Showing papers in "Horizons in Biblical Theology in 2002"
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TL;DR: In the mid-1990s, airwaves across North America were monopolized by Canadian pop diva Alanis Morissette's "All I Really Want" song as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: In the mid-1990s, airwaves across North America were monopolized by Canadian pop diva Alanis Morissette's \"All I Really Want.\" The lyrics ramble through a hodgepodge of seemingly disconnected preferences and competing desires that the singer finds present within and around her. Morissette bemoans life in a world populated by superficial people, and she desperately yearns for a soul mate, a kindred spirit, someone who truly understands. Like many others of her generation, sixteen-year-old Aminah McKinnie of Madison, Miss., spends much of her non-school waking hours on the Internet. She lives in a strangely paradoxical realm in which the opinions of peers and relationships are crucial, and yet social groups are fluid, friendships change over a period of months or even weeks, and the possibility of lifelong \"best friends\" is not even on the radar screen! The fluidity characteristic of the contemporary ethos is epitomized by the Internet chat room. Here participants are able to be whomever they want, to try on new identities with '
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TL;DR: The elusive generic nature of the Hebrew mashal has often been regarded as a problem to be resolved as mentioned in this paper, and the quest to secure its generic identity is evident in the quest for secure the mashal's generic identity.
Abstract: The elusive generic nature of the Hebrew mashal has often been regarded as a problem to be resolved. This is evident in the quest to secure its generic identity. While any genre ultimately resists definitive definition, the mashal remains particularly resistant to definition.
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TL;DR: The study of the Christology of the Gospel of Mark has received a great deal of attention since the time of Wrede's monumental work on the secrecy motif in the second Gospel as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The study of the Christology of the Gospel of Mark has received a great deal of attention since the time of Wrede's monumental work on the secrecy motif in the second Gospel. A great amount of attention has been given to the theios aner concept, in which scholars find Jesus presented as a divine man patterned after the theos aner supposedly known in the larger ancient world. Along these lines, some scholars have proposed that Mark's Christology reflects a corrective Christology intended to combat a false Christology in the so-called Markan community. Others have sought to discover the Christology of Mark by way
TL;DR: Wink argued that the Bible's stance toward homosexual practice has to be set against the backdrop of an extensive series of "biblical sexual mores" that we no longer follow.
Abstract: In an article entitled “Homosexuality and the Bible,” Walter Wink argued that the Bible’s stance toward homosexual practice has to be set against the backdrop of an extensive series of “biblical sexual mores” that we no longer follow. By his reckoning there are sixteen such mores that we no longer follow in the church today versus only four that we do. Recently Christian Century has published an exchange consisting of Wink’s review of my book, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics; my response to Wink’s review; and Wink’s reply to my response. In his reply Wink summarized the main claim of his article “Homosexuality and the Bible” as follows: