A Feminist Companion To Tobit And Judith

Author : Athalya Brenner-Idan,Helen Efthimiadis-Keith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567656025

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A Feminist Companion to Tobit and Judith by Athalya Brenner-Idan,Helen Efthimiadis-Keith Pdf

A Feminist Companion to Tobit and Judith extends the work of the hugely influential and respected Feminist Companion series, which continues to set the standard for feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible and related texts. In the present volume Athalya Brenner-Idan (with Helen Efthimiadis-Keith) draws together a range of scholarly commentators and addresses the core issues relating to feminist interpretations of the two texts at hand. The volume examines attitudes to gender, identities, exile, social mores, beliefs, clothing, food and drink, personal relationships, and biblical reception. The contributors are: Beverly Bow and George Nickelsburg, Athalya Brenner-Idan, Ora Brison, Helen Efthimiadis-Keith, Renate Egger-Wenzel, Beate Ego, Emma England, Jennifer Glancy, Jan Willem van Henten, Naomi Jacobs, Amy-Jill Levine, Pamela Milne, and Barbara Schmitz.

Author : Helen Efthimiadis-Keith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0567665259

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Tobit and Judith by Helen Efthimiadis-Keith Pdf

Author : Helen Leneman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567687319

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The Voice of Judith in 300 Years of Oratorio and Opera by Helen Leneman Pdf

This volume focuses on the story of Judith as presented by composers, librettists and playwrights over four centuries. Helen Leneman analyzes numerous examples of music, librettos and the librettists' views of Judith – strongly influenced by societal attitudes of their time – and how these works in turn suggest unexpected ways of understanding biblical women and their stories. Music adds nuances, colors and emotions, becoming a subtext that suggests character and emotions. Leneman presents in-depth analyses of the librettos and music of 16 operas and oratorios based on the book of Judith that span 300 years (1694-1984), in addition to two influential plays that inspired several librettos in the nineteenth century. Exploring works by such varied composers as Vivaldi, Mozart, Parry, Honegger, Serov, Chadwick and von Reznicek, Leneman reveals the ways in which each adaptation expands, distils or reinterprets Judith's character and story. In this first ever extensive study of musical settings of the Book of Judith, Leneman enables the biblical heroine to transcend her source.

Author : Lawrence M. Wills
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506463827

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Judith by Lawrence M. Wills Pdf

Judith tells the story of a beautiful Jewish woman who enters the tent of an invading general, gets him drunk, and then slices off his head, thus saving her village and Jerusalem. This short novella was somewhat surprisingly included in the early Christian versions of the Old Testament and has played an important role in the Western tradition ever since. This commentary provides a detailed analysis of the text's composition and its meaning in its original historical context, and thoroughly surveys the history of Judith scholarship. Lawrence M. Wills not only considers Judith's relation to earlier biblical texts--how the author played upon previous biblical motifs and interpreted important biblical passages--but also addresses the rise of Judith and other Jewish novellas in the context of ancient Near Eastern and Greek literature, as well as their relation to cross-cultural folk motifs. Because of the popularity of Judith in art and culture, this volume also addresses the book's history of interpretation in paintings, sculpture, music, drama, and literature. A number of images of artistic depictions of Judith are included and discussed in detail.

Author : Michele Murray
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814669495

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Tobit by Michele Murray Pdf

Blindness by bird excrement, seven husbands murdered by a love-sick demon, a father with the corpses of his sons-in-law interred in the backyard, and a magical fish. These farcical elements make the book of Tobit a striking work of humorous fiction in a long Jewish tradition of storytelling. But it is more than just an entertaining read. We might well laugh, but we cannot laugh too hard, for we also sympathize with the characters’ sincere struggles to understand God’s plan for their lives. This commentary considers the book of Tobit through a specifically feminist lens, discoursing on topics fundamental to the human experience in the story, such as grief, death, family relationships, belonging to a minority community, disability issues, and contending with why bad things happen to good people.

Author : Athalya Brenner-Idan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567491459

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Feminist Companion to Esther, Judith and Susanna by Athalya Brenner-Idan Pdf

This volume in the prestigious Feminist Companions series edited by Athalya Brenner covers this fascinating figures of Esther, Judith, and Susanna.

Author : David A. deSilva
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493413072

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Introducing the Apocrypha by David A. deSilva Pdf

This comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the Old Testament apocryphal books summarizes their context, message, and significance. The first edition has been very well reviewed and widely adopted. It is the most substantial introduction to the Apocrypha available and has become a standard authority on the topic. The second edition has been substantially revised and updated throughout to reflect the latest scholarship. The book includes a foreword by James H. Charlesworth.

Author : Kristin De Troyer,Barbara Schmitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110600520

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The Early Reception of the Book of Isaiah by Kristin De Troyer,Barbara Schmitz Pdf

This volume brings together a lively set of papers from the first session of the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature program unit of the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in 2016. Together with a few later contributions, these essays explore a number of thematic and textual issues as they trace the reception history of the Book of Isaiah in Deuterocanonical and cognate literature.

Author : Benedikt Otzen
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826460534

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Tobit and Judith by Benedikt Otzen Pdf

Part of the popular textbook series introducing key themes and issues of books of the Apocrypha and Jewish Pseudepigrapha. The two apochryphal books, Tobit and Judith, are Jewish legends presumably created in the 3rd or 2nd century BCE, the first in the Eastern Diaspora, the other in Palestine. The events related are placed in the Assyrian epoch in the 7th century BCE. The book discusses the problems between real history and historical fiction, the genres and purposes of the two books, and the literary and religious motives of the tales. Also dealt with are textual problems such as the Greek text in the Septuagint vs. Hebrew and Aramaic Tobit-fragments from Qumran.

