A los hombres y mujeres de hoy les cuesta leer y comprender el Antiguo Testamento, incluso algunos llegan a pensar que el Dios que se refleja en él es distinto del Dios de Jesús de Nazaret, cuando es esencialmente el mismo. La violencia explícita e implícita vertida en el Antiguo Testamento ha dificultado su lectura y comprensión. Quizá por eso, los cristianos se han sentido más cómodos leyendo el Nuevo Testamento y relegando el Antiguo a lecturas selectivas y nada conflictivas. Pero, para la tradición judeo-cristiana, los libros que conforman el Antiguo Testamento siguen siendo Palabra de Dios. El objetivo de este «Cuaderno de Teología Deusto», que lleva por título «Dignidad humana y violencia en el Antiguo Testamento: el doble rostro de Yahvé», es afrontar el acercamiento y la comprensión de esos textos difíciles desde una doble perspectiva que haga justicia al sentido global del Antiguo Testamento. Esta doble perspectiva es la siguiente: por un lado, el estudio de los textos del Antiguo Testamento que defienden la dignidad humana; por otro, el estudio de la violencia véterotestamentaria. Sólo de esta manera podemos ser fieles a la globalidad del Antiguo Testamento, obra grandiosa de la literatura religiosa universal, que mantiene su valor de revelación progresiva y contextualizada en su tiempo, y apunta, no sin contradicciones, hacia una superación de toda violencia. El cristiano, por tanto, puede y debe seguir leyendo como Palabra de Dios el Antiguo Testamento, sin el que, como nos lo recuerda el último documento de la Pontificia Comisión Bíblica, El pueblo judío y sus Escrituras Sagradas en la Biblia cristiana (2001), el Nuevo Testamento sería «indescifrable».

Latin American theology is associated with liberation, basic Christian communities, primacy of praxis and option for the poor. The present volume shows that Latin American theologians added new themes to the previous ones: religious pluralism, inter-religious dialogue and macro-ecumenism. It is the fruit of a program of the Theological Commission of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT) in Latin America, to work out a liberating theology of religions.

Gnosis means knowledge. But we are not referring to just any knowledge. Gnosis is knowledge which produces a great transformation in those who receive it. Knowledge capable of nothing less than waking up man and helping him to escape from the prison in which he finds himself. That is why Gnosis has been so persecuted throughout the course of history, because it is knowledge considered dangerous for the religious and political authorities who govern mankind from the shadows. Every time this religion, absolutely different from the rest, appears before man, the other religions unite to try to destroy or hide it again. Primordial Gnosis is the original Gnosis, true Gnosis, eternal Gnosis, Gnostic knowledge in its pure form. Due to multiple persecutions, Primordial Gnosis has been fragmented, distorted and hidden.

Several features of the story of the encounter between Jesus and a Syrophoenician woman (Mk 7,24-30) are unique within the Second Gospel: the stress on the woman's identity, Jesus' first refusal to help her, the woman's answer recorded in direct speech, and the fact that Jesus does not seem to expel the demon. This monograph seeks to cast light on the pericope by taking recourse to both diachronic and synchronic methods. It begins with the history of the interpretation of Mk 7,24-30 par. Mt 15,21-28, starting from the patristic period. The ensuing historical-critical study of the Markan text includes an examination of the literary relationship with the Matthean parallel and paves the way for an analysis of Matthew's redaction and his position vis-a-vis Judaism and the Gentile world. The book ends with a synchronic and contextual reading of Mk 7,24-30 attentive to its placement in the Gospel in order to reach the final stage of interpretation.

Using New Testament "gematria, " symbolic number values encoded in the Greek phrases, the author reveals that the sacred couple was one of the essential pillars of early Christian teachings, before being denied by the architects of institutional Christianity and obscured by later Church doctrine.

Principal character lies awaiting her own funeral.