Count God In: Theological Numbers in the Song of Songs - Softcover

Bliese, Loren F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1532642849 ISBN 13: 9781532642845

Verlag: Resource Publications, 2018

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This study of Song of Songs uncovers many patterns related to the numerical value twenty-six and related numbers for the divine name YHWH. Patterns are so unique that they clearly show authorial intent. They involve the numerical value of root forms of words, their sequences, and their totals in the book. The beloved man is highlighted by special patterns, which indicate that a typology for God is intended. Deer names in the refrain have number patterns that confirm intention for being circumlocutions for divine names. The disputed presence of the divine name YH in 8:6 is confirmed by the value of its full word. One of the most striking patterns found with the help of a computer is that the totals of root words are all arranged to point to theological numbers in a beautiful intricacy. Besides describing these patterns, this study discusses numerical competence within a proposed Hebrew literary circle, and what steps they might have gone through to create these amazing phenomena. These theological numbers confirm intentionality for allusions to the Hebrew Bible and support a hermeneutic of spiritual applications. A literary analysis of each poem focuses on the use of numbers among other features of prominence.

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Loren Bliese has taught biblical exegesis especially on the Hebrew Bible at Mekane Yesus Seminary in Addis Ababa for twenty-one years. He also served as a United Bible Societies Translation Consultant for twenty-four years with the Bible Society of Ethiopia. He has published Count God In: Theological Numbers in the Song of Songs in 2018, and many articles on discourse analysis of biblical Hebrew poetry and on Ethiopian linguistics and anthropology.

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• Verlag: Resource Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1532642849
• ISBN 13: 9781532642845
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284
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