Addressing a perennial apologetic and pastoral demand, the twelve Minor Prophets undertake to assert and demonstrate the goodness of God in the face of apparent evidence to the contrary. I will argue that the Twelve were intended to be read together and have the purpose of encouraging the post-exilic reader to trust Yahweh’s faithfulness to his salvation promises, even in the face of the many s...

ALEXANDER KOHN, False prophets. Fraud and error in science and medicine, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1986, 8vo, pp. x, 226, £14.95. While I was reading Alexander Kohn's splendid new book for review, three new pieces of the scientific piracy, plagiarism, and forgeryjigsaw emerged: the long-delayed report by Stewart and Feder on the classic Darsee case; the investigation of Slutsky's work (who, if f...

A detailed discussion of the question of the historical Jesus and the Law might properly begin with a consideration of such important matters as sources, criteria of authenticity, and review of previous research. It should also include some discussion of the quest for the historical Law, which has become equally problematic. Within the brief compass of this paper it is possible to do little mor...

according to the holy qur'an, human life is intermingled with trials, having a mutual relationship with man's perfection and elevation. as objective models of divine trials, prophets are chosen and reported intelligently in the qur'an. the central issue in this research is to draw a revealed pattern of the trial of prophets and analyze its components, emphasizing on the story of ...

The critics evaluated the speeches of preachers and indicated their weaknesses strengths based on an important critical criterion, which is that “the best speech too little to dispense you with a lot.” Accordingly, this research intends study words wisdom texts concept knowledge Imam al-Baqir Muhammad ibn Ali (pbuh), show rich meanings easy verbal formulation in them, through relationship gramm...

this article examines the mu‘tazilite qādī ‘abd al-jabbār’s views on the denotation of miracles according to his own particular methodology. despite his acceptance of the celebrated method of the theologians in the denotation of miracles with respect to the authenticity of prophets, i.e., resorting to divine wisdom, qādī ‘abd al-jabbār instead proposed the issue within the structure of conven...