Torrey Seland’s scientific contributions

... After that, they did fairly well for some time, but their material evil did not allow them to stay well. They started worshiping idols out of blasphemy (Fredriksen 1991;Levy 1995;Schiffman 1997;Marcus 2006;York 2010;Borgen 2021). Hazrat Ilyas (A.S.) started a movement against Jewish idolatry. ...

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Interfaith Marriage in Judaism and Christianity: Jewish-Christian Matrimonial Unions

... Y ello será logrado20 Este tema ha suscitado intensos debates entre los estudiosos del alejandrino, en los que seguimos la posiciónde Martín (2010; 2016: 342-343). Cf.Borgen (1992);Mack (1991);Tobin (1997);Schenk (2002).21 Filón reelabora en la segunda mitad de Praem. ...

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Actas del III Congreso Internacional "Instituciones e interdisciplina. Alcances jurídicos, económicos y epistemológicos"

... Pero ¿qué es lo que debe leerse como una alegoría, es decir, buscando su 2002). Una posición original y alejada de las demás es la que sostiene Borgen (1995), quien percibe la figura de Agar y su descendencia en el texto de Pablo como representantes de los adeptos de la idea de que los gentiles que deseaban ingresar en la fe cristiana estaban en la categoría de prosélitos judíos, es decir, debían someterse a la circuncisión y aceptar ser miembros de la nación judía que tenía a Jerusalén como su centro religioso y político. ...

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Dimensiones simbólicas de la Sara bíblica: del judaísmo al cristianismo

... A similar merging of the two cultures can be found already in the NT. A number of recent studies have pointed out similarities between Philo and certain passages in the NT, particularly 1 and 2 Corinthians, 4 Galatians (Wan 1995), Colossians (Goulder 1995Sterling 1998), the Gospel of John (Carmichael 1996), and even the Apocalypse (Borgen 1996). There can be no doubt that Clement of Alexandria and Origen were also very deeply indebted to Philo and, through him and others, to Hellenistic Judaism. ...

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On the value of pre-modern interpretation of Scripture for contemporary biblical studies

... Indeed, the physical contrast between the volatile Earth and the serene Heavens seems to have inspired philosophers and theologians to seek the possibility of an ascent, usually post-mortem, into the celestial realms themselves. This idea was a common inheritance of the Platonic tradition, present in the Sceptic Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, the Stoic Seneca the Younger's Moral Epistles, and the Jewish Philo's exegetical and philosophical works (Borgen 2021). The most influential ancient heavenly ascent, however, was surely that attributed by early Christians to Jesus after his resurrection, which eventually became seen as a paradigm for his followers' own postmortem aspirations (McDannell & Lang, 2001). ...

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A History of Psychogeography and Psychocosmology: Humankind's Evolving Orientation on Earth and in Space