Playing with Leviathan: Interpretation and Reception of Monsters from the Biblical World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Playing with Leviathan: Interpretation and Reception of Monsters from the Biblical World write by Koert van Bekkum. This book was released on 2017-01-16. Playing with Leviathan: Interpretation and Reception of Monsters from the Biblical World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since ancient times Leviathan and other monsters from the biblical world symbolize the life-threatening powers in nature and history. They represent the dark aspects of human nature and political entities and reveal the supernatural dimensions of evil. Ancient texts and pictures regarding these monsters reflect an environment of polytheism and religious pluralism. Remarkably, however, the biblical writings and post-biblical traditions use these venerated symbols in portraying God as being sovereign over the entire universe, a theme that is also prominent in the reception of these texts in subsequent contexts. This volume explores this tension and elucidates the theological and cultural meaning of ‘Leviathan’ by studying its ancient Near Eastern background and its attestation in biblical texts, early and rabbinic Judaism, Christian theology, Early Modern art, and film.
Taming the Beast
Taming the Beast - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taming the Beast write by Mark R. Sneed. This book was released on 2021-11-08. Taming the Beast available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leviathan, a manifestation of one of the oldest monsters in recorded history (3rd millennium BCE), and its sidekick, Behemoth, have been the object of centuries of suppression throughout the millennia. Originally cosmic, terrifying creatures who represented disorder and chaos, they have been converted into the more palatable crocodile and hippo by biblical scholars today. However, among the earliest Jews (and Muslims) and possibly Christians, these creatures occupied a significant place in creation and redemption history. Before that, they formed part of a backstory that connects the Bible with the wider ancient Near East. When examining the reception history of these fascinating beasts, several questions emerge. Why are Jewish children today familiar with these creatures, while Christian children know next to nothing about them? Why do many modern biblical scholars follow suit and view them as minor players in the grand scheme of things? Conversely, why has popular culture eagerly embraced them, assimilating the words as symbols for the enormous? More unexpectedly, why have fundamentalist Christians touted them as evidence for the cohabitation of dinosaurs and humans?
Supernal Serpent
Supernal Serpent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Supernal Serpent write by Andrei A. Orlov. This book was released on 2023. Supernal Serpent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A certain king built himself a palace and summoned two persons to decorate it for him. The king divided his palace into two parts, putting one person in charge of one half and the second in charge of the other. One of the persons decorated his part of the palace with beautiful paintings of birds and animals. But the second person painted his half of the palace with black dye which was reflecting everything like a mirror. When the king came to judge the two decorations, everything he had seen in the first person's part he also saw in the second's part, since it was reflected in its black dye like in a mirror. Not only that, but even all the king could wish to put in the first half of his palace appeared in the second half. This found favor in the eyes of the king"--
Reading the Bible with Horror
Reading the Bible with Horror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading the Bible with Horror write by Brandon R. Grafius. This book was released on 2019-10-25. Reading the Bible with Horror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Reading the Bible with Horror, Brandon R. Grafius takes the reader on a whirlwind tour through the dark corners of the Hebrew Bible. Along the way, he stops to place the monstrous Leviathan in conversation with contemporary monster theory, uses Derrida to help explore the ghosts that haunt the biblical landscape, and reads the House of David as a haunted house. Conversations arise between unexpected sources, such as the Pentateuch legal texts dealing with female sexuality and Carrie. Throughout the book, Grafius asks how the Hebrew Bible can be both sacred text and tome of fright, and he explores the numerous ways in which the worlds of religion and horror share uncomfortable spaces.
Human Interaction with the Natural World in Wisdom Literature and Beyond
Human Interaction with the Natural World in Wisdom Literature and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Interaction with the Natural World in Wisdom Literature and Beyond write by Mordechai Cogan. This book was released on 2023-05-04. Human Interaction with the Natural World in Wisdom Literature and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Created in honor of the work of Professor Tova Forti, this collection considers the natural world in key wisdom books - Proverbs, Job and Qoheleth/Ecclesiastes, Ben Sira and Song of Songs/Solomon - and also examines particular animal and plant imagery in other texts in the Hebrew Bible. It crucially involves ancient Near Eastern parallels and like texts from the classical world, but also draws on rabbinic tradition and broader interpretative works, as well as different textual traditions such as the LXX and Qumran scrolls. Whilst the natural world, notably plants and animals, is a key uniting element, the human aspect is also crucial. To explore this, contributors also treat the wider concerns within wisdom literature on human beings in relation to their social context, and in comparison with neighbouring nations. They emphasize that the human, animal and plant worlds act together in synthesis, all enhanced and imbued by the world-view of wisdom literature.
