Laying out the fleece: reading Gideon's requests with reception history
When it comes to reading difficult or obscure biblical passages, it can be very instructive to understand how faithful persons over the centuries have read them. The reception history of a text can spark the reader's imagination and broaden the ways in which the biblical text can be appropriate...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Seminaries
[2017]
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Word & world
Year: 2017, Volume: 37, Issue: 3, Pages: 241-251 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HD Early Judaism KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Bible. Judges 1-16 B Gideons International B Prayer Biblical teaching B Josephus, Flavius B Bible Typology B Gideon, (Biblical judge) B Warriors Religious aspects B Bible. Old Testament Criticism, interpretation, Jewish B Bible. Judges Criticism, interpretation B Bible Criticism, interpretation, Christian B Role models B Ambrose, Saint, Bp of Milan, d 397 B God Biblical teaching B Philo, Pseudo- |
| Summary: | When it comes to reading difficult or obscure biblical passages, it can be very instructive to understand how faithful persons over the centuries have read them. The reception history of a text can spark the reader's imagination and broaden the ways in which the biblical text can be appropriated. |
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| ISSN: | 0275-5270 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Word & world
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