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Matthew Korpman deposited “Holy Transgression: Breaking the Sabbath in Order to Keep It,” Spectrum 50.3 (2022): 14-23. in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 2 years agoAn article that explores the theology of Sabbath keeping, and the biblical arguments for when God wishes his laws to be violated. A theology of the Sabbath, if it is to serve God’s desire in Scripture, must focus on the why of Sabbath, not the when. It cannot rely on arguments from authority or the Law as a cheap excuse for not engaging in a…[Read more]
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Matthew Korpman deposited “Holy Transgression: Breaking the Sabbath in Order to Keep It,” Spectrum 50.3 (2022): 14-23. in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years agoAn article that explores the theology of Sabbath keeping, and the biblical arguments for when God wishes his laws to be violated. A theology of the Sabbath, if it is to serve God’s desire in Scripture, must focus on the why of Sabbath, not the when. It cannot rely on arguments from authority or the Law as a cheap excuse for not engaging in a…[Read more]
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Matthew Korpman deposited “More Than An Afterthought: Adventists Addressing Climate Change,” Adventist Today 30.1 (2022): 21-23. in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 2 years agoA survey of Adventist church statements regarding church policy in the North American Division and World Church regarding Climate Change. It will be argued that unlike other policies the Adventist church supports, its statements on Climate Change lack the typical biblical support common for other initiatives and indicates a lack of spiritual…[Read more]
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Matthew Korpman deposited “When God Wants Dis/obedience: Wrestling with Genesis 22,” Adventist Today 29.3 (2021): 12-15. in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years agoThe passage of Genesis 22 is reviewed and examined through four interpretive lenses: Narrative Criticism, Canonical Criticism, Historical Criticism, and a Hermeneutic of Confrontation. After reviewing extensively the history of child sacrifice in Ancient Israel, the argument of Omri Boehm’s reconstructed text (lacking the angelic speeches), and…[Read more]
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Matthew Korpman deposited “The Protestant Reception of the Apocrypha.” Pages 74-93 in the Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha. Edited by Gerbern Oegema. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021. in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 2 years agoDiscussions about the history of the reception of the Apocrypha within Protestantism are often mired by blanket negative presumptions that differ markedly from the actual beliefs attested to in available historical sources. This chapter seeks to rectify such historical misrepresentations by presenting an initial attempt to summarize the entire…[Read more]
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Matthew Korpman deposited “The Protestant Reception of the Apocrypha.” Pages 74-93 in the Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha. Edited by Gerbern Oegema. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021. in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years agoDiscussions about the history of the reception of the Apocrypha within Protestantism are often mired by blanket negative presumptions that differ markedly from the actual beliefs attested to in available historical sources. This chapter seeks to rectify such historical misrepresentations by presenting an initial attempt to summarize the entire…[Read more]
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Matthew Korpman deposited “Fighting the Divine: Relational Theology as Confrontational.” Pages 37-42 in Partnering with God: Exploring Collaboration in Open and Relational Theology. Edited by Thomas Jay Oord, B. Rambob, F. Stedman, and Tim Reddish. Grasmere, ID: SacraSage, 2021. in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 2 years agoThis essay seeks to introduce briefly the background and idea of what can be called a confrontational approach to theology. It will begin by outlining the biblical background of this often-ignored portrait and then will proceed to outline how this theological approach can breathe new life into various approaches toward God.
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Matthew Korpman deposited “Doubt Everything.” Pages 57-69 in Before You Lose Your Mind: Deconstructing Bad Theology in the Church. Edited by Keith Giles. Orange, CA: Quoir, 2021. in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 2 years agoIn this chapter, a biblical overview of the topic of doubt is provided, focused on the Gospel accounts. A theological argument is made for the necessity and contribution of doubt toward the process of faith.
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Vincenzo Belmonte deposited You Are Gods: At the Origins of Christianity in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years agoThe book deals with the wide background and context of early Christianity. Particularly, it highlights the rise of Jewish national identity and the influence of the Essene Yahad, seeing the New Testament in the light of cultural conditioning and regarding as central the divinization doctrine. in the last section it delves into doubt, faith, and mysticism.
