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Author : H. G. Cocks
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226438665
The Roman Sodom -- City of destruction -- The end of the world -- Laws -- Histories -- Lust and morality in the (long) eighteenth century -- The discovery of Sodom, 1851
Author : H.G. Cocks
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226438832
The book of Genesis records the fiery fate of Sodom and Gomorrah—a storm of fire and brimstone was sent from heaven and, for the wickedness of the people, God destroyed the cities “and all the plains, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.” According to many Protestant theologians and commentators, one of the Sodomites’ many crimes was homoerotic excess. In Visions of Sodom, H. G. Cocks examines the many different ways in which the story of Sodom’s destruction provided a template for understanding homoerotic desire and behaviour in Britain between the Reformation and the nineteenth century. Sodom was not only a marker of sexual sins, but also the epitome of false—usually Catholic—religion, an exemplar of the iniquitous city, a foreshadowing of the world’s fiery end, an epitome of divine and earthly punishment, and an actual place that could be searched for and discovered. Visions of Sodom investigates each of these ways of reading Sodom’s annihilation in the three hundred years after the Reformation. The centrality of scripture to Protestant faith meant that Sodom’s demise provided a powerful origin myth of homoerotic desire and sexual excess, one that persisted across centuries, and retains an apocalyptic echo in the religious fundamentalism of our own time.
Author : Paul Hallam
Publisher : Verso
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1859840426
The biblical story of the destruction of Sodom has inspired countless literary visions. The city has elicited writing from Milton, Sade, Proust, Dostoevsky and Tournier, among others. This work contains an anthology of Sodom texts spanning several centuries. Paul Hallam has also provided his own reading of these languages of prejudice, obsession and desire in an extensive essay.
Author : K. Renato Lings
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781466987913
Love Lost in Translation systematically examines the biblical stories and passages that are generally assumed to deal with, or comment on, homoerotic relationships: Noah and Ham, Sodom and Gomorrah, Leviticus 18:22, Deuteronomy 23:1718, Judges 19, Romans 1:2627, and 1 Corinthians 6:9. K. Renato Lings convincingly demonstrates that mistranslations of these texts into Greek, Latin and other languages occurred early, and that serious errors continue to be committed by translators today. This explains the painful controversy about same-sex relationships, which has rocked Christian churches for decades. Love Lost in Translation proposes a fresh approach to translating the Bible by means of linguistic and literary criteria. As demonstrated throughout this ground-breaking book, the method enables readers to become acquainted with the literary sophistication, psychological insights and spiritual depth of the Bible. Combining meticulous scholarship with an accessible style, Love Lost in Translation provides a much-needed infusion of essential learning into a subject that affects millions of Bible readers today.
Author : Steven Collins,Latayne C. Scott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451684384
The fascinating, true account of the quest for one of the Old Testament’s most infamous cities. Like many Christians today in the academic world, Dr. Steven Collins felt pulled in different directions when it came to apparent conflicts between the Bible and scholarly research and theory—an intellectual crisis that inspired him to lay it all on the line as he set off to locate the lost city of Sodom. Recounting Dr. Collins’s quest for Sodom in absorbing detail, this adventure-cum-memoir reflects the tensions that define biblical archaeology as it narrates a tale of discovery. Readers follow “Dr. C” as he tracks down biblical, archaeological, and geographical clues to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, narrowing the list of possible sites as he weighs evidence and battles skeptics. Finally, he arrives at a single location that looms as the only option: a massive ancient ruin called Tall el-Hammam in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Many scholars who were initially opposed to Dr. Collins’s theory now concede that history books may need to be rewritten in light of his groundbreaking discovery. It—along with several other recent finds—is challenging the assumptions of academics and asserting a new voice in the controversy of biblical archaeology and the dispute over using the Bible as a credible historical source. *** From respected archaeologist Dr. Steven Collins and award-winning author Dr. Latayne C. Scott comes the fascinating, true account of the frustrating search and exciting excavation of the city the Bible calls Sodom, which scholars and others had “misplaced” for hundreds of years. Like many modern-day Christians, Dr. Collins struggled with what seemed to be a clash between his heritage of belief in the Bible and the research regarding ancient history and human evolution. This crisis of faith led him to embark on a quest to put both his archaeological education and the Bible to the test by seeking out the lost ancient city, an expedition that has led to one of the most exciting finds in recent archaeology. Challenging the assumptions of academics around the world, Discovering the City of Sodom may well inspire a revision of the history books. Dr. Collins has become a new voice in the controversy over using the Bible as a credible source of understanding the past—and opened a new chapter in the struggle over the soul of biblical archaeology.
