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  Contents Preface 5 1. Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls: History and Practice of the Qumran Community 8 2. Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Theology of the Qumran Community 23 3. Old Testament and Jewish Hermeneutics 44 4. New Testament Exegesis of the Old Testament 57 5. Discipleship in Matthew: A Redaction-Critical Study 90 6. "Love Your Enemies": A Study of Luke 6:27-35 96 7. Table Fellowship in Luke 104 8. Acts as History in Ancient Historiography 111 9. History of the Johannine Community 121 10.Water as a Revelatory Symbol in John 1-12 126 11.Ignatius: Martyrdom or Suicide? A Study in Light of his Letter to the Romans 130 12.Martyrdom of Perpetua: Public Spaces and the Early Christian Martyrs 138 13.Ritual and Symbolism as Hermeneutical Approach 150 14.The Use of ‘Hallelujah!’ (ʤʩʥʬʬʤ) and the Malawian Context 160 15.Gender differentiation in the Bible: Created and Recognized (By Hilary B.P. Mijoga) 174 ...

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