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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... verses follows the Hebrew, not the English, where there is a divergence. I have rendered the tetragrammaton without vowels, even when quoting authors who have inserted vowels, and indicated the difference by putting the term in brackets ...
... verses follows the Hebrew, not the English, where there is a divergence. I have rendered the tetragrammaton without vowels, even when quoting authors who have inserted vowels, and indicated the difference by putting the term in brackets ...
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... verses from a psalm that Jewish tradition requires to be recited in houses of mourning : 10Shall he live eternally , and never see the grave ? 11 For one sees that the wise die , that the foolish and ignorant both perish , leaving their ...
... verses from a psalm that Jewish tradition requires to be recited in houses of mourning : 10Shall he live eternally , and never see the grave ? 11 For one sees that the wise die , that the foolish and ignorant both perish , leaving their ...
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... verses that seem at first glance to speak of past events . The result is , to put it kindly , some highly ... verse in the former category : at that moment , having crossed the sea , Moses and the Israel- ites sang the ensuing ...
... verses that seem at first glance to speak of past events . The result is , to put it kindly , some highly ... verse in the former category : at that moment , having crossed the sea , Moses and the Israel- ites sang the ensuing ...
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... verse is to be proven true , resurrected as well . This interpretation makes for exceedingly bad philology , to be ... verses that use “ then ” ( ' āz ) in an eschatological sense listed in the Mekilta . These verses speak of Israel ...
... verse is to be proven true , resurrected as well . This interpretation makes for exceedingly bad philology , to be ... verses that use “ then ” ( ' āz ) in an eschatological sense listed in the Mekilta . These verses speak of Israel ...
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... verse , he claims , supports his interpretation of it as proof of the resurrec- tion of the dead from the Torah itself . This example , connecting as it does with several deep themes in Jewish thought , involves more theological ...
... verse , he claims , supports his interpretation of it as proof of the resurrec- tion of the dead from the Torah itself . This example , connecting as it does with several deep themes in Jewish thought , involves more theological ...
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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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