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Author : Octavio Alvarez
Publisher : Stockbridge, Mass. : H. Reichner
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015002765306
Author : Lynn R. Huber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567349576
The phrase "like a bride adorned" is one of the ways Revelation describes the new Jerusalem which descends from heaven. This phrase can also be read as describing one of the ways interpreters historically have understood the relationship between Revelation and its metaphorical language. In contrast to views that suggest Revelation's metaphorical language is simple adornment, Huber argues that Revelation's persuasive power resides within the text's metaphorical nature and she articulates a method for exploring how Revelation employs metaphor to shape an audience's thought. In order to gain a sense of how metaphorical language works in Revelation's highly metaphorical text,"Like a Bride Adorned:" Reading Metaphor in John's Apocalypse engages one set of conceptual metaphors in relation to Revelation's literary and social-historical milieu. Specifically, Huber explores the conceptual metaphors undergirding Revelation's nuptial or bridal imagery. Positioned at the culmination of the text's, nuptial imagery serves as one the text's final and arguably one of its most important characterizations of the Christian community. Examining the function of Revelation's nuptial imagery involves investigating how the text redeploys conventional metaphorical constructions used in the writings of the Hebrew prophets and how its imagery engages Greco-Roman depictions of women, weddings, and brides. Discourse about marriage and family was such an important part of Revelation's historical context, especially as it was shaped by the Roman Empire, that any discussion of the text's nuptial imagery must examine how it reflects and responds to this discourse. By addressing these questions, we see that Revelation's nuptial imagery serves to further the text's goal of shaping Christian identity in opposition to the social demands of the Roman Empire. Moreover, exploration of the conceptual metaphors undergirding Revelation's "bride adorned" reveals how John seeks to shape Christian identity as a transitional identity. Through metaphor, Revelation encourages its audience to envision the Christian community as a bride who constructs "her" own identity as she transitions into a new role in relation to God and the Lamb. Through the process of exploring Revelation's nuptial imagery with insights gained from conceptual metaphor theory, we uncover the ways that John employs metaphorical language to persuade his audience's thought about themselves and about others. Consequently, this work contributes both to our understanding of the text's nuptial imagery and to our knowledge of how Revelation employs metaphor as tool for persuasion.
Author : Andrei A. Orlov
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438466927
A wide-ranging analysis of heavenly twin imagery in early Jewish extrabiblical texts. The idea of a heavenly double—an angelic twin of an earthbound human—can be found in Christian, Manichaean, Islamic, and Kabbalistic traditions. Scholars have long traced the lineage of these ideas to Greco-Roman and Iranian sources. In The Greatest Mirror, Andrei A. Orlov shows that heavenly twin imagery drew in large part from early Jewish writings. The Jewish pseudepigrapha—books from the Second Temple period that were attributed to biblical figures but excluded from the Hebrew Bible—contain accounts of heavenly twins in the form of spirits, images, faces, children, mirrors, and angels of the Presence. Orlov provides a comprehensive analysis of these traditions in their full historical and interpretive complexity. He focuses on heavenly alter egos of Enoch, Moses, Jacob, Joseph, and Aseneth in often neglected books, including Animal Apocalypse, Book of the Watchers, 2 Enoch, Ladder of Jacob, and Joseph and Aseneth, some of which are preserved solely in the Slavonic language. Andrei A. Orlov is Professor of Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity at Marquette University. He is the author of Dark Mirrors: Azazel and Satanael in Early Jewish Demonology and Divine Scapegoats: Demonic Mimesis in Early Jewish Mysticism, both also published by SUNY Press.
Author : Aiyangar Narayan
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8120601408
Author : Philip Gell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600094705
Author : Aryeh Wineman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691058334
Zohar is the central text of the Jewish Kabbalah. This collection presents original translations of eight of the most well developed narratives in the Zohar along with notes and detailed commentary. These tales deal with themes of sin and repentance, death, exile, redemption, and resurrection. Most importantly, they are literature and are here analyzed as such.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Canary Islands
ISBN : STANFORD:36105014837251
Author : Hildegard (von Bingen)
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801485479
For this revised edition of Hildegard's liturgical song cycle, Barbara Newman has redone her prose translations of the songs, updated the bibliography and discography, and made other minor changes. Also included is an essay by Marianne Richert Pfau which delineates the connection between music and text in the Symphonia. Famous throughout Europe during her lifetime, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was a composer and a poet, a writer on theological, scientific, and medical subjects, an abbess, and a visionary prophet. One of the very few female composers of the Middle Ages whose work has survived, Hildegard was neglected for centuries until her liturgical song cycle was rediscovered. Songs from it are now being performed regularly by early music groups, and more than twenty compact discs have been recorded.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000620376
Author : Susan Doran,Thomas S. Freeman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230214156
Elizabeth I is one of England's most admired and celebrated rulers. She is also one of its most iconic: her image is familiar from paintings, film and television. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the origins and development of the image and myths that came to surround the Virgin Queen. The essays question the prevailing assumptions about the mythic Elizabeth and challenge the view that she was unambiguously celebrated in the literature and portraiture of the early modern era. They explain how the most familiar myths surrounding the queen developed from the concerns of her contemporaries and yet continue to reverberate today. Published to mark the 400th anniversary of the queen's death, this volume will appeal to all those with an interest in the historiography of Elizabeth's reign and Elizabethan, and Jacobean, poets, dramatists and artists.
Author : James Tod
Publisher : London : Smith, Elder
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : British Occupation of India (1765-1947)
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000139310
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020378771
Author : Andrew Weeks
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0791405974
This is a biography of one of the most original and one of the least understood seminal writers of the Baroque world, Jacob Boehme. In a period tormented by mysteries and controversies, Boehmes visionary mysticism responded to the vexing quandaries confronting his contemporaries. His concerns included the apocalyptic religious disputes of his day, the havoc wrought by the Thirty Years War in his region, the disintegration of the Old Middle European order, the rise of new cosmic models from avant-garde heliocentrism to obscure esoteric theories, and his endeavor to express by means of codes and symbols a new sense of the human, divine, and natural realms.
Author : James Fergusson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1106 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Architecture
ISBN : BSB:BSB10059318
Author : Frank Graziano
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195136401
St. Rose of Lima (Isabel Flores y Oliva, 1586-1617) was canonized in 1671 as the first saint of the New World and Patron of the Americas. In this engrossing new biography, Frank Graziano offers the most comprehensive examination of the life of Rose to appear in any language. An obscure, self-mortifying mystic, Rose seems a strange choice for the distinction of first American saint. Graziano argues that the cult that grew up around St. Rose during her life and greatly expanded after her death was seen by both Church and State as a challenge and even a threat to authority. For that reason, he contends, the Church acted quickly to render her harmless by "bringing her into the fold." Graziano goes on to consider Rose's ascetic Christianity in its cultural context. He seeks to discover why the severe austerities and mortifications of female piety that today are regarded as psychopathological were lauded as exemplary means of worship in the seventeenth century. In fact, he shows, St.; Rose's behavior and experiences were initially regarded as pathological by many significant observers within her own culture, but such assessments were gradually dismissed as her saintly image was constructed. Drawing on key archival sources and the insights offered by psychoanalytic theory, Graziano constructs a compelling portrait of one of the Catholic Church's most beloved saints.