Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of LifeYale University Press, 2006 M01 1 - 274 páginas Many famous antique texts are misunderstood and many others have been completely dismissed, all because the literary style in which they were written is unfamiliar today. So argues Mary Douglas in this controversial study of ring composition, a technique which places the meaning of a text in the middle, framed by a beginning and ending in parallel. To read a ring composition in the modern linear fashion is to misinterpret it, Douglas contends, and today's scholars must reevaluate important antique texts from around the world. Found in the Bible and in writings from as far a field as Egypt, China, Indonesia, Greece, and Russia, ring composition is too widespread to have come from a single source. Does it perhaps derive from the way the brain works? What is its function in social contexts? The author examines ring composition, its principles and functions, in a cross-cultural way. She focuses on ring composition in Homer's Iliad, the Bible's book of Numbers, and, for a challenging modern example, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, developing a persuasive argument for reconstruing famous books and rereading neglected ones. |
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... comes to Sheol, on the one hand, and a newer affirmation of the unlimited power of the God of Israel to deliver faithful worshipers from even the harshest adversity, on the other. This key tension is never resolved but does gesture ...
... comes to Sheol, on the one hand, and a newer affirmation of the unlimited power of the God of Israel to deliver faithful worshipers from even the harshest adversity, on the other. This key tension is never resolved but does gesture ...
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... comes about not through miraculous fertility or the return of lost children but, significantly, through the resurrection of dead and despondent Israel from their graves, to return to the land God has in- defeasibly promised them ...
... comes about not through miraculous fertility or the return of lost children but, significantly, through the resurrection of dead and despondent Israel from their graves, to return to the land God has in- defeasibly promised them ...
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... comes as a shock to most Jews and Christians alike . The reasons are not hard to find . The American Heritage Dictionary gives as the first meaning of " resurrection " ( lowercase ) " a rising from the dead or returning to life " but ...
... comes as a shock to most Jews and Christians alike . The reasons are not hard to find . The American Heritage Dictionary gives as the first meaning of " resurrection " ( lowercase ) " a rising from the dead or returning to life " but ...
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... Come . Indeed , well- informed expositors of the Jewish tradition have felt compelled so to present it themselves . Abba Hillel Silver , a learned Reform rabbi in the mid - twentieth century and one of the most important figures in ...
... Come . Indeed , well- informed expositors of the Jewish tradition have felt compelled so to present it themselves . Abba Hillel Silver , a learned Reform rabbi in the mid - twentieth century and one of the most important figures in ...
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... come to serve as a kind of intermedi- ary point between resurrection and an acceptance of the finality of death , so it serves as a midpoint between the ancient belief in miracles and modern natu- ralism . Kaufmann Kohler , the leading ...
... come to serve as a kind of intermedi- ary point between resurrection and an acceptance of the finality of death , so it serves as a midpoint between the ancient belief in miracles and modern natu- ralism . Kaufmann Kohler , the leading ...
Contenido
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4 Are Abraham Moses and Job in Sheol? | 67 |
5 Intimations of Immortality | 82 |
6 Individual Mortality and Familial Resurrection | 108 |
7 The Man of God Performs a Resurrection | 123 |
8 Death Be Broken | 133 |
10 Israels Exodus from the Grave | 156 |
11 The Fact of Death and the Promise of Life | 166 |
12 He Keeps Faith with Those Who Sleep in the Dust | 181 |
13 Gods Ultimate Victory | 201 |
The Two Horns of the Ram | 217 |
Notes | 231 |
Index of Ancient Sources | 263 |
Index of Authors | 273 |
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Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God ... Jon Douglas Levenson Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abraham affirmation afterlife ancestors ancient Israelite Beatific belief in resurrection Ben Sira biblical blessing Canaanite century B.C.E. chapter cult Daniel dead death descendants destination Deut Deuteronomy earth Elijah Elisha Enoch eschatological eternal exile Exod expectation of resurrection Ezek Ezekiel faithful father Garden of Eden Genesis God's grave healing Hebrew Bible Hosea human Ibid immortality individual Isaac Isaiah Israel Jacob Jerusalem Jewish Jews Job's Johnston Judah Judaism king Kirta land later Levenson literature live LORD LORD's Maimonides midrash miraculous modern moral Moses narrative nation nature necromancy nepeš netherworld NJPS oracle passage Pentateuchal person prayer promise prophet Psalm psalmist rabbinic rabbinic Judaism Rashi redemption religion rescue restoration resurrection reversal revive righteous scholars Second Temple sense Sheol Shunem soul story surely survival texts theology thinking thought tion Torah tradition translation Ugaritic verse vindication vision wicked words World-to-Come YHWH Zoroastrian