Vulnerability And Valour

Author : Jessica M. Keady
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567672254

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Vulnerability and Valour by Jessica M. Keady Pdf

Jessica M. Keady uses insights from social science and gender theory to shed light on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the community at Qumran. Through her analysis Keady shows that it was not only women who could be viewed as an impure problem, but also that men shared these characteristics as well. The first framework adopted by Keady is masculinity studies, specifically Raewyn Connell's hegemonic masculinity, which Keady applies to the Rule of the Community (in its 1QS form) and the War Scroll (in its 1QM form), to demonstrate the vulnerable and uncontrollable aspects of ordinary male impurities. Secondly, the embodied and empowered aspects of impure women are revealed through an application of embodiment theories to selected passages from 4QD (4Q266 and 4Q272) and 4QTohorot A (4Q274). Thirdly, sociological insights from Susie Scott's understanding of the everyday - through the mundane, the routine and the breaking of rules - reveal how impurity disrupts the constructions of daily life. Keady applies Scott's three conceptual features for understanding the everyday to the Temple Scroll (11QTa) and the Rule of the Congregation (1QSa) to demonstrate the changing dynamics between ordinary impure males and impure females. Underlying each of these three points is the premise that gender and purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls communities are performative, dynamic and constantly changing.

Author : Carmen Palmer,Andrew R. Krause,Eileen Schuller,John Screnock
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884144366

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Dead Sea Scrolls, Revise and Repeat by Carmen Palmer,Andrew R. Krause,Eileen Schuller,John Screnock Pdf

A reexamination of the people and movements associated with Qumran, their outlook on the world, and what bound them together Dead Sea Scrolls, Revise and Repeat examines the identity of the Qumran movement by reassessing former conclusions and bringing new methodologies to the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The collection as a whole addresses questions of identity as they relate to law, language, and literary formation; considerations of time and space; and demarcations of the body. The thirteen essays in this volume reassess the categorization of rule texts, the reuse of scripture, the significance of angelic fellowship, the varieties of calendrical use, and celibacy within the Qumran movement. Contributors consider identity in the Dead Sea Scrolls from new interdisciplinary perspectives, including spatial theory, legal theory, historical linguistics, ethnicity theory, cognitive literary theory, monster theory, and masculinity theory. Features Essays that draw on new theoretical frameworks and recent advances in Qumran studies A tribute to the late Peter Flint, whose scholarship helped to shape Qumran studies

Author : Joseph Scales
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004692558

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Galilean Spaces of Identity by Joseph Scales Pdf

We understand the world around us in terms of built spaces. Such spaces are shaped by human activity, and in turn, affect how people live. Through an analysis of archaeological and textual evidence from the beginnings of Hasmonean influence in Galilee, until the outbreak of the First Jewish War against Rome, this book explores how Judaism was socially expressed: bodily, communally, and regionally. Within each expression, certain aspects of Jewish identity operate, these being purity conceptions, communal gatherings, and Galilee's relationship with the Hasmoneans, Jerusalem, and the Temple in its final days.

Author : Henry Spelman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192554390

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Pindar and the Poetics of Permanence by Henry Spelman Pdf

Whereas the last several decades of scholarship on early Greek lyric have been primarily concerned with the immediate contexts of first performance, this volume turns its attention instead to the rhetoric and realities of poetic permanence, providing the first book-length study devoted to this topic. Taking Pindar and archaic Greek literary culture as its focus, it offers a new reading of Pindar's victory odes which explores not only how they were received by those who first experienced them, but also what they can mean to later audiences like us. Divided into two parts, the discussion first investigates Pindar's relationship to both of these audiences, demonstrating how Pindaric epinicia address the listeners present at their premiere performance and also a broader secondary audience across space and time, with Part One arguing that a full appreciation of these texts involves simultaneously assuming the perspectives of both of these audiences. Following on from this, Part Two describes how Pindar engages with a wide variety of other poetry, particularly earlier lyric, in order to situate his work both within an immanent poetic history and a contemporary poetic culture. In setting out his vision of the literary world, both past and present, the volume ably shows how this framework shaped the meaning of his work and illuminates the context within which he anticipated its permanence, offering new insights into the texts themselves and, more broadly, a re-thinking of the nature of early Greek poetic culture through a combination of historical and literary perspectives.

Author : Jackson R. Bryer,Mary C. Hartig
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438129662

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The Facts on File Companion to American Drama by Jackson R. Bryer,Mary C. Hartig Pdf

Features a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.

Author : L.K. Elliott
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781460258279

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Confessions of an Ex Hot Mess by L.K. Elliott Pdf

A Hot Mess (n.): Someone whose thoughts and appearance are in a state of disarray but who still maintains an undeniable beauty and allure. Are you sick of self-help books putting you to sleep? Would you like to transform your life but don’t know where to start? Self-proclaimed ‘ex hot mess’ L.K. Elliott has been there. Having endured abuse, neglect, and low self-esteem, Elliott found herself newly married, with everything she’d ever wanted, but suffering from depression. She has collected the wisdom she gleaned from years of therapy, research, and most of all pure life experience recovering from her depression into this volume.With honesty and humour, Elliott outlines transformational tools for self-love and stress relief in plain language – no self-help jargon here! She sees the potential for personal growth in everyone, and brings that relentless optimism to Confessions of an Ex Hot Mess, challenging readers to “choose now over later” to find love, happiness, and balance.

