Biblical Theology
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Abstract
Biblical Theology Christopher T. Begg, Fred W. Guyette, Richard A. Taylor, Thomas Hieke, Michael W. Duggan, and Juliane Eckstein Christopher T. Begg Catholic University of America Fred W. Guyette Erskine College and Seminary, Anderson University Richard A. Taylor Dallas Theological Seminary Thomas Hieke Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz Michael W. Duggan Calgary AB, Canada Juliane Eckstein Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz 2404. [Canonical Imagination, COVID-19, and Communion in Light of Isa 25:6-8 and Esther 9–10] Andrew T. Abernethy, "Canonical Imagination, COVID-19, and Communion: Illumination from Isaiah's Banquet and Purim in Esther," JTI 16 (2, 2022) 149-67. Theological interpretation offers a matrix within which theology, ecclesial realities, Scripture, and contemporary life can intersect. My article foregrounds how the era of COVID-19 is an occasion when the church should accentuate a tenet central to Communion, i.e. victory over death. In this exercise in canonical imagination, I draw upon two OT feasts that celebrate victory over death—Isaiah's eschatological banquet (Isa 25:6-8) and Purim in Esther 9–10 in an attempt to further infuse our theological reflection on the Eucharist with the theme of victory over death during times of COVID-19. Isaiah 25 underscores how the eschatological feast to which the Eucharist points will be an occasion on which death is annihilated. Purim, for its part, illuminates how the Eucharist is an occasion for celebrating the passing of a death sentence and for forging bonds among the displaced. [Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.] Google Scholar 2405. [The Search for Wisdom] Peter Adam, "Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?" Honoring the Wise: Wisdom in Scripture, Ministry, and Life, 219-32 [see #2538]. The world is awash with data, information, and even knowledge. We receive plenty of news, too, but it isn't always reliable, is it? Nevertheless, the mind is made for truth, and we long to find wisdom. Psalm 111 points us in the right direction. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding." Joseph was a wise counselor, which is why Pharaoh put him in charge of storing Egypt's grain in the years before the famine (Genesis 41). Joshua humbled himself and learned the skills of leadership from Moses. That is why Deut 34:9 says, "Joshua was filled with the spirit of wisdom." When Solomon became king, he asked God for wisdom (1 Kgs 3:5-11). He collected proverbs from the world's sages. He eagerly studied plant life and the ways of animals. Later in life, however, Solomon's heart turned away from the true worship of God [End Page 882] to the folly of idols (1 Kgs 11:1-9). The prophet Jeremiah had a healthy suspicion concerning leaders who claimed to be wise. According to Jeremiah, the stork, the dove, the swift, the thrush, all these birds recognize the times and the seasons, but the scribes in Jerusalem know nothing because they have rejected the word of the Lord (Jer 8:7-9). What does Isaiah contribute to the discussion about wisdom? Isa 11:9 anticipates a coming Messiah. "The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him, the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord."—F.W.G. Google Scholar *2406. [Healing in the OT and the African (Yoruba) Context] David Adamo, "'I Am the Lord your Healer' Exodus 15:26: Healing in the Old Testament and the African (Yoruba) Context," IDSk 55 (1, 2021) 1-8 [see Editor's Notes, p. 963]. The concept of healing is important, both in the OT and in Nigerian/Yoruba traditions. But there has been very little discussion of "Yhwh as Healer" in OT theology. While the OT does not give us a systematic definition of health or medicine, it does offer a picture of healthy people as seen in their actions and in the way they live. Their lives are marked by šālôm ("peace"), ṣedeq ("righteousness"), šĕmaʿ ("obedience"), kōaḥ ("strength") poriyut ("fertility"), and ʾōrek yāmîm ("longevity"). Prophets...
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".