Kata Ibrani za·qenʹ dan kata Yunani pre·sbyʹte·ros, yang keduanya berarti ”tua-tua”, atau ”penatua”, tidak hanya digunakan untuk memaksudkan orang-orang lanjut usia (Kej 18:11; Ul 28:50; 1Sam 2:22; 1Tim 5:1, 2) atau orang yang lebih tua (Luk 15:25) tetapi juga digunakan secara khusus untuk orang-orang yang memegang kedudukan yang berwenang dan bertanggung jawab dalam suatu komunita…
-Karangan ini disusun secara serial dan lebih bersifat analitis daripada deskriptif. Dalam analisisnya digunakan berbagai "kaca mata": teologi, psikologi, pendidikan, komunikasi, pemecahan persoalan dan mengambil keputusan, dan sebagainya. Dengan menggunakan berbagai "kaca mata" itu tampaklah betapa relevannya ajaran Tuhan dalam Alkitab dengan berbagai bidang ilmu dan kehidupan di masa kini.
This volume continues a well-established tradition of presenting the proceedings of the triennial Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS) in published form. In method and content, the seventeen papers published here represent the current state of Septuagint studies, ranging in their approach from the conceptual to the specific and in their subject m…
Is there poetry in the Bible? Does it have rhyme or meter? How did ancient Hebrew writers compose their works? James Kugel's provocative study provides surprising new answers to these age-old questions. Biblical "poetry" is not a concept native to the Bible itself, he proposes, and the idea that the Bible is divided into prose and verse is merely an approximation of the reality of biblical style.
This volume contains thirty-eight studies devoted to the Septuagint written by an internationally recognized expert on that version and its relation to the Hebrew Bible. The author's experience on these topics is based on more than three decades of work within the Hebrew University Bible Project, the Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint Studies project, and annual courses on the Septuagint gi…
"This is a very inviting book for anyone wanting to learn about the Septuagint, not only those for whom this is a first introduction but also those who know their way in this area."
Today's secularists too often have very little accurate knowledge about religion, and even less desire to learn. This is problematic insofar as their sense of self is constructed in opposition to religion. Above all, the secularist is not a Jew, is not a Christian, not a Muslim, and so on.
Targum and Testament Revisited is a new edition of a text first published in 1972, now revised in light of the intervening research and discussions in the field. Martin McNamara provides a lengthy introduction to detail such developments over the last fifty years.
Di seluruh dunia sampai akhir tahun 1993, Alkitab -- bail lengkap atau bagian-bagiannya -- telah diterjemahkan ke dalam 2062 bahasa (terdiri atas 337 Alkitab, 799 Perjanjian Baru, 962 bagian Alkitab minisatu kitab dari Alkitab). Sedangkan di Indonesia, menurut catatan Lembaga Alkitab Indonesia, sampai bulan September tahun 1994, Alkitab mauoun bagian-bagiannya telah diterjemahkan ke dalam 135 b…