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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... speaking of a “ lit- eral " doctrine of the resurrection of the body — whether in affirmation or in negation . For to literalize is to prosaize , and to prosaize a mythopoetic vision is to traduce it . The history of the translation of ...
... speaking of a “ lit- eral " doctrine of the resurrection of the body — whether in affirmation or in negation . For to literalize is to prosaize , and to prosaize a mythopoetic vision is to traduce it . The history of the translation of ...
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... Speaking of one influential volume , Gillman ( himself an exponent of Conservative Judaism ) , notes the " predilection for the second strategy for handling troublesome litur- gical passages : wherever possible , retain the Hebrew but ...
... Speaking of one influential volume , Gillman ( himself an exponent of Conservative Judaism ) , notes the " predilection for the second strategy for handling troublesome litur- gical passages : wherever possible , retain the Hebrew but ...
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... speak . Unfortunately for Maimonides , however , it is an implica- tion that appears too consistently for it to have resulted merely from a figura- tive use of language . One thinks , for example , of the Talmudic statement that " the ...
... speak . Unfortunately for Maimonides , however , it is an implica- tion that appears too consistently for it to have resulted merely from a figura- tive use of language . One thinks , for example , of the Talmudic statement that " the ...
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... speak of past events . The result is , to put it kindly , some highly imaginative exegesis . For example , the preface to the Song at the Sea reads : Then ( az ) Moses and the Israelites sang ( yāšîr ) this song to the Lord . ( Exod 15 ...
... speak of past events . The result is , to put it kindly , some highly imaginative exegesis . For example , the preface to the Song at the Sea reads : Then ( az ) Moses and the Israelites sang ( yāšîr ) this song to the Lord . ( Exod 15 ...
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... speak of Israel seeing and " glowing " as the wealth of nations passes to them and their temple ( Isa 60 : 5 ) ; of the light of redemption bursting upon them , as the LORD comes to their rescue and their vindication ( 58 : 8 ) ; of the ...
... speak of Israel seeing and " glowing " as the wealth of nations passes to them and their temple ( Isa 60 : 5 ) ; of the light of redemption bursting upon them , as the LORD comes to their rescue and their vindication ( 58 : 8 ) ; of the ...
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