Irony And Meaning In The Hebrew Bible

Author : Carolyn J. Sharp
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253003447

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Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible by Carolyn J. Sharp Pdf

Was God being ironic in commanding Eve not to eat fruit from the tree of wisdom? Carolyn J. Sharp suggests that many stories in the Hebrew Scriptures may be ironically intended. Deftly interweaving literary theory and exegesis, Sharp illumines the power of the unspoken in a wide variety of texts from the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Writings. She argues that reading with irony in mind creates a charged and open rhetorical space in the texts that allows character, narration, and authorial voice to develop in unexpected ways. Main themes explored here include the ironizing of foreign rulers, the prostitute as icon of the ironic gaze, indeterminacy and dramatic irony in prophetic performance, and irony in ancient Israel's wisdom traditions. Sharp devotes special attention to how irony destabilizes dominant ways in which the Bible is read today, especially when it touches on questions of conflict, gender, and the Other.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004536333

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Irony in the Bible by Anonim Pdf

It is generally agreed that there is significant irony in the Bible. However, to date no work has been published in biblical scholarship that on the one hand includes interpretations of both Hebrew Bible and New Testament writings under the perspective of irony, and on the other hand offers a panorama of the approaches to the different types and functions of irony in biblical texts. The following volume: (1) reevaluates scholarly definitions of irony and the use of the term in biblical research; (2) builds on existing methods of interpretation of ironic texts; (3) offers judicious analyses of methodological approaches to irony in the Bible; and (4) develops fresh insights into biblical passages.

Author : Edwin Marshall Good
Publisher : Nicholson
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039200758

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Irony in the Old Testament by Edwin Marshall Good Pdf

Author : Lillian R. Klein
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1988-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567414984

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The Triumph of Irony in the Book of Judges by Lillian R. Klein Pdf

The Triumph of Irony in the Book of Judges focuses on the literary quality of the book of Judges. Klein extrapolates the theme of irony in the book of Judges, seeking to prove that it is the main structural element. She points out how this literary device adds to the overall meaning and tone of the book, and what it reveals about the culture of the time. Chronologically divided into sections, Klein explores the narrative and commentates on the literary properties throughout-plot, character development, and resolution, as well as the main theme of irony.

Author : Jonathan A. Kruschwitz
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725260771

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Interludes and Irony in the Ancestral Narrative by Jonathan A. Kruschwitz Pdf

The stories of Hagar, Dinah, and Tamar stand out as strangers in the ancestral narrative. They deviate from the main plot and draw attention to the interests and fates of characters who are not a part of the ancestral family. Readers have traditionally domesticated these strange stories. They have made them “familiar”—all about the ancestral family. Thus Hagar’s story becomes a drama of deselection, Shechem and the Hivites become emblematic for ancestral conflict with the people of the land, and Tamar becomes a lens by which to read providence in the story of Joseph. This study resurrects the question of these stories’ strangeness. Rather than allow the ancestral narrative to determine their significance, it attends to each interlude’s particularity and detects ironic gestures made toward the ancestral narrative. These stories contain within them the potential to defamiliarize key themes of ancestral identity: the ancestral-divine relationship, ancestral relations to the land and its inhabitants, and ancestral self-identity. Perhaps the ancestral family are not the only privileged partners of God, the only heirs to the land, or the only bloodline fit to bear the next generation.

Author : Magne Sæbø,Jean Louis Ska,Peter Machinist
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647540221

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Hebrew Bible / Old Testament. III: From Modernism to Post-Modernism by Magne Sæbø,Jean Louis Ska,Peter Machinist Pdf

The long and complex history of reception and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament through the ages, described in the HBOT Project, focuses in this concluding volume III, Part 2 on the multifarious research and the different methods used in the last century. Even this volume is written by Christian and Jewish scholars and takes its wider cultural and philosophical context into consideration. The perspective is worldwide and ecumenical. Its references to modern biblical scholarship, on which it is based, are extensive and updated.The indexes (names, topics, references to biblical sources and a broad body of literature beyond) are the key to the wealth of information provided.Contributors are J. Barton, H.L. Bosman, A.F. Campbell, SJ, D.M. Carr, D.J.A. Clines, W. Dietrich, St.E. Fassberg, D. Føllesdal, A.C. Hagedorn, K.M. Heim, J. Høgenhaven, B. Janowski, D.A. Knight, C. Körting, A. Laato, P. Machinist, M.A.O ́Brien, M. Oeming, D. Olson, E. Otto, M. Sæbø, J. Schaper, S. Sekine, J.L. Ska, SJ, M.A. Sweeney, and J. de Waard.

