Biblical scholar Ehud Ben Zvi reminds readers of the socio-historical context in which Hosea was composed.

Others reject this view, as they hold that the context of the entire set of Biblical laws includes those laws that restrict them to already born human beings.

Other examples of late Biblical Hebrew include the qetAl pattern form nouns, which would have dated after an Aramaic influence, the frequent use of the relative sh (- ש ) alongside asher ( אשר ), the Ut ending ( ות -), the frequent use of the participle for the present ( which is later developed in Rabbinic Hebrew ), using the prefix conjugation in the future ( vs. the older preterite use ), and terms that appear to specifically fit a Persian / Hellenistic context ( e. g. Shallit ).

Puritan millennialism has been placed in the broader context of European Reformed views on the millennium and interpretation of Biblical prophecy, for which representative figures of the period were Johannes Piscator, Thomas Brightman, Joseph Mede, Johannes Heinrich Alsted, and John Amos Comenius.

In 1998, Jewish theologian Zachary Braiterman coined the term anti-theodicy in his book ( God ) After Auschwitz to describe Jews, both in a Biblical and post-Holocaust context, whose response to the problem of evil is protest and refusal to investigate the relationship between God and suffering.

Nevertheless, few if any Biblical uses of " Baʿal " refer to Hadad, the lord over the assembly of gods on the holy mount of Heaven, but rather refer to any number of local spirit-deities worshipped as cult images, each called baʿal and regarded in the Hebrew Bible in that context as a " false god ".

The Book of Malachi has one of the most quoted Biblical verses assumed to be about tithing when isolated from the context of the chapter, however when taken in context, it is clear that the verse is not talking about those failing to tithe, he is talking about the Priests who oversee the distribution of the tithe from the storehouse took more than their equal share, or who took the best portions of what was to be shared equally.

) Thus, magic in the Biblical context would be viewed as only an act of evil, whereas in literature, magic is a tool available to conduct both good and bad behavior.

Muslim tradition records that Abraham lived with Isaac but frequently visited Ishmael in Arabia, context between the family as a whole is suggested even in the Biblical tradition particularly in Abraham's funeral in Genesis 25: 8-9.

So that the various opinions as to the annulment of Biblical prohibitions need to be understood in this context.

The main moral argument is that usury creates excessive profit and gain without " labor " which is deemed " work " in the Biblical context.

In the context of contentious debate over the suitability of Norse mythology as subjects of high art, in which the strong neoclassical training of northern academies, both Swedish and Danish, furnished powerful prejudices in favor of Biblical and Classical subjects, the members of the Götiska Förbundet sought to revive Viking spirit and related matters.

In that particular context, the term " Rûm " is used in preference to " Ionani " or " Yāvāni " which means " European-Greek " or Ionian in Classical Arabic and Biblical Hebrew.

A Biblical injunction often associated with the memento mori in this context is In omnibus operibus tuis memorare novissima tua, et in aeternum non peccabis ( the Vulgate's Latin rendering of Ecclesiasticus, " in all thy works be mindful of thy last end and thou wilt never sin.

Understanding the Iron Age legal context highlights the ethics inherent in Biblical legal theory.

Biblical scholars usually try to interpret a particular text within its original historical context and use whatever information is available to reconstruct that setting.

The first step of Biblical exegesis is usually to review the immediate context ( surrounding text ) of the passage in question.

The college has an extensive Biblical Studies program in which the understanding, interpretation, and application of biblical literature are studied in original historical context and applied to the theological and cultural issues of the modern age.

Due to the tremendous changes in Jewish culture and religious practice over the past 4, 000 years, the peshat may not be as easily understood as it once was in Biblical Israel, and must now be derived from textual clues such as language, and context.

) They were criticized by some, and a controversy arose over defining the Biblical " putting away " in the context of American law and protocol.

