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The interview analysis concluded that their experience of spiritual formation in their teenage years was a significant component for them upholding biblical sexual ethics in college and remaining in church later. The literature review focused on three key areas to understand the biblical sexual ethic and its subsequent development in adolescents: Modern commentary and exegesis of 1 Corinthians 6:12-20, The Greco-Roman context and ancient sexual ethic, and systems theory and its implications for parenting. This study found that adolescents described social pressure in four areas: humor, experimentation, overt challenge, and transactional behavior. Because of these challenges this study concluded that there are three necessary components to sustain healthy spiritual formation in adolescents for them to uphold biblical ethics: courageous clarity, heart-centered intentionality, and calm adaptability. 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A biblical theological approach will be used to analyze and synthesize scriptural teaching about the rewards of wise living as it benefits the community of the people of God as seen by the results of living wisely in the use of the words אַ֥שְֽׁרֵי, and μακάριος."],"rights_statement_tesim":["https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/"],"related_url_tesim":["https://www.covenantlibrary.org/etd/2024/Gooch_Cynthia_MABTS_2024.pdf"],"thumbnail_path_ss":"/assets/work-a3b75da7abded620ab321410c80d102e5e2417b71c54de7ba7d4b0363da904f7.png","suppressed_bsi":false,"actionable_workflow_roles_ssim":["admin_set/default-default-approving","admin_set/default-default-depositing","admin_set/default-default-managing"],"workflow_state_name_ssim":["deposited"],"visibility_ssi":"open","admin_set_tesim":["Default Admin Set"],"account_cname_tesim":["rim.ir.atla.com"],"human_readable_type_tesim":["Etd"],"read_access_group_ssim":["public","work_editor"],"edit_access_group_ssim":["admin"],"edit_access_person_ssim":["library@covenantseminary.edu"],"_version_":1829685565783539712,"timestamp":"2025-04-17T21:08:51.186Z","score":1.0},{"system_create_dtsi":"2024-12-06T22:59:43Z","system_modified_dtsi":"2024-12-06T22:59:44Z","has_model_ssim":["Etd"],"id":"bcbdf912-1088-4dfa-b8ce-94a833e87c74","accessControl_ssim":["d2f28876-968d-4902-a634-91e8bce7a562"],"depositor_ssim":["library@covenantseminary.edu"],"depositor_tesim":["library@covenantseminary.edu"],"title_tesim":["Paul's caricature of elders : Titus 1.5-9 as a rhetorical depiction of the ideal wise person"],"date_uploaded_dtsi":"2024-12-06T22:59:42Z","date_modified_dtsi":"2024-12-06T22:59:42Z","isPartOf_ssim":["admin_set/default"],"hasEmbargo_ssim":["efc17ea5-8cea-4865-9442-5352ec31fa89"],"hasLease_ssim":["52bb2388-dc95-47a8-8a46-dc6c3516fde0"],"show_pdf_viewer_tesim":["1"],"show_pdf_download_button_tesim":["1"],"institution_tesim":["Atla RIM"],"degree_tesim":["Master of Arts in Exegetical Theology"],"degree_granting_institution_tesim":["Covenant Theological Seminary"],"year_tesim":["2023"],"resource_type_tesim":["Thesis"],"types_tesim":["Text"],"creator_tesim":["Soyars, Nick"],"subject_tesim":["Bible. 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Proverbs, addressed to the wise (1.5), uses rhetorical devices that Titus 1.5-9 shares (e.g., caricatures, concreteness) to shape Israelite hearts to aspire toward its ethical ideals. This rhetorical method requires adherents to practice the principle of mutatis mutandis in their own actual responses. By establishing the canonical context for Proverbs, it becomes clear that the God of Titus is the same God who operates in the same ways.\r\n\r\n        To see Titus 1.5-9’s shared aspects with Proverbs, I detail how 2TJ Wisdom Literature made the worldview of the Jewish scriptures palatable to Hellenized Jews. The ethical ideals shared by Jews and Hellenists were lauded as pursuable only in fellowship with Yahweh, who is the source of wise, moral living. 2TJ co-opted Greek terms, often with nuanced meaning, and rhetorical devices, namely, lists and rhetorically ideal figures like what we find in Titus 1.5-9.\r\n\r\n        When Titus 1.5-9 is read in light of all this, the most likely interpretation is that it is a description of a rhetorically morally ideal person, expecting adherents to practice its implementation mutatis mutandis.\r\n"],"rights_statement_tesim":["https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/"],"related_url_tesim":["https://www.covenantlibrary.org/etd/2023/Soyars_Nick_MAET_2023.pdf"],"thumbnail_path_ss":"/assets/work-a3b75da7abded620ab321410c80d102e5e2417b71c54de7ba7d4b0363da904f7.png","suppressed_bsi":false,"actionable_workflow_roles_ssim":["admin_set/default-default-approving","admin_set/default-default-depositing","admin_set/default-default-managing"],"workflow_state_name_ssim":["deposited"],"visibility_ssi":"open","admin_set_tesim":["Default Admin Set"],"account_cname_tesim":["rim.ir.atla.com"],"human_readable_type_tesim":["Etd"],"read_access_group_ssim":["public","work_editor"],"edit_access_group_ssim":["admin"],"edit_access_person_ssim":["library@covenantseminary.edu"],"_version_":1817733744177446912,"timestamp":"2024-12-06T22:59:45.887Z","score":1.0},{"system_create_dtsi":"2024-12-04T02:20:21Z","system_modified_dtsi":"2024-12-04T02:20:22Z","has_model_ssim":["Etd"],"id":"a4e0ec76-b2a4-4a68-a8d8-e7f304291874","accessControl_ssim":["75f67550-93f6-4511-b335-c295a64b0554"],"depositor_ssim":["library@covenantseminary.edu"],"depositor_tesim":["library@covenantseminary.edu"],"title_tesim":["Reading poetry as learning : the pedagogical impact of the readerly interpretive process in Proverbs 31:1-9"],"date_uploaded_dtsi":"2024-12-04T02:20:20Z","date_modified_dtsi":"2024-12-04T02:20:20Z","isPartOf_ssim":["admin_set/default"],"hasEmbargo_ssim":["01958a40-0c42-4998-b9d0-33d24176219d"],"hasLease_ssim":["958e8d07-0151-41ac-9ab2-d5abd844c57e"],"show_pdf_viewer_tesim":["1"],"show_pdf_download_button_tesim":["1"],"institution_tesim":["Atla RIM"],"degree_tesim":["Master of Arts in Exegetical Theology"],"degree_granting_institution_tesim":["Covenant Theological Seminary"],"year_tesim":["2022"],"resource_type_tesim":["Thesis"],"types_tesim":["Text"],"creator_tesim":["Tatko, Victoria K."],"subject_tesim":["Bible. 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Qualitative measurements were graphed and discussed.\r\n\r\nThe readerly process of 31:1-9 was found to be undulating and complex, and its pedagogy richly multi-faceted. The inferred pedagogy for canonical readers certainly includes what mainstream scholarship discerns: leaders must reject indulgent living and advocate for the poor. Yet considering the interpretive process uncovered more: a poetic pedagogy designed to shape the whole person toward right living within God’s covenant. The text’s interpretive challenges were seen to propel readers deep into the unit’s text, Proverbs, and the canon, leading to key framing contexts, e.g., 1 Samuel 1-4, Psalm 2, and Proverbs 9. Relevance theory suggests the text’s persistent ambiguity reflects second-order communication (showing versus telling) designed to engage the imagination of God’s people, calling them to remember, trust in His coming deliverance, and reflect His character in consecrated living. The interpretive process developed discernment, uncovering calls of hope and warning. Such showing suggests an intended sense of the difficult משא (31:1) as ‘oracle’, inviting rereading with a hermeneutic appropriate to prophetic material.