Scriptural Traces – serie
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54 produkter
The Bible as a Political Tool
Discourses on Scripture, Secularism, and Swedishness
Av Hanna Liljefors, Andrew Mein m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
1266 kr
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In this open access volume, Hanna Liljefors examines how the Bible was used by Sweden’s largest newspapers between 1979-1983 and 2019-2023, key periods before and after the Church-State separation in Sweden. By applying critical discourse analysis, Liljefors investigates which patterns emerge in …
Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job's Wife
E-bok, 2013
608 kr
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The Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job''s Wife investigates the fleeting appearance in the Bible of Job''s wife and its impact on the imaginations of readers throughout history. It begins by presenting key interpretive gaps in the biblical text concerning Job and his wife, …
Reformed David(s) and the Question of Resistance to Tyranny
Reading the Bible in the 16th and 17th Centuries
E-bok, 2014
608 kr
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This study centers on the question: how do particular readers read a biblical passage? What factors govern each reading? DeLapp here attempts to set up a test case for observing how both socio-historical and textual factors play a part in how a person reads a biblical text. Using a …
Reception History and Biblical Studies
Theory and Practice
Av Emma England, William John Lyons
E-bok, 2015
499 kr
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How do we begin to carry out such a vast task-the examination of three millennia of diverse uses and influences of the biblical texts? Where can the interested scholar find information on methods and techniques applicable to the many and varied ways in which these have happened? Through a series of …
Reception History and Biblical Studies
Theory and Practice
Av Emma England, William John Lyons
E-bok, 2015
499 kr
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How do we begin to carry out such a vast task-the examination of three millennia of diverse uses and influences of the biblical texts? Where can the interested scholar find information on methods and techniques applicable to the many and varied ways in which these have happened? Through a series of …
Children’s Bibles in America
A Reception History of the Story of Noah’s Ark in Us Children’s Bibles
E-bok, 2015
561 kr
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Children''s Bibles have been among the most popular and influential types of religious publications in the United States, providing many Americans with their first formative experiences of the Bible and its stories. In Children''s Bibles in America, Russell W. Dalton explores the variety of ways in …
Children’s Bibles in America
A Reception History of the Story of Noah’s Ark in Us Children’s Bibles
E-bok, 2015
561 kr
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Children''s Bibles have been among the most popular and influential types of religious publications in the United States, providing many Americans with their first formative experiences of the Bible and its stories. In Children''s Bibles in America, Russell W. Dalton explores the variety of ways in …
Judas Iscariot: Damned or Redeemed
A Critical Examination of the Portrayal of Judas in Jesus Films (1902-2014)
E-bok, 2016
546 kr
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At the beginning of the 20th century, Judas was characterised in film as the epitome of evil: the villainous Jew. Film-makers cast Judas in this way because this was the Judas that audiences had come to recognize and even expect. But in the following three decades, film-makers - as a result of …
Harnessing Chaos
The Bible in English Political Discourse since 1968
Av James G. Crossley, Chris Keith
Häftad, 2016
416 kr
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This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.Harnessing Chaos: The Bible in English Political Discourse Since 1968 (2014) looked at the shifts in political understandings of the Bible in the aftermath of the social and economic changes …
Bible and Art, Perspectives from Oceania
Av Caroline Blyth, Nasili Vaka’uta
Inbunden, 2017
1984 kr
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This volume takes readers on a fascinating journey through the visual arts of Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands, contemplating the multivocal dialogues that occur between these artistic media and the texts and traditions of the Bible. With their distinctively antipodean …
Bible and Art, Perspectives from Oceania
Av Caroline Blyth, Nasili Vaka’uta
E-bok, 2017
561 kr
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This volume takes readers on a fascinating journey through the visual arts of Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands, contemplating the multivocal dialogues that occur between these artistic media and the texts and traditions of the Bible. With their distinctively antipodean …
Politics of the Revised Version
A Tale of Two New Testament Revision Companies
Av Alan Cadwallader, Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2018
1843 kr
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Alan Cadwallader explores the intricate tensions and conflicts that infused the work of revision of the Authorised Version of the Bible between 1870 and 1885. The Promethean aspirations of the venture actually generated one of the most bitter instances of the political manoeuvres involved in the …
Musical Illuminations of Genesis Narratives
Inbunden, 2017
1984 kr
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This volume examines the stories of Genesis in music, showing how musical settings can illuminate many of the Bible’s most noted tales. Helen Leneman studies oratorios, operas and songs (as well as their librettos) to shed light on how Genesis has been understood and experienced over time. …
Babel and Bible
The Impact of Mesopotamia on Biblical Studies 1872–1924
E-bok, 2026
1403 kr
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A compelling exploration of how Mesopotamian discoveries reshaped biblical scholarship, and why their connection to the Bible made them matter. From the first public reading of the Babylonian flood story in 1872 to the controversies sparked by Delitzsch's Babel Bible lectures, Lasine Thelle traces …
Bible on Television
Av Helen K. Bond, Edward Adams
E-bok, 2020
503 kr
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This volume examines and discusses selected Bible documentaries and academically informed dramatizations of the Bible. With a major focus on recent productions in UK mainline television within the past 15 years, the contributors also engage with productions from the USA. After a critical …
First World War and the Mobilization of Biblical Scholarship
Av Andrew Mein, Nathan MacDonald m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1701 kr