Author : Pierre J. Jordaan,Nicholas P. L. Allen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110466942

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Construction, Coherence and Connotations by Pierre J. Jordaan,Nicholas P. L. Allen Pdf

These fourteen selected essays were originally read at the LXXSA international conference: Construction, Coherence and Connotation in Septuagint, Apocryphal and Cognate Literature (28-30 August 2015), hosted by the North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. Here, the intention was to apply new critical theory and approaches to the fields of Old Testament Scripture as well as associated Apocryphal and Cognate literature, with a specific focus on the interrelated recurring theme of the Wisdom of the deity and its decryption and reception at various times in history. In this regard, it was felt that this theme and associated source texts had been largely overlooked in recent scholarship. Here the aim was to attract recent research by both leading national as well as international scholars which not only shed new light on Old Testament Apocrypha and so-called Pseudepigraphical literature but which also critically reviewed certain biblical wisdom texts which are foundational for both the Christian as well as Jewish communities. As a consequence, many of the essays deal with the apocryphal Wisdom of Sirach. However, important contributions may also be found apropos Micah, Daniel, Baruch, 2 Maccabees, Tobit, Susanna, Judith, and the works of Josephus Flavius.

Author : Matthias Henze,Rodney A. Werline
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884144823

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Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters by Matthias Henze,Rodney A. Werline Pdf

An essential resource for scholars and students Since the publication of the first edition of Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters in 1986, the field of early Judaism has exploded with new data, the publication of additional texts, and the adoption of new methods. This new edition of the classic resource honors the spirit of the earlier volume and focuses on the scholarly advances in the past four decades that have led to the study of early Judaism becoming an academic discipline in its own right. Essays written by leading scholars in the study of early Judaism fall into four sections: historical and social settings; methods, manuscripts, and materials; early Jewish literatures; and the afterlife of early Judaism.

Author : Gerbern S. Oegema
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190689643

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The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha by Gerbern S. Oegema Pdf

The Apocrypha : an introduction / Gerbern S. Oegema -- The Apocrypha in the context of early Judaism / Gerbern S. Oegema -- The Apocrypha, the Septuagint, and other Greek witnesses / Kristin de Troyer -- A canonical history of the Old Testament apocryphay / Lee Martin MacDonald -- The Apocrypha in the history of Christianity / Tobias Nicklas -- The Protestant reception of the Apocrypha / Matthew Korpman -- Apocrypha, genre, and historicity / Gerbern S. Oegema -- 1 Esdras/Greek Ezra / Lester L. Grabbe -- Baruch/Karina Martin Hogan -- Book of Judith / Deborah Levine Gera -- 1 Maccabees' ethics, etiquette, political theology, and structure / Doron Mendels -- 2 Maccabees / Michael Duggan -- 3 Maccabees / Brian R. Dyer -- 4 Maccabees / Jan Willem van Henten -- The Apocrypha and apocalypticism / Lorenzo DiTommaso -- 2 Esdras / Shayna Sheinfeld -- Wisdom literature of the Apocrypha and related compositions of the Second Temple era / John Kampen -- Sirach / Jeremy Corley -- Tobit / Beate Ego -- The Wisdom of Solomon / Jason M. Zurawski -- The Additions to Daniel / Lorenzo DiTommaso -- The Additions of the Greek book(s) of Esther / Tyler Smith, Kristin de Troyer -- Epistle of Jeremiah / Susan Docherty -- Prayer of Manasseh / Ariel Gutman -- Psalm 151-155 / Mika S. Pajunen -- Jewish religion in the Apocrypha : between biblical precepts and early rabbinic thought / Carla Sulzbach -- Women and gender in the Apocrypha / Sara Parks -- Theology and ethics in the Apocrypha / Gerbern S. Oegema -- Sexuality in the Apocrypha / William Loader -- Biblical theology and the Apocrypha / David A. deSilva.

Author : Athalya Brenner-Idan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567053572

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A Feminist Companion to Judges by Athalya Brenner-Idan Pdf

Judges is a book with much to say about women, especially about their fate in a masculine world, subject to male values. This sparkling new collection of studies subjects Achsah, Delilah and Jephthah's daughter to the female critical gaze, while an increased emphasis on the body (whether gendered or not), violence of various forms, and intertextuality reflect the growing importance of these issues in biblical exegesis. The contributors to this second Judges Companion are Lillian Klein, Claudia Rakel, Shulamit Valler, Phyllis Silverman Kramer, Carol Smith, Renate Jost, Ilse Müllner and Alice Bach.

Author : Lawrence M. Wills
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300248791

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Introduction to the Apocrypha by Lawrence M. Wills Pdf

An ambitious introduction to the Apocrypha that encourages readers to reimagine what "canon" really means Challenging the way Christian and non-Christian readers think about the Apocrypha, this is an ambitious introduction to the deuterocanonical texts of the Christian Old Testaments. Lawrence Wills introduces these texts in their original Jewish environment while addressing the very different roles they had in various Christian canons. Though often relegated to a lesser role, a sort of "Bible-Lite," these texts deserve renewed attention, and this book shows how they hold more interest for both ancient and contemporary communities than previously thought.

Author : Naomi S.S. Jacobs
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004382473

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Delicious Prose: Reading the Tale of Tobit with Food and Drink by Naomi S.S. Jacobs Pdf

In Delicious Prose: Reading the Tale of Tobit with Food and Drink, Naomi S.S. Jacobs explores how the numerous references to food, drink, and their consumption within The Book of Tobit help tell its story, promote righteous deeds, and encourage resistance against a hostile dominant culture.