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.

Creation

2019 ◽  
pp. 511-524
Author(s):  
Paul M. Blowers
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Many ◽  
Sacred History

Early Christian interpretation of Scripture on the theme of creation not surprisingly gave considerable attention to the Genesis account of the origins of the world, in part to counter the claims of Graeco-Roman cosmology, but more importantly to expound the latent theological meaning of the many details of the biblical cosmogony. But patristic exegetes were also keen on the fact that ‘creation’ in the Bible implied far more than beginnings; indeed, it designated the whole economy (oikonomia) of the Creator’s ongoing relation to the creation as set forth in sacred history and as requiring the further interpretative lenses of Christology, soteriology, and eschatology. Early Christian interpreters plumbed a wide variety of Old Testament texts beyond Genesis (especially the Psalms, Deutero-Isaiah, and the Wisdom literature). In their New Testament commentary they focused on such motifs as the subjection of creation to ‘vanity’, the work of Jesus Christ in recapitulating God’s creative purposes, and the eschatological renewal and transformation of the created universe in its relation to human salvation.

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 The Spiritual Journey of Jesus Christ

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin L. Nelwan
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Spiritual Journey ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
The Dead ◽  
False Prophet ◽  
The Mathematical Model

The gospel does not introduce a new Lord. There is no other Lord in Christianity, except Christ. God in the Old Testament is the same as God in the New Testament. Christ is the same as God. There is no other Christ. God became man in Jesus Christ to preach the gospel to humans. He went to the earth of the dead to preached the gospel 3 days in the death world, returned to the earth, and then to the heaven. This is the spiritual journey. Emmanuel is God with us. The mathematical model of Christ is ~ ≤ X ≤ ~ and X = Y. A Christian could catch up into paradise as Paul’s vision. It was from the earth. It was not from heaven. It is different with Jesus Christ’s journey. Christ from heaven down to earth, going to the world of the dead, returning to earth and returning to heaven. Paul’s vision shows that the man catch up from the world to heaven, returned to the earth and died. He needs to wait the advent of Christ to rise up him from the death. Christ is eternal forever. The man is not yet 100% eternal. He still needs to be rise by Christ in the day of the Lord. Satan was from heaven and was thrown into the earth. It was not a spiritual journey. Satan, his angels and the false prophet have been thrown into the hell. The mathematical model of the false prophet is - ~ ≤ X < ~ and X = Y. The spiritual journey of Jesus Christ is Scholar.

The Old Testament of the Early Church (A Study in Canon)

1958 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert C. Sundberg
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of

For three-quarters of a century the hypothesis of an Alexandrian canon has been the commonly accepted solution to the problem of how the Jewish canon and the Old Testament of the early church came to differ. That hypothesis suggests that a larger canon of scriptures was initiated in Alexandria and circulated throughout Diaspora Judaism than what obtained in Palestine. The Christian church, becoming predominantly Gentile early in its history, adopted this enlarged canon, that included the books of the Apocrypha, from Diaspora Judaism. The hypothesis represents essentially a geographic distinction in canonical usage between Palestinian Judaism and Alexandrian and Dispersion Judaism. It is the opinion of the present writer that the Alexandrian canon hypothesis is not only unprovable, as Pfeiffer has recognized, but is erroneous. This opinion is based (1) on a study of the history of the Alexandrian canon hypothesis, (2) on an examination of the arguments favoring the hypothesis, and (3) on a re-evaluation of the status of canonical usage in Judaism at the time of the emergence of Christianity into the world.

Introduction

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Initial Phase ◽  
Human Race ◽  
City Of God ◽  
Holy Trinity ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The City

This chapter analyses Augustine's Books XI and XII of The City of God, which document the initial phase of the rise of city of God and the city of this world, beginning with the creation of the world and the human race. It examines the claim of the inerracy of scripture, in which God had spoken to the minds of the Old Testament prophets through His Son the Mediator, Jesus Christ. It also talks about Augustine's concern about the historicity of his initial account of the Creation. The chapter turns to the topic of the angels and the city of God that exists in heaven, where the righteous angels dwell with the holy Trinity. It confronts the taxing problem of the revolt of the wicked angels and the foreknowledge of God.

scholarly journals MISI DALAM PERJANJIAN LAMA

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-87
Author(s):  
Megawati Manullang
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
The Other ◽  
Good News ◽  
Main Task ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
God The Father