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This fascinating collection of essays charts, for the first time, the range of responses by scholars on both sides of the conflict to the outbreak of war in August 1914. The volume examines how biblical scholars, like their compatriots from every walk of life, responded to the great crisis they …
First World War and the Mobilization of Biblical Scholarship
Av Andrew Mein, Nathan MacDonald m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
513 kr
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This fascinating collection of essays charts, for the first time, the range of responses by scholars on both sides of the conflict to the outbreak of war in August 1914. The volume examines how biblical scholars, like their compatriots from every walk of life, responded to the great crisis they …
Bible and Art, Perspectives from Oceania
Av Caroline Blyth, Nasili Vaka’uta
Häftad, 2018
515 kr
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This volume takes readers on a fascinating journey through the visual arts of Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands, contemplating the multivocal dialogues that occur between these artistic media and the texts and traditions of the Bible. With their distinctively antipodean …
Children’s Bibles in America
A Reception History of the Story of Noah’s Ark in US Children’s Bibles
Av Russell W. Dalton, Laura Quick
Häftad, 2018
515 kr
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Children's Bibles have been among the most popular and influential types of religious publications in the United States, providing many Americans with their first formative experiences of the Bible and its stories. In Children's Bibles in America, Russell W. Dalton explores the variety of ways in …
Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (1919-1921)
An Interdisciplinary Study
Av David J. Shepherd, Nicholas E. Johnson
E-bok, 2020
499 kr
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This volume offers an examination of Brecht''s largely forgotten theatrical fragments of a life of David, written just after the Great War but prior to Brecht winning the Kleist Prize in 1922 and the acclaim that would launch his extraordinary career. David J. Shepherd and Nicholas E. Johnson take …
First World War and the Mobilization of Biblical Scholarship
Av Andrew Mein, Nathan MacDonald m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
530 kr
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This fascinating collection of essays charts, for the first time, the range of responses by scholars on both sides of the conflict to the outbreak of war in August 1914. The volume examines how biblical scholars, like their compatriots from every walk of life, responded to the great crisis they …
Storytelling the Bible at the Creation Museum, Ark Encounter, and Museum of the Bible
Inbunden, 2020
1560 kr
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Paul Thomas chronicles a multi-level reception study of the Bible at both the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter in Kentucky, USA. Thomas explores the commercial presentation of biblical narratives and the reception of those narratives by the patrons of each attraction, focusing upon three …
Reading Other Peoples’ Texts
Social Identity and the Reception of Authoritative Traditions
Av Ken S. Brown, Alison L. Joseph m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1560 kr
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This volume draws together eleven essays by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Greco-Roman religion and early Judaism, to address the ways that conceptions of identity and otherness shape the interpretation of biblical and other religiously authoritative texts.The contributions explore …
Musical Illuminations of Genesis Narratives
Häftad, 2019
501 kr
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This volume examines the stories of Genesis in music, showing how musical settings can illuminate many of the Bible’s most noted tales. Helen Leneman studies oratorios, operas and songs (as well as their librettos) to shed light on how Genesis has been understood and experienced over time. …
Searching for Sarah in the Second Temple Era
Images in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Genesis Apocryphon, and the Antiquities
Av Joseph McDonald, Laura Quick
Inbunden, 2020
1560 kr
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Seeking to build upon recent scholarship based on Biblical women, Joseph McDonald uses a character-centered literary approach to read the story of Sarah as it was told and retold in the Second Temple period. McDonald offers an alternative to the usual approaches to “rewritten Bible” narratives, …
Searching for Sarah in the Second Temple Era
Images in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Genesis Apocryphon, and the Antiquities
E-bok, 2020
515 kr
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Seeking to build upon recent scholarship based on Biblical women, Joseph McDonald uses a character-centered literary approach to read the story of Sarah as it was told and retold in the Second Temple period. McDonald offers an alternative to the usual approaches to “rewritten Bible” narratives, …
Politics of Purim
Law, Sovereignty and Hospitality in the Aesthetic Afterlives of Esther
Inbunden, 2020
1560 kr
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This book approaches the holiday of Purim as profane, freed to human use and ends, in order to consider the political legacy of the biblical story of Esther in festival and art works. Jo Carruthers explores carnival and synagogue practices, the purimshpil (Purim’s own dramatic genre), illuminated …
Politics of Purim
Law, Sovereignty and Hospitality in the Aesthetic Afterlives of Esther
E-bok, 2020
515 kr
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This book approaches the holiday of Purim as profane, freed to human use and ends, in order to consider the political legacy of the biblical story of Esther in festival and art works. Jo Carruthers explores carnival and synagogue practices, the purimshpil (Purim''s own dramatic genre) , illuminated …
Bible on Television
Av Helen K. Bond, Edward Adams
E-bok, 2020
515 kr
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This volume examines and discusses selected Bible documentaries and academically informed dramatizations of the Bible. With a major focus on recent productions in UK mainline television within the past 15 years, the contributors also engage with productions from the USA. After a critical …
Storytelling the Bible at the Creation Museum, Ark Encounter, and Museum of the Bible
Av Paul Thomas
E-bok, 2020
499 kr
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Paul Thomas chronicles a multi-level reception study of the Bible at both the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter in Kentucky, USA. Thomas explores the commercial presentation of biblical narratives and the reception of those narratives by the patrons of each attraction, focusing upon three …
