Tag: Exegetical

Faith as Participation An Exegetical Study of Some Key Pauline Texts


Free Download Jeanette Hagen Pifer, "Faith as Participation: An Exegetical Study of Some Key Pauline Texts"
English | 2019 | pages: 275 | ISBN: 3161564766 | PDF | 2,5 mb
In recent years, three particular debates have risen to the fore of Pauline Studies: the question of the centre of Pauline theology, how to interpret the mula, and the relationship between divine and human agency. In the present study, Jeanette Hagen Pifer contends that several of the apparent conundrums in recent Pauline scholarship turn out to derive from an inadequate understanding of what Paul means by faith. By first exploring the question of what Paul means by faith outside of the classic justification passages in Romans and Galatians, she reveals faith as an active and productive mode of human existence. Yet this existence is not a form of human self-achievement. On the contrary, faith is precisely the denial of self-effort and a dependence upon the prior gracious work of Christ. In this way, faith is self-negating and self-involving participation in the Christ-event.

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Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority A Rereading of the Classical Genre of Qur’an Commentary


Free Download Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority: A Rereading of the Classical Genre of Qur’an Commentary By Aisha Geissinger
2015 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 9004269355 | PDF | 2 MB
A number of classical Sunnī Quran commentaries quote several different types of exegetical materials attributed to a few female figures from the first century A.H/seventh century C.E.-āthār, ḥadīths, legal opinions and variant readings, as well as lines of poetry. In Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority, Aisha Geissinger provides a comprehensive introduction to such quotations, and offers an analysis of their place and significance within the pre-modern genre of Quran commentary, demonstrating that key hermeneutical concepts in classical quranic exegesis (tafsīr) are gendered. Bringing together materials which have not previously been examined in detail and utilising gender as a lens through which to study them, this work provides a new approach to the study of pre-modern tafsīr.Biographical noteAisha Geissinger, Ph.D. (2008) in Religious Studies, University of Toronto, is an Assistant Professor at Carleton University (Canada). Geissinger’s research is located at the intersection of the study of the Qurʾān and its exegesis, the Ḥadīth literature, and gender.ReadershipAnyone interested in the history and development of quranic exegesis (tafsīr), or concerned with gender and constructions of religious authority in Muslim history. Institutes, academic libraries, post-graduate students, specialists.

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Colossians and Philemon Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament


Free Download Clinton E. Arnold, "Colossians and Philemon: Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament"
English | 2012 | pages: 1152 | ISBN: 031024367X | EPUB | 7,1 mb
Designed to assist the pastor and Bible teacher in conveying the significance of God’s Word, the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament series treats the literary context and structure of every passage of the New Testament book in the original Greek.

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