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
... offers a vision of life and death and the relationship between them that is strikingly different from those that underlie a belief in resurrec- tion . In the Hebrew Bible ( except for passages that are very few and very late ) , death ...
... offers a vision of life and death and the relationship between them that is strikingly different from those that underlie a belief in resurrec- tion . In the Hebrew Bible ( except for passages that are very few and very late ) , death ...
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... offers an investigation of the images of individual immortality that appear principally in Israelite devotional literature and offers a new definition of the immortality for which the authors longed, one closer to the idea of resurrec ...
... offers an investigation of the images of individual immortality that appear principally in Israelite devotional literature and offers a new definition of the immortality for which the authors longed, one closer to the idea of resurrec ...
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... offers scant precedent . Another possible resolution is an affirmation of immortality in the second sense given above . Like the first resolution , this affirmation upholds science ( and thus the absoluteness and irreversibility of ...
... offers scant precedent . Another possible resolution is an affirmation of immortality in the second sense given above . Like the first resolution , this affirmation upholds science ( and thus the absoluteness and irreversibility of ...
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... offer to Israel to choose between “ life and death , blessing and curse ” and his instruction , immediately ensuing , to “ choose life ... by loving the LORD your God , heed- ing His commands , and holding fast to Him ” ( Deut 30 : 19 ...
... offer to Israel to choose between “ life and death , blessing and curse ” and his instruction , immediately ensuing , to “ choose life ... by loving the LORD your God , heed- ing His commands , and holding fast to Him ” ( Deut 30 : 19 ...
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... offer rescue from death , restoring its erstwhile victim to life as this literature under- stands it . The former possibility , which has , as we have seen , deep roots and affinities in the ancient Near Eastern world , is rightly to be ...
... offer rescue from death , restoring its erstwhile victim to life as this literature under- stands it . The former possibility , which has , as we have seen , deep roots and affinities in the ancient Near Eastern world , is rightly to be ...
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