Sacred Texts Interpreted

Author : John Renard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520274198

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Fighting Words by John Renard Pdf

One of the critical issues in interreligious relations today is the connection, both actual and perceived, between sacred sources and the justification of violent acts as divinely mandated. Fighting Words makes solid text-based scholarship accessible to the general public, beginning with the premise that a balanced approach to religious pluralism in our world must build on a measured, well-informed response to the increasingly publicized and sensationalized association of terrorism and large-scale violence with religion. In his introduction, Renard provides background on the major scriptures of seven religious traditions—Jewish, Christian (including both the Old and New Testaments), Islamic, Baha’i, Zoroastrian, Hindu, and Sikh. Eight chapters then explore the interpretation of select facets of these scriptures, focusing on those texts so often claimed, both historically and more recently, as inspiration and justification for every kind of violence, from individual assassination to mass murder. With its nuanced consideration of a complex topic, this book is not merely about the religious sanctioning of violence but also about diverse ways of reading sacred textual sources.

Author : John Sawyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Aleister Crowley
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : EAN:8596547793373

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The Book Of Lies by Aleister Crowley Pdf

The Book of Lies was written by English occultist and teacher Aleister Crowley under the pen name of Frater Perdurabo. As Crowley describes it: "This book deals with many matters on all planes of the very highest importance. It is an official publication for Babes of the Abyss, but is recommended even to beginners as highly suggestive." The book consists of 91 chapters, each of which consists of one page of text. The chapters include a question mark, poems, rituals, instructions, and obscure allusions and cryptograms. The subject of each chapter is generally determined by its number and its corresponding Qabalistic meaning.

Author : Robert Jameson
Publisher : IMOS.org.uk
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Dark Arts of Genius by Robert Jameson Pdf

Author : Jordan T. Watkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Vanessa Zoltan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780593088012

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Praying with Jane Eyre by Vanessa Zoltan Pdf

“In these soaring, open-hearted essays, Vanessa Zoltan writes with fierce brilliance about suffering, survival, and the kind of meaning in life that can withstand real scrutiny.”—John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and The Anthropocene Reviewed A deeply felt celebration of a classic novel--and a reflection on the ways our favorite books can shape and heal us. Our favorite books keep us company, give us hope, and help us find meaning in a chaotic world. In this fresh and relatable work, atheist chaplain Vanessa Zoltan blends memoir and personal growth as she grapples with the notions of family legacy and identity through the lens of her favorite novel, Jane Eyre. Informed by the reading practices of medieval monks and rabbinic scholars from her training at the Harvard Divinity School and filtered through the pages of Jane Eyre as well as Little Women, Harry Potter, and The Great Gatsby, Zoltan explores topics ranging from the trauma she has inherited as the granddaughter of four Holocaust survivors to finding hope, meaning, and even magic in our deeply fractured times. Brimming with a lifelong love of classic literature and the tenderness of self-reflection, the book also reveals simple techniques for reading any work as a sacred text--from Virginia Woolf to Anne of Green Gables to baseball scorecards. Whether you're an avowed "Eyrehead" or simply a curious reader looking for a richer connection with the written word, this deeply felt and inspiring book will light the way to a more intimate appreciation for whatever books you love to read.

Author : Savvas Agouridēs,Theodore G. Stylianopoulos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1885652860

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Sacred Text and Interpretation by Savvas Agouridēs,Theodore G. Stylianopoulos Pdf

Author : David Ganz,Barbara Schellewald
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110558609

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Clothing Sacred Scriptures by David Ganz,Barbara Schellewald Pdf

According to a longstanding interpretation, book religions are agents of textuality and logocentrism. This volume inverts the traditional perspective: its focus is on the strong dependency between scripture and aesthetics, holy books and material artworks, sacred texts and ritual performances. The contributions, written by a group of international specialists in Western, Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish Art, are committed to a comparative and transcultural approach. The authors reflect upon the different strategies of »clothing« sacred texts with precious materials and elaborate forms. They show how the pretypographic cultures of the Middle Ages used book ornaments as media for building a close relation between the divine words and their human audience. By exploring how art shapes the religious practice of books, and how the religious use of books shapes the evolution of artistic practices this book contributes to a new understanding of the deep nexus between sacred scripture and art.

Author : George William Russell
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781613102794

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The Candle of Vision by George William Russell Pdf

Author : D. Jasper,George Steiner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993-08-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781349228416

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Translating Religious Texts by D. Jasper,George Steiner Pdf

Author : Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala,Angel Urbán
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bible
ISBN : 363159741X

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Sacred Text by Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala,Angel Urbán Pdf

This book, which gathers seventeen contributions, investigates some lexical and textual aspects in the 'sacred texts' - like the Bible in its several textual traditions, and the Qur'ān -, particulary those elements that serve to provide the textual structure with a lexical-semantic framework. These contributions have been focused on several linguistic aspects: etymologies, loanwords, the symbolic or figurative values of the terms used in the text, the syntagmatic potential of the words, and the literary reflection of the terms like the basic reading of the text and its subsequent comprehension.

