Sunday, October 14, 2012

Henry T. Aubin on Pharaoh Taharqa (Tirhakah)




Taharqa

Taharqa the dual Pharaoh of the 25th dynasty of Kemet and Kush Now known as Egypt and Sudan.
He is noted in the bible in 2 Kings 19:9; Isaiah 37:9 as Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, who waged war against Sennacherib during the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah and drove him from his intention of destroying Jerusalem and deporting its inhabitants—a critical action that, according to Henry T. Aubin, has shaped the Western world (Aubin 2003).

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References;
 
Henry T. Aubin, The Rescue of Jerusalem, 2nd edition, 2003, Anchor Canada.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The Book of Judith in the Context of Twentieth-Century Studies




Taken from: http://cbi.sagepub.com/content/1/2/187.refs

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The Book of Judith in the Context of Twentieth-Century Studies of the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books

 
  1. Toni Craven
    1. Texas Christian University: Brite Divinity School
     

Abstract

Studies of Judith represent three overlapping but distinct periods of critical inquiry. Interests were awakened (1913-49), as three firsts in English wit ness: Charles's comprehensive APOT (1913), Oesterley's two one-volume introdutions to the Apocrypha (1914, 1935) and Pfeiffer's critical introduc tion (1949). In a second period (1950-85), Judith's context undergoes remarkable shifts both within the Bible and the wider community with the inclusion of the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books in translations like the RSV and NRSV, text-critical editions, literary analysis, initial feminist studies, and collaborative alliances of Protestant, Catholic and Jewish scholars. In a third period (1986-2001), critical strategies enlarge to represent increas ingly gender-inclusive, interdisciplinary, international and eclectic concerns.

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