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Let the Daughters Live!
The Literary Architecture of Exodus 1-2 as a Key for Interpretation
Inbunden, 1998
2370 kr
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This study deals with the structure, coherence and composition of the stories of Exodus 1 and 2 with a view to contributing to the interpretation of biblical narrative in general.In the first chapter the author introduces the method and analytical procedures employed. In the subsequent chapters the …
Christology From Within and Ahead
Hermeneutics, Contingency and the Quest for Transcontextual Criteria in Christology
Av Mark Chan
Inbunden, 2000
3969 kr
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Troeltsch's struggle with historicism sets the stage for a proposal that Christology be done from within and from ahead. Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics and Schleiermacher's experiential theology inform a Christology from within that is rooted in tradition and experience, while Pannenberg's …
History and Interpretation in New Testament Perspective
Inbunden, 2001
2723 kr
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This book is a sequel to the author's The Making of the New Testament Documents (Brill, 1999), placing it within the context of two centuries of research and then expanding its brief treatment of a number of important issues. It critiques the hypothesis of 'innocent' apostolic pseudepigrapha and …
Competing for Honor
A Social-Scientific Reading of Daniel 1-6
Inbunden, 2005
2270 kr
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Using social-scientific criticism, this work presents a reading of Daniel 1-6 as literature of resistance. The characters and episodes of these tales are read against a backdrop of social competition for the cultural value of honor.Each of the tales of Daniel 1-6 is analyzed, revealing a comparison …
Reign of God and Rome in Luke's Passion Narrative
An East Asian Global Perspective
Inbunden, 2006
2479 kr
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Through a cultural analysis of hegemonic (post)colonial relations, which characterize both the narrative world of Luke and the author's own reading context - Korea - this study examines how "Luke's Passion Narrative" (19:45-23:56) constructs the space-time of the Reign of God, both in contest to …
Joel’s Use of Scripture and the Scripture’s Use of Joel
Appropriation and Resignification in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity
Inbunden, 2007
3140 kr
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The methodological approach employed in this research utilizes the hermeneutics of comparative midrash combined with aspects of Bakhtinian dialogism and intertextuality. The purpose of this enterprise is to discern the function of scripture in Joel and its New Testament Nachleben.The terms …
Because You Bear This Name
Conceptual Metaphor and the Moral Meaning of 1 Peter
Inbunden, 2006
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This study uses conceptual metaphor theory and methodology to analyze the cultural logic and symbolic context, moral content and ethical implications of 1 Peter. Conceptual metaphor study helps explain how people generate ethical understandings; it can help us recognize and account for lively moral …
Narrative and Identity
An Ethical Reading of Exodus 4
Inbunden, 2007
2884 kr
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Using Ricoeur’s theories of narrative and identity, and their ethical implications, this book offers a multi-disciplinary Asian reading of Moses’ reverse migration in Exodus 4:18-26, in light of the liminal experience of global economic migration.The work demonstrates the productivity of Ricoeur’s …
Metaphor and Ideology
Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum and Literary Methods through a Cognitive Lens
Inbunden, 2007
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Contemporary scholars have sharply disagreed over the importance of the loquacious women of Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum. Using the methods of contemporary Cognitive Linguistics, Ideology and Metaphor develops a systematic, replicable reading of the text and its characters, showing how …
Explaining Christian Origins and Early Judaism
Contributions from Cognitive and Social Science
Av Petri Luomanen, Ilkka Pyysiäinen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
2489 kr
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Cognitive science of religion is a radically new paradigm in the study of religion. Apart from psychology and anthropology of religion, also historians of religion have shown increasing interest in this approach. This volume is groundbreaking in combining cognitive analysis with historical and …
Sight and Blindness in Luke-Acts
The Use of Physical Features in Characterization
Inbunden, 2008
2544 kr
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The ancient world often thought in terms of physiognomics—the idea that character can be discerned by studying outward, physical features. That physical descriptions carry moral freight in characterization has been largely missed in modern biblical scholarship, and this study brings that to the …
Temporal Mechanics of the Fourth Gospel
A Theory of Hermeneutical Relativity in the Gospel of John
Inbunden, 2008
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Spiritual but broken, theological but flawed—these are the words critics use to describe the Gospel of John. Compared to the Synoptics, John’s version of the life of Jesus seems scrambled, especially in the area of time and chronology. But what if John’s textual and temporal flaws have more to do …
Recognizing the Stranger
Recognition Scenes in the Gospel of John
Inbunden, 2008
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Recognizing the Stranger is the first monographic study of recognition scenes and motifs in the Gospel of John. The recognition type-scene (anagnōrisis) was a common feature in ancient drama and narrative, highly valued by Aristotle as a touching moment of truth, e.g., in Oedipus’ tragic …
Faith and Freedom in Galatia and Senegal
The Apostle Paul, Colonists and Sending Gods
Inbunden, 2009
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Faith and Freedom in Galatia and Senegal reads Galatians 2:11-15 and 3:26-29 through the lens of the 19th-20th century experiences of French colonialism by the Diola people in Senegal, West Africa, and portrays the Apostle Paul as a "'sociopostcolonial hermeneut who acted on his self-understanding …
Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an as Literature and Culture
Inbunden, 2009
4186 kr
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Contemporary sacred text scholarship has been stimulated by a number of intersecting trends: a surging interest in religion, sacred texts, and inspirational issues; burgeoning developments in and applications of literary theories; intensifying academic focus on diverse cultures whether for …
