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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 52, Issue 19)Byline: HERSHEL SHANKS With the recent arrest in Israel of a distinguished archaeologist at Bar-Ilan University, a second battle over the Dead Sea Scrolls has erupted that may have serious implications for the fate...
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From:Currents in Theology and Mission (Vol. 38, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedMy Experience as a Biblical Storyteller Over thirty years ago on my first Palm Sunday as an ordained minister, I decided to perform the Passion Narrative of Mark's Gospel (chapters 14-15) in place of the readings and...
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From:Currents in Theology and Mission (Vol. 34, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe Transfiguration of Our Lord--Second Sunday of Easter, Series A. ELCA Lutherans are reading the Bible. While the headline "Lutherans vote to read the Bible" may have made us look a little silly, I think the Book...
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From:Baptist History and Heritage (Vol. 38, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSouthern Baptists began the 1960s embroiled in a serious conflict concerning the biblical book of Genesis and ended the decade in the same manner. In the first conflict, some Southern Baptists attacked The Message of...
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From:Leadership Journal (Vol. 29, Issue 2)Dale and Faye's daughter Anna had cystic fibrosis. A blood clot that formed because of her severe coughing had lodged in Anna's windpipe. I had finished breakfast when the call came. Could I meet Dale and Faye at the...
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From:Social Forces (Vol. 86, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSeveral studies examine biblical literalism to categorize Christian denominations and predict attitudes and behaviors. Yet, few studies have identified the predictors of literalist orientations. In this study, we use...
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From:Currents in Theology and Mission (Vol. 33, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIsaiah 9:2-7 Psalm 96 Titus 2:11-14 Luke 2:1-14 (15-20) First Reading The Christmas Gospel from Luke is just as striking for what is not there as for what is there. Most of us think we know this story...
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From:Journal of Biblical Literature (Vol. 131, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhile Jews and Christians might offer differing interpretations of Isaiah as a religious text, both would agree on the intense beauty and power of its poetry. Translating the meanings and subtle nuances of a poetic work...
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From:Currents in Theology and Mission (Vol. 38, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn his magnum opus, Tradition and Traditions, the first volume of which was published just before the Second Vatican Council, Fr. Yves Congar argued persuasively that the Council Fathers at Trent had explicitly rejected...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 48, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedRead the page aloud as you tear it out. Wrap each sheet around a maple seed and bury them under your house. When the shoots split your floorboards abandon your shoes. When the branches honeycomb your roof set out glass...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 51, Issue 30)Byline: STANLEY FISH Recently, the Supreme Court once again took up the question of whether it is permissible under the establishment clause of the First Amendment to display representations of the Ten Commandments...
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From:Interpretation (Vol. 60, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis study of Col 3:18-4:1 explores the strategy of applying "new life in Christ" to household relationships. Rather than seeing the Colossians Household Code as a timeless template for social structure or as a...
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From:Cross Currents (Vol. 52, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThen the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner." Genesis 2:18, NRSV HISTORICALLY, THE CREATION ACCOUNTS in Genesis 1-3 have generated considerable...
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From:Interpretation (Vol. 57, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedChristian theology can best address the conundrum of "Faith and History" by reclaiming a distinctively theological approach to understanding the Bible and the history with which it is concerned. The question we have...
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From:The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Vol. 129, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedI. INTRODUCTION: CONFUCIUS AND THE LUNYU "Master Kong" (Kongzi [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], latinized Confucius (trad. 551-479 B.C.), is certainly one of the most important figures in Chinese intellectual...
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From:Advances in Environmental BiologyPeer-ReviewedMonotheism is one of the challenging problems among Muslims and Christians, because Christians believe in the trinity (unity of Christ) other than the oneness of God. They want to decorate their opinions so that no...
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From:The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Vol. 132, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION The Quran is not without a center of narrative gravity despite its notoriously challenging narrative flow. This becomes especially apparent when we are being told about the experience of particular...
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From:Romance Notes (Vol. 51, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn their introduction to Ma(r)king the Text: The presentation of meaning on the literary page, Joe Bray, Miriam Handley, and Anne C. Henry point out that "to mark a text is also to make it; [and] features such as...
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From:Borneo Research Bulletin (Vol. 50)Introduction Rinait refers to poetic sacred texts, chanted in rituals among the Dusunic ethnolinguistic groups of Sabah, including the Rungus. The Rungus, in particular, have preserved their own collection of rinait....
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From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 177)* The New American Bible (NAB), an unhappy translation episcopally imposed upon Catholics for readings at Mass, has prompted earlier comment in this section (see The Public Square, May 2001 and January 2006). The...