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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... experience the fulfillment of the promise after all. Rather, it is because in the Hebrew Bible, the lives of ancestors and descendants were inextricably connected in ways that modern people have enormous problems imagining. In chapters ...
... experience the fulfillment of the promise after all. Rather, it is because in the Hebrew Bible, the lives of ancestors and descendants were inextricably connected in ways that modern people have enormous problems imagining. In chapters ...
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... experience of subjectivity and moral choice is an illusion . The decisions people make , the very consciousness they experience , and the perceptions of transcendence that they have are all in that case really only reconfigurations of ...
... experience of subjectivity and moral choice is an illusion . The decisions people make , the very consciousness they experience , and the perceptions of transcendence that they have are all in that case really only reconfigurations of ...
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... experience of free will , and all other spiritual phenomena , but it cannot account for them . As we shall see at length , 34 by not dichotomizing body and soul , this approach stands closer to the biblical view out of which the ...
... experience of free will , and all other spiritual phenomena , but it cannot account for them . As we shall see at length , 34 by not dichotomizing body and soul , this approach stands closer to the biblical view out of which the ...
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... experience it will be miraculously free of physical needs and vulnerabilities , deriving sustenance from the beatific vision of the divine radiance . It is a very different thing to say , as Maimonides seems to , that they will be ...
... experience it will be miraculously free of physical needs and vulnerabilities , deriving sustenance from the beatific vision of the divine radiance . It is a very different thing to say , as Maimonides seems to , that they will be ...
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... experience of eschatological liberation , a token , perhaps the token , of things to come . The full activation of God's potential in the foundational past has been trans- formed into a sign of the still greater activation of his ...
... experience of eschatological liberation , a token , perhaps the token , of things to come . The full activation of God's potential in the foundational past has been trans- formed into a sign of the still greater activation of his ...
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 |
Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God ... Jon Douglas Levenson Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
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