Description
Hearing 'Son' as the Ancients Did: Restoring Meaning Through Torah and Covenant is a Torah-first, historically grounded study of one of the most frequently misunderstood words in Scripture. Drawing from Hebrew and Aramaic usage, Second Temple Jewish life, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, the book demonstrates that 'sonship' in the ancient world was never a claim about essence or metaphysical nature, but a covenant vocation defined by responsibility, obedience, discipline, and delegated authority. Through careful linguistic analysis and contextual reading, familiar passages are re-heard within their original household, communal, and legal settings, allowing Scripture to speak from within its own world.
Written in a non-polemical and academically disciplined tone, the work traces how later Greek philosophical categories and Roman legal assumptions reshaped functional covenant language into ontological claims, altering how generations of readers understood sonship, begetting, inheritance, and authority. By restoring these terms to their Semitic framework, the book recovers the ethical weight of biblical language and re-centers interpretation on lived faithfulness rather than abstract identity. Designed for scholars, educators, clergy, and serious students of Scripture, this volume offers a clear, Essene Jewish pathway for reading the text forward again-faithful to Torah, coherent with Qumran witnesses, and attentive to the dignity and cost of being called a 'son.'
Details
Publisher - Essene Covenant Publishing
Language - English
Perfect Bound
Contributors
By author
Ben-Hayil Yellen
Published Date - 2026-02-24
ISBN - 9781968359102
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm
Page Count - 156
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