The Powers Of Personification

Author : Joseph R. Dodson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110209778

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The 'Powers' of Personification by Joseph R. Dodson Pdf

While scholars have often found value in comparing Wisdom and Romans, a comparison of the use of personification in these works has not yet been made, despite the striking parallels between them. Furthermore, while scholars have studied many of these personifications in detail, no one has investigated an individual personification with respect to the general use of the trope in the work. Instead, most of this research focuses on a personification in relation to its nature as either a rhetorical device or a supernatural power. The “Powers” of Personification seeks to push beyond this debate by evaluating the evidence in a different light – that of its purpose within the overall use of personification in the respective work and in comparison with another piece of contemporaneous theological literature. This book proposes that the authors of Wisdom and Romans employ personification to distance God from the origin of evil, to deflect attention away from the problem of righteous suffering to the positive sides of the experience, or to defer the solution for the suffering of the righteous to the future.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004410732

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Scribal Practice, Text and Canon in the Dead Sea Scrolls by Anonim Pdf

This volume contains 17 essays on the subjects of text, canon, and scribal practice. It provides an overview of the Qumran evidence for text and canon of the Bible, an essay on the development of Hebrew and thematic studies.

Author : Jason Crawford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198788041

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Allegory and Enchantment by Jason Crawford Pdf

Jason Crawford explores the emergence of modernity by investigating the early modern poetics of allegorical narrative. He focuses on four major allegorical narratives produced in the period: William Langland's Piers Plowman, John Skelton's The Bowge of Courte, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Christianity
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172133419888

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The Christian Philosophy Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Includes: American Institute of Christian Philosophy. Proceedings of the Institute.

Author : Charles Force Deems,John Bancroft Devins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : UOM:39015067955032

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Christian Thought by Charles Force Deems,John Bancroft Devins Pdf

Author : Francisco Barrenechea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107191167

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Comedy and Religion in Classical Athens by Francisco Barrenechea Pdf

Re-examines Aristophanes' engagement with Greek religion by studying his dramatization of traditional stories of religious experiences.

Author : Alec J. Lucas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110384642

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Evocations of the Calf? by Alec J. Lucas Pdf

This study proposes that both constitutively and rhetorically (through ironic, inferential, and indirect application), Ps 106(105) serves as the substructure for Paul’s argumentation in Rom 1:18–2:11. Constitutively, Rom 1:18–32 hinges on the triadic interplay between “they (ex)changed” and “God gave them over,” an interplay that creates a sin–retribution sequence with an a-ba-ba-b pattern. Both elements of this pattern derive from Ps 106(105):20, 41a respectively. Rhetorically, Paul ironically applies the psalmic language of idolatrous “(ex)change” and God’s subsequent “giving-over” to Gentiles. Aiding this ironic application is that Paul has cast his argument in the mold of Hellenistic Jewish polemic against Gentile idolatry and immorality, similar to Wis 13–15. In Rom 2:1–4, however, Paul inferentially incorporates a hypocritical Jewish interlocutor into the preceding sequence through the charge of doing the “same,” a charge that recalls Israel’s sins recounted in Ps 106(105). This incorporation then gives way to an indirect application of Ps 106(105):23, by means of an allusion to Deut 9–10 in Rom 2:5–11. Secondarily, this study suggests that Paul’s argumentation exploits an intra-Jewish debate in which evocations of the golden calf figured prominently.

Author : Robert Plant Armstrong
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512800074

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The Powers of Presence by Robert Plant Armstrong Pdf

Chiefly considering African and Upper Paleolithic work, Armstrong demonstrates that concepts of beauty, truth, and excellence are irrelevant in developing the aesthetic of a specific culture. By developing a unique aesthetic typology, he offers a reinterpretation of non-Western art that integrates human consciousness and its reification as art. More than eighty handsome photographs and drawings are included.

Author : James Kalomiris
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781982226381

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The Vedic Astrologer by James Kalomiris Pdf

This volume is newest installment of the series, The Secret History of the Vedas. This is a book of astrology like no other. This book presents an entirely new view of astrology as originally conceived by the Vedic astrologer. The Spiritual Legacy of the Nakshatras focuses on the Vedic lunar mansions in the sky and attempts to reveal their wisdom. It attempts to explain the numerous references to all things astronomical and astrological according to the Vedas and explain the true purpose of reading the stars. It traces the creation of the universe from the very beginnings of time and space to the development of the Nakshatras. It shows how this evolution guides the worshiper in the spiritual journey. The Vedic astrologer also describes the wisdom contained in the Nakshatras and methods by which this wisdom may be incorporated into the worshiper’s life. Because this is what the Nakshatras have to give. The purpose of the lunar mansions was not to tell the future, but to guide the worshiper, to provide the religious edification of the worshiper in the now and present, and to provide the spiritual and religious structure to the Vedic dharma. Accordingly, this book is not concerned with forecasting into the future. It is as astrology was intended to be—a vehicle of spiritual advancement. It is all explained in and through The Vedic Astrologer.

Author : Campbell Jones
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781782790853

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Can The Market Speak? by Campbell Jones Pdf

It is said the market has moods and desires. It is said that we must listen to it and must anticipate how it will respond to our actions. What is the significance of these peculiar forms of speech? This book investigates the conceptual underpinnings of the idea that the market has intentions, consciousness and speech, and identifies the social and political consequences of this attribution to the market of capacities generally thought to be uniquely human. At once a work of philosophy, a cultural and social archaeology and a diagnosis of one of the central ideologies of our times, this book cuts to the heart of the linguistic forms through which our collective futures are decided. ,

Author : Richard A. Horsley
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451416992

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Jesus and the Powers by Richard A. Horsley Pdf

Refusing a false dichotomy between 'politics' and 'religion' in Jesus' world (and our own), Richard A. Horsley explores Jesus' response to the imperial power of his day. Jesus and the Powers highlight the relevance of political realities under great empires for the rise of covenantal theology and apocalyptic vision in Israel's history; situates aspects of Jesus' prophetic and exorcising activity in the context of the Roman Empire; and shows how the character of his death by crucifixion itself galvanized the movement around him as his followers shaped a new community life in the shadow of imperial powers.

Author : Hans Martensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Lutheran Church
ISBN : NYPL:33433068239387

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Christian Dogmatics by Hans Martensen Pdf

Author : Marta Degani,Werner Delanoy
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823304814

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Power in Language, Culture, Literature and Education by Marta Degani,Werner Delanoy Pdf

In one of the contributions to this edited volume an interviewee argues that "English is power". For researchers in the field of English Studies this raises the questions of where the power of English resides and which types and practices of power are implied in the uses of English. Linguists, scholars of literature and culture, and language educators address aspects of these questions in a wide range of contributions. The book shows that the power of English can oscillate between empowerment and subjection, on the one hand enabling humans to develop manifold capabilities and on the other constraining their scope of action and reflection. In this edited volume, a case is made for self-critical English Studies to be dialogic, empowering and power-critical in approach.

Author : Chris Entwistle
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781785702747

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Through a Glass Brightly by Chris Entwistle Pdf

The twenty-five papers in this volume cover diverse aspects of the material culture of the late Roman, Byzantine and Medieval periods, with particular emphasis on the metalwork and enamel of these times. Individual papers include major reinterpretations of objects in the British Museum's Byzantine collections as well as essays devoted to the Museum's recent acquisitions in this field. The volume celebrates the retirement of David Buckton, for over twenty years the curator of the British Museum's Early Christian and Byzantine collections and the National Icon Collection.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Europe
ISBN : UCAL:$B742347

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Ancient and Modern History by Anonim Pdf