Abraham as Spiritual Ancestor
A Postcolonial Zimbabwean Reading of Romans 4
Inbunden, 2010
2518 kr
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New Testament commentaries and exegetes have not paid sufficient attention to the context in which Paul's Epistel to the Romans was crafted. This book written from an African perspective offers a fresh interpretation on a contextualizing reading of Romans and its theology. The argument of the book …
City of Ruins
Mourning the Destruction of Jerusalem Through Jewish Apocalypse
Inbunden, 2010
2323 kr
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This study addresses the way in which a psychoanalytic model of mourning relates to a set of Jewish apocalypses concerned with the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple. These texts respond to the traumatic symbolic loss of Zion and attempt to heal it through the apocalyptic narrative, the …
Experiencing the Apocalypse at the Limits of Alterity
Inbunden, 2010
2540 kr
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Applying current narrative criticism to the study of the Apocalypse, Hongisto underscores the oral nature of the narrative vis-à-vis the roles of the readers/listeners. EXPERIENCING THE APOCALYPSE AT THE LIMITS OF ALTERITY probes the interplay of meaning creation as readers/listeners encounter the …
Exegesis in the Making
Postcolonialism and New Testament Studies
Inbunden, 2010
2466 kr
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The last thirty years have witnessed increasing diversity in methodology and perspectives within biblical studies. One of the most dynamic and continually expanding contributions to this development is that of postcolonial studies, known for its fresh approaches as well as for its complex …
Radical Frame Semantics and Biblical Hebrew
Exploring Lexical Semantics
Inbunden, 2011
3114 kr
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Since James Barr’s work in the 1960s, the challenge for Hebrew scholars has been to continue to apply the insights of linguistic semantics to the study of biblical Hebrew. This book begins by describing a range of approaches to semantic and grammatical analysis, including structural semantics, …
Reshaped Mind
Searle, the Biblical Writers, and Christ’s Blood
Av Lace Marie Williams-Tinajero
Inbunden, 2010
2244 kr
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A number of biblical scholars and theologians have had interest in speech act theory ever since J.L. Austin (1911–1960) outlined how a speaker can perform actions with words. John R. Searle has made a significant contribution to speech act theory after Austin by rooting his philosophy of language …
Seeking a Homeland
Sojourn and Ethnic Identity in the Ancestral Narratives of Genesis
Av Elisabeth Robertson Kennedy
Inbunden, 2011
2466 kr
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Sojourn is a Leitwort in the ancestral narratives of Genesis, repeatedly accentuated as an important descriptor of the patriarchs’ identity and experience. This study shows that despite its connotations of alienation, sojourn language in Genesis contributes to a strong communal identity for …
I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes
Lyric Cohesion and Conflict in Second Isaiah
Inbunden, 2011
2844 kr
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This book joins the notion that Second Isaiah is a poetic text with the task of interpreting it as a unified whole. In so doing, it makes methodological suggestions for applying a lyric poetic approach to biblical texts. The practical application of this approach shows Second Isaiah to be …
Figuring Jesus
The Power of Rhetorical Figures of Speech in the Gospel of Luke
Inbunden, 2011
2114 kr
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This book examines the Lukan Jesus' speech, specifically his use of rhetorical figures of speech, as a means of determining Luke's message and rhetorical strategy of persuasion. Classical rhetoric dominated both Greco-Roman higher education and public discourse in the first-century Mediterranean …
Babel’s Tower Translated
Genesis 11 and Ancient Jewish Interpretation
Inbunden, 2013
2870 kr
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In Babel's Tower Translated, Phillip Sherman explores the narrative of Genesis 11 and its reception and interpretation in several Second Temple and Early Rabbinic texts (e.g., Jubilees, Philo, Genesis Rabbah). The account of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is famously ambiguous. The meaning of …
Questions of Jesus in John
Logic, Rhetoric and Persuasive Discourse
Inbunden, 2012
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Why do the New Testament gospels depict a Jesus who asks questions almost as often as he gives answers? In The Questions of Jesus in John Douglas Estes crafts a highly interdisciplinary theory of question-asking based on insights from ancient rhetoric and modern erotetics (the study of …
Retelling Scripture
'The Jews' and the Scriptural Citations in John 1:19-12:15
Inbunden, 2012
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The last century of scholarship on the Old Testament citations in the Gospel of John has concentrated almost exclusively upon source-critical or redaction-critical issues with the aim of determining the Christological import of the citations. The current book brings a narrative-rhetorical …
Dining with John
Communal Meals and Identity Formation in the Fourth Gospel and its Historical and Cultural Context
Av Esther Kobel
Inbunden, 2011
2987 kr
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This book explores the accounts of communal meals and the metaphorical use of food and drink language in the narrative world of the Gospel of John. It argues that the Johannine community regularly gathered for communal meals in which the food and drink on the menu would have taken on a spiritual …
Contested Creations in the Book of Job
The-World-as-It-Ought- and-Ought-Not-to-Be
Inbunden, 2012
2479 kr
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In Contested Creations in the Book of Job: the-world-as-it-ought- and -ought-not-to-be Abigail Pelham reads the Book of Job both ‘forwards’—examining the perspectives on creation presented by Job and his friends and corrected by God’s authoritative voice from the whirlwind—and ‘backwards,’ …
Closure in Biblical Narrative
Inbunden, 2011
2035 kr
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There has been much discussion of narrative aspects of the Bible in recent years, but the ends of biblical narratives – how the ends contribute to closure for their stories and how the ending strategies affect the whole narrative – have not been studied comprehensively. This study shows how the …
