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“Look at What They’ve Turned Us Into”: Reading the Story of Lot’s Daughters with Trauma Theory and The Handmaid’s Tale “看看他们把我们变成了什么”：用创伤理论和《使女的故事》读罗得女儿的故事

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2020-0156

Kirsi Cobb

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The Deportation of Juan: Migration Rhetoric as Decolonial Strategy in Revelation 胡安的驱逐:《启示录》中作为非殖民化策略的移民修辞

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2020-0185

Roberto Mata

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Reading Stephen’s Speech as a Counter-Cultural Discourse on Migration and Dislocation 解读斯蒂芬关于移民与错位的反文化话语

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2020-0162

A. Hogeterp

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Reasons for Resisting Darwinism, and Why They Should Not Be Credited 抵制达尔文主义的原因，以及为什么他们不应该被信任

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2020-0153

R. Attfield

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Migration, Exile, and Homecoming in the Book of Ruth 《路得记》中的迁徙、流放和归乡

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2020-0178

A. Anzi

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Reading Esther as a Postcolonial Feminist Icon for Asian Women in Diaspora 阅读《以斯帖》作为散居亚洲女性的后殖民女权主义偶像

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2020-0144

Ciin Sian Siam Hatzaw

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“Teach Your Daughters to Wail and One Another to Lament”: Jewish Prayers and Liturgical Texts for Female Victims of Sexual Assault “教导你们的女儿哀号，彼此哀号”:犹太人为性侵女性受害者的祈祷和礼仪文本

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2020-0184

Elazar Ben-Lulu

引用次数: 3

An Anglo-Syrian Monk: John Wesley's Reception of Pseudo-Macarius 一位英叙僧侣：约翰·卫斯理对伪马卡里乌斯的接受

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2020-0174

Maria Fallica

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Creation, Angels, and Gender in Paul, Philo, and the Dead Sea Scrolls 保罗、斐罗和死海古卷中的创造、天使和性别

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2020-0161

Janelle Peters

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Origen and the Story of the Mother and Her Seven Sons: Reimagining Third-Century Caesarean Horizons 俄利金与母亲和她的七个儿子的故事:重新想象三世纪的剖腹产视野

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2020-0180

Anna-Liisa Rafael

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