Tours de Babel et lettres de feu : motifs bibliques dans le Berlin de Vladimir Nabokov by Monica Manolescu-Oancea

“…Starting from these motifs involving shop signs, letters and light, I attempt to connect the urban scene of exile with the issue of bilingualism, and to show in what ways Nabokov’s use of these two biblical topoi points to a vision of literary creation as transgression. …”
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Car la Lettre tue mais l’Esprit vivifie : une relecture des textes bibliques selon Elizabeth Gaskell by Benjamine Toussaint-Thiriet

“…Indeed, her Unitarian education granted her a greater freedom than most of her contemporaries in terms of biblical exegesis, as we can see in many of her works, but most particularly in Ruth, in which the eponymous heroine, a fallen woman, is not only described as a Magdalen but soon turns into a Madonna and then a Christ-like figure.…”
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After Abolition: Cugoano on ‘Lawful Servitude’ and the Injustice of Slavery by Johan Olsthoorn

“…After abolition, enslaved persons should continue to work for their ex-owners, “without torture or oppression” – until they completed seven years in total, nominally to compensate “for the expences attending their education” (98-99). Biblical laws of bondage provide the blueprint for post-abolition lawful servitude. …”
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Food: God’s Gift to All People. Case Study from Croatia by Martina Ana Begić

“… In the light of the biblical message, food is God’s gift to all people. …”
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READING THE LORD’S PRAYER THROUGH EWE-GHANAIAN DEMONOLOGICAL LENS by E. van Eck, D. Sakitey

“…It employs a combination of the historical-critical and indigenous mother tongue biblical hermeneutics methods to address the ambiguity associated with the phrase ??? …”
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Exploring the Idiosyncrasy of Pentecostal Distinctiveness in Engaging the Hearts and Minds of the Emerging Generation by Kwasi Atta-Agyapong

“…Grounded in a comprehensive review of scholarly literature on Pentecostal distinctiveness, the biblical construal of the heart and mind, investing in the upcoming generation, handing the baton to the next generation, generational gap syndrome, the Missio-Dei, and the role of Pentecostal leadership and churches, the research has provided a thorough analysis of these interconnected themes. …”
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Die verwerkliking van die geloof in die kerklike kategese: basisteoretiese perspektiewe by C. J. H. Venter, C. N. van der Merwe

“…According to empirical data and views expressed in subject-related literature, it seems as if the Bible and biblical material are treated only objectively during the years of catechetical instruction and children are often not guided adequately towards a subjective experience of their faith. …”
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Relaţia dintre Carte sau Lumină…, Snagov, 1699, şi Procanon […] alcătuit şi întocmit de Petru Maior, 1783 by Adina Chirilă

“…We conclude that, although the two books share ideas, principles, comments and interpretations of controversial biblical texts, Petru Maior quotes rather scarcely from the 17th century book; instead, he mentions and cites different other writers and texts containing the same type of information, to justify its position and convince his readers through transfer of multiple authority.…”
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Echanges et transformations de l’Annonciation : D’un groupe statuaire en marbre (Toulouse, Musée des Augustins,XIIe siècle) à un bas-relief en bronze d’Igor Mitoraj (Rome, Santa Ma... by Sandra Gorgievski

“…The biblical episode of the Annunciation provides a fascinating iconographic motif lending itself to a close examination of artistic and religious frameworks, both in medieval Christendom and nowadays. …”
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Fossils and Theories of Evolution in Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet by Anthony Zielonka

“…As they discuss the ideas of Buffon, Cuvier, Lamarck, and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, aswell as of traditionalist Biblical scholars, Bouvard and Pécuchet, unsurprisingly, find their theories to be incompatible, contradictory and ultimately unconvincing. …”
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Prémisses de la critique textuelle dans la culture écrite du XVIII-e siècle by Eugen Pavel

“…The maturity of the textual criticism is reached in this period through the Bible from Blaj, published by Samuel Micu in 1795. The new Biblical version distinguishes itself through the accuracy of editing, the book being endowed with other complementary texts, such as two prefaces, the introductions to the different groups of books and to each book taken apart, as well as abstract of the chapters. …”
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RECONCILIATION AS A MISSIONAL PARADIGM FOR POST-1994 SOUTH AFRICA

“… The article aims to evaluate the church’s role in reconciliation as a missional paradigm and attempts to find answers from biblical and theological perspectives. It discusses the issues of church, congregations, reconciliation, the Bible and people within the post-1994 South African context. …”
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Псалтирь царя Давида Симеона Полоцкого в контексте паралитургической и парафрастической традиции XVI–XVII вв.... by Żanna Niekraszewicz-Karotkaja

“…The King David’s Psalter of Symeon is evaluated as a result of the interaction of the European book tradition of creating poetic paraphrases of biblical texts and the East Slavic singing culture. …”
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1 Thessalonians 4:13 and grief management in Nigerian churches by Solomon O. Ademiluka

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Resolving the Problem of the Expression “Faith as Small as a Mustard Seed” in Matthew 17:20 by Ebenezer Quaye

“…In the attempt to resolve this confusion and to lay bare the veracity of the text in the African context especially, some vernacular translations, as well as English translations (several Africans read the biblical text in English), are compared and analysed vis-à-vis the Greek text. …”
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Reorienting Ecological Paradigm for Harmonization of Humans and Nature: A Christian Perspective by Johanna Silvana Talupun, Eklepinus Jefry Sopacuaperu

“…Everything begins with a search for social ethics that observes the events of the ecological crisis, investigates in-depth and hears various calls for a paradigm shift, identifies ethical-ecological principles and seeks a hermeneutical-biblical ethics as a religious interpretation that goes beyond the anthropocentrism of interpreting the holy scriptures. …”
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THE FUTURE OF AFRICAN THEOLOGY IN THE GLOBAL CHRISTIAN CONFIGURATION: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES by ALEXANDER NDUBUISI ABONYI

“…The system is fraught with lots of biblical and theological pitfalls. African theology has proven to be syncretistic as it welds two dichotomous systems together. …”
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Christianity and Islam - the development of modern science nad the genesis of the modern (just) state by D. F. M. Strauss

“…The alternative development within the Islam world is sketched before the spirit of modernity is explained as a secularization of biblical Christianity.  Humanism initially inspired explicitly totalitarian theories of the state. …”
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Interwencja bogini/Szatana? "Wenus w futrze" (2013) – lektura palimpsestowa filmu Romana Polańskiego by Iwona Kolasińska-Pasterczyk

“…When discussing Venus in Fur as a text of culture constituting a hypertext superimposed on other literary pieces, such as David Ives’ dramas, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s novels, mythological and biblical stories, it was necessary to identify their mutual relations by deciphering all the interconnections, reworkings, reinterpretations, and revisions. …”
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Neagoe Basarab – modelul „omului desăvârșit și întreg” by Eugen Simion

“…Eugen Simion had commented the discursive levels of the chapters devoted to medieval diplomacy and art of the adorned speech (the parables and biblical parables), in the third part of this study the author focuses on the general meanings of the Teachings … Along with other specialists (Dan Zamfirescu, G. …”
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