AbstractGenerally, missiology can be understood as the study of the Gospel messagespreading or what is better known as Sending. Thus, this Gospel spreading isconsidered as one of the main task or function of churchestht is to share the good news about Jesus Christ worldwide. Therefore, this comprehension cannot be taken wrong, however in the Old Testament, missiology has to be seen from the standpoint on “how God the Father called and sent his servants to carry out all the tasks assigned to them in order to turn the people of Israel from their stubborness so that they could be saved and not be perished in the punishment that were bounded to them’’ In the old Testament there is an obvious assignment to do the outreach mission to all nations all around the world. The main focus in the Old Testament is the choosing of Israel and its relations to the other nations.Key words: Mission, Old Testament

Mormonism and the World Religions Discourse

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Lee Wiles
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Comparative Religion ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
World Religion ◽  
World Religions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status

This article examines the ways in which the status of Mormonism within academic comparative religion discourses is quite different from that which has evolved among Latter-day Saint leaders and within the burgeoning field of Mormon studies. Whereas Mormonism is a quasi-Christian New Religious Movement in most world religions textbooks and reference works, some scholars of Mormonism have advanced the expanding Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints into the position of world religion. In doing so, they have adopted the terminology of a broader taxonomy largely without regard for maintaining its established demarcations. This classificatory tension, which will likely increase in the future, reveals some of the underlying logics, semantic confusions, and power dynamics of comparative religion discourses, ultimately problematizing the categories of Christianity, world religion, and New Religious Movement as currently constituted.

scholarly journals Christian Motives in Ch. T. Aitmatov’s Novel The Scaffold

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 194-201
Author(s):  
Ekaterina I. Shevchugova
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Motif Analysis ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Journey ◽  
Ultimate Outcome ◽  
End Of The World

In the following article, we identify the Christian motifs in the novel Plakha (The Scaffold) by Ch. T. Aitmatov, describe them and offer our interpretations. The novelty of our analysis stems from the fact that Ch. T. Aitmatov’s body of work is still underresearched, particularly the religious components of this novel. Within our study, we employ the historical-literary, comparative, and motif analysis. We summarize the worldview of Avdii Kallistratov as a system and show that his image and life journey as someone who experiences choice, solitude, fate, recognition of his predestination and mission resemble the image and earthly life of Jesus Christ. His Old Testament name, his origins, the course of his life, and the crucifixion as the ultimate outcome are all important. According to the author, the mankind has reached the critical mark; the end of the world, the Apocalypse is advancing. We conclude that The Scaffold is a literary warning about the coming end of times, which is being drawn closer by the evils of modern humans. Only the tragic and heroic feats of people like Avdii can possibly slow this process down. At the same time the Christian doctrine is not the only correct one: the second half of the novel is based on pantheistic views, demonstrating the syncretism of the author’s worldview.

scholarly journals Wcielenie Chrystusa w świetle "Liber apotheosis" i "Liber cathemerinon" Aureliusza Prudencjusza Klemensa

Vox Patrum ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 263-273
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Pyzik-Turska
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World

The following article covers the issues regarding the Incarnation of Jesus Christ presented in a poetic manner in Liber Apotheosis and Liber Cathemerinon by Aurelius Prudentius Clemens. The first part illustrates the references to the fact of Birth taken from the Old Testament. It focuses primarily on the messianic prophecies – the prophecies of the Messiah, who was to be sent to the world. The second part presents the circumstances and the place of the Bethlehem event. The poetic depictions of the place and time of the Nativity as well as the consequences arising from accepting Christ as the Saviour sent by God have been presented in reference to the evangelical accounts. The third part discusses the results of the Incarnation that were illustrated in a poetical form by Aurelius Prudentius Clemens. Thus, the article presents the fact of the exaltation of human body re­sulting from the absolution of sins, redemption of man, as well as the emphasis of human dignity.

scholarly journals ‘n Kerk wat getuig is ‘n kerk wat leef (1) ‘n Bybels-teologiese perspektief op die missionêre karakter van die kerk

2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-333
Author(s):  
D. J. Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
The World ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Missionary Church ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church

A witnessing church is a living church (1) A biblical-theological perspective on the missionary character of the church. In this, the first of two articles, we focus on the identity of the church as it is revealed in the Old and New Testaments. Since the sixties of the previous century, it is widely accepted that mission is the essence of the church. The church was no longer seen as the institution which sends people into the world, but was no longer the one who is sent into the world. According to the Old Testament, Israel was elected to be God’s witness to the nations. In exile they recognised that Jahwe is not a national God, but God of the whole world. The four Gospels, Acts and the letters of Paul make it very clear that the church of Jesus Christ is either a missionary church or not a church at all. The church is, in all its activities per se an instrument in bringing God's kingdom to this world.

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