Author : Eric A. Seibert
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451424324

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The Violence of Scripture by Eric A. Seibert Pdf

No one can read far in the Old Testament without encountering numerous acts of violence that are sanctioned in the text and attributed to both God and humans. Over the years, these texts have been used to justify all sorts of violence: from colonizing people and justifying warfare, to sanctioning violence against women and children. Eric Seibert confrons the problem of "virtuous" violence and urges people to engage in an ethically responsible reading of these troublesome texts. He offers a variety of reading strategies designed to critique textually sanctioned violence, while still finding ways to use even the most difficult texts constructively, thus providing a desperately needed approach to the violence of Scripture that can help us live more peaceably in a world plagued by religious violence. --from publisher description

Author : Jonathan A. Kruschwitz
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725260795

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Interludes and Irony in the Ancestral Narrative by Jonathan A. Kruschwitz Pdf

The stories of Hagar, Dinah, and Tamar stand out as strangers in the ancestral narrative. They deviate from the main plot and draw attention to the interests and fates of characters who are not a part of the ancestral family. Readers have traditionally domesticated these strange stories. They have made them "familiar"--all about the ancestral family. Thus Hagar's story becomes a drama of deselection, Shechem and the Hivites become emblematic for ancestral conflict with the people of the land, and Tamar becomes a lens by which to read providence in the story of Joseph. This study resurrects the question of these stories' strangeness. Rather than allow the ancestral narrative to determine their significance, it attends to each interlude's particularity and detects ironic gestures made toward the ancestral narrative. These stories contain within them the potential to defamiliarize key themes of ancestral identity: the ancestral-divine relationship, ancestral relations to the land and its inhabitants, and ancestral self-identity. Perhaps the ancestral family are not the only privileged partners of God, the only heirs to the land, or the only bloodline fit to bear the next generation.

Author : John C. Yoder
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451496628

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Power and Politics in the Book of Judges by John C. Yoder Pdf

John C. Yoder examines political culture and behavior in the book of Judges. Although the Deuteronomistic editor portrayed the "judges" as moral champions, the men and women of valor were preoccupied with the problem of gaining and maintaining political power. They were ambitious, at times ruthless; they might be labeled chiefs, strongmen, or even warlords in today's world, using violence, patronage, and the control of the labor and reproductive capacity of subordinates, as well as other strategies that did not require the constant exercise of force.

Author : Jakob Jónsson
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9004075003

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Humour and Irony in the New Testament by Jakob Jónsson Pdf

Author : Bernhard Lang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004181502

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International Review of Biblical Studies, Volume 55 (2008-2009) by Bernhard Lang Pdf

Formerly known by its subtitle “Internationale Zeitschriftenschau für Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete”, the International Review of Biblical Studies has served the scholarly community ever since its inception in the early 1950’s. Each annual volume includes approximately 2,000 abstracts and summaries of articles and books that deal with the Bible and related literature, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, Pseudepigrapha, Non-canonical gospels, and ancient Near Eastern writings. The abstracts – which may be in English, German, or French - are arranged thematically under headings such as e.g. “Genesis”, “Matthew”, “Greek language”, “text and textual criticism”, “exegetical methods and approaches”, “biblical theology”, “social and religious institutions”, “biblical personalities”, “history of Israel and early Judaism”, and so on. The articles and books that are abstracted and reviewed are collected annually by an international team of collaborators from over 300 of the most important periodicals and book series in the fields covered.

Author : Athalya Brenner-Idan,Yehuda T. Radday
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1990-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567202345

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On Humour and the Comic in the Hebrew Bible by Athalya Brenner-Idan,Yehuda T. Radday Pdf

In comparison with other literary aspects of the Old Testament, humour has suffered much scholarly neglect. The present collection of essays (by the editors and ten other authors) argues that humour is plentiful in biblical literature and that many passages, indeed even whole books, can be properly understood only when the humorous intention of the author is acknowledged. This collection is a particularly interesting, innovative and provocative one.

Author : Virginia Miller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004411722

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A King and a Fool? by Virginia Miller Pdf

In A King and a Fool? The Succession Narrative as a Satire Virginia Miller argues that the genre of the Succession Narrative is a satire. Accordingly, this narrative is pejoratively critical of King David.

Author : Magnar Kartveit
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110309157

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Rejoice, Dear Zion! by Magnar Kartveit Pdf

The phrase “Daughter of Zion” is in recent Bible translations often rendered “Daughter Zion”. The discussion behind this change has continued for decades, but lacks proper linguistic footing. Parlance in grammars, dictionaries, commentaries and textbooks is often confusing. The present book seeks to remedy this defect by treating all relevant expressions from a linguistic point of view. To do this, it also discusses the understanding of Hebrew construct phrases, and finds that while there is a morphological category of genitive in Akkadian, Ugaritic and Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic and Syriac do not display it. The use of this term as a syntactical category is unfortunate, and the term should be avoided in Hebrew grammar. Metaphor theory and the use of irony are also tools in the discussion of the phrases. As a result of the treatment, the author finds that there are some Hebrew construct phrases where nomen regens describes the following nomen rectum, and the description may be metaphorical, in some cases also ironical. This seems to be the case with “Daughter of Zion” and similar phrases. This understanding calls for a revision of the translation of the phrases, and new translations are suggested.

Author : David L. Turner
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451472318

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Israel's Last Prophet by David L. Turner Pdf

Jesus’ words of indictment and judgment in the Gospel according to Matthew have fueled centuries of Christian anti-Judaism. But what did those words originally mean within Matthew’s narrative? David L. Turner examines how Matthew has taken up Deuteronomic themes of prophetic rejection and judgment and woven them throughout the Gospel, culminating in Matthew 23:32. Matthew was engaged in a heated intramural dispute with other Jewish groups, Turner argues. The legacy of Christian anti-Jewish violence reflects a gross misunderstanding of Matthew by generations who have failed to recognize the author’s worldview and allusions.