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Matthew Korpman deposited Saying No to God: A Radical Approach to Reading the Bible Faithfully. Quoir, 2019. in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 2 years agoAlthough bumper stickers abound that propose otherwise, the Bible itself reveals that just because “God says it,” does not, in fact, mean “that settles it.” On the contrary, a close reading of Scripture reveals that God does not want us to blindly obey him, but rather, invites us to “lock hands” with him and fight. The purpose of this book is to…[Read more]
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Vincenzo Belmonte deposited The Expulsion Curse in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years agoA fresh attempt to explain the suicide of Judas and the death of Ananias and Sapphira as imagined consequences of an allegedly deadly excommunication.
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Matthew Korpman deposited “Source Criticism: Teaching the Documentary Hypothesis,” Didaktikos: Journal of Theological Education 3.3 (2019): 30-31. in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years agoA summary and review of a creative and neutral approach to teaching the Documentary Hypothesis to undergraduate students.
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Matthew Korpman deposited “Was Noadiah A ‘Trustworthy’ Prophet? The Demise of Prophecy in Second Temple Judaism,” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 135.1 (2023): 52-70. in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years agoAccording to popular scholarly consensus, the role of the classical prophets ceased following the rebuilding of Jerusalem during the Second Temple period. This paper will attempt to propose an explanation of 1 Maccabees’ comments about the cessation of prophecy by undertaking a careful and broad examination of the dynamics involved in the Hebrew B…[Read more]
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Matthew Korpman deposited “Can Anything Good Come from Sodom? A Feminist and Narrative Critique of Lot’s Daughters in Gen. 19:30-38,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43.3 (2019): 334-342. in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years agoFor centuries, the story of Lot’s daughters in Genesis is one which has both abhorred and intrigued countless readers. Utilizing the hermeneutical lenses of Narrative and Feminist Criticism, this paper draws attention to overlooked details in the narrative. The story is also contrasted with that of the Levite’s Concubine in Judges 19. The res…[Read more]
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Pruritus Migrans deposited When was America great? in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 2 years agoWhen was America great? * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA
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Pruritus Migrans deposited 202312312358 in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 2 years ago202312312358 * PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Historical Synergies & Mannheim – from Sumerian Temple Economy, Hunter Gatherers, Greek Patriarchal Gods, to D Hay’s Extreme Individualism:(Age of Reason – Hobbes, social contract) + Rappaport, Durkheim, Voltaire, Gasset, Nietzsche in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 2 years agoHistoricaql Synergies 1. The Sumerians created a palace/temple -economy with a centralized over-ruling organization which controlled crop production and distribution of some goods. A centralized government was necessary because the Sumerians subsisted on crops which required centralized irrigation systems. So, the Sumerian religious temple economy…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Mga emosyon, kahulugan at sistema ng simbolo: Damasio, Solomon, Tolstoy, Jung, James, Furlotti at Kalsched; “pansin” ni E Klinger; Funk at Gazzanigna [neuroscience]: “Ang moralidad ay isang hanay ng mga kumplikadong emosyonal at nagbibigay-malay na proses in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 2 years agoWalang alinlangan na ang mga emosyon ay napakahalaga at napakahalaga sa pagproseso ng data at impormasyon, gayundin sa pang-araw-araw na paggana ng tao. Eric Klinger, na ang kadalubhasaan ay sa personality psychology at motivation theory, ay nakatuon sa mga impluwensya ng motibasyon at damdamin sa katalusan. Iminumungkahi ni Klinger ang isang…[Read more]
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Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer: «Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado». Comentario y crítica de Jorge Liberati. in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoRevista RELACIONES, nº 470 – Julio de 2023 / Montevideo (Uruguay).
On the formation of the Christ myth and the ideologies that led to the birth of Christianity.
Sobre la formación del mito de Cristo y las ideologías que propiciaron el nacimiento del del cristianismo. -
Eliseo Ferrer deposited Interview: Entrevista a ELISEO FERRER, autor de SACRIFICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO. in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoFour intense pages (Revista RELACIONES, Montevideo) in which an atheist materialist speaks in depth about Christianity, religion and the anthropological phenomenon of the sacred.
Entrevista a ELISEO FERRER, autor de SACRIFICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO.
A propósito del largo itinerario temporal de «la genealogía, la antropología y la his…[Read more] - Load More