Discernment and biblical spirituality - An application: discernment in the milieu and wake of Nehemiah 8

Journal for the Study of Religion

Christo Lombaard¹ 

[1] University of South Africa;

关键词: Discernment;    Orthodoxy;    Biblical Spirituality;    Charismatic revelation;    Nehemiah 8;    Inner-biblical contestation;    Divine communication;    Torah versus prophecy;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In this contribution, as the culmination of a research project on discernment, theologically considered, the conceptual and methodological insights gained in the preceding publications are here brought to bear on a biblical text as a means of applying these insights exegetically. This application however does not occur in an exegetical research vacuum: key moments in Hebrew Bible research history are therefore taken into brief review and placed within the light of the most recent insights on the sociological scenario within post-exilic Israel. Within this ancient context, the different modes of divine communication, namely mediated through Scriptures or experienced through direct revelation, was at times a point of intense contestation, as it is in the modern world. This prophetic-Mosaic dispute forms the theological background to Nehemiah 8, as a textual attempt in post-exilic Israel to find a median position between these two contested forms of discerning in the most valid way the divine will.

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