Noah, yet evidence of this disaster are pronounced across the globe.
		alidating the authenticity of biblical references alone, should not be the foundation for one's beliefs, until exploring other forms of religion, and and asking the same questions.
	members.aol.com /truthseekerpaige/bible (3604 words)

	Good Books
		If the “plain people” of North America are to be understood in terms of their own concerns, we must consider sympathetically their own expressions and the biblical cadences they echo.
		Having maintained, with the tolerance of their society, a simple life as “the quiet in the land,” these folk still prize such passé virtues as modesty, humility, and obedience to God’s will, as interpreted by a disciplined community of faith.
		Their values, difficult to appreciate in a world bemused by progress, are seldom if ever articulated, except as curiosities, in our mass media.
	www.goodbks.com /titlepage.asp?ISBN=1561482323 (360 words)

	Jewish Studies
		Each prophet is set in historical time and within a particular societal context, and against this background a profile of the man is drawn.
		Intertextual relationships between the different epochs are examined as layers of a continuous literature, focusing on themes and forms that are present in ancient Hebrew literature through modern Hebrew literature.
		The main objective is to provide students with the skills necessary to approach modern Hebrew prose, both fiction and non-fiction.
	collegecatalog.uchicago.edu /archives/catalog96/JewStd.96.crs.html (1498 words)

	Biblical Art on the WWW
		I made a chronological division of the Bible into subjects, each subject being a scene or an episode from the biblical history.
		I'm building the base scanning sites hosting images of biblical artwork, registering each work with title, artist(s), time of execution, technique/material, and location (the last three only if available; normally no location for prints, like etchings, woodcuts etc.).
		All artworks are connected to one or several subjects, and to comprise all works in some way related to the Bible, the subject list includes portraits, and even non-biblical incidents and situations where biblical characters play a role.
	www.biblical-art.com /about.htm (996 words)

	666 - Numbers of the Beast
		As a biblical scholar and Catholic priest, I think trying to predict the future is a misuse of the Bible.
		Biblical prophecy is not about crystal-ball gazing into the future.
		Biblical prophets call people to repent and to remain faithful to God, not to worry about when the world will end or who is the "beast" of the Book of Revelation.
	catholic-resources.org /Bible/666.htm (2421 words)

	Chapters and verses of the Bible - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is presently unknown how early the Hebrew verse divisions were part of the books that were later chosen as part of the Biblical canon.
		However, it is beyond dispute that for at least a thousand years the Tanakh has contained an extensive system of multiple levels of section, paragraph, and phrasal divisions that were indicated in Masoretic vocalization and cantillation markings.
		The impulse to conceive of verses as independent, isolated units of meaning is strong, despite efforts on the part of Biblical scholars to discourage this.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chapters_and_verses_of_the_Bible (1334 words)

	Dating and Chronology in Ancient Near Eastern History. Jewish Scriptures. AskWhy!
		It is made particularly difficult in the Near East because the biblicists, so-called historians and archaeologists that spend more time with their noses in the Jewish scriptures than honestly seeking the truth, have decided already on the events that they expect to find and when they will find them.
		The rising school of 'minimalists' within biblical scholarship are attempting to scotch the historicity of the Bible, claiming that Saul, David, Solomon and the early kings of Israel are merely fictitious characters.
		It is another of those curiosities of biblical archaeology that clearly Assyrian objects offering the chance of unequivocal dates, never come from careful excavations but from disturbed ground or rubbish pits.
	essenes.net /m20.htm (10571 words)

	Letters From The Earth by Mark Twain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity.
		The man said the Ark would not hold the half of them; and moreover they were coming hungry, and would eat up everything there was, including the menagerie and the family.
		From time to time, as I go along, I will take up a Biblical statute and show you that it always violates a law of God, and then is imported into the law books of the nations, where it continues its violations.
	www.govsux.com /letters_from_the_earth.htm (15274 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Daily Life: Seven Approaches to a D'var Torah
		Example: Take the first word of Genesis or, better yet, the first word of Leviticus (which you'll need more because the story line is not as interesting), and describe how a series of biblical commentators have treated that word, what problem it represented for them, and what generalizations can be made about their resolutions.
		Observe the text from a distance, survey the panorama, take note of interesting details, and then as you descend make observations on why the trip was worthwhile in the first place and how to appropriate what you have just observed for your more earthbound existence.
		Dealing with the narrative portions of the Torah, it is possible to analyze the characters of biblical figures and the events of their lives in ways that will shed some light on our own.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /daily_life/TorahStudy/Dvar_Torah/7_Approaches_DT.htm (1535 words)

	Are We Living in the Time of the End? > The Good News : March/April 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A Newsweek report notes that more scholarship has been devoted to the study of end-time biblical prophecies in the past 30 years than in the previous 300.
		A resurgence of fascination with biblical prophecy has spawned religious debate over interpretations of the visions of Daniel, Jesus Christ's prophecy of the end of the age shortly before His crucifixion and the apostle John's mysterious images in the book of Revelation.
		Isaac Newton wrote a book on biblical prophecy, hoping to prove that Ôthe world is governed by providence.' In Puritan New England, America's greatest theologian, Jonathan Edwards, studied John's Apocalypse and calculated that the millennium of Christ's kingdom on earth would begin in the year 2000."
	www.gnmagazine.org /issues/gn57/living.htm (1719 words)

	The Life and Times of Rembrandt
		Rembrandt was also a profoundly Christian artist who depicted more than 800 biblical scenes, portraying some of the most tender, human representations of Christ ever painted.
		He was a passionate collector and amassed an impressive collection of paintings, prints, curiosities, and other objects of art.
		In the last two decades of his life, Rembrandt was beset by several personal disasters; the loss of two infant children, his mother, and his favourite sister-in-law.
	www.devine-ent.com /shows/artists/remb-bio.shtml (588 words)

	A Catholic Critique of Jehovah's Witnesses
		The results of the latter would be the complete annihilation of the wicked—Russell had also come to the conclusion that there could be no such thing as eternal punishment—and the everlasting life granted to the “saints,” either in heaven or on a new earth cleansed of all evil.
		The name “Jehovah’s Witnesses” was adopted in 1931 at the suggestion of Russell’s successor, “Judge” J.F. Rutherford, who took it from such Biblical passages as Isaiah 43:12 and John 18:37, identifying the sect with those of whom the Bible had spoken.
		Biblical doctrine, that death is the consequence of sin (Gen. 2:17).
	www.catholic-forum.com /members/popestleo/cathjw.html (10981 words)

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