Poets Prophets And Texts In Play

Author : Ehud Ben Zvi,Claudia V. Camp,David M. Gunn,Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567295316

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Poets, Prophets, and Texts in Play by Ehud Ben Zvi,Claudia V. Camp,David M. Gunn,Aaron W. Hughes Pdf

In this volume, a list of esteemed scholars engage with the literary readings of prophetic and poetic texts in the Hebrew Bible that revolve around sensitivity to the complexity of language, the fragility of meaning, and the interplay of texts. These themes are discussed using a variety of hermeneutical strategies. In Part 1, Poets and Poetry, some essays address the nature of poetic language itself, while others play with themes of love, beauty, and nature in specific poetic texts. The essays in Part 2, Prophets and Prophecy, consider prophets and prophecy from a number of interpretive directions, moving from internal literary analysis to the reception of these texts and their imagery in a range of ancient and modern contexts. Those in Part 3, on the other hand, Texts in Play, take more recent works (from Shakespeare to Tove Jansson's Moomin books for children) as their point of departure, developing conversations between texts across the centuries that enrich the readings of both the ancient and modern pieces of literature.

Author : John Goldingay
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493423576

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Hosea-Micah (Baker Commentary on the Old Testament: Prophetic Books) by John Goldingay Pdf

Highly regarded Old Testament scholar John Goldingay offers a substantive and useful commentary on Hosea through Micah and explores the contemporary significance of these prophetic books. This volume, the first in a new series on the Prophets, complements the successful series Baker Commentary on the Old Testament: Wisdom and Psalms (series volumes have sold over 55,000 copies). Each series volume is both critically engaged and sensitive to the theological contributions of the text. Series editors are Mark J. Boda and J. Gordon McConville.

Author : André Maurois
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : UVA:X002150209

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Poets and Prophets by André Maurois Pdf

Author : Rhiannon Graybill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190082314

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Texts After Terror by Rhiannon Graybill Pdf

"It is widely recognized that the Hebrew Bible is filled with rape and sexual violence. However, feminist approaches to the topic remain dominated by Phyllis Trible's 1984 Texts of Terror, which describes feminist criticism as a practice of "telling sad stories." Pushing beyond Trible, Texts after Terror offers a new framework for reading biblical sexual violence, one that draws on recent work in feminist, queer, and affect theory and activism against sexual violence and rape culture. In the Hebrew Bible as in the contemporary world, sexual violence is frequently fuzzy, messy, and icky. Fuzzy names the ambiguity and confusion that often surround experiences of sexual violence. Messy identifies the consequences of rape, while also describing messy sex and bodies. Icky points out the ways that sexual violence fails to fit into neat patterns of evil perpetrators and innocent victims. Building on these concepts, Texts after Terror offers a number of new feminist strategies and approaches to sexual violence: critiquing the framework of consent, offering new models of sexual harm, emphasizing the importance of relationships between women (even in the context of stories of heterosexual rape), reading biblical rape texts with and through contemporary texts written by survivors, advocating for "unhappy reading" that makes unhappiness and open-endedness into key feminist sites of possibility. Texts after Terror also discusses a wide range of biblical rape stories, including Dinah (Gen. 43), Tamar (2 Sam. 13), Lot's daughters (Gen. 19), Bathsheba (2 Sam. 11), Hagar (Gen. 16 and 21), Daughter Zion (Lam. 1 and 2), and the Levite's concubine (Judg. 19)"--

Author : Francis Landy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780198856696

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Poetry, Catastrophe, and Hope in the Vision of Isaiah by Francis Landy Pdf

The book of Isaiah is one of the longest and strangest books of the Hebrew Bible, composed over several centuries and traversing the catastrophe that befell the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the 8th and 6th centuries BCE. Francis Landy's book tells the story of the poetic response to catastrophe, and the hope for a new and perfect world on the other side. The study traces two parallel developments: the displacement of the Davidic promise onto the Persian Empire, Israel, and the prophet himself; and the transition from exclusively male images of the deity to the matching of male and female prototypes, whereby YHWH takes the place of the warrior goddess. Utopia, Catastrophe, and Poetry in the Book of Isaiah consists of close readings of individual passages in Isaiah, commencing with Chapter One and the problems of beginning, and ending with Deutero-Isaiah, composed subsequent to the Babylonian exile. The volume is arranged thematically as well as sequentially: the first chapter following the introduction concerns gender, the second death, the third the Oracles about the Nations. At the centre there is what Landy calls 'the constitutive enigma', Isaiah's commission in his vision to speak so that people will not understand. This renders the entire book potentially incomprehensible; the more we try to understand it, the greater the difficulty. For Landy, this creates a model of reading and writing, the challenge and the risk of going up blind alleys, of trying to make sense of a disastrous world. Isaiah's commission pervades the book. Throughout there is a promise of an age of clarity as well as social and political transformation, which is always deferred beyond the horizon. Hence it is a book without an ending, or with multiple endings. In the final chapters, the author turns to the central Chapter Thirty-Three, a mise-en-abyme of the book and a prayer for deliverance, and the issues of exile and the possibility of return. Like every poetic work, particularly in an era of cultural collapse, it is a critique of the past and a hope for a new humanity.

Author : William W. Klein,Craig L. Blomberg,Robert L. Hubbard, Jr.
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310524182

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Introduction to Biblical Interpretation by William W. Klein,Craig L. Blomberg,Robert L. Hubbard, Jr. Pdf

Introduction to Biblical Interpretation, now in its third edition, is a classic hermeneutics textbook that sets forth concise, logical, and practical guidelines for discovering the truth in God’s Word. With updates and revisions throughout that keep pace with current scholarship, this book offers students the best and most up-to-date information needed to interpret Scripture. Introduction to Biblical Interpretation: Defines and describes hermeneutics, the science of biblical interpretation Suggests effective methods to understand the meaning of the biblical text Surveys the literary, cultural, social, and historical issues that impact any text Evaluates both traditional and modern approaches to Bible interpretation Examines the reader’s role as an interpreter of the text and helps identify what the reader brings to the text that could distort its message Tackles the problem of how to apply the Bible in valid and significant ways today Provides an extensive and revised annotated list of books that readers will find helpful in the practice of biblical interpretation Used in college and seminary classrooms around the world, this volume is a trusted and valuable tool for students and other readers who desire to understand and apply the Bible.

Author : David G. Firth,Brittany N. Melton
Publisher : Lexham Academic
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781683596578

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Reading the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets by David G. Firth,Brittany N. Melton Pdf

The promise and peril in reading the Minor Prophets. Reading the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets confronts the unique challenges presented by this daunting section of the Old Testament. On Reading the Twelve Minor Prophets (David G. Firth and Brittany N. Melton) Hosea: Marriage, Violence, and Yahweh's Lament (Isabelle M. Hamley) Reading Joel within and without the Book of the Twelve (Tchavdar S. Hadjiev) The Use and Abuse of Technology: Habakkuk's Ancient Critique in a Modern World (Heath A. Thomas) Luther's Lectures on Habakkuk as an Example of Participatory Exegesis (Thomas Renz) Perspectives on Theodicy in Habakkuk and Malachi vis-à-vis Job (S. D. Snyman) The New Covenant in the Book of the Twelve (Anthony R. Petterson) Filled, Empowered, Dwelling, Trembling, and Fleeing: Mapping God's Spirit and Presence in the Book of the Twelve (Beth M. Stovell) Furry, Feathery, and Fishy Friends—and Insects—in the Book of the Twelve (Julie Woods) Twelve Books, One Theology? (John Goldingay) Authors from a variety of perspectives consider questions about hermeneutics and composition, reception history, theodicy, metaphors and characterization, and theology. These essays provide insights from the history of interpretation and the latest in scholarship.

Author : Graham R. Hamborg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108482387

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Hosea, Joel, and Amos by Graham R. Hamborg Pdf

This commentary offers a timely and up to date assessment of the books of Hosea, Joel and Amos, and shares the best of contemporary Old Testament scholarship in non-technical language and an accessible style. It enables an appreciation of the books of Hosea, Joel and Amos as literary texts with continuing theological value.

Author : Martti Nissinen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110467765

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Prophetic Divination by Martti Nissinen Pdf

Prophecy was a wide-spread phenomenon in the ancient world - not only in ancient Israel but in the whole Eastern Mediterranean cultural sphere. This is demonstrated by documents from the ancient Near East, that have been the object of Martti Nissinen’s research for more than twenty years. Nissinen's studies have had a formative influence on the study of the prophetic phenomenon. The present volume presents a selection of thirty-one essays, bringing together essential aspects of prophetic divination in the ancient Near East. The first section of the volume discusses prophecy from theoretical perspectives. The second sections contains studies on prophecy in texts from Mari and Assyria and other cuneiform sources. The third section discusses biblical prophecy in its ancient Near Eastern context, while the fourth section focuses on prophets and prophecy in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Even prophecy in the Dead Sea Scrolls is discussed in the fifth section. The articles are essential reading for anyone studying ancient prophetic phenomenon.

Author : Ehud Ben Zvi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110546514

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Social Memory among the Literati of Yehud by Ehud Ben Zvi Pdf

Ehud Ben Zvi has been at the forefront of exploring how the study of social memory contributes to our understanding of the intellectual worldof the literati of the early Second Temple period and their textual repertoire. Many of his studies on the matter and several new relevant works are here collected together providing a very useful resource for furthering research and teaching in this area. The essays included here address, inter alia, prophets as sites of memory, kings as sites memory, Jerusalem as a site of memory, a mnemonic system shaped by two interacting ‘national’ histories, matters of identity and othering as framed and explored via memories, mnemonic metanarratives making sense of the past and serving various didactic purposes and their problems, memories of past and futures events shared by the literati, issues of gender constructions and memory, memories understood by the group as ‘counterfactual’ and their importance, and, in multiple ways, how and why shared memories served as a (safe) playground for exploring multiple, central ideological issues within the group and of generative grammars governing systemic preferences and dis-preferences for particular memories.

Author : George Wishart Anderson,A. Graeme Auld
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781850754275

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Understanding Poets and Prophets by George Wishart Anderson,A. Graeme Auld Pdf

Author : Andrew P. Wilson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004424050

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Critical Entanglements: Postmodern Theory and Biblical Studies by Andrew P. Wilson Pdf

In Critical Entanglements: Postmodern Theory and Biblical Studies, Andrew P. Wilson tracks the various strands of postmodernism threaded through the discipline, drawing on a range of evocative biblical readings as well as key examples from the art world.

Author : Peter Machinist,Robert A. Harris,Nili Samet,Noga Ayali-Darshan
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884145370

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Ve-’Ed Ya‘aleh (Gen 2 by Peter Machinist,Robert A. Harris,Nili Samet,Noga Ayali-Darshan Pdf

Sixty-six colleagues, friends, and former students of Edward L. Greenstein present essays honoring him upon his retirement. Throughout Greenstein's half-century career he demonstrated expertise in a host of areas astonishing in its breadth and depth, and each of the essays in these two volumes focuses on an area of particular interest to him. Volume 1 includes essays on ancient Near Eastern studies, Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic languages, and biblical law and narrative. Volume 2 includes essays on biblical wisdom and poetry, biblical reception and exegesis, and postmodern readings of the Bible.

Author : Mark J. Boda,Dalit Rom-Shiloni
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567696366

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Crossing Borders between the Domestic and the Wild by Mark J. Boda,Dalit Rom-Shiloni Pdf

The present volume searches for different biblical perceptions of the wild, paying particular attention to the significance of fluid boundaries between the domestic and the wild, and to the options of crossing borders between them. Drawing on space, fauna, and flora, scholars investigate the ways biblical authors present the wild and the domestic and their interactions. In its six chapters and two responses, Hebrew Bible scholars, an archaeobotanist, an archaeologist, a geographer, and iconographers join forces to discuss the wild and its portrayals in biblical literature.The discussions bring to light the entire spectrum of real, imagined, metaphorized, and conceptualized forms of the wild that appear in biblical sources, as also in the material culture and agriculture of ancient Israel, and to some extent observe the great gap between biblical observations and modern studies of geography and of mapping that marks the distinctions between “the wilderness” and “the sown.” The book is the first written product presented on two consecutive years (2019, 2020) at the SBL Annual Meetings in the Section: “Nature Imagery and Conceptions of Nature in the Bible.”

Author : Eitan P. Fishbane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199948642

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The Art of Mystical Narrative by Eitan P. Fishbane Pdf

In the study of Judaism, the Zohar has captivated the minds of interpreters for over seven centuries, and continues to entrance readers in contemporary times. Yet despite these centuries of study, very little attention has been devoted to the literary dimensions of the text, or to formal appreciation of its status as one of the great works of religious literature. The Art of Mystical Narrative offers a critical approach to the zoharic story, seeking to explore the interplay between fictional discourse and mystical exegesis. Eitan Fishbane argues that the narrative must be understood first and foremost as a work of the fictional imagination, a representation of a world and reality invented by the thirteenth-century authors of the text. He claims that the text functions as a kind of dramatic literature, one in which the power of revealing mystical secrets is demonstrated and performed for the reading audience. The Art of Mystical Narrative offers a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on the Zohar and on the intersections of literary and religious studies.