A Prelude To Biblical Folklore

Download A Prelude To Biblical Folklore full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online A Prelude To Biblical Folklore ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

A Prelude to Biblical Folklore

Author : Susan Niditch
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252068836
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (688 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Prelude to Biblical Folklore by : Susan Niditch

Download or read book A Prelude to Biblical Folklore written by Susan Niditch and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treating Old Testament stories as the product of an oral traditional world, A Prelude to Biblical Folklore sets biblical narrative in a broad cross-cultural context and reveals much about the richness and complexity of the ancient Israelite civilization that produced it. Using a unique combination of biblical scholarship and folklore methodology, Susan Niditch tracks stories of biblical characters who become heroes against the odds, either through trickery or through native wisdom, physical prowess, and the help of human or divine agents. In this volume, originally published as Underdogs and Tricksters, Niditch examines three cross-sections of the Old Testament in detail: stories in Genesis in which patriarchs pretend that their wives are really their sisters; the contrasting stories of two younger sons, the trickster Jacob and the earnest underdog Joseph; and the story of Esther as a paradigm of feminine wisdom pitted against unjust authority. Linking these Old Testament heroes to the legendary tricksters and underdogs of other cultures, Niditch shows how the Israelites' worldview and self-image are reflected in the way biblical authors tell their stories. Through a thoughtful analysis of style, content, narrative choices, and attitudes to issues of gender and political authority in biblical narrative, A Prelude to Biblical Folklore draws persuasive conclusions about the identity, location, and provenance of the stories' authors and their audiences.

Folklore and the Hebrew Bible

Author : Susan Niditch
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592447686
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Folklore and the Hebrew Bible by : Susan Niditch

Download or read book Folklore and the Hebrew Bible written by Susan Niditch and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-08-24 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent scholarship, the field of folklore studies has gained a new acceptance among biblical scholars even though introductory texts in the area are not available. This book aims to fill that gap by presenting the modern field of folklore, providing case studies of its application to biblical texts (Gen. 3; Ex. 12; 'mashal'), including useful suggestions for further work in the area, and making the field of folklore studies accessible to students of the Hebrew Bible.

Patterns of Destiny

Author : Diane M. Sharon
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 1575060523
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Patterns of Destiny by : Diane M. Sharon

Download or read book Patterns of Destiny written by Diane M. Sharon and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2002 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Diane Sharon uses the tools of structuralist literary criticism to uncover social and theological patterns in the literature of the Hebrew Bible. After providing a brief framework for understanding the approach used in her study, she demonstrates that the social activity of eating and drinking, when accompanied by other literary motifs, is part of a pattern portending the establishment or condemnation of a cultural entity. This pattern she refers to as the Pattern of Destiny." "In addition to defining the "destiny pattern," Sharon shows that the "direction" of the eating and/or drinking event provides clues regarding the nature of the destiny portended: whether the event will turn out to the positive or negative for the individual or cultural entity is signaled by clues within the eating/drinking event, sometimes in opposition to the surface structure of the text in which these clues are embedded." --Book Jacket.

Comedy and Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible

Author : Melissa Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191630764
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Comedy and Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible by : Melissa Jackson

Download or read book Comedy and Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible written by Melissa Jackson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy is both relative, linked to a time and culture, and universal, found pervasively across time and culture. The Hebrew Bible contains comedy of this relative, yet universal nature. Melissa A. Jackson engages the Hebrew Bible via a comic reading and brings that reading into conversation with feminist-critical interpretation, in resistance to any lingering stereotype that comedy is fundamentally non-serious or that feminist critique is fundamentally unsmiling. Dividing comic elements into categories of literary devices, psychological/social features, and psychological/social function, Jackson examines the narratives of a number of biblical characters for evidence of these comic elements. The characters include the trickster matriarchs, the women involved in the infancy of Moses, Rahab, Deborah and Jael, Delilah, three of David's wives (Michal, Abigail, Bathsheba), Jezebel, Ruth, and Esther. Nine particularly instructive points of contact between comedy and feminist interpretation emerge: both (1) resist definition, (2) exist amidst a self/other, subject/object dichotomy, (3) emphasise and utilise context, (4) promote creativity, (5) acknowledge the concept of distancing, (6) work towards revelation, (7) are subversive, (8) are concerned with containment and control, and (9) enable survival. The use of comedy as an interpretive lens for the Hebrew Bible is not without difficulties for feminist interpretation. While maintaining an uncomfortable, even painful, awareness of the hold patriarchy retains on the Hebrew Bible, feminist critics can still choose to allow comedy's revelatory, subversive, survivalist nature to do its work revealing, subverting, and surviving.

Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible

Author : Carolyn J. Sharp
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025300344X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible by : Carolyn J. Sharp

Download or read book Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible written by Carolyn J. Sharp and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was God being ironic in commanding Eve not to eat fruit from the tree of wisdom? Carolyn J. Sharp suggests that many stories in the Hebrew Scriptures may be ironically intended. Deftly interweaving literary theory and exegesis, Sharp illumines the power of the unspoken in a wide variety of texts from the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Writings. She argues that reading with irony in mind creates a charged and open rhetorical space in the texts that allows character, narration, and authorial voice to develop in unexpected ways. Main themes explored here include the ironizing of foreign rulers, the prostitute as icon of the ironic gaze, indeterminacy and dramatic irony in prophetic performance, and irony in ancient Israel's wisdom traditions. Sharp devotes special attention to how irony destabilizes dominant ways in which the Bible is read today, especially when it touches on questions of conflict, gender, and the Other.

