Amid the recent turn to Paul’s reading of Scripture, the role Deuteronomy plays in his letters has generally been examined in individual citations without regard to the larger role Deuteronomy plays in Paul’s letters, or with an exclusive focus on either the theological or the ethical importance of Deuteronomy for Paul. In contrast, this study argues that Paul read Deuteronomy with three interlocking construals (as ethical authority, as theological authority, as an interpretation of Israel’s history), each equally basic. These construals can be combined to achieve a sense of the shape of Paul’s Deuteronomy as a whole. In order to ascertain and specify these construals, Paul’s engagement with Deuteronomy is examined as an instance of Jewish engagement with the book. Part I, therefore, supplies the historical conditions of Paul’s and other Jewish authors’ encounter with the scroll of Deuteronomy (Chap 2). On this basis, Part II proceeds to survey the major Jewish interpreters of Deuteronomy from the 3rd c. BCE to the 3rd c. CE (Chaps. 3-8). Because Paul is himself a Jewish author, this study foregoes the traditional bi-partite thesis division into “background” and Paul, opting instead to see Paul as one in a chain of Jews who turned to Deuteronomy to make sense of the present. These chapters thus also provide a sustained analysis of Deuteronomy’s broader effective history in Second Temple Jewish writings – and, in a few cases, beyond. In light of the range of interpretations to which Deuteronomy was susceptible, the concluding chapter examines what is distinctive about the shape of Paul’s Deuteronomy and what contribution this may make to debates on Pauline theology and to the study of Second Temple Jewish biblical interpretation.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:21:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pedro Evaristo Santos.pdf: 961210 bytes, checksum: 43194c8c4107b1065d690681c8d50357 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-08-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / By means of the exegesis of the Deuteronomy 26,1-11 perícope, this dissertation seeks to show, from a social perspective, that this passage is a memorial confession of the redemptive acts witnessed during the exit of the people from Egypt. This memorial is intertwined with the Redeemer God as with the land given by this God to his people, as a means of expressing their complete freedom to direct their own destiny, in celebration of the Redeemer God. Also within this social perspective is the fact that the redemptive acts of Yahweh ought to result in social acts of the redeemed people for those are disadvantaged within the Israelite society. The perícope in focus points to two groups of disadvantaged the levite and the foreigner. / Com a pesquisa exegética realizada na perícope de Deuteronômio 26,1-11, esta dissertação busca entendê-la, a partir de sua perspectiva social, ao procurar mostrar que esta perícope é uma confissão memorial dos atos redentores, vistos na saída do povo do Egito. Este memorial está entrelaçado com o Deus redentor bem como com a terra doada por este Deus ao seu povo, como meio de expressar sua completa liberdade para dirigir seu destino, em celebração ao Deus redentor. Dentro desta perspectiva social está também que os atos redentores de Javé deveriam resultar em atos sociais de seu povo redimido para com aqueles que eram desfavorecidos dentro da sociedade israelita. A perícope em estudo aponta para dois grupos de desfavorecidos o levita e o estrangeiro.

By quoting Deuteronomy 30:12–14 as the content of the message of the righteousness of faith over against Leviticus 18:5 and the righteousness of the law in Romans 10:5–8, Paul proclaims a promise fulfilled in accord with the original meaning of the text written by Moses in Deuteronomy. More precisely, Paul reads Deuteronomy 30:11–14 as an extension of the reality foretold in Deuteronomy 30:1–10, which points forward to the new covenant experience of faith-empowered obedience, or heart circumcision, which includes the internalization of the word of God—the eschatological torah—by the Spirit of God. What Paul has found in Deuteronomy 30:11–14 is a prophetic promise of righteousness which he declares fulfilled in the gospel of the Lord Jesus, the message of the righteousness of faith.

