Search for dissertations about: "prophets"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the word prophets.

  2. 1. Jesus and the Forgiveness of Sins: An Aspect of His Prophetic Mission

    Author : Tobias Hägerland; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bible; New Testament; Gospels; historical Jesus; early Judaism; criteria; tradition; sin; forgiveness; christology; ecclesiology; priests; prophets; angels; blasphemy; healing; illness; faith; eschatology; restoration; Isaiah; Messiah; rhetoric; Progymnasmata; chreia; apomnemoneuma;

    Abstract : This study investigates the topic of forgiveness of sins in the mission of the historical Jesus. Gospel material that pertains to the question is authenticated by the use of criteria for historicity and interpreted within the wider context of first-century Judaism as part of a broader reconstruction of Jesus’ career as a healer and prophet. READ MORE

  4. 2. Jeremiah: A Translation and Commentary on Jeremiah in Codex Vaticamus

    Author : Georg Walser; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : Bible; Old Testament; Prophets; Jeremiah; Septuagint; translation; philology; Codex Vaticanus;

    Abstract : This study investigates the Greek text of Jeremiah as found in the famous Vatican manuscript Codex Vaticanus 1209. It is the first major commentary to focus on the text of LXX Jeremiah in any modern language. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Scholia by Hesychius of Jerusalem on the Minor Prophets : Edited with an Introduction by Mats Eriksson

    Author : Mats Eriksson; Denis Searby; Timothy Janz; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Hesychius of Jerusalem; scholia; catena; Hexapla; biblical commentary; patristics; Grekiska; Greek;

    Abstract : This dissertation contains an edition of the scholia by Hesychius of Jerusalem (died probably after 451) on the Minor Prophets of the Old Testament (CPG 6558). Apart from a few fragments, this text has never been edited before. It consists of 2 160 mostly quite brief pieces of text interpreting various aspects of the bible text. READ MORE

  6. 4. Taming the Prophets : Astrology, Orthodoxy and the Word of God in Early Modern Sweden

    Author : Martin Kjellgren; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Apocalypticism; Astrology; Confessionalization; Heterodoxy; Knowledge; Lutheranism; Magic; Orthodoxy; Politics; Power; Prophecy; Reformation; Religion; Science; Social Discipline; Apocalypticism;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to analyse a displacement of the limits between allowable and illicit knowledge in the orthodox, Lutheran discourse of early modern Sweden. Focusing on the debate over astrology, exemplified in the works of Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (1565-1646) and Sigfridus Aronus Forsius (d. READ MORE

  7. 5. Aspects of Coherency in Luke’s Composite Christology

    Author : Daniel Gustafsson; James Anthony Kelhoffer; Cecilia Wassén; Mikael Winninge; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gospel of Luke; Christology; Narrative Criticism; Son of God; Messiah; Nya testamentets exegetik; New Testament Exegesis;

    Abstract : In presenting the life and teachings of Jesus and his function in salvation history, the authors of the New Testament Gospels employ a variety of motifs and titles drawn from earlier biblical literature as well as various strands of second temple Jewish literature. This study of Luke’s Christology investigates how such motifs merge and intertwine in ways that invite the reader to perceive a measure of coherency among those motifs. READ MORE