Search Results - "old testament"

‘The Lord God’: A psychological analysis of religious experience approach. This article claims that the narrator deliberately uses the name ‘The Lord God’. This specific use serves a psychological function within the story. The research will use the book of Jonah as a case study. Therefore, this art...

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In the context of a lively debate on the encyclic of Pope Francis Amoris laetitia, in this article I take up the four most important problems that marriages in the Old Testament grappled with: polygamy, or marrying multiple spouses, lack of offspring, infidelity, or betrayal, and divorce. It is onl...

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The Hebrew word ‘אפים’ in Samuel 1:5 presents significant challenges for both ancient translations and modern English translations of the Bible. In ancient texts, the Masoretic text presents ‘אַפָּיִם’ or ‘nostrils’ (face or anger). The Aramaic Targum offers a different perspective, rendering it as...

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I start this paper by giving a general account of Wittgenstein’s relationship to the Bible, especially to the Old Testament. I will then examine those passages in his work where he explicitly refers to the Old Testament. It will turn out that all these mentions relate to books of the so-called wisdo...

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The First Book of Maccabees contains many hapax legomena, including διχοστασία men­tioned in the title of this article, recorded in 3:29. The author attempts to answer what role this term plays in the divinely inspired text and why it was used there. Is it a mere lexical enrichment of the author’s...

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Applying the term of conceptual metaphor, the author examines Paul’s use of the temple metaphor to describe individual believers and the community of the Church in 1 Cor 3:16–17, 6:19, and 2 Cor 6:16. He begins with a concise overview of the numerous Pauline texts in which the temple-related vocabu...

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In this article, the enigmatic figure of Miriam in the Pentateuch is examined. There are three instances (Ex 2:1–10; Ex 15:20–21; Nm 12:1–6) where Miriam plays a role in the history of the people of Israel as recorded in the Pentateuch. Each of these passages is investigated by paying attention to t...

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Changes in the Face Colour in the Old Testament: Philological and Anthropological Observations. One of the most obvious somatic signs of emotional reactions is a change in complexion (mainly paleness or redness), which can also be found in the Hebrew texts of the Old Testament. Their exact translat...

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This article offers a close reading of Atwood’s famous novel from the perspective of biblical scholarship. Anyone who reads The Handmaid’s Tale will readily notice how strongly biblical texts inform the narrative and the fictional world of Gilead. This relationship begins with Genesis 30:1–3, which...

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Saul at the Witch of Endor – Attempt at Reinterpreting an Old Testament Story. The study makes an attempt at reinterpreting the story of Saul visiting the witch of Endor. The author claims that the intuitive storytelling of the Bible carries much more than information regarding old personalities...

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Prophet’s Emotions. Notes on the Anthropological Aspects of Old Testament Prophets. The current study is part of the recent discourse of Old Testament Anthropology, in which feelings, affects, and emotions play a prominent role. In particular, Paul Kruger and Andreas Wagner's approaches and...

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The Psalm of the Great Sigh of Relief. Interpretation of Psalm 124. The study examines Psalm 124, one of the greatest gems of the biblical psalm-poetry. After briefly expounding the metre, the genre and the poetic structure, the author dates the poem, analyzes the role of the Psalm in its immedi...

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The article provides a comparative analysis of the phenomena of Old Testament prophets and shamans against five key aspects: their social status, calling, intermediation, fortune-telling and magic, rituals and cosmogony, and gender. Numerous previous attempts to compare Old Testament prophets, shama...

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Walter Brueggemann’s Trial Metaphor Model – In the Light of Some Critiques. Walter Brueggemann’s Theology of the Old Testament evoked a lot of criticism. His trial metaphor as a methodological frame is generally welcomed. But we recognize that the courtroom situation presented in Brueggemann’s way...

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Sonny Eli Zaluchu, The Hermenetic Pattern of Hebrew Wisdom Literature. Hebrew Wisdom Literature is one of the most distinctive kinds of literature that can found in the Old Testament. Particular hermeneutic patterns are needed to interpret literary books. The writings of the wisdom literature of th...

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Book Review: V.P. Vorobev, R.L. Iliev. Human Rights in Judaism and the Jewish Legal Tradition. Moscow: “Nazionalnoe Obozrenie” Publ. House, 2018. 248 p. (In Russian).V.P. Vorobiev and R.L. Iliev analyse the causes associated with the emergence of the concept of human rights and its understanding, re...

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