Cassuto's refutations above all rather devastatingly demonstrated that the supposed terminological, grammatical and stylistic traits indicative of separate documents actually were common in Hebrew language and literature and were shared with other Biblical and post-Biblical Jewish literature whose unity no-one supposed to be multiple, including liturgical, midrashic, medieval and even modern Jewish religious writing, and even more strongly that precisely the supposed divergencies, stylistic, grammatical, theoretical and theological, within the narrative, when analyzed in context and in connection not only with cognate literatures in the ancient Near East but especially with similar passages elsewhere in Biblical literature, all served an easily demonstrated and consistent common purpose whose unity and thrust tended to be qualified or to be denied altogether under the application of the Documentary Hypothesis, thereby weakening our understanding of Biblical literature and worldview generally.

Here again, in the written language it is possible to help the reader get his stresses right by using underlining or italics, but much of the time there is simply reliance on his understanding in the light of context.

When AI researchers attempt to " scale up " their systems to handle more complicated, real world situations, the programs tend to become excessively brittle without commonsense knowledge or a rudimentary understanding of the situation: they fail as unexpected circumstances outside of its original problem context begin to appear.

Much of the current work in cosmology includes understanding how galaxies form in the context of the Big Bang, understanding the physics of the Universe at earlier and earlier times, and reconciling observations with the basic theory.

As always, the historical context of the writer is key to understanding this book of the Bible.

Dharma is employed in Ch ' an in a specific context in relation to transmission of authentic doctrine, understanding and bodhi ; recognized in Dharma transmission.

Other important requirements include a sound ecological understanding of the system, including connectedness, ecological dynamics and the context in which the system is embedded.

It is only from the late nineteenth century that art historical scholarship, in seeking an understanding of artistic output in the cultural context in which it was produced, has come to recognise Bernini's achievements and restore his artistic reputation.

However, the quote in context shows that Darwin actually had a very good understanding of the evolution of the eye.

The works of Josephus provide crucial information about the First Jewish-Roman War and also represent important literary source material for understanding the context of the Dead Sea Scrolls and late Temple Judaism.

Until very recently, much of what has been documented about women's sexuality has been written by men, in the context of male understanding, and relevant to women's associations to men — as their wives, daughters, or mothers, for example.

A legacy system may include procedures or terminology which are no longer relevant in the current context, and may hinder or confuse understanding of the methods or technologies used.

* Transpersonal-Addresses the client in the context of a spiritual understanding of consciousness.

He emphasized that the spiritual path he articulated builds upon and supports individual freedom and independent judgment ; for the results of spiritual research to be appropriately presented in a modern context they must be in a form accessible to logical understanding, so that those who do not have access to the spiritual experiences underlying anthroposophical research can make independent evaluations of the latter's results.

There is not equal understanding of the different social context which is occurring around the opposite party.

The meaning of the sentence depends on an understanding of the context and the speaker's intent.

The comedian Felix Dexter has said that he appreciated the humour of an innocent confronting an expert with neither understanding the other, but that ' I feel that a lot of the humour is laughing at black street culture and it is being celebrated because it allows the liberal middle classes to laugh at that culture in a safe context where they can retain their sense of political correctness.

In the Christian understanding, the difference between prudence and cunning lies in the intent with which the decision of the context of an action is made.

He writes that it is important for a layperson to seek assistance from an Alim ( Muslim scholar ) who could guide in the interpretation of dreams with a proper understanding of the cultural context and other such causes and interpretations.

Intellectual history aims to understand ideas from the past by understanding them in context.

This sacred subject carved on early Christian tombs, where the sepulchral carvings have a deeply important formal symbolic purpose, a faithful wish for immortality, " with the victory of the cock and his supporting genius analogous to the hope of resurrection, the victory of the soul over death ", with further understanding as to that of the gallantry of cocks being taken in the context of a religious instilling vessel of " a girt one of the loins "( Young's Literal Translation ) that which is " stately in his stride " and " move with stately bearing " within the Book of Proverbs 30: 29-31.

In this context, cultural relativism is an attitude that is of fundamental methodological importance, because it calls attention to the importance of the local context in understanding the meaning of particular human beliefs and activities.

In Fish ’ s source the term is explained as “ the idea that it is possible to characterize a linguistic system that every speaker shares .” In the context of literary criticism, Fish uses this concept to argue that a reader ’ s approach to a text is not completely subjective, and that an internalized understanding of language shared by the native speakers of that given language makes possible the creation of normative boundaries for one ’ s experience with language.