Author : Martin Dubois
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107180451

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Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience by Martin Dubois Pdf

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Forms of Devotion: 1. Bibles; 2. Prayer; Part II. Models of Faith: 3. The soldier; 4. The martyr; Part III. Last Things: 5. Death and judgement; 6. Heaven and hell

Author : B. Misztal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780230316690

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The Challenges of Vulnerability by B. Misztal Pdf

Proposing an aggregative conception of vulnerability, this book provides a new framework for understanding individual experience of, and resilience to, vulnerability and promotes the need to find remedies for exposure to involuntary dependence, the unsecured future and the painful past.

Author : Mildred Howard,Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins,Gallery II (University of Bradford),Leicester City Gallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021977546

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Mildred Howard by Mildred Howard,Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins,Gallery II (University of Bradford),Leicester City Gallery Pdf

Author : Leon de Kock
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781868149650

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Losing the Plot by Leon de Kock Pdf

In Losing the Plot, well-known scholar and writer Leon de Kock offers a lively and wide-ranging analysis of postapartheid South African writing which, he contends, has morphed into a far more flexible and multifaceted entity than its predecessor. If postapartheid literature’s founding moment was the ‘transition’ to democracy, writing over the ensuing years has viewed the Mandelan project with increasing doubt. Instead, authors from all quarters are seen to be reporting, in different ways and from divergent points of view, on what is perceived to be a pathological public sphere in which the plot – the mapping and making of social betterment – appears to have been lost. The compulsion to detect forensically the actual causes of such loss of direction has resulted in the prominence of creative nonfiction. A significant adjunct in the rise of this is the new media, which sets up a ‘wounded’ space within which a ‘cult of commiseration’ compulsively and repeatedly plays out the facts of the day on people’s screens. This, De Kock argues, is reproduced in much postapartheid writing. And, although fictional forms persist in genres such as crime fiction, with their tendency to overplot, more serious fiction underplots, yielding to the imprint of real conditions to determine the narrative construction.

Author : Elena Louisa Lange,Geoff Shullenberger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781040028865

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COVID-19 and the Left by Elena Louisa Lange,Geoff Shullenberger Pdf

The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures introduced to purportedly contain its spread have wrought an unprecedented global social transformation. Authoritarian measures such as lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and the enforced wearing of facemasks, have led to a biopolitical disenfranchisement of human rights and the encroachment of state and corporate directives onto private lives. By supporting these measures, the left has lost sight of its traditional critique of capital, the state, and class society and has instead reinforced existing power structures in the name of ‘saving lives’. In doing so, the left has contributed to widespread suffering, especially among the ‘vulnerable’ groups in society the measures claimed to protect, particularly children, the elderly, and the poor. COVID-19 and the Left explores why the left has departed from its self-understanding as a critical force against state power, unfettered capital accumulation, the digital transformation, biopolitics, and a politics of social discrimination, and instead has largely assumed a stance in line with the neoliberal consensus. In particular, the essays in this collection explore the role of fear, panic, and psychological blackmailing as a tool of domination in late capitalist society and consider whether the left has been a victim, or an active perpetrator, of a ‘tyranny of fear’. Drawing upon approaches from various disciplines and interrogating shibboleths on the left and right, the essays in this volume consider the ideological, sociocultural, and economic implications of the historical rupture that the COVID-19 pandemic presents and instead argue for a counter-narrative to fear and its harmful consequences. This provocative collection will be of considerable interest to those with an interest in the contemporary left and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Author : Mike Shereck
Publisher : Bombardier Books
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781642938685

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Manhood Manifesto by Mike Shereck Pdf

Manhood Manifesto is a book about men, their leadership, and the condition of masculinity today. We live in the greatest country in the world—the United States of America. We also live in one of the most dynamic periods of time in history. This book is about the opportunity we have as Americans, especially men. This book calls forth the character and skills of American men. To who much is given, much is expected. We live in challenging times, and American men are more than capable of meeting those challenges. To meet those challenges though, there needs to be a willingness and acceptance of the responsibilities required. This book looks at where we are and how we got here, creating a pathway in which to engage. This process is intended to restore the trust, affinity, and community that has been pushed to its limits in the most recent months and years. The book does so in a way that is somewhat irreverent yet respectful, serious yet fun, and challenging yet empowering. Mike Shereck has a bias toward men, simply because he is one. If change must occur, it will begin with him and those like and near him. In Mike’s view, for society’s problems to be solved, first men must own it. From the position of ownership, we can now address it. That is what is done in this book in a direct, bold, courageous, sometimes shocking, always heartfelt and humorous way.

Author : John HOSKINS (Dramatist.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026177450

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The Chieftain of Masada. A Tragedy, in Five Acts [in Prose and Verse]. by John HOSKINS (Dramatist.) Pdf

Author : E. Fay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403913616

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Romantic Medievalism by E. Fay Pdf

Nineteenth century medievalism is usually associated with Scott's world of Ivanhoe , but Romantic Medievalism argues that Scott's is a conservative use of the past and that radical poets such as the young Coleridge, Keats and Shelley used the medieval to critique and change, rather than validate, the present. These poets identified with the troubadour of courtly love, a disempowered figure often politically at odds with the establishment figure of the knight.

Author : Poonam Sondhi Garg
Publisher : Ess Ess Publication
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119809023

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Street Children by Poonam Sondhi Garg Pdf

"This book is meant for those concerned about protecting and improving the lives of the street children and it includes information for research and educational purposes. While street children receive national and international notice, it has been focused largely on social, economic and health problems of the children - poverty, lack of education, AIDS, prostitution and substance abuse. This often neglected side of street children's lives has been the focus of this book and it is in this context that the subject of street child labour and its impact on children's development is investigated."