The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media

Author : Tom Thatcher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567678385
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media by : Tom Thatcher

Download or read book The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media written by Tom Thatcher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media is a convenient and authoritative reference tool, introducing specific terms and concepts helpful to the study of the Bible and related literature in ancient communications culture. Since the early 1980s, biblical scholars have begun to explore the potentials of interdisciplinary theories of oral tradition, oral performance, personal and collective memory, ancient literacy and scribality, visual culture and ritual. Over time these theories have been combined with considerations of critical and exegetical problems in the study of the Bible, the history of Israel, Christian origins, and rabbinics. The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media responds to the rapid growth of the field by providing a source of reference that offers clear definitions, and in-depth discussions of relevant terms and concepts, and the relationships between them. The volume begins with an overview of 'ancient media studies' and a brief history of research to orient the reader to the field and the broader research context of the book, with individual entries on terms and topics commonly encountered in studies of the Bible in ancient media culture. Each entry defines the term/ concept under consideration, then offers more sustained discussion of the topic, paying particular attention to its relevance for the study of the Bible and related literature

Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions

Author : Raphael Patai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317471709
Total Pages : 1641 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions by : Raphael Patai

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions written by Raphael Patai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 1641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multicultural reference work on Jewish folklore, legends, customs, and other elements of folklife is the first of its kind.

A Handbook of Biblical Reception in Jewish, European Christian, and Islamic Folklores

Author : Eric Ziolkowski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110388685
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Handbook of Biblical Reception in Jewish, European Christian, and Islamic Folklores by : Eric Ziolkowski

Download or read book A Handbook of Biblical Reception in Jewish, European Christian, and Islamic Folklores written by Eric Ziolkowski and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of a two-volume Handbook treats a challenging, largely neglected subject at the crossroads of several academic fields: biblical studies, reception history of the Bible, and folklore studies or folkloristics. The Handbook examines the reception of the Bible in verbal folklores of different cultures around the globe. This first volume, complete with a general Introduction, focuses on biblically-derived characters, tales, motifs, and other elements in Jewish (Mizrahi, Sephardi, Ashkenazi), Romance (French, Romanian), German, Nordic/Scandinavian, British, Irish, Slavic (East, West, South), and Islamic folkloric traditions. The volume contributes to the understanding of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, the New Testament, and various pseudepigraphic and apocryphal scriptures, and to their interpretation and elaboration by folk commentators of different faiths. The book also illuminates the development, artistry, and “migration” of folktales; opens new areas for investigation in the reception history of the Bible; and offers insights into the popular dimensions of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities around the globe, especially regarding how the holy scriptures have informed those communities’ popular imaginations.

Closure in Biblical Narrative

Author : Susan Zeelander
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004221301
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Closure in Biblical Narrative by : Susan Zeelander

Download or read book Closure in Biblical Narrative written by Susan Zeelander and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been much discussion of narrative aspects of the Bible in recent years, but the ends of biblical narratives – how the ends contribute to closure for their stories and how the ending strategies affect the whole narrative – have not been studied comprehensively. This study shows how the writers and editors of short narratives in Genesis gave their stories a sense of closure (or in a few cases, the sense of non-closure). Multiple and sometimes unexpected, forms of closure are identified; together these form a set of closural conventions. This contribution to narrative poetics of the Hebrew Bible in the light of source criticism will also be valuable to those who are interested in narrative and in concepts of closure.

The Bible and the Comic Vision

Author : J. William Whedbee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521495073
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (95 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Bible and the Comic Vision by : J. William Whedbee

Download or read book The Bible and the Comic Vision written by J. William Whedbee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apart from the occasional recognition of comic forms or motifs in biblical dress, the vast majority of interpreters have usually discounted or even disdained the possibility of the Bible having any significant place for the comic vision. This book attempts to make amends for this short-sighted, prejudicial perspective.

The Bible, Violence, and the Sacred

Author : James G. Williams
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556356366
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Bible, Violence, and the Sacred by : James G. Williams

Download or read book The Bible, Violence, and the Sacred written by James G. Williams and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first comprehensive application to the whole Bible of RenŽ Girard's theories on violence, civilization, and religion.

