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 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.
Main Author: | Lombaard,Christo |
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Format: | Digital revista |
Language: | English |
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Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa
2015
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1011-76012015000100005 |
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