Patterns Of Sin In The Hebrew Bible
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Patterns of Sin in the Hebrew Bible
Author | : Joseph Lam |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780199394647 |
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This work explores the construction of sin as a religious concept in ancient Israel by examining the dominant metaphors used to express the idea in the Hebrew Bible. Building on insights regarding metaphor derived from recent studies in linguistics and philosophy of language, the book identifies and describes four major patterns of metaphors for sin that permeate the biblical texts: sin viewed as a burden carried by the sinner; sin portrayed as an account kept by God in heaven; sin depicted as a path or direction in which one travels; and sin described as a stain or impurity in need of removal.
Patterns of Sin in the Hebrew Bible
Author | : Joseph Lam |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2016-01-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780190493868 |
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Sin, often defined as a violation of divine will, remains a crucial idea in contemporary moral and religious discourse. However, the apparent familiarity of the concept obscures its origins within the history of Western religious thought. Joseph Lam examines a watershed moment in the development of sin as an idea-namely, within the language and culture of ancient Israel-by examining the primary metaphors used for sin in the Hebrew Bible. Drawing from contemporary theoretical insights coming out of linguistics and philosophy of language, this book identifies four patterns of metaphor that pervade the biblical texts: sin as burden, sin as an account, sin as path or direction, and sin as stain or impurity. In exploring the permutations of these metaphors and their development within the biblical corpus, Patterns of Sin in the Hebrew Bible offers a compelling account of how a religious and theological concept emerges out of the everyday thought-world of ancient Israel, while breaking new ground in its approach to metaphor in ancient texts. Far from being a timeless, stable concept, sin becomes intelligible only when situated in the matrix of ancient Israelite culture. In other words, sin is not as simple as it might seem.
Patterns of Sin in the Hebrew Bible
Author | : Joseph Lam |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Sin |
ISBN | : 0199394660 |
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Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism
Author | : Jonathan Klawans |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 9780195177657 |
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Jonathan Klawans shows how the link between moral impurity and physical defilement, as understood by the ancient Hebrews, can be followed through to St Paul and the Christian era when the need for ritual purity was finally rejected.
Washing Away Sin
Author | : Lesley R. DiFransico,Lesley DiFransico |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Forgiveness of sin |
ISBN | : 9042933429 |
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Washing away sin, though a common religious practice today, is a novel concept in the Hebrew Bible. This study utilizes the Conceptual Metaphor Theory of G. Lakoff and M. Johnson to analyze the striking and unusual metaphorical concept of washing away sin in the Hebrew Bible (Isaiah 1; 4; Jeremiah 2; 4; and Psalm 51). In these passages sin is conceptualized as a kind of stain (a bloodstain in Isa 1:15; 4:4; filth in Jer 4:14) or a kind of impurity (Psalm 51) and solving sin is conceptualized through the metaphor of washing. The correlation between the problem and its solution is logical: if sin is understood as a stain then washing is the remedy. The metaphor of washing away sin demonstrates some diversity within the Hebrew Bible and this work traces the various stages of the metaphor's development. Though it occurs as a metaphor, nowhere within the Hebrew Bible is washing, although attested as a purification ritual, applied as an actual practice for responding to the problem of sin. Several centuries later, however, washing away sin is attested as an actual practice by the Qumran sectarians and the New Testament authors. Thus, this study goes beyond an analysis of the biblical metaphor to evaluate how it may have influenced the religious practices of select early Jewish and Christian communities. How did this radical shift from the absence of washing as a viable solution to sin in the Hebrew Bible to its importance in the sectarian community of Qumran and the New Testament communities come about? Here CMT is useful: what is attested as a metaphor in the Hebrew Bible, for example God washes away sin (Isa 4:4) and people wash with soap to remove the "stain" of sin (Jer 2:22), influenced how communities reading these sacred texts conceptualized sin. When sin is understood as a stain, a concrete entity that can be visualized and acted upon, communities understand washing to be a viable, symbolic practice in response to sin. Thus, washing, a metaphor within the Hebrew Bible, came to be applied as a practical ritual solution to sin within these communities so inspired and influenced by their sacred texts.
Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible
Author | : Matthew Lynch |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2020-04-30 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 9781108494359 |
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Examines four key ways that writers of the Hebrew Bible conceptualize and critique acts of violence.
Pushing Sacred Boundaries in Early Judaism and the Ancient Mediterranean
Author | : Dennis Mizzi,Tine Rasalle,Matthew J. Grey |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 756 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004540828 |
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This volume brings together a series of innovative studies on Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic Palestine, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and ancient synagogues in honor of renowned archaeologist Jodi Magness.
Congress Volume Aberdeen 2019
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2022-06-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004515109 |
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This volume presents the main lectures of the 23rd Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) held in Aberdeen, United Kingdom, in August 2019.