Author : Guy De Marco,E. S. Wynn,Gary Hewitt
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1540836096
Multiple authors offer alternative visions of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. No Lot. No Lot's wife. No Lot's daughters. Just people struggling to survive.
Author : J. David Bleich
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : 087068891X
Representative selections from the writings of major medieval Jewish philosophers are used to explain and heighten awareness of crucial areas of Jewish belief. They refute the notion that Judaism has no dogmas.
Author : Kari Kloos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004191297
Early Christians interpreted the biblical theophany narratives as manifestations of Christ, yet Augustine challenged and reconfigured this view. Developing over centuries into two major exegetical strands, the transformation of theophany interpretation reveals the critical and adaptive capacity of patristic exegesis.
Author : Hebrew Union College
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Bible
ISBN : UCAL:B3726830
Author : Isaac Abravanel,Alvin Jay Reines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:39015003854687
Author : Paul S. Minear
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592443253
From the Preface: There are indeed few books in the Bible where the modern student does not need deft guidance if reading is to prove profitable. In the case of the Book of Revelation that need becomes absolutely essential. When the average student takes up this book, almost without exception the going is tough, the language baffling, the sense of profit minimal. This situation represents a curious reversal, for in earlier centuries no other part of Scripture so greatly intrigued the imagination of Christendom or so greatly fascinated its painters and musicians .... The book at hand is designed to restore the Apocalypse to its rightful place in Christian thinking. The title asserts a continuing conviction: John as a prophet actually saw a new earth. The ordinary ways of perceiving reality had been radically altered by his faith in Christ.... Even moderns., in their traffic with Òthe earth,Ó have accessible a greater diversity of visions than they suppose. The ancient prophet may still have power to enable us to see a new earth. Such at least is the premise that prompted the publication of this book.
Author : Isaac B. Rosler PhD
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781532021749
In Sodoms ThresholdThe Desire for the Unthinkable, author Dr. Isaac B. Rosler deconstructs the narrative of Sodom and highlights how religion borrows its fervor and passion from a nonreligious impetus that is not only other than religion but also other than God. He invites us to trespassto think about what has already trespassed our senses and to make sense of an overabundant excess that remains unsacrificable even through ruins, ashes, and forgetfulness. Sodoms Threshold explores concepts of alterity and otherness, and it calls us to think about a space of passion that keeps returning in spite of interruptionsin spite of religious, family, or state mandates that command us not to touch an alterity that has already arrived and is in excess of every touch. The Sodomites forbidden passion is an excess that impassionsit is a surplus that will be usurped and neutralized ad infi nitum by the multiple religions that both rise against its mystery and yet are also founded by it. Though Sodom was erased, its alterity and its surplus are indestructible.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:AH3XC3
Author : Ed Noort,Tigchelaar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047413936
This volume is devoted to the receptions of and reflections on the story of Sodom and Gomorrah as told in Genesis 18 and 19. Two articles discuss intertextual reactions to the Sodom narrative within the Hebrew Bible. Five contributions examine readings and rewritings of the Sodom narrative in early Jewish, Christian and Islamic writings: Jubilees, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the New Testament (Revelation 11), Targumim and early Koran commentaries. Two articles focus on separate themes, the punishment of the Dead Sea and the prohibition on looking back. Finally, two articles that focus on Peter Damian and Proust's Sodome et Gomorrhe I describe the later reception of the sin of Sodom as homosexuality. A bibliography of recent works completes the volume.
Author : Henry Allon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : BL:A0026352092
