A LECTURE_LABEL from the series "LTL Lecture Series Academic Year 2014-2015." The publication of Professor Avi Hurvitz’s A Concise Lexicon of Late Biblical Hebrew (Leiden, 2014) has brought fresh attention to the changing language environment in the land of Israel following the Babylonian Exile. The idiom of the earlier Hebrew
A LECTURE_LABEL from the series "LTL Lecture Series Academic Year 2014-2015." The Book of Daniel has been a major battleground between believers and non-believers for two thousand years. By studying the ancient debate over the prophetic and historical nature of one chapter in Daniel, we may come to our own
A LECTURE_LABEL from the series "LTL Lecture Series Academic Year 2014-2015." There is no more fundamental biblical imperative than that of avoiding idolatry. St. Paul, recalling the first commandment—“Thou shalt have no other gods …” (Ex. 20:3)—centrally links human unrighteousness with our worshipping and serving “the creature more than the
A LECTURE_LABEL from the series "LTL Lecture Series Academic Year 2014-2015." In his lecture, Richard Hays illustrates and explores the surprising ways in which the four Gospel writers interpreted Israel’s Scripture as a witness to the identity of Jesus. He first summarizes and then extends the hermeneutical proposals explored in