Author : Carl Olson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781440841880

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Sacred Texts Interpreted [2 volumes] by Carl Olson Pdf

Covering the major monotheistic religions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—as well as selected Eastern religions and Bahá'í, Zoroastrianism, and Mormonism, this cross-cultural book offers excerpts of sacred texts and interprets passages to enable a deeper understanding of these religious writings. Sacred Texts Interpreted: Religious Documents Explained gives readers the opportunity to examine—directly—the primary sources of different religions and to better understand these texts through expert commentary on selected passages. The interpretative material investigates the nature of sacred texts along with the relationship between sacred scripture and canon, and it explains why these sacred texts have enduring significance and influence. The author provides suggestions on how to read a sacred text before turning to the textual selections from 13 religious traditions arranged alphabetically, beginning with the Bahá'í religion and ending with Zoroastrianism. Each chapter is devoted to the primary textual sources of a particular religious tradition and is prefaced by an introduction to the literature that places it within its historical and cultural heritage. The emphasis for each religion is on its foundational scriptures that are often considered sacred by its adherents. Readers will gain a much greater appreciation of how powerful religious texts have always been across human culture and throughout millennia—and of how religious thought and ideology have shaped daily life, built civilizations, inspired art and literature, and incited wars and violence.

Author : Miguel F. Brooks
Publisher : The Red Sea Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 1569020329

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A Modern Translation of the Kebra Nagast by Miguel F. Brooks Pdf

Lost for centuries, the Kebra Nagast (The Glory of Kings) is a truly majestic unveiling of ancient secrets. These pages were excised by royal decree from the authorized 1611 King James version of the Bible. Originally recorded in the ancient Ethiopian language (Ge'ez) by anonymous scribes, The Red Sea Press, Inc. and Kingston Publishers now bring you a complete, accurate modern English translation of this long suppressed account. Here is the most startling and fascinating revelation of hidden truths; not only revealing the present location of the Ark of the Covenant, but also explaining fully many of the puzzling questions on Biblical topics which have remained unanswered up to today.

Author : Evan Fales
Publisher : Gcrr Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736273906

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Reading Sacred Texts by Evan Fales Pdf

Drawing significantly on the work of Emile Durkheim and Claude Lévi-Strauss, this book proposes a way to navigate between two pitfalls that undermine comprehension of alien cultures and their sacred literature. First, it offers a vigorous defense of the principle of charity when interpreting religious texts. But this, then, must confront the oddity, even deep implausibility, of many religious claims. The "way out" of this dilemma takes seriously Durkheim's seminal hypothesis that religious belief systems reflect native efforts to understand the social realities of their society. It brings to bear Lévi-Strauss's claim that the structure of religious narratives reflects attempts to bring intellectual order to those realities in a way we can decipher through the use of certain analytic techniques. The next major element to this book is philosophical. What are such things as social roles, institutions, and conventions? Finding possible answers to that question enables the discovery of match-ups between religious concepts-of souls, gods, demons, and the like-and social realities, giving substance to Durkheim's general thesis. But what about the Bible? The second half of this book is devoted to exploring what the implications might be for an understanding of the origins of Judaism and Christianity. It does so by applying anthropological analyses to puzzles posed by stories found in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, especially the Gospel of Matthew. The upshot is both a political reading of the texts and a conceptual re-framing of such baffling claims as the doctrines of the Trinity, the Incarnation, and Transubstantiation.

Author : Dina El Omari,Simone Sinn,Anne Hege Grung
Publisher : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3374054307

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Transformative Readings of Sacred Scriptures by Dina El Omari,Simone Sinn,Anne Hege Grung Pdf

The interpretation of sacred scriptures engenders vivid debates in religious communities, both at the scholarly and grass-roots levels. Issues of debate are the hermeneutical assumptions, the methods of interpretation, and the constructive and harmful implications of certain readings. For Christian and Muslim communities, themes related to God's grace, violence, gender relations and ecology, are topical. As scholars from different contexts and faith backgrounds together interpret sacred texts they gain fresh insights into their meaning and their transformative dynamics. Essays by authors with expertise in scriptural interpretation, religious studies, pastoral care, philosophical theology, gender studies and pedagogy explore Christian and Muslim perspectives on scriptural interpretation, and discuss how to understand how God communicates with the world today.