How should we respond to injuries done to us and to the hurts that we inflict on others? In this ... book, [the author] guides [the reader] through the meanings of justice, forgiveness, repentance, and reconciliation. In doing so, he probes to the core of the human encounter wit…
How should we respond to injuries done to us and to the hurts that we inflict on others? Solomon Schimmel guides us through the meanings of justice, forgiveness, repentance, and reconciliation.
How should we respond to injuries done to us and to the hurts that we inflict on others? Solomon Schimmel guides us through the meanings of justice, forgiveness, repentance, and reconciliation.
How should we respond to injuries done to us and to the hurts that we inflict on others? In this book Solomon Schimmel guides us through the meanings of justice, forgiveness, repentance, and reconciliation. In doing so, he probes to the core of the human encounter with evil, dra…
How should we respond to injuries done to us and to the hurts that we inflict on others? In this book Solomon Schimmel guides us through the meanings of justice, forgiveness, repentance, and reconciliation. In doing so, he probes to the core of the human encounter with evil, dra…
Chapters 4-14 of Hosea use a variety of metaphors to communicate their message of judgment and restoration. Due to this variety, questions of overall structure of Hosea 4-14 and the nature of restoration pictured therein have been debated. This thesis argues that the metaphor of…
Ezekiel declares a message of the renewal of the heart and spirit (Ezek 11; 14; 18) that is foundational to the theology of restoration in the Book of Ezekiel. This transformation addressed the external and internal corruptions of God’s people. The restorative promises of Ezekie…
The thirteenth-century missionary effort of the Order of Preachers to convert Jews, Muslims and other non-Christians has been viewed by scholars as a manifestation of a “persecuting society.” Jeremy Cohen argues that the mendicants, under the direction of Friar Raymond of Peñafo…
The thesis of this dissertation is that one purpose of church discipline is to serve as a declaration of potential eschatological judgment both to warn offenders of their need to repent, and, by implication, to exhort the church members to persevere in their faith. It argues fro…
The present work seeks to explore the concept of teshuva, or repentance, in the rabbinic literature, with special attention to both the concept's evolution within the rabbinic period and its relationship to Biblical and Second Temple precedents. None of the three "classic" works…