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| Author | : Hanne Løland Levinson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 197 |
| Release | : 2021-09-23 |
| Genre | : Bibles |
| ISBN | : 1108833659 |
This book investigates the texts in the Hebrew Bible in which a character expresses a wish to die.
| Author | : Samuel Hildebrandt |
| Publisher | : Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2023 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| ISBN | : 1506485499 |
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.
| Author | : Rhiannon Graybill |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 363 |
| Release | : 2023-10-10 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0300274572 |
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.
| Author | : L. Juliana M. Claassens |
| Publisher | : SCM Press |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2023-10-27 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 0334065151 |
What does it mean to be a prophet in queer times? Considering first the queerness of the prophet Jonah, this volume then broadens its scope to the queer prophetic in our own time, reflecting on what makes a prophet ‘queer’, and considering how public theology is itself, an example of the queer prophetic. With a broad range of international contributors, this book offers a bold and essential new addition to queer biblical studies literature.
| Author | : Robert Alter |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 2966 |
| Release | : 2018-12-18 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0393292509 |
A landmark event: the complete Hebrew Bible in the award-winning translation that delivers the stunning literary power of the original. A masterpiece of deep learning and fine sensibility, Robert Alter’s translation of the Hebrew Bible, now complete, reanimates one of the formative works of our culture. Capturing its brilliantly compact poetry and finely wrought, purposeful prose, Alter renews the Old Testament as a source of literary power and spiritual inspiration. From the family frictions of Genesis and King David’s flawed humanity to the serene wisdom of Psalms and Job’s incendiary questioning of God’s ways, these magnificent works of world literature resonate with a startling immediacy. Featuring Alter’s generous commentary, which quietly alerts readers to the literary and historical dimensions of the text, this is the definitive edition of the Hebrew Bible.
| Author | : C. L. Crouch |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2021-08-12 |
| Genre | : Bibles |
| ISBN | : 1108473768 |
Uses migration research, trauma studies, and postcolonial theory to explore the Babylonian exiles effect on Israelite and Judahite identity.
| Author | : Andrew R. Davis |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 2023-05-31 |
| Genre | : Bibles |
| ISBN | : 1009255878 |
Analyses the poetic audiences of the book of Amos by distinguishing the textual addressee from its actual audiences.
| Author | : David J. A. Clines |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 1995-11-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0567588777 |
One of the more creative Old Testament scholars of our time, David Clines offers an enjoyable and provocative set of studies on ideology. The title of a keynote essay, 'Why is There a Song of Songs, and What Does It Do to You If You Read It?', hints at the twin focus of the volume: the ideology of the writers, who bring the biblical texts into being, and the ideologies of the readers, who are shaped by the text at the same moment as they are shaping it in their own image. Among the essays are 'The Ten Commandments, Reading from Right to Left'; 'Metacommentating Amos'; 'David the Man: The Construction of Masculinity in the Hebrew Bible'; and 'Psalm 2 and the MLF (Moabite Liberation Front)'.
| Author | : Shaul Bar |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 165 |
| Release | : 2018-06-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1532646496 |
Love, seduction, betrayal, violence, riddles, and myth all find their place in the biblical story of Samson. Samson is the last of the judges, with 20 percent of the book devoted to him—more than any other judge. From the beginning, Samson is unlike any other judge, which the author suggests when narrating Samson’s birth. Samson is destined, even before his birth, to deliver Israel. He doesn’t lead his people into battle, he acts alone; his battles are personal vendettas. Samson fights with a lion, defeats the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass, captures foxes, sets Philistine fields on fire, and carries the Gates of Gaza on his shoulders. So what stands behind these stories? Was Samson a mythological hero like Hercules and Gilgamesh? Like other men in the Hebrew Bible, Samson can’t resist foreign women. Time after time, he follows Philistine women who eventually betray him. Samson is defeated not by physical strength, but by the powers of seduction, making this story a tragedy. Who were these women and how did they defeat Samson? Readers of this volume will rediscover Samson and better understand his achievements and failures. This study will afford a provocative and useful insight into the character of Samson.
| Author | : Hanne Løland |
| Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9783161497056 |
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.
