Discernment and biblical spirituality - An application: discernment in the milieu and wake of Nehemiah 8
In this contribution, as the culmination of a research project on discernment, theologically considered, the conceptual and methodological insights gained in the preceding publications are here brought to bear on a biblical text as a means of applying these insights exegetically. This application ho...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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ASRSA
[2015]
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Journal for the study of religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 81-99 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Nehemia 8
/ Spirituality
/ Power of judgment
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| RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality HA Bible |
| Further subjects: | B
Biblical Spirituality
B Inner-biblical contestation B Charismatic revelation B Discernment B Nehemiah 8 B Torah versus prophecy B Divine communication B Orthodoxy |
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| Summary: | In this contribution, as the culmination of a research project on discernment, theologically considered, the conceptual and methodological insights gained in the preceding publications are here brought to bear on a biblical text as a means of applying these insights exegetically. This application however does not occur in an exegetical research vacuum: key moments in Hebrew Bible research history are therefore taken into brief review and placed within the light of the most recent insights on the sociological scenario within post-exilic Israel. Within this ancient context, the different modes of divine communication, namely mediated through Scriptures or experienced through direct revelation, was at times a point of intense contestation, as it is in the modern world. This prophetic-Mosaic dispute forms the theological background to Nehemiah 8, as a textual attempt in post-exilic Israel to find a median position between these two contested forms of discerning in the most valid way the divine will. |
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| ISSN: | 2413-3027 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religion
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