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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... reason to find resurrection in the Torah itself and, in doing so, they exposed some impor- tant aspects of biblical thought largely overlooked by modern scholars. Chief among these aspects is the fact that in the Torah, promises can be ...
... reason to find resurrection in the Torah itself and, in doing so, they exposed some impor- tant aspects of biblical thought largely overlooked by modern scholars. Chief among these aspects is the fact that in the Torah, promises can be ...
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... reasons are not hard to find . The American Heritage Dictionary gives as the first meaning of " resurrection " ( lowercase ) " a rising from the dead or returning to life " but soon defines " Resurrection " ( uppercase ) as " the rising ...
... reasons are not hard to find . The American Heritage Dictionary gives as the first meaning of " resurrection " ( lowercase ) " a rising from the dead or returning to life " but soon defines " Resurrection " ( uppercase ) as " the rising ...
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... reason . " " What is eternal in us , " according to this vision , is our capacity for 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 ...
... reason . " " What is eternal in us , " according to this vision , is our capacity for 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 ...
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... reason that it is the plain sense but also for the more important reason that it lacked the capacity to advance the rabbinic case in the argument against the Sadducees or others who thought like them . In sum , an incidental feature of ...
... reason that it is the plain sense but also for the more important reason that it lacked the capacity to advance the rabbinic case in the argument against the Sadducees or others who thought like them . In sum , an incidental feature of ...
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... reason given in 3:22 for the latter's eviction from the Garden of Eden is precisely that he might become deathless , having now acquired the knowledge of good and evil and thus the intellectual capacity to taste of the Tree of Life as ...
... reason given in 3:22 for the latter's eviction from the Garden of Eden is precisely that he might become deathless , having now acquired the knowledge of good and evil and thus the intellectual capacity to taste of the Tree of Life as ...
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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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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