Because of the enormous impact of the Bible upon both the Jewish and Christian communities, any ancient Near Eastern literary discovery that may offer a parallel to some segment of biblical literature is greeted with interest. One such literary discovery is the Adapa myth. Its early discoverers and investigators claimed it as a true Babylonian parallel to the biblical story of Adam. However, af...

The article examines the work of Arseniy Grek, a corrector Moscow Printing Yard (Pechatniy dvor), on translation interpretations to poetic sententiae by Gregory Theologian; these verses and comments them were published in 1660 as part collection Anthologion. These scholias are written margins manuscript poems Theologian do not find analogues among known interpretations. A comparative analysis t...

This essay traces Hegel's conceptualisation of “the spirit and the letter”, from period his early theological writings to that Science Logic, with particular reference correspondence. dialectic, for Hegel, concerns realisation truth or “spirit” something specificity fixity its details – “letter”. It also concerns, then, freedom interpret in spite apparent authority any supposed original meaning...

FIGURING in near eastern history for something over a millennium of Old Testament times was an enigmatic entity called the ha-BI-ru. Successful of old in capturing the spoil in biblical lands, they have in modern times been even more successful in capturing the attention of biblical scholars. More than half a century of general scholarly interest culminated in a united effort to identify the ha...

It is a great privilege to have been asked to read a paper at this fourth annual meeting of the Asian Pentecostal Society. Gone are the days when women were confined to the kitchen and assigned to perform domestic chores. Also gone are the times when only men were trained for the ministry of the church. This changing scenario necessitates the reconsideration of the role of women in church and m...

Bultmanll's fallluus questiull about presupposition/css excgesis is here taken up afresh and answered by a young Scandinavian scholar who lecturcs in Old Testament at Uppsala and is director oj the new 'Biblicum' institute established there, The paper, which is hased o.n an address given at all 1FES COIlference jor theological students in 1970, first appeared in the IFES journal for theological...

for us, readers of chaucer living in an age when appeal to religious passions and sentiments as a means for the realization of worldly objectives by some charlatans has grown significantly, reviewing the theme of religious hypocrisy treated in the canterbury tales can be useful in a way that it proves a helpful means for recognizing and dealing with the hypocrites. the pardoner of the tales is ...