Discernment and biblical spirituality - An application: discernment in the milieu and wake of Nehemiah 8
In this contribution, as the culmination of a research project on discernment, theologically considered, the conceptual and methodological insights gained in the preceding publications are here brought to bear on a biblical text as a means of applying these insights exegetically. This application ho...
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| description | In this contribution, as the culmination of a research project on discernment, theologically considered, the conceptual and methodological insights gained in the preceding publications are here brought to bear on a biblical text as a means of applying these insights exegetically. This application however does not occur in an exegetical research vacuum: key moments in Hebrew Bible research history are therefore taken into brief review and placed within the light of the most recent insights on the sociological scenario within post-exilic Israel. Within this ancient context, the different modes of divine communication, namely mediated through Scriptures or experienced through direct revelation, was at times a point of intense contestation, as it is in the modern world. This prophetic-Mosaic dispute forms the theological background to Nehemiah 8, as a textual attempt in post-exilic Israel to find a median position between these two contested forms of discerning in the most valid way the divine will. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dbc34cca0e954fd1a160540290448a772022-12-22T04:13:10ZengAssociation for the Study of Religion in Southern AfricaJournal for the Study of Religion2413-30272015-01-012818199Discernment and biblical spirituality - An application: discernment in the milieu and wake of Nehemiah 8Christo Lombaard0University of South AfricaIn this contribution, as the culmination of a research project on discernment, theologically considered, the conceptual and methodological insights gained in the preceding publications are here brought to bear on a biblical text as a means of applying these insights exegetically. This application however does not occur in an exegetical research vacuum: key moments in Hebrew Bible research history are therefore taken into brief review and placed within the light of the most recent insights on the sociological scenario within post-exilic Israel. Within this ancient context, the different modes of divine communication, namely mediated through Scriptures or experienced through direct revelation, was at times a point of intense contestation, as it is in the modern world. This prophetic-Mosaic dispute forms the theological background to Nehemiah 8, as a textual attempt in post-exilic Israel to find a median position between these two contested forms of discerning in the most valid way the divine will.http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1011-76012015000100005&tlng=enDiscernmentOrthodoxyBiblical SpiritualityCharismatic revelationNehemiah 8Inner-biblical contestationDivine communicationTorah versus prophecy |
| spellingShingle | Christo Lombaard Discernment and biblical spirituality - An application: discernment in the milieu and wake of Nehemiah 8 Journal for the Study of Religion Discernment Orthodoxy Biblical Spirituality Charismatic revelation Nehemiah 8 Inner-biblical contestation Divine communication Torah versus prophecy |
| title | Discernment and biblical spirituality - An application: discernment in the milieu and wake of Nehemiah 8 |
| title_full | Discernment and biblical spirituality - An application: discernment in the milieu and wake of Nehemiah 8 |
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| title_short | Discernment and biblical spirituality - An application: discernment in the milieu and wake of Nehemiah 8 |
| title_sort | discernment and biblical spirituality an application discernment in the milieu and wake of nehemiah 8 |
| topic | Discernment Orthodoxy Biblical Spirituality Charismatic revelation Nehemiah 8 Inner-biblical contestation Divine communication Torah versus prophecy |
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