The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, also known as the ISBE, is an exhaustive Biblical encyclopedia that explains in detail every significant word in the Bible, and also includes historical information from the Apocrypha. It provides detailed information on the language and literature of the Bible world, their cultures and the historical and religious environments of the people of the…
Contents: What's in a parable? -- Wisdom, proverb and parable -- Religion and story -- Hints for reading parables -- Parables of growth -- God in parables -- Allegory : When is a parable not a parable? -- The good samaritan : Parable of the love command -- Reversal, equality and reward -- Ethics and the parables -- God and his people -- Appendix : The parables. Abstract: "Studies of the pa…
Other Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-318) and indexes. Related electronic resource: Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0706/98017098-b.html Related electronic resource: Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/hend021/98017098.html
Contents: Hebrew prophecy -- Predictive prophecy -- Primitive Messianic ideas -- Messianic prophecy in the Mosaic age -- The Messianic idea in the Davidic period -- Messianic ideas of the earlier prophets -- Isaiah and his contemporaries -- Jeremiah and his contemporaries -- Ezekiel -- Prophetic voices out of the exile -- The prophecy of the servant of Jahveh -- The prophecy of the restoration …