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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... moral and theological universe of the ancient rabbis and shows why it was indispensable to their vision of divine revelation and human redemption and renewal alike. The question of how Judaism came to exhibit an expectation of general ...
... moral and theological universe of the ancient rabbis and shows why it was indispensable to their vision of divine revelation and human redemption and renewal alike. The question of how Judaism came to exhibit an expectation of general ...
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... 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 the underlying matter to which ...
... 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 the underlying matter to which ...
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... moral judgment itself— collapses if they identify life wholly with its physical components . The wording of the Union Prayerbook ( Reform Judaism ) reflects the simplest solution : “ Only the body has died and has been laid in the dust ...
... moral judgment itself— collapses if they identify life wholly with its physical components . The wording of the Union Prayerbook ( Reform Judaism ) reflects the simplest solution : “ Only the body has died and has been laid in the dust ...
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... moral reasoning , which reveals to us the natural law com- mon to all cultures . The elixir of immortality is liberal education that awakens one's powers of critical reason . . . . In retrospect , it is easy to see why this softening of ...
... moral reasoning , which reveals to us the natural law com- mon to all cultures . The elixir of immortality is liberal education that awakens one's powers of critical reason . . . . In retrospect , it is easy to see why this softening of ...
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... morality . Whereas history in the classical Jewish vision of resurrection will culminate in God's supernatural triumph over death , this second idea of immortality assumes a very different scenario : individuals at various times and ...
... morality . Whereas history in the classical Jewish vision of resurrection will culminate in God's supernatural triumph over death , this second idea of immortality assumes a very different scenario : individuals at various times and ...
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