Matthew franklin cooper (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Lamb Before Its Shearers offers a bold and groundbreaking hearing of the Gospel of Saint John through the lens of the enigmatic Skeireins, a fourth-century Gothic commentary that provides a stark, godly critique of human systems and power structures.In this provocative exegesis, Matthew Franklin Cooper engages deeply with the first ten chapters of John's Gospel, uncovering themes of light, truth, and the heralding of Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God. Cooper challenges ancient and modern assumptions about power, identity, and faith, presenting John's Gospel as both a searing critique of human arrogance and an invitation to radical submission.Drawing on Semitic and Greek textual traditions, Cooper skillfully combines rigorous biblical analysis with historical insight. His reflections ask the profound questions that John's Gospel demands: Who truly belongs to the family of Abraham What does it mean to step out of darkness into light How does Jesus' self-sacrifice as the Able Herdsman reshape our understanding of leadership, justice, and love Here, Cooper's foray into the intersection of Semitic and Sinitic linguistics hints at future projects.With a scholar's rigor and a prophet's voice, Cooper illuminates the Gospel's enduring urgency. From the majestic echoes of the Prologue to the intimate encounters with Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman, and the man born blind, The Lamb Before Its Shearers reveals the stark nature of John's portrayal of Christ as the Lamb who submits to the Father's will-even to death. This is how the command is embodied among us: the Emir coming back to dwell in His tent.Whether scholar, seeker, or believer, The Lamb Before Its Shearers compels readers to hear the Shepherd's voice, to embrace the unsettling freedom of submission, and to step boldly through the narrow gate into the sheepfold of God's sufficiency. - Fr. Marc Philip Boulos, The Bible as Literature Podcast.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A continuation of the fragmentary Gothic Skeireins, In the Houses of the Poor extends its Antiochian exegetical trajectory on John's Gospel into contemporary historical and political contexts. Throughout, Matthew Franklin Cooper develops a biblical critique of debt-lording, slavery, and justice by setting biblical teaching against both Roman imperial practice and modern systems of oppression.He begins with the Jubilee legislation of Leviticus 25 and Isaiah 61, rooted in the ancient Near Eastern 'clean slate' proclamations in which debts were annulled and bond-servants restored. In Scripture, however, Jubilee is reoriented as divine command: remission is not charity but the very definition of God's justice-liberating the debtor, restoring the poor, and granting even the land its rest. The prophets radicalize this practice, condemning those who moralize debt and exploit the vulnerable, while Paul inverts Roman categories of debt and slavery. In Roman society, debt carried both legal and moral weight: default was treated as failure, and slavery its consequence. Paul redefines these terms. The only true debt is to God, paradoxically cancelled in Christ (Col 2:14), and slavery to Christ becomes freedom (Rom 6). Thus, what the empire called righteousness-repayment, bondage, unforgiveness-Paul unmasks as false, proclaiming God's justice as mercy for the poor.Naming the ongoing Israeli campaign against Gaza as genocide, Cooper exposes the hypocrisy of global powers that praise their generosity even as they arm and justify such violence. He cites the Flour Massacre of February 2024-when over a hundred starving Palestinians were killed while waiting for food-as a contemporary instance of Caesar's logic of power: empire that calls itself just while perpetuating atrocity. In this context, the biblical Jubilee becomes not merely a historical-economic measure but also a living politics of resistance, unveiling God's order as release and mercy in contrast to human systems of death.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jie Jing Shuo Wen: A Comparative Sinitic-Semitic Lexicography, Volume One by Matthew Franklin Cooper proposes a bold and methodologically disciplined reexamination of early Chinese Christian texts through the lens of comparative Semitic linguistics. Centered on the seventh-century mission of Aluoben and the linguistic world that made that mission intelligible, the book argues that certain classical Chinese terms used in early Christian discourse were not merely approximate translations of Syriac or Hebrew concepts but were selected because of deep functional and conceptual parallels between Sinitic characters and Semitic roots.Drawing heavily on the Shuowen jiezi and the Erya, Cooper treats Chinese characters not as static ideograms but as semantic fields shaped by sound, usage, and ritual function. These fields are then placed into sustained comparison with Semitic triliteral roots, particularly from Hebrew and Syriac, allowing patterns of usage to emerge that transcend surface-level translation. For example, characters associated with hearing, writing, authority, instruction, and transmission are examined alongside Semitic roots such as ?-?-? (to hear/obey) and ?-?-? (to write/decree), revealing shared assumptions about how truth is received, preserved, and enacted.The book situates this lexicographic work within the historical and literary context of the Tang dynasty, where religious discourse unfolded in a multilingual, multicultural environment shaped by Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and West Asian Christianity. Rather than framing Aluoben's project as a simple case of cultural accommodation, Cooper presents it as an intellectually rigorous interaction with Chinese linguistic categories that were already capable of bearing this weight. In this reading, early Chinese Christianity emerges not as a foreign imposition but as a dialogical tradition grounded in shared structures of literary function.Volume One lays the theoretical and methodological foundation for this approach. It establishes principles for cross-linguistic comparison, cautions against anachronistic readings, and demonstrates how lexicography can function as a form of historical study. By focusing on words rather than doctrines, the book shows how concepts such as revelation, obedience, inscription, and teaching were negotiated at the level of language itself.Ultimately, Jie Jing Shuo Wen invites readers to reconsider how sacred texts travel across cultures. It challenges modern assumptions about translation, arguing that fidelity is not achieved through lexical equivalence alone but through alignment of conceptual worlds. This first volume opens a path for future work that treats Sinitic and Semitic traditions not as isolated systems but as participants in a shared human effort to articulate function, authority, and the divine.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There was a time, only decades ago, when American scholarship on Russia was widespread and serious. After the USSR fell, however, interest in the former communist power dried up. Serious scholarship was gradually squeezed out and replaced by predictable cliches.It is against this background that Matthew Cooper's Akhmatova's Acolytes represents such a welcome and valuable gift. Cooper's erudite investigation of contemporary Russian thought surveys everything from theology and poetry, to economics, philosophy and sociology. To be sure, this is not a survey of the whole landscape; Cooper hones in on specific, sometimes little-known (in the West) Russian thinkers. This apparently narrow series of focal points, however, then expands out again as Cooper helpfully situates each writer within a rich landscape populated, firstly, by Russia's own storied intellectual heritage, and secondly, by Russia's engagement with Western thought. The result is a sometimes dizzying and challenging but always rewarding volume which in style and substance evokes, depending on the paragraph, Max Horkheimer, Hunter S. Thompson or Augusto Del Noce. - Paul R. Grenier President, Simone Weil Center for Political Philosophy.…