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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... example , it substitutes " Thou preser- vest all ” ( měḥayyēh hakkõl ) , 23 thus retaining but also retranslating the He- brew verb and changing its object as well . The resultant wording leaves open the possibility that God's ...
... example , it substitutes " Thou preser- vest all ” ( měḥayyēh hakkõl ) , 23 thus retaining but also retranslating the He- brew verb and changing its object as well . The resultant wording leaves open the possibility that God's ...
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... example , of the Talmudic statement that " the righteous are destined to rise wearing their clothes , " the proof for which comes from a grain of wheat . " If a grain of wheat , which is buried naked , — comes forth with many coverings ...
... example , of the Talmudic statement that " the righteous are destined to rise wearing their clothes , " the proof for which comes from a grain of wheat . " If a grain of wheat , which is buried naked , — comes forth with many coverings ...
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... example , the preface to the Song at the Sea reads : Then ( az ) Moses and the Israelites sang ( yāšîr ) this song to the Lord . ( Exod 15 : 1a ) The Mekilta de - Rabbi Ishmael , an early midrash collection on parts of Exo- dus ...
... example , the preface to the Song at the Sea reads : Then ( az ) Moses and the Israelites sang ( yāšîr ) this song to the Lord . ( Exod 15 : 1a ) The Mekilta de - Rabbi Ishmael , an early midrash collection on parts of Exo- dus ...
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... example of the " rewritten Bible " of ancient Judaism . 10 To the rabbi himself , however , his reading involves no reinterpretation or recon- textualization , and no recognition of historical development . The grammar of the verse , he ...
... example of the " rewritten Bible " of ancient Judaism . 10 To the rabbi himself , however , his reading involves no reinterpretation or recon- textualization , and no recognition of historical development . The grammar of the verse , he ...
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... example , Jacob ( or Israel , as he comes to be called ) , is both a person and a people , both eponymous ancestor of the promised nation and an individual who pre - enacts the destiny of his descendants . " He went down to Egypt with ...
... example , Jacob ( or Israel , as he comes to be called ) , is both a person and a people , both eponymous ancestor of the promised nation and an individual who pre - enacts the destiny of his descendants . " He went down to Egypt with ...
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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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