The Bards of the Bible

The Bards of the Bible
Author: George Gilfillan
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2023-05-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3382505991

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

From Bards to Biblical Exegetes

From Bards to Biblical Exegetes
Author: David Emanuel
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2012-08-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1630870285

A cursory glance through the Psalter reveals numerous allusions to events in Israel's literary history. While a range of literary and oral sources were obviously available to psalmists, the relationships between these sources and the psalmists' final work are more obscure. Concerning these relationships, numerous questions remain unanswered: - How strictly did the psalmists replicate their sources? - What kinds of alterations did they make (additions, omissions, etc.)? - Did they alter the meaning of their sources in their own compositions? Departing from the more classical approaches to researching the psalms--engaging in the determination of Sitz im Leben and Gattungen--this intertextual study addresses the aforementioned issues by focusing on a group of psalms associated with Israel's exodus tradition (105, 106, 135, and 136). Through a detailed comparison of lexical correspondences between the psalms and other biblical texts, together with a relative dating of each psalm, the study identifies literary sources employed by the psalmists. It additionally includes a close reading of each psalm to establish the unity and meaning of each composition. Emanuel then analyzes and categorizes lexical variances between each psalm and its sources, providing potential explanations for alterations found between the two, and revealing how the psalmists reinterpreted their biblical sources.

A Will to Believe

A Will to Believe
Author: David Scott Kastan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2014
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0199572895

A Will to Believe is a revised version of Kastan's 2008 Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures, providing a provocative account of the ways in which religion animates Shakespeare's plays.