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2012 Bethsaida Field Report, Rami Arav

Field Reports

The 2012 season of excavations at Bethsaida took place during May 21th and June 28. There had been altogether 120 students and faculty working at the site. As every year the expedition was housed at Kibbutz Ginosar and we are very grateful for the long standing extraordinary hospitality that has been consistently shown to the expedition since 1994.

Papers Of Dewey Beegle Arc1996-004 - Finding Aid, Ats Special Collections And Archives

Finding Aids

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Papers Of Mark Elliot - Institute Of East-West Christian Arc2005-003 - Finding Aid, Mark Elliot

Finding Aids

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Did Paul See The Saving Significance Of Jesus’ Death As Resulting From Divine Violence? Dialogical Reflections On Romans 3:25, Christian Eberhart, Don Schweitzer

Consensus

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Biblical Reflections On Co-Creating With The Redeemer, William Kurz, Anne Carpenter

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

The Bible does not explicitly answer questions about co-creating with God and discerning whether to try to have children. In consulting Scripture regarding contemporary concerns, one needs to go beyond historical exegesis. Reading Scripture as God's Word requires seeking what God, the divine author of all of Scripture, is currently saying in the biblical passages under study.

The primary foundation for biblical teaching about marriage and family is Genesis, especially concerning God's original intention in creating marriage (Gen 1-2). Humans are created in the image of God as male and female, and marriage is the two becoming one flesh. Most …

New Testament Survey, Melissa Archer

Syllabus Repository

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A Commentary On St. Paul's Epistle To The Romans, Benjamin Helm

Heritage Material

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Old Testament Survey, Steelman Library, Gerry White Dr.

Syllabus Repository

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Clothed With Salvation: The Garden, The Veil, Tabitha, And Christ, Dan Belnap, Daniel Belnap

Faculty Publications

Sandwiched between the account of Saul’s conversion in Acts 9 and Peter’s vision of the Gentiles in Acts 10 is the story of the raising of Tabitha. While staying in the town of Lydda, Peter, the presiding disciple of Christ, is approached by two individuals from the neighboring city of Joppa with the request that he come and attend to the then-deceased Tabitha. When he gets there, he is met by widows weeping and wailing over Tabitha’s departure. We know practically nothing of Tabitha except that she is a believer and a woman “full of good works and almsdeeds” (Acts …

In Defense Of The Year-Day Principle, Gerhard Pfandl

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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Thorns Also And Thistles, Warren A. Shipton

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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The Role Of The Genesis Creation In The Writings Of The Apostolic Father, Eliezer Gonzalez

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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Thrones In The Book Of Revelation Part 1: Throne Of God, Laszlo Gallusz

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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Rječnik Stvaranja Iz Postanka 1-3 U Petoknjižju I U Drugim Antičkim Zapisima O Stvaranju, Paul Z. Gregor

Faculty Publications

Biblical creation account differs significantly from non-biblical accounts in respect to its philosophical and theological aspects. Nevertheless, it seems that the author of the biblical account follows a similar structural pattern in respect to providing answers to how and why everything was created, thus providing the evidence for the unity of Gen 1-3. However, unlike its counterparts, the author of the biblical account depicts God and His purpose for creation in an entirely different light. In addition to perfect order in His creating acts, it is obvious that human beings were given a different role and function. As seen above …

Safety As A Foundational Prerequisite To Spiritual Growth And Effective Church Life In The Fox Valley Seventh-Day Adventist Church Of The Fox Valley District In Wisconsin, Samuel Garbi

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem. Recent publications on the topic of safety, my observations of some church members’ reluctance to be involved, and a serendipitous experience of added safety I had outside of the church coalesced to point me to lack of spiritual and emotional safety in my church as a possible cause of deficient personal spiritual growth in some members and of a resulting want for greater church efficiency. Emotional safety seems to be a core component of the ideals of love usually professed in the church. This indicated to me a possible need to focus on facilitating practice of emotional awareness and …

A Christian Servant Leadership Model And Training For The Adventist Church In France, Olivier Rigaud

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem. French history (the French Revolution) has shaped a country considered as one of the most secular in the world. The Seventh-day Adventist Church in France is profoundly affected and challenged by this environment. With 11,617 members among over 65 million French in 2010, the penetration ratio is very low (0.0185%) and a deep malaise is felt in the French churches. Reports indicate a lack of consecration, internal conflicts, discouragement of isolated churches, a lack of vision, and spirituality in decline. Today, the Adventist Church is unknown, despite its efforts in communication and visibility. Many change efforts have also been …