Amen is the Hebrew word best known and most widely used in world religions even today. Its importance as a meaningful expression throughout biblical texts is given thorough study as well as its transmission throughout religious history. It has been transliterated and integrated into the prayers and liturgy of about every Christian church. In this thesis amen is traced down to its usage in Old Testament texts selected according to their liturgical setting. After examining the three sets of texts, progressive development stages have been produced. The first text of Deuteronomy 27 was basically a ceremony of civil nature for a Covenant commitment. All tribes of Israel were present and the amen response was stipulated to confirm their allegiance to Yahweh and to acknowledge the curses threatened. The second stage in the development of amen in Old Testament worship is an expected, not stipulated response to answer a doxology or a prayer. At this stage amen was pronounced by the worshipping congregation in cultic situations in general, particularly in the Psalms. A third and more developed liturgical response can be found in the spontaneous double amen spoken by the returnees from exile gathered for the reading of the Law session at Nehemiah's time. Amen had become a thriving force and a joyful outburst - not demanded, not simply expected, but spontaneous in the believers' response to Yahweh's guidance and love. The New Testament and Christians of all times inherited and adopted the same Hebrew word and sound of amen as confirmation and praise. A proposal is made in this study to set amen as a causal connection with the One who loved mankind first. The proposed derivation of amen from the Hiphil Imperative remits its origin to a causative plea, and persuades people to believe in what they have just heard or said, namely, that Jesus Christ is God's amen for the salvation of all mankind. Christians of all times and places should join in the praise of God through the same faith in His Amen. Thus amen becomes a binding concept for ecumenical understanding. / Biblical and Ancient Studies / D. Th. (Old Testament)

The thesis investigates the interpretation of some of the most problematic passages of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, i.e. passages involving the concept or practice of herem. The texts under consideration contain prima facie divine commands to commit genocide as well as descriptions of genocidal military campaigns commended by God. The thesis presents and analyses the solutions that Christian interpreters through the ages have proposed to the concomitant moral and hermeneutical challenges. A number of ways in which they have been used to justify violence and war are also addressed. For the patristic and early medieval eras the thesis aims to be as comprehensive as possible in identifying and analysing the various interpretative options, while for later periods the focus lies on new developments. In addition to offering the most comprehensive presentation of the Wirkungsgeschichte of herem texts to date, the thesis offers an analysis and critical evaluation of the theologico-hermeneutical assumptions underlying each of the several approaches, and their exegetical and practical consequences. The resulting analytical taxonomy and hermeneutical map is an original contribution to the history of exegesis and the study of the interplay between religion and violence. The cognitive dissonance herem texts cause for pious readers is introduced as an inconsistent set of five propositions: (1) God is good; (2) the bible is true; (3) genocide is atrocious; (4) according to the bible, God commanded and commended genocide; (5) a good being, let alone the supremely good Being, would never command or commend an atrocity. If proposition (4) is assumed, at least one of the deeply-held beliefs expressed in the other four must be modified or given up. The introduction is followed by four diachronic chapters in which the various exegetical approaches are set out: pre-critical (from the OT to the Apostolic Fathers), dissenting (Marcion and other ancient critics), figurative (from Origen to high medieval times), divine-command-ethics,(from Augustine to Calvin) and violent (from Ambrose to Puritan North America). A concluding chapter presents near contemporary re-iterations and variations of the historic approaches.

This dissertation explores the relationship between the ancient Israelite HOH and the members of his family as portrayed in the prescriptive texts of Deuteronomy. In choosing the prescriptive texts, this study distinguishes between the actual (what was) and the ideal (what should have been). Chapter 2 examines those texts, elsewhere referred to under the rubric of "family law," which specifically address the rights and responsibilities of the father in relation to other members of his household. These texts include Deuteronomy 21:10-14; 21:15-17; 21:18-21; 22:13-21; 24:1-4; 24:5 and 25:5-10. Each text is examined with focus on the characters involved, the setting (including relevant Old Testament and ancient Near Eastern background material), and ultimately the main concern or concerns driving each text. Those concerns are analyzed to see what implications the text has for the role and responsibilities of a righteous father in ancient Israel. This study seeks to establish from these texts the underlying principles that were to govern the use of his authority within the household. Chapter 3 consists of a synthesis of the results of the study and suggestions for further research. This work contends that these texts presuppose, rather than establish, a father's rights. Further, the texts view the father's authority in terms of responsibility, namely responsibility for the well-being of the members of his household to be achieved through zealous commitment to righteousness. Finally, it is proposed that abuse of a man's authority resulting in social degradation of a woman is followed by restrictions on that man's authority. / This item is only available to students and faculty of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. If you are not associated with SBTS, this dissertation may be purchased from <a href="http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb">http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb</a> or downloaded through ProQuest's Dissertation and Theses database if your institution subscribes to that service.