\r\n\r\nThe tested hypothesis was determined as confirmed: the canonical readerly interpretive process does contribute meaningfully to the poetic pedagogy of Proverbs 31:1-9."],"rights_statement_tesim":["https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/"],"related_url_tesim":["https://www.covenantlibrary.org/etd/2022/Tatko_Victoria_MAET_2022.pdf"],"thumbnail_path_ss":"/assets/work-a3b75da7abded620ab321410c80d102e5e2417b71c54de7ba7d4b0363da904f7.png","suppressed_bsi":false,"actionable_workflow_roles_ssim":["admin_set/default-default-approving","admin_set/default-default-depositing","admin_set/default-default-managing"],"workflow_state_name_ssim":["deposited"],"visibility_ssi":"open","admin_set_tesim":["Default Admin Set"],"account_cname_tesim":["rim.ir.atla.com"],"human_readable_type_tesim":["Etd"],"read_access_group_ssim":["public","work_editor"],"edit_access_group_ssim":["admin"],"edit_access_person_ssim":["library@covenantseminary.edu"],"_version_":1817474575114436608,"timestamp":"2024-12-04T02:20:23.007Z","score":1.0},{"system_create_dtsi":"2024-12-04T02:14:07Z","system_modified_dtsi":"2024-12-04T02:14:08Z","has_model_ssim":["Etd"],"id":"177919a8-25c3-4a60-aff0-ecb48a5c36f6","accessControl_ssim":["87d63362-69e9-4fbe-98d9-6d97f9162f31"],"depositor_ssim":["library@covenantseminary.edu"],"depositor_tesim":["library@covenantseminary.edu"],"title_tesim":["The Christology and ethics of the brothers of Jesus"],"date_uploaded_dtsi":"2024-12-04T02:14:06Z","date_modified_dtsi":"2024-12-04T02:14:06Z","isPartOf_ssim":["admin_set/default"],"hasEmbargo_ssim":["85609df2-148b-48d5-a560-c3c66c5968fb"],"hasLease_ssim":["0bdbd81c-9031-4991-abee-124d1c224b98"],"show_pdf_viewer_tesim":["1"],"show_pdf_download_button_tesim":["1"],"institution_tesim":["Atla RIM"],"degree_tesim":["Master of Theology"],"degree_granting_institution_tesim":["Covenant Theological Seminary"],"year_tesim":["2022"],"resource_type_tesim":["Thesis"],"types_tesim":["Text"],"creator_tesim":["Tollison, Wm. 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The proposal is then compared to the rest of Genesis in which griefs associated with childrearing are much more involved in the narratives than pain associated with parturition, demonstrating that the author’s conclusions concerning the text most closely match the semantics, the syntax, the exegesis, and the context."],"rights_statement_tesim":["https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/"],"related_url_tesim":["https://www.covenantlibrary.org/etd/2022/Huntley_Chris_MAET_2022.pdf"],"thumbnail_path_ss":"/assets/work-a3b75da7abded620ab321410c80d102e5e2417b71c54de7ba7d4b0363da904f7.png","suppressed_bsi":false,"actionable_workflow_roles_ssim":["admin_set/default-default-approving","admin_set/default-default-depositing","admin_set/default-default-managing"],"workflow_state_name_ssim":["deposited"],"visibility_ssi":"open","admin_set_tesim":["Default Admin Set"],"account_cname_tesim":["rim.ir.atla.com"],"human_readable_type_tesim":["Etd"],"read_access_group_ssim":["work_editor","public"],"edit_access_group_ssim":["admin"],"edit_access_person_ssim":["library@covenantseminary.edu"],"_version_":1817353476070440960,"timestamp":"2024-12-02T18:15:33.959Z","score":1.0},{"system_create_dtsi":"2024-12-02T17:55:23Z","system_modified_dtsi":"2024-12-02T17:55:24Z","has_model_ssim":["Etd"],"id":"b8b06a9a-fd53-4062-93bd-7d331a911594","accessControl_ssim":["f060a932-6394-4298-af58-3bf959b145a9"],"depositor_ssim":["library@covenantseminary.edu"],"depositor_tesim":["library@covenantseminary.edu"],"title_tesim":["Idol notions : exploring the impact of the second commandment on the Exodus community"],"date_uploaded_dtsi":"2024-12-02T17:55:22Z","date_modified_dtsi":"2024-12-02T17:55:22Z","isPartOf_ssim":["admin_set/default"],"hasEmbargo_ssim":["67fa8db4-ef3d-4906-9418-49863b671d6f"],"hasLease_ssim":["17e002a3-7d28-4de2-a2d3-951ae26f498e"],"show_pdf_viewer_tesim":["1"],"show_pdf_download_button_tesim":["1"],"institution_tesim":["Atla RIM"],"degree_tesim":["Master of Arts in Biblical \u0026 Theological Studies"],"degree_granting_institution_tesim":["Covenant Theological