Biblical Anthropology Research Articles

The Fathers on the Biblical Word

Only now are we acknowledging neglect in our attention to the Fathers' understanding of Scripture. In overcoming this neglect, we are indebted to contemporary developments in biblical studies, anthropology and linguistic theory. But the lacuna is due also in part to the Fathers' own uncertainty as to whether in the Scriptures they were encountering a living Word or a derivative text with a life of its own, or even a history book or encyclopedia. We are led to ask, Does the Word still speak to us the scriptural text?

“Hanging” between Heaven and Earth: Remarks on Biblical Anthropology

“Hanging” between Heaven and Earth: Remarks on Biblical Anthropology

Response to Paul Vitz: Perspectives from Biblical Anthropology

The author responds to Vitz's (1992a, 1992b) two preceding articles. He asserts that Vitz has made a paradigm shift from a psychological to a social concept of the self, without making it clear that he has done so. Anderson believes that this unrecognized shift has led to some ambivalence in Vitz about the use of his narrative approach in integrative psychotherapy. The author attempts to resolve this ambivalence through conclusions derived from a biblical anthropology–-a view of the self as a unity with social, spiritual, and historical dimensions.

Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debate by John W. Cooper

Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debate by John W. Cooper

The Christian Experience of Mystical Union

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Christian Experience of Mystical UnionLouis DupréLouis Dupré Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Religion Volume 69, Number 1Jan., 1989 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/487989 Views: 11Total views on this site Citations: 3Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1989 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Ferry Y Mamahit Abangan Muslims, Javanese Worldview, and Muslim–Christian Relations in Indonesia, Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies 38, no.11 (Oct 2020): 31–45.https://doi.org/10.1177/0265378820965602Eliezer Witztum, Vladimir Lerner Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin (1872–1915): Enlightenment or illness?, Journal of Medical Biography 24, no.33 (Jul 2016): 331–338.https://doi.org/10.1177/0967772014537151J. W. Traphagan BEYOND RELATIVISM AND FOUNDATIONALISM: A PROLEGOMENON TO FUTURE RESEARCH IN ETHICS, Zygon® 29, no.22 (Dec 2005): 153–172.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.1994.tb00658.x

Biblical anthropology and puritan religious experience

Biblical anthropology and puritan religious experience

Biblical anthropology in ‘The guide of the perplexed’ by Moses Maimonides, and its reversal in the ‘Tractatus theologico-politicus’ by Baruch Spinoza

Biblical anthropology in ‘The guide of the perplexed’ by Moses Maimonides, and its reversal in the ‘Tractatus theologico-politicus’ by Baruch Spinoza

Aequus: Advancing the Male-Female Dialogue

Claims that the principle of “level and equal” relative to gender represents a revolutionary development in our time and that these new relationships between the sexes ought to be celebrated. Places the notion of Aequus (level and equal) in the contexts of Eastern religious thought and in biblical anthropology and suggests that an integration into human consciousness of these notions will allow each couple the freedom to design and evolve a unique relationship shaped only by the values, needs, and the wants of the two persons within the relationship.

“Male and Female He Created Them”: Gen 1:27b in the Context of the Priestly Account of Creation

In the history of biblical interpretation and dogmatic speculation, Gen 1:26–28 has proved remarkably fecund as a source of exegetical and theological reflection. Literature on the passage is now boundless, but shows no sign of ceasing or abating, despite the appearance in recent decades of several exhaustive treatments of the text and the existence of substantial consensus among biblical scholars. The reason for the perpetual fascination of the passage lies in the nature and limits of the text. The verses contain a fundamental, and unique, statement of biblical anthropology and theology–presented in a terse and enigmatic formulation. A rare attempt within the OT literature to speak directly and definitively about the nature of humanity in relation to God and other creation, the statement is at once limited in its content, guarded in its expression, and complex in its structure. As a consequence, philologist and theologian are enticed and compelled in ever new contexts of questions and understandings to explore anew the meaning and implications of creation “in the divine image”–for it is this striking and unique expression, above all, that has dominated the discussion.

Biblical Themes and Modern Literature

AbstractThe following article describes an alternative undergraduate introduction to the Bible course which uses six biblical selections in tandem with six readings from modern literature. Besides being an introduction to various forms of literary criticism, this format makes the biblical ideas more obviously relevant and invites students to theologize personally. Eventually the course becomes a biblical anthropology.

Op-Ed: Biblical Archeology and Biblical Anthropology?

Previous articleNext article No AccessOp-Ed: Biblical Archeology and Biblical Anthropology?Fredric R. BrandfonFredric R. Brandfon Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 42, Number 1Winter 1979 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/3209538 Journal History This article was published in The Biblical Archaeologist (1938-1997), which is continued by Near Eastern Archaeology (1998-present). Copyright 1979 American Schools of Oriental ResearchPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Op-Ed: Biblical Archeology and Biblical Anthropology

Previous articleNext article No AccessOp-Ed: Biblical Archeology and Biblical AnthropologyOded BorowskiOded Borowski Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 41, Number 2June 1978 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/3209497 Views: 1Total views on this site Journal History This article was published in The Biblical Archaeologist (1938-1997), which is continued by Near Eastern Archaeology (1998-present). Copyright 1978 American Schools of Oriental ResearchPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

An Inclusive Biblical Anthropology

“The biblical view of ‘male and female’ is bound to be one of the aspects of the Bible most deeply conditioned by the social circumstances of the time of writing … That does not mean that the biblical material is irrelevant … Its contribution, however, lies not so much in its references to males and females as such, as in its view of the ideally human.”

