{"title":"THE 2300, 1260, 1290, AND 1335 DAYS IN DANIEL AND THEIR LITERAL FULFILMENT DURING THE MACCABEAN WAR","authors":"Hannington Gitonga Ngai","doi":"10.54513/bsj.2023.5102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54513/bsj.2023.5102","url":null,"abstract":"The 2300, 1290, 1335, and the supposed 1260 days in Daniel have received varied reckonings depending on the interpretation method to which one subscribes. The current study examines the direct speech of the angel speaking to Daniel and, based on these words, tries to investigate whether there might be possible interpretation errors in the existing popular interpretative views. To do this, the study examines and derives meaning from the direct speech of the angel himself. The research findings show that the ‘1260’ and the 1290 days are actually two versions of one and the same dispensation (running from around 167 BC when the temple was defiled by Antiochus (IV) Epiphanes-163 BC when Antiochus died). Just like the ‘1260’ and the 1290 days, the 1335 days also start around 167 BC and end in 163 BC. Finally, the 2300 days start from the murder of Onias III in 171 BC to the cleansing of the sanctuary by Judas Maccabeus in 164 BC. Thus, a keen analysis of the angel’s actual words will reveal that these days actually concerned precise timings on particular future events that were to transpire during the fierce Maccabean war between the Jews and the Seleucids, meaning they were to be literal not prophetic/symbolic days.","PeriodicalId":373844,"journal":{"name":"BIBLICAL STUDIES JOURNAL","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126618361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE ACCOUNTS AND IMPORTANCE OF JESUS' MIRACLES IN REVITALIZING CHRISTIANS’ FAITH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT","authors":"Jean Damascene Ngendahayo","doi":"10.54513/bsj.2022.4209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54513/bsj.2022.4209","url":null,"abstract":"To validate his messianic mission and the coming of God's kingdom, Jesus performed \"wonders and signs\" that were directed at and closely related to the call to faith. This paper attempted to account for Jesus' miracles and their significance in raising Christians' faith today, as mentioned by various prophets in the Old Testament. The survey was carried out based on a critical analysis of some of the miracles performed by Jesus Christ while He was on earth. The study focused on two healing miracles, the first controlling nature, and the other one demonstrating power against demons or evil spirits from men by categorizing his miracles. Six miracles were chosen and analyzed to help people understand the meaning and significance of those miracles in Jesus' time and today. This survey focused on the miracles of Jesus Christ as recorded in the New Testament. All of Jesus' miracles revealed to the readers that nothing Jesus Christ did on this earth was done without a purpose or message for either the hearers or the listeners. People around Jesus changed spiritually as a result of his miraculous deeds, as this survey noted. Faith is also an effect of the miracle, because it engenders faith in the souls of those who were its recipients or witnesses. The accounts of Jesus' miracles in the New Testament appear to be historically reliable, though some historians and gentiles continue to interpret these miracles differently for whatever reason, and they do not appear to believe the New Testament's account of Jesus' supernatural works. These various miracles demonstrate that Jesus Christ is Lord of all because He has authority over incurable diseases, He can heal without being physically present, He has authority over sins, nature, the supernatural realm, life and death all at the same time, and His deeds were done publicly.","PeriodicalId":373844,"journal":{"name":"BIBLICAL STUDIES JOURNAL","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124896046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MIGRATION IS THE CORE OF THE GOSPEL","authors":"Rev. Simon Chacko","doi":"10.54513/bsj.2022.4105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54513/bsj.2022.4105","url":null,"abstract":"Bible is enriched with migratory stories. The salad pages of the Genesis of the Bible expose the story of the Migration of Adam and Eve from their divinely granted habitat, and the closing pages of the Book of Revelation restore man from the migratory phenomenon. This article proposes to enhance how the spiritual community comprehends the modem challenges of the migrant world, especially with Middle East migration. This paper adopts an Interpretive Phenomenological Approach (IPA) where the experience can be a source of information providing detailed examinations of personal lived experience.","PeriodicalId":373844,"journal":{"name":"BIBLICAL STUDIES JOURNAL","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126885894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WOMEN IN THE MINISTRY OF JESUS: JESUS THE LIBERATOR AND TRANSFORMER","authors":"Stella Bogi","doi":"10.54513/bsj.2022.4401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54513/bsj.2022.4401","url":null,"abstract":"Centuries have gone by since Jesus came to liberate and transform men and women. The very truth that women served in the team of Jesus while he was on the earth shows that in an androcentric patriarchal world, women were welcomed. This was made possible because Jesus went against the tide of patriarchy to reach out to the downtrodden, marginalised, and oppressed women. These women were victims of socio-cultural and oral traditions set up by the Jews. Jesus allowed women to be a part of his life. Even before his birth, God prepared women of low estate to be a part of his genealogy. We see the role of women in his birth, ministry, crucifixion, death, and resurrection. Jesus liberated and transformed a woman caught in adultery, the Samaritan woman whose life was in a mess, and women in need of healing to name a few. Women were able to serve on the team of Jesus because of their transformed lives. Many churches have come forward to allow women in the church ministries and to serve God.","PeriodicalId":373844,"journal":{"name":"BIBLICAL