Journal articleStudies in Christian Ethics · February 1, 2017
Israelites lived intimately with their livestock, as members of a single household, and this had an effect on their understanding of human identity—as Leviticus expresses it, of God’s call to Israel to be holy. Leviticus treats eating and ritual sacrifice ...
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Journal articleExpository Times · January 1, 2012
The Bible is rigorously realistic in its representations of human character, the conditions and contingencies of life in this world. Therefore the aim of Old Testament preaching is to invite Christians to grow toward spiritual maturity in circumstances tha ...
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Journal articleThe Christian Century · 2010
Porter translates the creatures with notes of praise, following her spiritual and poetic model, St. Francis: "Give praise with psalms that tell the trees to sing," she writes, and with the little peepers "when they fill the marsh with a shimmer of belllike ...
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Journal articleTikkun · 2004
Davis presents several biblical account of the old covenant including the creation and the blessedness of Abraham and the Israelites that serves to be a vision for the proper use of land. He contends that the ancient Israelites who are agrarian people occu ...
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