Kobieta i mężczyzna kustoszami Ewangelii życia w kontekście społecznego eksperymentu gender

The analysis of the mystery of life can be helpful to overcome the current crisis of woman’s and a man’s sexual/gender identity caused by radical theses of the gender ideology. In the light of biblical anthropology we can know better the multidimensional nature of human life. The life-cycle mystery is closely linked with the process of life transmitting. The woman and man have received from God the capability and mission to transmit life. This ability inscribed in the nature of the person expresses the essential feature of their vocation as beings created in the image of God. Woman and man should to be life-giving , as God is the life-giving Creator. The negation of this life-giving aspect of human nature present in the radical theses of gender ideology places this theory in obvious contradiction to the Gospel of life. For this reason the gender ideology can be considered as a serious threat not only to individual man but to all human family.

The Soul in Plato, Platonism, and Calvin

One might say that, by and large, the French are interested in John Calvin as a Christian humanist, the Germans in Calvin as a Christian theologian, and the Dutch in Calvin as a Christian philosopher. Of course, in some sense, Calvin is all these; therefore the precise relation in Calvin between scriptural theology and Platonic humanism will continue to be discussed. Concerning the doctrine of soul, Roy W. Battenhouse in an influential article entitled ‘The Doctrine of Man in Calvin and in Renaissance Platonism’ suggests that there are important resemblances between Calvin and Renaissance Platonism in the treatment of human nature. He claims that ‘both the Neoplatonists and Calvin base their thinking about man on the premise of a dualism between soul and body’, which reveals ‘Calvin's fundamental Platonism’. Although Battenhouse calls his study ‘frankly exploratory and tentative’ and uses such phrases as ‘may have been’ and ‘seems to have’ and ‘it can be argued’, the evidence demonstrates to him ‘that Calvin's socalled biblical theology is not quite so biblical as its nuggets of quotation would like to impress upon us’. Jean Boisset, while insisting that Calvin's thought is basically biblical, also finds similarities between Calvin and Plato in the doctrine of soul, and Heinrich Quistorp thinks that the question remains whether in fact Calvin does not develop a doctrine of soul which is more philosophical than theological. Quistorp thinks that Luther was more aware of the contrast between biblical anthropology and philosophical dualism than Calvin was.

The Israelite Soul According To the Lxx

Some years ago I began my investigations of biblical anthropology with a monograph on nephesh. This monograph 1) dealt basically with two problems: the idea of the soul held by the forerunners and contemporaries of Israel, and the chronological study of the use of nephesh in the Old Testament. At that time I proposed that the next two steps should be: 1) a study of the translation of this Hebrew word in the ancient versions of the Old Testament, above all the Septuagint and the Vulgate; and 2) an examination of what I called the 'affinities' of nephesh, i.e., the other Hebrew words used in a more or less parallel way in order to express the anthropological reality. Recently I brought out a monograph on one of these words 2), and in the present study I intend to take up the problem of the understanding of the Israelite soul in the LXX.

The Siege Perilous. Essays in Biblical Anthropology. By Hooke S. H.. (S.C.M. Press; 21s.)

The Siege Perilous. Essays in Biblical Anthropology. By Hooke S. H.. (S.C.M. Press; 21s.)

Biblical Anthropology

Biblical Anthropology

Biblical Anthropology compared with and illustrated by the Folklore and the Customs of Primitive Peoples

American AnthropologistVolume 32, Issue 2 p. 316-317 Free Access Biblical Anthropology compared with and illustrated by the Folklore and the Customs of Primitive Peoples Max Radin, Max RadinSearch for more papers by this author Max Radin, Max RadinSearch for more papers by this author First published: April 1930 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1930.32.2.02a00160AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume32, Issue2April 1930Pages 316-317 RelatedInformation

(1) The Excavations at Ur and the Hebrew Records (2) Biblical Anthropology compared with and illustrated by the Folklore of Europe and the Customs of Primitive Peoples

(1) THOSE who know Mr. Leonard Woolley's “Sumerians” will turn with interest to his Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture on the bearing of his discoveries on Biblical history. Mesopotamia is, of course, a long way from Palestine, and “the periods with which we have to deal are sometimes far removed in time from those which interest most the Bible student”, yet the link is there. The two points of contact which concern us most would seem to be the flood narrative and the story of Abraham. Of the first we read that “such archaological data as we possess, and the traditions of the Sumerians themselves, are most easily explained and best reconciled by the assumption that the Flood was the epoch-making historical event which they believed it to be”. As for Abraham, the chief point of interest is “that living at Ur, so far from being a primitive Bedouin accustomed only to the wide spaces of the desert, he was the heir to an age-old civilisation sharing the complex life of a great trade centre”. Another interesting point is that “it would not be even fanciful to hold that Jacob's dream was based on tales he had been told of the ziggurat of Ur, where on festivals the priests went in procession up and down the long stairways which led from earth to Heaven”. (1) The Excavations at Ur and the Hebrew Records. By C. Leonard Woolley. Pp. 61. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1929.) 2s. net; paper, 1s. net. (2) Biblical Anthropology compared with and illustrated by the Folklore of Europe and the Customs of Primitive Peoples. By the Rev. H. J. D. Astley. Pp. vii + 262. (London: Oxford University Press, 1929.) 12s. 6d. net.