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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Página ix
... existence . Often mistaken for belief in the immortality of the soul- an affirmation with which , to be sure , resurrection can and does readily coexist — resurrection is too often thought by the less learned to be a Christian ...
... existence . Often mistaken for belief in the immortality of the soul- an affirmation with which , to be sure , resurrection can and does readily coexist — resurrection is too often thought by the less learned to be a Christian ...
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... existence in the first place and rescuing them from certain death afterward. This is, once again, not to claim that the most ancient sources display any belief in individual resurrection. Rather, it is to point out the functional ...
... existence in the first place and rescuing them from certain death afterward. This is, once again, not to claim that the most ancient sources display any belief in individual resurrection. Rather, it is to point out the functional ...
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... existence and destiny of the sort that dismisses resurrection as an embarrassing relic of the childhood of humanity , a ground- less fantasy . Christianity , by way of contrast , founded on the proclamation of Jesus ' Resurrection ...
... existence and destiny of the sort that dismisses resurrection as an embarrassing relic of the childhood of humanity , a ground- less fantasy . Christianity , by way of contrast , founded on the proclamation of Jesus ' Resurrection ...
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... existence in the face of the extraordinarily powerful pressures to assimilate to the Christian host culture : the Christians , vulnerable to a crude superstition about a god - man who came back from the dead , have perverted the Hebrew ...
... existence in the face of the extraordinarily powerful pressures to assimilate to the Christian host culture : the Christians , vulnerable to a crude superstition about a god - man who came back from the dead , have perverted the Hebrew ...
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... existence constitutes a standing reproach to the God who " keeps faith with those who sleep in the dust ” and yet allows them to do so , having ( to all appearances ) quite forgotten his promise to revive them . In this way , death must ...
... existence constitutes a standing reproach to the God who " keeps faith with those who sleep in the dust ” and yet allows them to do so , having ( to all appearances ) quite forgotten his promise to revive them . In this way , death must ...
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 Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
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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