The Death Wish in the Hebrew Bible - 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 The Death Wish in the Hebrew Bible write by Hanne Løland Levinson. This book was released on 2021-09-23. The Death Wish in the Hebrew Bible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates the texts in the Hebrew Bible in which a character expresses a wish to die.
Vast As the Sea
Vast As the Sea - 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 Vast As the Sea write by Samuel Hildebrandt. This book was released on 2023. Vast As the Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The poetry of the Old Testament articulates the painful experiences of being human. Vast as the Sea shows how texts like Job, Jeremiah, and the Psalms provide honest and healing expressions for life's struggles. This book is a rich resource for scholars and readers of the Bible, as well as for psychologists and pastoral counselors.
Jonah
Jonah - 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 Jonah write by Rhiannon Graybill. This book was released on 2023-10-10. Jonah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An innovative translation and commentary on the book of Jonah by a trio of award-winning scholars The book of Jonah, which tells the outlandish story of a disobedient prophet swallowed by a great fish, is one of the Bible’s best-known narratives. This tale has fascinated readers for millennia and has inspired countless interpretations. This commentary features a new translation of Jonah as well as an introduction outlining the major interpretive issues in the text. The introduction traces the composition history of the book, paying special attention to the psalm in the second chapter; and the authors explore new theories surrounding the time and place where Jonah delivers his message to Nineveh, as well as the city’s act of repentance. In addition to these features, this volume draws on a variety of critical approaches to biblical literature—including affect theory, animal studies, performance criticism, postcolonial criticism, psychological criticism, spatial theory, and trauma theory—to reveal the book’s many interpretive possibilities. An updated treatment of Jonah’s reception history includes analyses of the story in religious traditions, art and literature, and popular culture.
Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode
Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode - 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 Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode write by Robert S. Kawashima. This book was released on 2004-12-09. Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Informed by literary theory and Homeric scholarship as well as biblical studies, Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode sheds new light on the Hebrew Bible and, more generally, on the possibilities of narrative form. Robert S. Kawashima compares the narratives of the Hebrew Bible with Homeric and Ugaritic epic in order to account for the "novelty" of biblical prose narrative. Long before Herodotus or Homer, Israelite writers practiced an innovative narrative art, which anticipated the modern novelist's craft. Though their work is undeniably linked to the linguistic tradition of the Ugaritic narrative poems, there are substantive differences between the bodies of work. Kawashima views biblical narrative as the result of a specifically written verbal art that we should counterpose to the oral-traditional art of epic. Beyond this strictly historical thesis, the study has theoretical implications for the study of narrative, literature, and oral tradition. Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature -- Herbert Marks, General Editor
Silent Or Salient Gender?
Silent Or Salient Gender? - 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 Silent Or Salient Gender? write by Hanne Løland. This book was released on 2008. Silent Or Salient Gender? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hanne Loland studies gendered god-language in the Hebrew Bible. She offers a theoretical framework that is helpful for the interpretation of biblical language used in reference to God and for the broader theological and scholarly debate on God and gender. One of the main questions Loland discusses is whether and how gende r is salient - that is, of significance - when gendered god-language occurs in a text. This is a new line of questioning in Hebrew Bible research, which so far has been mostly concerned with mapping the occurrences of feminine god-language. The question of gender significance is debated both in theoretical discussions on God, gender and language, and in three case studies (Isa 42:13-14, 46:3-4, and 49:14-15). These texts are chosen primarily because of today's research situation, where there has been a claim that Isa 40-55 (or 40-66) differs from the rest of the Hebrew Bible in its use of feminine god-language. Loland argues that there is in principle no difference between god-language formulated in similes or metaphors. Further, there is no significant difference between male and female god-language in the Hebrew Bible. These findings are also relevant for the contemporary debate concerning god-language in academia, church, and synagogue. This volume was recognized with the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise in 2008.
