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Biographies On 5 Old Testament Scholars, David Pettus

David D Pettus

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He Shall Be Called A Nazorean: Intertextuality Without An Intertext?, James F. Mcgrath

James F. McGrath

Inexact quotations are a common phenomenon in Biblical intertextuality, and some suspected allusions are so fleeting and/or imprecise as to leave interpreters wondering whether an allusion was intended or not. But in at least one instance, Matthew 2:23, we have a reference to something unspecified prophets are supposed to have said, namely that “He shall be called a Nazorean,” which may not in fact have any intertext at all.

Welcome To Bedrock: A Liberal Theologian Visits The Creation Museum, Brent Hege

Brent A. R. Hege

The Creation Museum, established by the conservative Christian organization "Answers in Genesis," purports to offer visitors a realistic and historically and scientifically accurate representation of the origins of life on Earth according to the Book of Genesis. By employing all of the features of modern museums of science and history and elaborate cutting-edge technology and special effects, the Creation Museum intends to convince visitors of the scientific validity of a hyperliteral reading of Genesis's creation accounts and, therefore, of the truth of their particular version of Christianity. In my paper I will reflect on my visit to the Creation Museum …

Against The Consensus Of The Fathers ? The Travail Of Eighteenth Century Catholic Exegesis And The Case Of J. L. Isenbiehl Of 1777/778, Ulrich Lehner

Ulrich L. Lehner

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Monastic Prisons And Torture Chambers. Crime And Punishment In Central European Monasteries, 1600-1800, Ulrich Lehner

Ulrich L. Lehner

Based on archival research and an analysis of early modern monastic canon law, the reader is introduced to how crimes were prosecuted in a monastic setting and how they were punished.

Anne Hutchinson, Michael Ditmore

Michael Ditmore

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Visions Of A Better World: Howard Thurman's Pilgrimage To India And The Origins Of African American Nonviolence, Quinton Dixie, Peter Eisenstadt

Quinton H Dixie

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A Prophetess In Her Own Country: An Exegesis Of Anne Hutchinson's "Immediate Revelation", Michael Ditmore

Michael Ditmore

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Preparation And Confession: Reconsidering Edmund S. Morgan's Visible Saints, Michael Ditmore

Michael Ditmore

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Jonathan Edwards And Mysticism, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson