Sacred History Sacred Literature

Author : Richard Elliott Friedman
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015079336619

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Sacred History, Sacred Literature by Richard Elliott Friedman Pdf

Richard Friedman is well known in the field of biblical studies, not only because of his contributions to the study of the Hebrew Bible (which are many) but also because he has written cogently and clearly for a much wider audience, outside the academy, most notably in his Who Wrote the Bible? (1997). In addition, his influence has crossed the boundaries of a variety of disciplines such as source criticism, archaeology, the ancient Near East, as well as religious studies. The essays in this volume reflect the breadth and depth of Richard Friedman's life and work. Several contributors discuss topics related to the Hebrew Bible: for example, Jacob Milgrom examines the relationship between Ezekiel and the Levites and Carol Meyers discusses the Tabernacle texts in the context of Priestly influence on them; Ronald Hendel, Michael Homan, and Robert Wilson explore the history of source criticism, with detailed source-critical analysis of Genesis 1-11 and the book of Kings. Jeffrey Geoghegan discusses the origins of the Passover in one of several insightful essays under the topic "Israel and the Ancient Near East." Among the contributions specific to archaeology, Baruch Halpern's provides a provocative "Defense of Forgery." Lastly, four contributors (e.g., Alan Cooper) discuss religion and religious studies, along with ramifications for contemporary application. A fine collection of contemporary topics discussed by leading scholars in the field.

Author : Richard Elliott Friedman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498294935

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The Creation of Sacred Literature by Richard Elliott Friedman Pdf

"The study of the Bible is at a vital juncture." Thus begins this merger of a stellar group of scholars of both literary and historical perspectives on the Hebrew Bible: Robert Alter, Baruch Halpern, Shemaryahu Talmon, Jacob Milgrom, Nahum Sarna, and Jack Miles, and edited by Richard Elliott Friedman. In this seminal work they raise questions of conception, technique, and audience, treating of both the Bible's authors and editors. At bottom, the question that all are addressing is: in what way(s) is the study of the Bible different from the study of other literature? Their answers, it should come as no surprise, all have to do with the Bible's special life as sacred literature. Book jacket.

Author : Aníbal Gonzalez
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822983026

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In Search of the Sacred Book by Aníbal Gonzalez Pdf

In Search of the Sacred Book studies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin American novel. It departs from sociopolitical readings by noting the continued relevance of religion in Latin American life and culture, despite modernity’s powerful secularizing influence. Analyzing Jorge Luis Borges’s secularized “narrative theology” in his essays and short stories, the book follows the development of the Latin American novel from the early twentieth century until today by examining the attempts of major novelists, from María Luisa Bombal, Alejo Carpentier, and Juan Rulfo, to Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and José Lezama Lima, to “sacralize” the novel by incorporating traits present in the sacred texts of many religions. It concludes with a view of the “desacralization” of the novel by more recent authors, from Elena Poniatowska and Fernando Vallejo to Roberto Bolaño.

Author : Jonathan Black
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1780874871

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The Sacred History by Jonathan Black Pdf

'The Sacred History' is an account of the workings of the supernatural in history. It tells the epic story of angels from creation to evolution, through to the operations of the supernatural in the modern world.

Author : Richard Elliott Friedman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520096371

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The Creation of Sacred Literature by Richard Elliott Friedman Pdf

Author : Jordan T. Watkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478144

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Slavery and Sacred Texts by Jordan T. Watkins Pdf

An analysis of the development of historical consciousness in antebellum America, using the debate over slavery as a case study.

Author : Katherine Van Liere,Simon Ditchfield,Howard Louthan
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199594795

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Sacred History by Katherine Van Liere,Simon Ditchfield,Howard Louthan Pdf

The first geographically broad, comparative survey of early modern 'sacred history', or writing on the history of the Christian Church, its leaders and saints, and its internal developments, in the two centuries from c. 1450 to c. 1650.