STUDIES JOURNAL","volume":"2 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114022286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CHRISTIAN TODAS OF THE NILGIRIS","authors":"S. E.","doi":"10.54513/bsj.2022.4202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54513/bsj.2022.4202","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the Todas, a pastoral tribe, one of the earliest tribes who live in the highest peaks (above 2100 meters) of the Nilgiris, Tamilnadu, South India. The author is a Toda Christian, and grew up in the Nilgiris, but did not know much about the culture, tradition, and religion of the Todas and how and when Christianity came to the Toda community and what impact it had on the culture and tradition of the Todas. Hence, the author was eager to research on Toda tribe. This article explores a brief history of the Todas; the Toda people; the coming of Christianity to the Todas; the motivating factor/s for the early converts to Christianity; and the impact of Christianity today on the culture of the Todas. This is an interesting article to know the complexity of the life of Toda people who appear simple. Christianity is richer when peoples of diverse cultures and languages come together to worship.","PeriodicalId":373844,"journal":{"name":"BIBLICAL STUDIES JOURNAL","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122404309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"READING JOHN’S GOSPEL FROM A GLOCAL-MISSION PERSPECTIVE","authors":"J. Thomaskutty","doi":"10.54513/bsj.2023.5101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54513/bsj.2023.5101","url":null,"abstract":"With a sense of postmodern understanding of the rejection of absolute truth and the embrace of relativism, the Fourth Gospel has to be treated with a balanced understanding of it. The present essay attempts to answer the following questions: Does John’s Gospel bridge the gap between the ‘local’ and the ‘global’? How does John attempt to present his theology with a gnomic intent? Does John contribute something significant to the contextual realities of the postmodern world? And how does John’s theology function at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of his narrative framework? Analyzing the entire gospel verse-by-verse is not the concern of this essay. Rather we will consider three important aspects seriously: first, the ‘global’ aspects of the Gospel in relation to the ‘local’ concerns; second, the Trinitarian nature of John’s theology and its significance in a glocalized and at the same time postmodern cultural context; and third, the mission theology of John in relation to a globalized cosmic order. The task of the essay is not analyzing the Gospel as a whole. It is rather to develop an interpretative frame for the Gospel in a globalized and postmodern social context.","PeriodicalId":373844,"journal":{"name":"BIBLICAL STUDIES JOURNAL","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134303376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"JESUS’S NEW COMMANDMENT IN JOHN 13:34-35: “LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR MORE THAN YOURSELF” IN ETHICAL PERSPECTIVE","authors":"F. M. Amevenku","doi":"10.54513/bsj.2022.4102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54513/bsj.2022.4102","url":null,"abstract":"Using historical critical exegesis, this paper argues that Jn 13:34-35 commands a radical love that requires Christians to love their neighbours more than themselves. The aim of the paper is twofold. First, the paper demonstrates that there is a consistent ethical teaching of radical love in John’s Gospel and second, it shows that the ethics of John’s Gospel is not inward looking as some have claimed. If Christians love others as themselves, they fulfil a demand of the Mosaic Law. Jesus reinterpreted the Law in Jn 13:34 and commanded a higher standard of love for his followers. Therefore, Christian mission demands the Jesus standard―loving others more than yourself. Jesus’s example and teaching serve as the gift and the demand.","PeriodicalId":373844,"journal":{"name":"BIBLICAL STUDIES JOURNAL","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125039849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BIBLICAL DIRECTIVES ON CHRISTIAN FAMILIES' ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN RAISING CHILDREN","authors":"Moses Adeleke Adeoye","doi":"10.54513/bsj.2023.5202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54513/bsj.2023.5202","url":null,"abstract":"The Biblical injunction of Training a child in the way he should go (Proverb 22: 6) support the pre-operational and concrete-operational phase of cognitive development. The parents as primary educators can purposefully instruct the child by laying down rules and setting certain limits for his obedience. The holistic training of children’s moral, ethical and religious well-being depends on parental attitudes and behaviours. Parents have been given the responsibility by God to impart his values and truth into the lives of their Children . Christian parents are enjoined in the Bible to teach their children, to love, by loving them in truth and have the same attitude to children as Jesus Christ, the example of Christian living. Parents' attitudes and moral conduct play an important role in the moral development of a child in his/her formative stage in Life. The research work is historical and descriptive design. This research work makes use of questionnaires to gather research data among Christian Families in the Ilorin metropolis of Kwara State. The study revealed a strong correlation between the child’s behavioural problems and the family atmosphere, characterized by hostility, preferred orientation to strict discipline, emotional problems and conflicts. It was proved that the ineffective and inconsistent parenting style of upbringing, a loss of emotional contact with the child, dismissive attitude, mistrust and excessive control over the child’s behaviour activities, on one hand","PeriodicalId":373844,"journal":{"name":"BIBLICAL STUDIES JOURNAL","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121691439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}