Blessings Of Babel

Author : Einar Haugen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110862966

Get Book

Blessings of Babel by Einar Haugen Pdf

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Author : Carol M. Kaminski
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567539465

Get Book

From Noah to Israel by Carol M. Kaminski Pdf

The primaeval blessing, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth,' first announced to humankind in Genesis 1.28 is renewed to Noah and his sons after the flood in Genesis 9.1. There is widespread scholarly consensus that the ensuing dispersion in Genesis 10.1-32 and 11.1-9 is the means by which the creation blessing is fulfilled. Kaminski argues that the primeval blessing is not fulfilled in the Table of Nations and that Yahweh's scattering Noah's descendants in the Babel story does not contribute positively to the creation theme. Rather, the creation blessing is being taken up in the primary line of Shem (Genesis 11.10-26), which leads directly to Abraham. She further suggests that divine grace is not absent after the Babel judgment, as is commonly assumed, but is at work in the Shemite genealogy. She argues that the primeval blessing, which is unfulfilled in the primaeval history, is taken up by Abraham and his descendants by means of a divine promise. While the blessing is in the process of being realised in the patriarchal narratives, it is not fulfilled. The multiplication theme is resumed, however, in Exodus 1.7, which describes Israel's proliferation in Egypt. This is the first indication that the creation blessing is fulfilled. Realisation of the primaeval blessing progresses after the flood, therefore, from Noah to Israel. Yet God's blessing on Israel is not for their sake alone - it is the means through which the divine intention for creation will be restored to the world. JSOTS413

Author : Che Kan Leong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Language acquisition
ISBN : 9628077511

Get Book

Blessings of Babel by Che Kan Leong Pdf

Author : Phillip Michael Sherman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004248618

Get Book

Babel’s Tower Translated by Phillip Michael Sherman Pdf

In Babel's Tower Translated, Phillip Sherman explores the narrative of Genesis 11 and its reception and interpretation in several Second Temple and Early Rabbinic texts (e.g., Jubilees, Philo, Genesis Rabbah). The account of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is famously ambiguous. The meaning of the narrative and the actions of both the human characters and the Israelite deity defy any easy explanation. This work explores how changing historical and hermeneutical realities altered and shifted the meaning of the text in Jewish antiquity.

Author : Humphrey Tonkin,Timothy G. Reagan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588113841

Get Book

Language in the 21st Century by Humphrey Tonkin,Timothy G. Reagan Pdf

What is the future of languages in an increasingly globalized world? Are we moving toward the use of a single language for global communication, or are there ways of managing language diversity at the international level? Can we, or should we, maintain a balance between the global need to communicate and the maintenance of local and regional identities and cultures? What is the role of education, of language rights, of language equality in this volatile global linguistic mix? A group of leading scholars in sociolinguistics and language policy examines trends in language use across the world to find answers to these questions and to make predictions about likely outcomes. Highlighted in the discussion are, among other issues, the rapidly changing role of English, the equally rapid decline and death of small languages, the future of the major European languages, the international use of constructed languages like Esperanto, and, not least, the question of what role applied scholarship can and should play in mapping and influencing the future.

Author : Dominick M'Causland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Hamites
ISBN : UOM:39015064334298

Get Book

The Builders of Babel by Dominick M'Causland Pdf

Author : Dominick M'Causland
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368808587

Get Book

The Builders of Babel by Dominick M'Causland Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author : Priscilla Pope-Levison,John R. Levison
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664258239

Get Book

Return to Babel by Priscilla Pope-Levison,John R. Levison Pdf

In Return to Babel, each of ten historically significant biblical texts is interpreted by three scholars: one Latin American, one African, and one Asian. Geographic locales range from a tiny village in the Philippines to the city of Nairobi, Kenya; from Gwangju, South Korea, with its one million inhabitants, to the frontier city of Wiwili in the northern mountains of Nicaragua. The result is a collection of essays that shed new light on familiar texts and make the reader aware of the ways in which culture can shape our understanding of Scripture.

Author : Christopher Hutton
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748633524

Get Book

Language, Meaning and the Law by Christopher Hutton Pdf

Language, Meaning and the Law offers an accessible, critical guide to debates about linguistic meaning and interpretation in relation to legal language. Law is an ideal domain for considering fundamental questions relating to how we assign meanings to words, understand and comment on texts, and deal with socially and ideologically significant questions of interpretation. The book argues that theoretical issues of concern to linguists, philosophers, literary theorists and others are illuminated by the demands of the legal context, since law is driven by the need for practical solutions and for determinate outcomes based on explicit reasoning. Topics covered include: the relationship of linguistics to legal theory, indeterminacy and statutory interpretation, the theory and practice of using dictionaries in law, defamation and language in the public sphere, and the distinction between perjury and deception. This book does not assume specialist knowledge of the field, and is designed as a self-contained, advanced introduction to a fascinating area of study. The reader will gain an overall insight into issues and debates about meaning and interpretation, as well as an understanding of how these questions are shaped by the legal context.

Author : Friedrich Delitszch
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725210912

Get Book

Babel and Bible by Friedrich Delitszch Pdf

This volume includes two lectures given by Friedrich Delitzsch to the members of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft and Kaiser Wilhelm II. These lectures deal with the relationship of Babylonian sources to the Old Testament, and they created a major controversy.

Author : Friedrich Delitzsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108081610

Get Book

Babel and Bible by Friedrich Delitzsch Pdf

The illustrated 1903 English edition of a controversial 1902 lecture and its sequel, tracing Old Testament narratives to Babylonian myths.

Author : Clare Amos
Publisher : Sacristy Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789591941

Get Book

Birthpangs and Blessings by Clare Amos Pdf

An invitation to listen in on, and perhaps join in, the voyage of mutual discovery between God and humanity which is the central thread of the book of Genesis.

Author : Sarita D. Gallagher
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630879549

Get Book

Abrahamic Blessing by Sarita D. Gallagher Pdf

Is the Abrahamic blessing of Genesis 12:1-3 still active in the world today? Does God still extend his blessing to the nations through his people? The author found the answer to these questions in one of the most isolated regions of the world, Papua New Guinea. In this book Sarita D. Gallagher compares the missional nature of the Abrahamic blessing motif in Scripture to a national revival that took place in Papua New Guinea. By identifying the shared missional patterns, she illustrates the continued fulfillment of the Abrahamic blessing through the Old and New Testaments and the contemporary Papua New Guinean Church. The significance of this research is multifaceted: the text contributes new insights to the global Church's understanding of the missio Dei, records an unexplored chapter of Melanesian indigenous mission history, and impacts the foundational motivations and methodology of contemporary mission praxis.

Author : Donald E. Gowan
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1988-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467419291

Get Book

Genesis 1-11 by Donald E. Gowan Pdf

Genesis 1- 11 preserves a unique view of Bible history, tracing the move from Eden, an idyllic world fully in accord with the will of God, to Babel, a fallen world desperately in need of salvation. In this commentary, Donald E. Gowan demonstrates acute sensitivity and insight in focusing on the theological import of these familiar but often puzzling accounts, showing them to be even more crucial for what they say to us about ourselves than for the information they record about individuals and events so very long ago. Addressing such themes as the existence of evil and the threat of chaos, human power and violence, tension between the sexes and the breakdown of the family, he remains ever conscious of the gospel as set forth in Genesis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Communication
ISBN : UOM:39015027562431

Get Book

Language Problems & Language Planning by Anonim Pdf