The Shepherd of Hermas has been treasured by members of the Christian faith for centuries. Once regarded as Scripture, the Shepherd has served as a useful guide for countless people in their journeys of faith. In "Hear then, the Parable," Shea Zellweger examines the Shepherd once more, attempting to discern the original purpose for its writing.
Otto Glombitza lists five differences." (For convenience I will use his convention of referring to the parable Treasure as A and The. 68. The Coptic text reads literally, "a man a merchant" (a redundancy eliminated in the Eng. trans), ...
The second edition reprints the first edition with a new introduction that reviews a decade of sound mapping scholarship and argues for the continued necessity of sound mapping for New Testament interpretation.
Brandon Scott ' s sage and savvy analysis of more than fifty recent popular American movies , from Dirty Harry to ... BERNARD BRANDON SCOTT is Darbeth Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Phillips Graduate Seminary , Tulsa ...
In this book the author sets his interpretation of the key parables of Jesus in the context of other things Jesus said and did. The result is a startling and...
This is an unrivaled reference work designed to allow the student of New Testament Greek to gain the greatest increase in vocabulary with the least expense of time.
181 He illustrates more recent tradition by retelling stories about John Hogg , the primary founder of the new ... These were orally transmitted and sustained stories which had been drawn on for Dr Hogg's biography ( published in 1914 ) ...
"What if the purpose or function of a parable is not to instruct but to haunt?" So begins Listening to the Parables of Jesus, edited by Edward F. Beutner, who...
Much energy has been spent in exploring and defending particular points of view about the parables. Yet all too often the central questions about a particular parable--"What is the parable saying? How do I respond to this story?
Sower parable explained Mark 4: 13-20; Matthew 13: 18-23; Luke 8: 11-15 Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables? Hear, then, the parable of the sower; this is the meaning ...
Osborne, The Resurrection of Jesus, 95. In the end, whether the revelatory experiences came through the physical eye or the mind's eye is irrelevant; the point is that the appearances are revelations from God.