Temple in the Promised Land: Old Testament Parallel in Cooper's The Pioneers

1985 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Daryl E. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Promised Land

scholarly journals Tinjauan Kritis-Multifaset Terhadap Tuduhan Genosida Atas Catatan Penaklukan Kuno Tanah Perjanjian

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-123
Author(s):  
Hendra Yohanes
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Contextual Approach ◽  
Moral Argument ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
Divine Retribution ◽  
Present Context ◽  
Cultural Gaps

Tujuan dari artikel ini adalah untuk menyajikan suatu tinjauan kritis-multifaset terhadap tuduhan bahwa Allah Yudeo-Kristen telah memerintahkan genosida kepada bangsa Israel dalam penaklukan Tanah Perjanjian. Sehubungan dengan itu, penulis mencoba memikirkan ulang apa yang dipersoalkan secara esensial dalam tuduhan tersebut dan membedah tuduhan tersebut dalam tiga faset meliputi faset terminologi hukum, penafsiran, dan moral-filosofis. Dengan menganalisis kriteria genosida di dalam hukum internasional, penulis berargumen bahwa catatan penaklukan kuno Tanah Perjanjian di Perjanjian Lama tidak memenuhi kriteria ini sehingga penaklukan ini secara keliru telah diklasifikasikan sebagai genosida. Penulis juga mengumpulkan beberapa contoh kekeliruan penafsiran terhadap catatan penaklukan Tanah Perjanjian. Penulis menyetujui bahwa bahasa figuratif-hiperbol merupakan sebuah perangkat sastra yang umum dalam catatan penaklukan kuno dan ideologi perang dipandang sebagai penghukuman ilahi dalam pandangan dunia Timur Dekat Kuno. Kemudian, penulis mengambil Yosua 9-11 sebagai sebuah studi kasus biblikal untuk menunjukkan jurang sejarah-budaya antara konteks Timur Dekat Kuno dari catatan penaklukan dengan konteks kekinian kita. Pada faset terakhir, penulis secara ringkas berargumen bahwa ada pendekatan yang lebih kontekstual yang berdasarkan argumen moral teistik ketimbang tuduhan kaum Ateis Baru. The purpose of this article is to deliver a critical-multifaceted review against the accusation that the Judeo-Christian God have commanded genocide to Israelites in the conquest of the Promised Land. Correspondingly, I try to reconsider what matters essentially in the accusation and dissect the accusation into three facets, included legal terminology, interpretive and moral-philosophical facets. By analysing criteria of genocide in the international law, I argue that ancient conquest account of the Promised Land in Old Testament dissatisfies these criteria, thus the conquest was incorrectly classified as genocide. I also gather some examples of misinterpretation of the conquest account of the promised land. I agree that the figurative-hyperbolic language as a common literary feature in the ancient conquest account and the ideology of war viewed as the divine retribution in ancient near eastern worldview. Then, I take Joshua chapters 9-11 as a biblical case study to demonstrate historical-cultural gaps between ancient near eastern context of the conquest account and our present context. In last facet, I tersely argue that there is a more contextual approach which based on theistic moral argument instead of the New Atheist accusation.

The Church and the Biblical Promised Land

2019 ◽  
pp. 64-104
Author(s):  
Gavin D'Costa
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
Precise Nature ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Church

Chapter 3 examines post-supersessionist Old Testament hermeneutics regarding the status of the promise of the land to the Jewish people. Drawing on the Pontifical Biblical Commission, it is shown that even though there are divergent New Testament views about the land, these do not cancel or negate the promise of the land to the Jewish people. The precise nature of this promise is established. While Catholic theology has only just begun to address the New Testament trajectories regarding a different evaluation of the land for Catholics, it is clear that the promise to the Jewish people is still intact.

scholarly journals Remembering and constructing Israelite identity in postexilic Yehud: Some remarks on the penitential prayer of Nehemiah 9:6�37

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Ndikhokele N. Mtshiselwa
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
Prophetic Imagination ◽  
Economic Injustice ◽  
Religious Aspect ◽  
Babylonian Exile

That there is a growing focus and elaboration of prayers in the Old Testament scholarship on the postexilic biblical writings suggests that such prayers received an authoritative status in postexilic Yehud. Firstly, this paper argues that not only did the remembrance of the story of Israel confer an authoritative status to Nehemiah 9:6�37, it also served the purpose of casting a hopeful and prophetic imagination of a liberated community in Yehud. Secondly, it is argued in this paper that the prayer of Nehemiah 9:6�37 shaped the identity of the Jews in Yehud amidst socio-economic injustices. This identity was linked to the patriarch Abraham (cf. Neh 9:7�8), to the liberation of the Jews from Pharaoh under the leadership of Moses (cf. Neh 9:9�15, 21), to the possession of the Promised Land (cf. Neh 9:22�25), to the caution about the consequence of disobedience to Yahweh � the exile (cf. Neh 9:16�21, 26�30)- and to the demise of the kingdom in the Babylonian exile (cf. Neh 9:31�37). On the whole, it is argued in this paper that the prayer of Nehemiah 9:6�37 was composed and transmitted with the view to remember and construct the identity of the Jews in postexilic Yehud.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: Not only does this article explore the religious aspect of Nehemiah 9:6�37, it equally investigates the socio-economic and political undertones in the text in order to determine the context from which the penitential prayer emerged. It is argued here that in the postexilic Yehud context, Nehemiah 9:6�37 served to remember and construct the identity of the Jews.Keywords: Nehemiah; story of Israel; identity construction; prayer; prophetic imaginations; socio-economic injustice

scholarly journals Influence of the Septuagint on the Typological Interpretation of Joshua and His Deeds in Justin Martyr's "Dialogue with Trypho, the Jew"

