The Function of Divine Manifestations in New Testament Times: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in
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Excerpt from The Function of Divine Manifestations in New Testament Times: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of New Testament and Early Christian Literature in the Graduate Divinity School Yahweh thus indicated his choice of Saul for king, and selected the priests who were to hold positions of trust and honor in connection with the temple-service. So also God chose Matthias instead of Barsabbas to take the place of Judas in the early Christian ecclesiastical organization. The Sibylline books told the Romans that Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva desired certain sacrifices before granting the state aid against the Carthaginians. From their sacred writings the Hebrews and the Jews discovered that Yahweh would not protect the nation if circumcision, or other requirements, were neglected. In a similar manner Christians discovered that God´s will for them was holiness in living "because it is written, Ye shall be holy, for I am holy." It is to phenomena such as these that the designation divine manifestation is applied in the following pages. Synonymous with the term as thus employed are various other expressions, such as supernatural manifestation, supernatural occurrence, superhuman manifestation, manifestation of deity, and supernatural phenomenon. To define divine manifestation as the term is here used is by no means easy. A working definition, however, may be set down at this point: the term supernatural manifestation, as it is used in the present discussion, is taken to mean any experience of an individual or of a group which those undergoing it, or those discussing or recording it, interpreted as due to the activity of personal powers other than human. In the world in which Christianity originated experiences of this nature were of frequent occurrence. They were not, however, limited to the period in which the new faith arose, nor were they confined to any particular race, geographical area, or social stratum. King and emperor, soldier and statesman, litterateur and peasant, Greek and Roman, Hebrew and Graeco-Roman, Jew and Christian, all alike experienced divine manifestations. In view of the universal character of supernatural manifestations, the purpose of the following pages is two-fold: first, a presentation of typical Jewish and Hellenistic examples of divine manifestations similar to those in the Christianity of the New Testament, and, second, a comparative study of the function of these phenomena in the life of the Judaism, Hellenism, and Christianity of the New Testament period. In other words, the problem to be investigated is, What did divine manifestations do for the people of the Mediterranean world in the first century? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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