Search for dissertations about: "Världsreligioner ej kristendom"
Showing result 21 - 22 of 22 swedish dissertations containing the words Världsreligioner ej kristendom.
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21. Breaking the Pot: Contextual Responses to Survival Issues in Malaysian Churches
Abstract : Protestantism in Malaysia is in many cases the result of labour migration from China and India in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Under the British colonial administration, it enjoyed a certain degree of protection. READ MORE
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22. Portrait of a Villain: Laban the Aramean in Rabbinic Literature
Abstract : This study attempts to answer the question of why Laban the Aramean, a rather harmless character as presented in the biblical text, is generally portrayed in rabbinic literature as a major enemy of Jacob and Israel. It is argued that the portrait of Laban as a villain developed as a result of rabbinic hermeneutics, and that the characteristics which are attributed to him in rabbinic literature were not arbitrarily chosen due to a particular interest in his person or a wish to endow him with a certain set of negative characteristics, but rather derive from interaction between the rabbis and the biblical text in a process where the rabbis filled in the gaps that they perceived in the biblical text and explained inconsistencies with material provided by the Bible itself and by material taken from their ideological code. READ MORE