T&T Clark Handbook of Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible

Author : Emanuel Pfoh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567704769
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (677 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis T&T Clark Handbook of Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible by : Emanuel Pfoh

Download or read book T&T Clark Handbook of Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible written by Emanuel Pfoh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook presents an overview of the main approaches from social and cultural anthropology to the Hebrew Bible. Since the late 19th century, biblical scholarship has addressed issues and themes related to biblical stories from a perspective which could now be considered socio-anthropological. It is however only since the 1960s that biblical scholars have started to produce readings and incorporate analytical models drawn directly from social anthropology to widen the interpretive scope of the social and historical data contained in the biblical sources. The handbook is arranged into two main thematic parts. Part 1 assesses the place of the Bible in social anthropology, examines the contribution of ethnoarchaeology to the recovery of the social world of Iron Age Palestine and offers insights from the anthropology of the Mediterranean for the interpretation of the biblical stories. Part 2 provides a series of case studies on anthropological themes arising in the Hebrew Bible. These include kinship and social organisation, death, cultural and collective memory, and ritualism. Contributors also examine how the biblical stories reveal dynamics of power and authority, gender, and honour and shame, and how socio-anthropological approaches can reveal these narratives and deepen our knowledge of the human societies and cultural context of the texts. Bringing together the expertise of scholars of the Hebrew Bible and Biblical Archaeology, this ethnographic introduction prompts new questions into our understanding of anthropology and the Bible.

Foster Biblical Scholarship

Author : Frank Ritchel Ames
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589835336
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Foster Biblical Scholarship by : Frank Ritchel Ames

Download or read book Foster Biblical Scholarship written by Frank Ritchel Ames and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2010 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays describes the pursuit of biblical scholarship in the twenty-first century and explores the implications of modern and postmodern approaches, collaborative and emancipative models of graduate and undergraduate education, and public and political uses of the Bible. Special attention is given to the role of the Society of Biblical Literature. Essays by nine SBL presidents appear in the collection, which honors SBL Executive Director Emeritus Kent Harold Richards.

Negotiating Power in Ezra-Nehemiah

Author : Donna Laird
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 0884141632
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (841 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Negotiating Power in Ezra-Nehemiah by : Donna Laird

Download or read book Negotiating Power in Ezra-Nehemiah written by Donna Laird and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donna Laird examines Ezra and Nehemiah in the light of modern sociological theorist Pierre Bourdieu. How did this context of hardship, exile, and return change what Ezra and Nehemiah viewed as important? How did they define who was a part of their community, and who was an outsider? It goes on to explore how the books engaged readers at the time: how it addressed their changing circumstances, and how different groups gained and used social power, or the ability to influence society. Features Chapters dedicated to penitential prayer and to the role of ritual Illustrations of how the writers used past traditions to justify dividing those who belong, the repatriates, from the local population Demonstration of how shifting strategies of discourse in the various sections of Ezra-Nehemiah reflect the changing political and social contexts for the community and the authors

The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible

Author : Michael Lieb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199670390
Total Pages : 743 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible by : Michael Lieb

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible written by Michael Lieb and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging volume looks at the reception history of the Bible's many texts; Part I surveys the outline, form, and content of twelve key biblical books that have been influential in the history of interpretation. Part II offers a series of in-depth case studies of the interpretation of particular biblical passages or books.

Sinning in the Hebrew Bible

Author : Alan F. Segal
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231159269
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Sinning in the Hebrew Bible by : Alan F. Segal

Download or read book Sinning in the Hebrew Bible written by Alan F. Segal and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of rape, murder, adultery, and conquest raise crucial issues in the Hebrew Bible, and their interpretation helps societies form their religious and moral beliefs. From the sacrifice of Isaac to the adultery of David, narratives of sin engender vivid analysis and debate, powering the myths that form the basis of the religious covenant, or the relationship between a people and their God. Rereading these stories in their different forms and varying contexts, Alan F. Segal demonstrates the significance of sinning throughout history and today. Drawing on literary and historical theory, as well as research in the social sciences, he explores the motivation for creating sin stories, their prevalence in the Hebrew Bible, and their possible meaning to Israelite readers and listeners. After introducing the basics of his approach and outlining several hermeneutical concepts, Segal conducts seven linked studies of specific narratives, using character and text to clarify problematic terms such as "myth," "typology," and "orality." Following the reappearance and reinterpretation of these narratives in later compositions, he proves their lasting power in the mythology of Israel and the encapsulation of universal, perennially relevant themes. Segal ultimately positions the Hebrew Bible as a foundational moral text and a history book, offering uncommon insights into the dating of biblical events and the intentions of biblical authors.

Telling God's Stories with Power

Author : Paul F. Koehler
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0878080651
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Telling God's Stories with Power by : Paul F. Koehler

Download or read book Telling God's Stories with Power written by Paul F. Koehler and published by William Carey Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete and practical introduction to storying, especially for people who want to learn about using biblical storytelling in cross-cultural contexts and who want to train others to become storytellers. It includes many fascinating accounts of the responses of tribal people to the first proclamation of the gospel through storytelling. The result of years of research and field testing, Telling God's Stories with Power is a product of the author's own journey as he confronted the challenges of teaching the Bible in parts of the world where people are unaccustomed to a Western style of learning. Full of innovative and groundbreaking insights, this study is packed with ideas, explanations, and constructive suggestions stated in clear and simple language. Throughout the book there are extensive examples from the storytellers' own experiences. Tracing the movement of the biblical stories across multiple generations of tellers and listeners, storytelling is found to be superior for knowledge transfer and for bypassing resistance to the gospel in oral contexts, thus presenting clear evidence of the effectiveness of biblical narrative among oral learners.