Seminary"],"year_tesim":["2023"],"resource_type_tesim":["Thesis"],"types_tesim":["Text"],"creator_tesim":["Ochoa, Anna L."],"subject_tesim":["Idols and images--Worship--Biblical teaching","Idolatry","History","Criticism, interpretation, etc","Middle East","Bible. Exodus","Ten commandments"],"abstract_tesim":["        This thesis aims to address a question arising out of the Old Testament’s constant condemnation of, and Israel’s constant stumbling over, the practice of idolatry. Why was idol worship such a draw in the ancient Near Eastern world, being in fact the final straw that sent Israel into the ultimate covenant curse of exile (cf. Ezek 6)? Archaeological records have revealed an enthralling polytheistic practice that remained entrenched for millennia, which involved the ritual animation of an idol with the god’s living presence, to be thereafter served relentlessly by ritual performance within a human-divine interplay directly opposed to Yahweh’s revealed truth. The second commandment forbade such image making and worship on its face to God’s people.\r\n\r\n        Much modern scholarship, however, has questioned the dating of the composition of the OT, and the idol ban of the second commandment in particular. Such historical criticism tends to hold an evolutionary view of Israelite religious development, proposing a national origin in polytheistic belief and a later shift into a new understanding of the aniconic worship of their primary deity. This follows a larger trend in biblical scholarship which proposes a cadre of later redactors with varied agendas and theological emphases who assembled the Hebrew Bible; and it was one of these who purportedly instated the strict image ban for his own, much later, political moment. These critical views ultimately hold the biblical text as a biased and unreliable historiography.\r\n\r\n        This thesis will instead employ a methodology that treats the text in its final form and adheres to a traditional view of divine instigation and guidance of Israel’s national worship. It will argue that the idol ban of the second commandment was necessarily delivered at Israel’s founding, being rooted in God’s immutable character and making explicit reference to the Creator-creation distinction in Genesis, a cosmology distinctly rebutting that of ancient polytheism. Further, a comparative method will be used to study the idol consecration rituals of the ancient Near East, revealing that idolatry was much more insidious than merely “bow[ing] to a block of wood” (Isa 44:19). As a gateway device to a deadly philosophy, idols were fundamentally and terminally opposed to the truth of God. With a view to the literary and theological unity of the text, therefore, it is imperative that the image ban be delivered to the exodus community at their national founding, and that it should stand in stone for Israel, and for the church, for all time.\r\n"],"rights_statement_tesim":["https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/"],"related_url_tesim":["https://www.covenantlibrary.org/etd/2023/Ochoa_Anna_MABTS_2023.pdf"],"thumbnail_path_ss":"/assets/work-a3b75da7abded620ab321410c80d102e5e2417b71c54de7ba7d4b0363da904f7.png","suppressed_bsi":false,"actionable_workflow_roles_ssim":["admin_set/default-default-approving","admin_set/default-default-depositing","admin_set/default-default-managing"],"workflow_state_name_ssim":["deposited"],"visibility_ssi":"open","admin_set_tesim":["Default Admin Set"],"account_cname_tesim":["rim.ir.atla.com"],"human_readable_type_tesim":["Etd"],"read_access_group_ssim":["public","work_editor"],"edit_access_group_ssim":["admin"],"edit_access_person_ssim":["library@covenantseminary.edu"],"_version_":1817352208169041920,"timestamp":"2024-12-02T17:55:24.794Z","score":1.0}],"facets":[{"name":"resource_type_sim","items":[{"value":"Thesis","hits":7,"label":"Thesis"},{"value":"D.Min. 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