A partir da narrativa bíblica, é possível analisar a vida e a atividade profética de Jeremias. Este homem foi um dos responsáveis pela estruturação da religião judaica na diáspora, uma vez que através da sua mensagem aos exilados, uma nova relação com a divindade pôde ser estabelecida. Suas idéias inovaram as condições de relacionamento entre divindade e povo, uma vez que a estrutura anteriormente existente tinha como base uma relação de suserania e vassalagem. Este modelo era encontrado nos tratados realizados entre os governantes dos grandes reinos do Oriente Médio, durante o período da antigüidade. Assim, para se entender as mudanças propostas por Jeremias e suas inovações, foi necessário realizar a caracterização dos modelos de aliança, acima mencionados. A partir disto, estudou-se alianças realizadas anteriormente entre a divindade e o povo de Israel. As palavras de Jeremias serviram para que uma nova forma de relacionamento com a divindade fosse estabelecida pela população judaíta deportada para a Babilônia. Esta nova base permitiu a preservação de uma tradição, cuja origem é muito anterior ao século VI a.C., que hoje denomina-se Judaísmo. / From the Biblical narrative, it is possible to analyze the life and the profetic activity of Jeremias. This man was one of the responsibles for the organization of the Jewish religion in the diaspore, since through its message to the exiled ones, a new relation with the deity could be established. His ideas innovated the foundations of the relationship between deity and people, because the previously existing structure had its base in a relation of suseranity and vassalage. This model was found in the treaties between the kings of the great kingdoms of the Ancient Near East. Thus, in order to understand the changes proposed by Jeremias and its innovations, it was necessary to caracterize the alliance models, mentioned above. From this standpoint, we could study the previous alliances carried out between the deity and the people of Israel. The words of Jeremias allowed the Judeans population deported to Babylon to establish a new form of relationship with the deity. This new base allowed the preservation of a tradition, whose origin goes well before the VI th century B.C., that is called today Judaism.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2016-09-08T19:46:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DOUGLAS OLIVEIRA DOS SANTOS.pdf: 2100172 bytes, checksum: a1c86dc714849f689d29018fbb28c466 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-08T19:46:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DOUGLAS OLIVEIRA DOS SANTOS.pdf: 2100172 bytes, checksum: a1c86dc714849f689d29018fbb28c466 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-12 / In the interpretation of sacred literature, we realized that the hermeneutical Christian principles always interpret the Old Testament from its current conception of monotheism. Here, we analyze the construction of this monotheistic concept in an attempt to understand how these interpretive principles have guided the understanding of Deuteronomy and Joshua 6.4 24.15 with this monotheistic perspective. To perform this analysis, we must understand the current imagery in various processes of construction of the Western Sacred, studying these texts in the Hebrew Bible, in the monolátrica construction process and checking the Hellenistic influences in the formation of the Septuagint. That way, you can see the influences that permeate translations and interpretative methods of fundamentalist Orthodox perspective and current, and rehearse questions and critical-constructive reflections. / Na interpretação da literatura sagrada, percebemos que os princípios hermenêuticos cristãos sempre interpretam os textos do Antigo Testamento a partir da sua concepção atual de monoteísmo. Aqui, analisamos a construção desse conceito monoteísta, na tentativa de entender como esses princípios interpretativos passaram a nortear a compreensão de Deuteronômio 6,4 e Josué 24,15 com essa perspectiva monoteísta. Para realizar essa análise, foi preciso compreender o imaginário vigente em vários processos da construção do Sagrado ocidental, estudando esses textos na Bíblia Hebraica, no processo da construção monolátrica e na verificação das influências do Helenismo no processo de formação da Septuaginta. Dessa forma, é possível perceber as influências que permeiam as traduções e os métodos interpretativos de perspectiva fundamentalista e ortodoxa atuais, e ensaiar questionamentos e reflexões crítico-construtivos.

