Death And Closure In Biblical Narrative
Download Death And Closure In Biblical Narrative full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Death And Closure In Biblical Narrative ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Walter B. Crouch |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : |
Inherent in every story is a view of death that reflects the human struggle of ending well, a Freudian thanatos inscribed within narrative. As a story draws to a close, the view of death found within the structure of the story's narrative will influence the ending that is produced. To examine the view of death and the closing strategies employed within a narrative, this study proposes a literary category called «narrative mortality.» Narrative mortality compares the degree of finality given to death with the amount of closure the reader experiences within the narrative. The narrative mortality of three differing biblical stories are studied within this work: The Gospel of John, the Book of Job, and the Book of Jonah. Each story employs a differing rhetorical strategy that reflects its own unique view of death and narrative closure.
Author | : Susan Zeelander |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2011-12-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 900421822X |
Multiple and sometimes unexpected forms of closure in biblical narratives bring their stories to satisfactory close. Knowledge of these conventions and how they affect their stories is valuable to students of Bible and of narrative.
Author | : Dan Mathewson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2006-06-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567026922 |
I interpret the Book of Job as literature of survival, reading the death imagery in Job as the complex articulation of traumatic experience.
Author | : Alister E. McGrath |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2007-01-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567031241 |
The third volume of an extended and systematic exploration of the relation between Christian theology and the natural sciences, focussing on the origins and place of theory in Christian theology
Author | : Troy M. Troftgruben |
Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9783161504532 |
Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton Theological Seminary, 2009.
Author | : David J. H. Beldman |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2017-05-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1575064979 |
The last five chapters of the book of Judges (chs. 17-21) contain some shocking and bizarre stories, and precisely how these stories relate to the rest of the book is a major question in scholarship on the book. Leveraging work from literary studies and hermeneutics, Beldman reexamines Judges 17-21 with the aim of discerning the "strategies of ending" that are at work in these chapters. The author identifies and describes a number of strategies of ending in Judges 17-21, including the strategy of completion, the strategy of circularity, and the strategy of entrapment. The temporal configuration of Judges and especially the nonlinear chronology that chapters 17-21 expose also receive due attention. All of this offers fresh insights into the place and function of Judges 17-21 in the context of the whole book.
Author | : Martin H. Manser |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1438108745 |
Presents selections of literary criticism devoted to the Bible.
Author | : J. Cheryl Exum |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1996-05-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521565066 |
Using insights about ancient and modern tragedy, this study offers challenging and provocative new readings of selected Biblical narratives: the story of Israel's first king, Saul, rejected for his disobedience to God and driven to madness; the story of Jephthah's sacrifice of his daughter in fulfillment of his vow to offer God a sacrifice in return for military victory; and the story of Israel's most famous king, David, whose tragedy lies in the burden of divine judgement that falls on his house as a consequence of his sins. The book discusses how these narratives handle such perennial tragic issues as guilt, suffering and evil.
Author | : David J. A. Clines |
Publisher | : Zondervan Academic |
Total Pages | : 898 |
Release | : 2017-12-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0310586801 |
The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional resources for the professional theologian and instructor, the seminary or university student, the working minister, and everyone concerned with building theological understanding from a solid base of biblical scholarship. Overview of Commentary Organization Introduction—covers issues pertaining to the whole book, including context, date, authorship, composition, interpretive issues, purpose, and theology. Each section of the commentary includes: Pericope Bibliography—a helpful resource containing the most important works that pertain to each particular pericope. Translation—the author’s own translation of the biblical text, reflecting the end result of exegesis and attending to Hebrew and Greek idiomatic usage of words, phrases, and tenses, yet in reasonably good English. Notes—the author’s notes to the translation that address any textual variants, grammatical forms, syntactical constructions, basic meanings of words, and problems of translation. Form/Structure/Setting—a discussion of redaction, genre, sources, and tradition as they concern the origin of the pericope, its canonical form, and its relation to the biblical and extra-biblical contexts in order to illuminate the structure and character of the pericope. Rhetorical or compositional features important to understanding the passage are also introduced here. Comment—verse-by-verse interpretation of the text and dialogue with other interpreters, engaging with current opinion and scholarly research. Explanation—brings together all the results of the discussion in previous sections to expose the meaning and intention of the text at several levels: (1) within the context of the book itself; (2) its meaning in the OT or NT; (3) its place in the entire canon; (4) theological relevance to broader OT or NT issues. General Bibliography—occurring at the end of each volume, this extensive bibliographycontains all sources used anywhere in the commentary.
Author | : Francis J. Moloney |
Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 2017-03-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9783161549601 |
The voice of Francis J. Moloney has been heard in Johannine studies for many decades. This volume gathers shorter journal articles from a publishing career that began in 1975, placing them together with new studies that appear for this first time, and thus complementing Moloney's already well-known commentary and scholarly monographs on the Fourth Gospel. The author's work has encompassed all areas of Johannine scholarship - the world that produced and first received the Fourth Gospel, its theology and Christology, and critical analysis of much-discussed passages. Well known for his extensive use of narrative and reader-response criticism, Francis J. Moloney has in more recent years developed an interpretation of the gospel which suggests that the author(s) of this narrative regarded their work as the "completion" of scripture. This unique collection therefore not only provides the past publications of a significant Johannine scholar, but also reflects the development of Johannine scholarship from 1975 until today.