Teaching The Four Gospels: Five Considerations, Gaye Strathearn

Faculty Publications

Speaking of the Bible, the Prophet Joseph Smith declared, “He who reads it oftenest will like it best.”1 One of the challenges any teacher of the New Testament faces is being able to engender in his or her students a desire to read the Bible often enough that they will come to appreciate its rich doctrinal teachings and its powerful testimony of Jesus Christ. The four New Testament Gospels, in particular, are a treasure trove of information about his life, ministry, teachings, Atonement, and Resurrection, much of which is not available anywhere else in scripture. The purpose of this paper …

The Son-Father Relationship And Christological Symbolism In The Gospel Of John, Adesola Akala

ATS Dissertations

The relationship between Jesus the Son and God the Father plays a crucial role in the Johannine revelation of Christ. The Gospel of John symbolically portrays Jesus as the Son of God who is relationally inseparable from his Father. This research proposes that the Son-Father Relationship (SFR) is at the center of the network of Christological symbols in the Fourth Gospel. The SFR serves to fulfill the author’s stated purpose of John 20:31 and acts as an organizing principle that integrates and structures the Gospel’s unique symbolism. The uniqueness of Johannine symbolism is illustrated in the definition and theory of …

Toward Recontextualization Of Christianity With Popular Catholicism : A Study Of Dialogical And Cooperative Mission With Popular Catholicism Through The Perspectives Of Methodist Christians In Batangas, Philippines, Eugene Kim

ATS Dissertations

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Salt And Light: Best Ministry Practices For Community Impact By Tanzanian Churches, Geoffrey Peter Majule

ATS Dissertations

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Unity In The Body Of Christ: A Study Of The Racial Unification Of The Church Of God In Virginia, Stephen Gene Mcmurray

ATS Dissertations

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The Effectiveness Of Visual Images: Preaching In Postmodern And Post-Christian Ministry Context, Eneyas Da Silva Freitas

ATS Dissertations

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"For The Sake Of Jerusalem, The City Which I Have Chosen:" On The Lord's Choice Of Zion/Jerusalem And Its Development In The Old Testament, David Schreiner

ATS Dissertations

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Effective Evangelistic Strategies For North Korean Defectors (Talbukmin) In South Korea, Chaneung Jung

ATS Dissertations

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The Role Of Robert Alexander Hardie In The Korean Great Revival And The Subsequent Development Of Korean Protestant Christianity, Chil-Sung Kim

ATS Dissertations

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Mi'kmaq And French/Jesuit Understandings Of The Spiritual And Spirituality: Implications For Fait, Terry Lance Leblanc

ATS Dissertations

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Exploring Leadership Practices For Korean Missionary Wives In Davao City, Philippines, Kyung Ja Kim

ATS Dissertations

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The Reliability Of The New Testament., Tony Burke

Consensus

Title: The reliability of the New Testament Author: Bart D Ehrman; Daniel B Wallace; Robert B Stewart Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780800697730

God's Mission To The "Nations" And Hindus: Three Old Testament Narrative Models, Andrew J. Tompkins

Master's Theses

Background to the Problem. The world’s religions outside of Christianity have still hardly been touched by the gospel. This is especially true of Hindus, which make up the third largest religious group in the world. The time for new understandings and approaches is long overdue. -- Problem. The challenge of understanding how to present the God of the Bible to Hindus in a meaningful and lasting way continues to perplex the mission-minded person. For centuries this challenge has been present, and yet the gap between Christians and Hindus in many ways appears to be increasing. This study looks at God’s …

The Strange Career Of The Biblia Rabbinica Among Christian Hebraists, 1517–1620, Stephen G. Burnett

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The Rabbinic Bible became a standard reference tool, above all for Protestant Hebraists during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It contained not only the Hebrew Bible text, but also Aramaic-language Targums (periphrastic translations of the biblical text, mostly dating from before 500) and Jewish biblical commentaries written between ca. 1100 and 1500. To use these works required that a Christian Hebraist know not only the language of the Bible, but also Targumic Aramaic and medieval Hebrew, which was rather different from biblical or mishnaic Hebrew. For Christian scholars who mastered these languages and were able to read these different texts, …