Author : Marek Winiarczyk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110294880

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The "Sacred History" of Euhemerus of Messene by Marek Winiarczyk Pdf

In his utopian novel Hiera Anagraphe (Sacred History) Euhemerus of Messene (ca. 300 B.C.) describes his travel to the island Panchaia in the Indian Ocean where he discovered an inscribed stele in the temple of Zeus Triphylius. It turned out that the Olympian gods (Uranos, Kronos, Zeus) were deified kings. The travels of Zeus allowed to describe peoples and places all over the world. Winiarczyk investigates the sources of the theological views of Euhemerus. He proves that Euhemerus’ religious views were rooted in old Greek tradition (the worship of heroes, gods as founders of their own cult, tombs of gods, euergetism, rationalistic interpretation of myths, the explanations of the origin of religion by the sophists, the ruler cult). The description of the Panchaian society is intended to suggest an archaic and closed culture, in which the stele recording res gestae of the deified kings might have been preserved. The translation of Ennius’ Euhemerus sive Sacra historia (ca. 200 - ca. 194) is a free prose rendering, which Lactantius knew only indirectly. The book is concluded by a short history of Euhemerism in the pagan, Christian and Jewish literature.

Author : Heinz Edgar Kiewe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Knitting
ISBN : LCCN:2001336761

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The Sacred History of Knitting by Heinz Edgar Kiewe Pdf

Author : James Washington Watts
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1781795762

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Sensing Sacred Texts by James Washington Watts Pdf

All the human senses become engaged in ritualizing sacred texts. These essays focus especially on ritualizing the iconic dimension of texts through the senses of sight, touch, kiss, and taste, both directly and in the imagination. Ritualized display of books engages the sense of sight very differently than does reading. Touching gets associated with reading scriptures, but touching also enables using the scripture as an amulet. Eating and consuming texts is a ubiquitous analogy for internalizing the contents of texts by reading and memorization. The idea of textual consumption reflects a widespread tendency to equate humans and written texts by their interiority and exteriority: books and people both have material bodies, yet both seem to contain immaterial ideas. Books thus physically incarnate cultural and religious values, doctrines, beliefs, and ideas. These essays bring theories of comparative scriptures and affect theory to bear on the topic as well as rich ethnographic descriptions of scriptural practices with Jewish, Sikh, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and modern art and historical accounts of changing practices with sacred texts in ancient and medieval China and Korea, and in ancient Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cultures.

Author : S. A. Nigosian
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0801879906

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From Ancient Writings to Sacred Texts by S. A. Nigosian Pdf

Nigosian explores the diverse literary antecedents of the Old Testament as well as the Apocrypha -- books excluded from the canonical Hebrew text but included in the Septuagint.

Author : Lee Martin McDonald,Stanley E. Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110151037

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Early Christianity and Its Sacred Literature by Lee Martin McDonald,Stanley E. Porter Pdf

More than sixty color pictures by noted photographer Richard Cleave enhance the more than fifty black and white images, maps, and charts."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : John Sawyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134801398

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Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts by John Sawyer Pdf

Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts is the first comprehensive study of the role of languages and texts in the religions of the Greco-Roman world, including Judaism and Christianity. It explores bilingualism, language learning, literacy, book production and translation, as well as some of the more explicitly religious factors, including beliefs about language, missionary zeal, ritual, conservatism and the power of a priestly establishment. Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts sheds new light on the role of the power of words, spoken and written, in religion.

Author : Charles F Horne,Austin And Lipscomb Parke
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016590547

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The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East by Charles F Horne,Austin And Lipscomb Parke Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Nancy Thomson de Grummond
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1931707863

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Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend by Nancy Thomson de Grummond Pdf

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "all relevant illustrations from the book, arranged in alphabetical order according to mythological character. To increase the usefulness of the [CD-ROM], supplementary images not in the book have been added[.]"--P. xv.