Amen is the Hebrew word best known and most widely used in world religions even today. Its importance as a meaningful expression throughout biblical texts is given thorough study as well as its transmission throughout religious history. It has been transliterated and integrated into the prayers and liturgy of about every Christian church. In this thesis amen is traced down to its usage in Old Testament texts selected according to their liturgical setting. After examining the three sets of texts, progressive development stages have been produced. The first text of Deuteronomy 27 was basically a ceremony of civil nature for a Covenant commitment. All tribes of Israel were present and the amen response was stipulated to confirm their allegiance to Yahweh and to acknowledge the curses threatened. The second stage in the development of amen in Old Testament worship is an expected, not stipulated response to answer a doxology or a prayer. At this stage amen was pronounced by the worshipping congregation in cultic situations in general, particularly in the Psalms. A third and more developed liturgical response can be found in the spontaneous double amen spoken by the returnees from exile gathered for the reading of the Law session at Nehemiah's time. Amen had become a thriving force and a joyful outburst - not demanded, not simply expected, but spontaneous in the believers' response to Yahweh's guidance and love. The New Testament and Christians of all times inherited and adopted the same Hebrew word and sound of amen as confirmation and praise. A proposal is made in this study to set amen as a causal connection with the One who loved mankind first. The proposed derivation of amen from the Hiphil Imperative remits its origin to a causative plea, and persuades people to believe in what they have just heard or said, namely, that Jesus Christ is God's amen for the salvation of all mankind. Christians of all times and places should join in the praise of God through the same faith in His Amen. Thus amen becomes a binding concept for ecumenical understanding. / Biblical and Ancient Studies / D. Th. (Old Testament)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:18:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Joerley Orlando de Oliveira Cruz.pdf: 363159 bytes, checksum: bfcd4e19789a6dfaee3268dfb6157339 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-01-31 / As from of exegetical analysis of Deuteronomy 6,4-9, this work approach the meaning of unicity of God, your respect with the law, and the mutual relation between the Trinity´s Persons in defence of one God represented by Persons. In beginning we think in Deuteronomy 6,4-9 about text located in one of books more importants in formation of Israel´s nation. The importance happen with legal constitution that manage nation´s life, and the feeling that nation sustain during her history. Our investigation conduct us to one God that today we sustains yet, with perception of presence and prominence of three Trinity Persons. Our conclusion will find comprise that God Javé of Deuteronomy 6,4-9 be present and proceed, with involvement active how Father, Son through Jesus, and Holy Spirit, that move and talk together with nation, similar called attention of Israel with the voice that invite to listen. / A partir da análise exegética de Deuteronômio 6,4-9, esta pesquisa aborda o significado da unicidade de Deus, sua relação com a Lei, em defesa do Único Deus representado por elas. Em princípio, pensamos em Deuteronômio 6,4-9 por ser um texto localizado em um dos livros mais importantes na formação do povo de Israel. A importância se faz em meio à constituição legal que rege a vida do povo, como também no sentimento que o povo nutre durante sua história posterior. Nossa investigação nos conduzirá ao Deus Único que hoje ainda sustentamos, com a percepção de sua presença, e em sua relevância. Nossa conclusão buscará compreender que o Deus Javé de Deuteronômio 6,4-9 ainda se faz presente e atuante, com sua participação efetiva que se move e caminha em meio ao seu povo, da mesma forma como chamou a atenção de Israel por meio da voz que convida a ouvir.