Luther's unambiguous rejection of the doctrine of merit must not deceive us into thinking that the Reformer did not hold fast to the biblical sayings about reward. In modern research on Luther by both Protestant and Catholic scholars, his firm stance on this is unquestioned. * Respect for the biblical teaching of reward compelled him to maintain the concept of reward. T o do this seemed to him ...

This paper investigates the visualization of the mapping of semantic and syntactic functions that were marked up in an XML-database containing linguistic data of the Biblical Hebrew text of Genesis 1:1-2:3. It focuses on twodimensional topic maps as a graphical data-mining utility. The visual information is used to prompt the reconsideration of some existing assumptions and hypotheses about Bib...

This volume contains peer-reviewed papers in the fields of Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew that advance field by philological investigation primary sources application cutting-edge linguistic theory. These include contributions established scholars students early career researchers.

Abstract This article employs Galit Hasan-Rokem’s notions of vertical and horizontal axes transmission for the study biblical reception history, presenting story mother her seven sons in Origen’s writings as a case study. I suggest that axis intergenerational corresponds to history: it also involves us thus demands our critical awareness. The intergroup transmission, then, calls sensitivity tow...

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