Verbum Vitae ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 941-958
Author(s):  
Leszek Misiarczyk
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Ancient Christianity

The aim of the article is to argue that the typological interpretation of Joshua and his actions in the Dialogue with Trypho, the Jew of Justin the Martyr, was possible only thanks to the hellenized version of the Old Testament known as the Septuagint. In the Introduction it was synthetically recalled that Justin in Dialogue argues with Marcionism and Judaism, and in Part 1 the status of the Septuagint in Judaism and ancient Christianity, as well as his methods of interpreting the Old Testament. In the second part, the author concentrates on the analysis of the relevant fragments of the Dialogue in which there is a typological interpretation of Joshua and his actions. The influence of the Septuagint on Justin's interpretation is manifested in several elements: the name Joshua, in Hebrew יְהוֹשֻעַ, according to the Septuagint, sounds exactly the same as the name of Jesus Christ ̓Ιησοῦς and is the basis for the presentation of Joshua as a type of Christ; the second circumcision of the Israelites by Joshua with stone knives after entering the Promised Land was a type and foreshadowing of the spiritual circumcision of the Gentile heart by Jesus Christ from stones, that is pagan deities and the error of the world; the blood of circumcision at Gilgal was a type of the blood of Christ's; stone knives (μαχαίρας πετρίνας) were a type of the teaching and words of Christ with which he circumcises the hearts of the pagans; the heap of twelve stones was a type of many heathens circumcised from the false polytheism.

scholarly journals Closing Ranks: Montgomery Jews and Civil Rights, 1954–1960

1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLIVE WEBB
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Supreme Court Decision ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
Montgomery Bus Boycott ◽  
Bus Boycott ◽  
Martin Luther King

The arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955 provided the spark which ignited the long smouldering resentments of black Montgomerians. For 381 days they waged a boycott of the city bus lines, frustrating the opposition of white authorities and financially crippling the local transit company. More profoundly it resulted in a Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation on public transportation. Equally momentous was the emergence of the man who would serve as the spiritual figurehead of the civil rights movement: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.In the wake of the Montgomery bus boycott, one national black newspaper acclaimed King as “Alabama's Modern Moses.” Since the darkest days of slavery African-Americans had sought spiritual salvation by comparing their own condition to that of God's Chosen People, the Israelites of the Old Testament. Throughout their years of enslavement they prayed for the Moses who would deliver them from their suffering unto the Promised Land. During the boycott, the black citizens of Montgomery had similarly sustained their morale by singing the old slave spirituals, raising their voices at the nightly mass meetings in rousing renditions of “Go Down Moses, Way Down in Egypt Land.” “As sure as Moses got the children of Israel across the Red Sea,” King exhorted the black community, “we can stick together and win.” Others too drew the analogy between the historical experience of Jews and the contemporary predicament of African-Americans. Looking back on the boycott, white liberal activist Virginia Durr evoked the spectre of Nazi Germany in describing the strength of racist opposition.

scholarly journals Reconciliation in Deuteronomy

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 263-274
Author(s):  
H F Van Rooy
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
God's People ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Way

The Book of Deuteronomy holds a central position in the Old Testament, and indeed in the Bible as a whole. It provides a summary of what the faith of Israel in the Old Testament is all about. It speaks about the covenant God made between himself and his people, about faithfulness to that covenant and of  the implications of breaking the covenant. This covenant had implications not only for the way the people of Israel had to live as God’s people in God’s land, but also for the relationship among the members of the covenant. This article discusses the structure of the book of Deuteronomy, and then the way in which reconciliation appears in each of the different parts. The theme of reconciliation is not dealt with explicitly in all the passages discussed, but it does form a part of the subtext of the book of Deuteronomy. The people could only experience the Lord’s blessings in the promised land after He had brought about reconciliation between Himself and them. To keep on experiencing the Lord’s blessings, they had to remain faithfull to Him, obey his commandments and live within the boundaries He prescribed.

The Pentecostal Significance of Numbers 11

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
Roger Cotton
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
The People ◽  
God's People ◽  
Acts 2

AbstractNumbers 11 describes a very significant interconnectedness of the Spirit of God and leadership/ministry of God's people and prophetic activity. This is established as the LORD answered the first great need of Moses in leading the people of Israel on the journey through the wilderness of the Promised Land with a special demonstration of his Spirit. The empowering of the 70 elders accompanied by a prophetic experience foreshadowed the Acts 2— Pentecost event. Therefore, Number 11 should be considered as the foundational Charismatic/Pentecostal passage in the Old Testament.

Israel and the Land: A Note from a Christian Perspective

1979 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-426
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Mann
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
Christian Perspective ◽  
Human Need ◽  
The Church

“It is important for Christians not to perceive the promise of land in the Old Testament as a relic of ancient Near Eastern history, much less an idiosyncrasy of contemporary Palestinian politics. For that promise, with all its intrinsic problems, is a theological expression of the fundamental human need for security and freedom. There is no doubt that that promise has been exploited through the ages to legitimate the most inhuman of institutions and policies. But in rejecting the symbolic power of the promised land, the church would stand in danger of denying the fact that it lives in, if not of, this world.

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