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The Ends of Allegory

Author : Sayre N. Greenfield
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874136708
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book The Ends of Allegory written by Sayre N. Greenfield and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes that allegory is not a species of literature but a structure of reading applied to uncomfortable juxtapositions within literary texts. Examples from centuries of response to English Renaissance narrative poetry show not what poems mean but how they may be read and what cultural conditions encourage allegorical or nonallegorical readings. The study also encompasses interpretations of classical verse, biblical parable, Jacobean masque, modern lyric, and television advertising to explore how texts move in and out of the category of allegory.

Allegoresis

Author : Longxi Zhang
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501711296
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Allegoresis written by Longxi Zhang and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is it that a text, particularly a canonical text, is often said to contain a meaning different from what it literally says? How did allegorical readings arise and develop? By looking at such examples as Jewish and Christian interpretations of the Song of Songs and traditional Chinese commentaries on the Confucian classic Book of Poetry, Zhang Longxi discusses allegorical readings from a broad perspective that bridges the usual East/West cultural divide and examines their social and political implications. His approach is wide-ranging, cross-cultural, and cross-disciplinary, exploring allegoresis with regard to religion, philosophy, and literature. In his inquiry into allegory and allegorical interpretation, Zhang examines the idea of a self-explanatory text of the Bible as conceived by Augustine, Aquinas, and Luther; discusses the importance of the literal basis of textual interpretation; and takes up the question of moral responsibility and political allegiance. Zhang, who regards utopia as an allegory of social and political ideas, explores how utopian visions vary in their Chinese and Western expressions, in the process commenting on contemporary literary theory and political readings of literature past and present.

Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, Volume 14

Author : Stanley E. Porter
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532691866
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, Volume 14 written by Stanley E. Porter and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 14 2018 This is the fourteenth volume of the hard-copy edition of a journal that has been published online (www.jgrchj.net) since 2000. As they appear, the hard-copy editions replace the online materials. The scope of JGRChJ is the texts, language and cultures of the Greco-Roman world of early Christianity and Judaism. The papers published in JGRChJ are designed to pay special attention to the larger picture of politics, culture, religion and language, engaging as well with modern theoretical approaches.

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography

Author : R. Scott Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190648317
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography written by R. Scott Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of mythography has grown substantially in the past thirty years, an acknowledgment of the importance of how ancient writers "wrote down the myths" as they systematized, organized and interpreted the vast and contested mythical storyworld. With the understanding that mythography remains a contested category, that its borders are not always clear, and that it shifted with changes in the socio-cultural and political landscapes, The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography offers a range of scholarly voices that attempt to establish how and to what extent ancient writers followed the "mythographical mindset" that prompted works ranging from Apollodorus' Library to the rationalizing and allegorical approaches of Cornutus and Palaephatus. Editors R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma provide the first comprehensive survey of mythography from the earliest attempts to organize and comment on myths in the archaic period (in poetry and prose) to late antiquity. The essays also provide an overview of those writers we call mythographers and other major sources of mythographic material (e.g., papyri and scholia), followed by a series of essays that seek to explore the ways in which mythographical impulses were interconnected with other intellectual activities (e.g., geography and history, catasteristic writings, politics). In addition, another section of essays presents the first sustained analysis between mythography and the visual arts, while a final section takes mythography from late antiquity up into the Renaissance. While also taking stock of recent advances and providing bibliographical guidance, this Handbook offers new approaches to texts that were once seen only as derivative sources of mythical data and presents innovative ideas for further research. The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography is an essential resource for teachers, scholars, and students alike.

Allegorical Form and Theory in Hildegard of Bingen’s Books of Visions

Author : Dinah Wouters
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031171926
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Allegorical Form and Theory in Hildegard of Bingen’s Books of Visions written by Dinah Wouters and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of knowledge. It describes how the visionary’s use of allegory and allegorical exegesis is linked to theories of cognition, interpretation, and prophecy. It argues that the form of the allegorical vision is not just the product of a medieval symbolic mentality, but specific to Hildegard’s position and the major transformations taking place in the prescholastic intellectual milieu, such as the changing use of Scripture or the shift from traditional hermeneutics to cognitive language philosophy. The book shows that Hildegard uses traditional forms of knowledge – prophecy, the vision, monastic theology, allegorical hermeneutics – in startlingly innovative ways by combining them and by revising them for her own time.

Early Greek Ethics

Author : David Conan Wolfsdorf
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198758677
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Early Greek Ethics written by David Conan Wolfsdorf and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Greek Ethics is the first volume devoted to philosophical ethics in its "formative" period. It explores contributions from the Presocratics, figures of the early Pythagorean tradition, sophists, and anonymous texts, as well as topics influential to ethical philosophical thought such as Greek medicine, music, friendship, and justice.

Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in Galatians and 1 Thessalonians

Author : A. Andrew Das
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1978716060
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in Galatians and 1 Thessalonians written by A. Andrew Das and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in Galatians and 1 Thessalonians advances the interpretation of these letters by exploring how the Apostle Paul quotes, alludes to or "echoes" the Jewish Scriptures and other ancient materials. Comparative wording is at the forefront, whether in relation to Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, or prophecies and promises from Genesis, Habakkuk, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the Psalms, or other texts such as Philo. Issues and controversies include such topics as faith (ἐκ πίστεως), the Torah, the Holy Spirit, holiness, suffering, eschatology, allegorical interpretation, identity of the Israel of God, Zion and the return from exile, Roman piety, imperialism, and hidden transcripts.

Ethics Out of Law

Author : Dana Hollander
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487506244
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Ethics Out of Law written by Dana Hollander and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English to lay out the philosophical ethics and philosophy of law of Hermann Cohen, one of the leading figures in both Neo-Kantian and Jewish philosophy.

Allegories of Desire

Author : Susan Blakely Klein
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684170389
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Allegories of Desire written by Susan Blakely Klein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the more intriguing developments within medieval Japanese literature is the incorporation into the teaching of waka poetry of the practices of initiation ceremonies and secret transmissions found in esoteric Buddhism. The main figure in this development was the obscure thirteenth-century poet Fujiwara Tameaki, grandson of the famous poet Fujiwara Teika and a priest in a tantric Buddhist sect. Tameaki’s commentaries and teachings transformed secular texts such as the Tales of Ise and poetry anthologies such as the Kokin waka shu into complex allegories of Buddhist enlightenment. These commentaries were transmitted to his students during elaborate initiation ceremonies. In later periods, Tameaki’s specific ideas fell out of vogue, but the habit of interpreting poetry allegorically continued. This book examines the contents of these commentaries as well as the qualities of the texts they addressed that lent themselves to an allegorical interpretation; the political, economic, and religious developments of the Kamakura period that encouraged the development of this method of interpretation; and the possible motives of the participants in this school of interpretation. Through analyses of six esoteric commentaries, Susan Blakeley Klein presents examples of this interpretive method and discusses its influence on subsequent texts, both elite and popular.

Making Sense of Old Testament Genocide

Author : Christian Hofreiter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198810903
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Old Testament Genocide written by Christian Hofreiter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The divine commands to annihilate the seven nations living in Canaan (to 'devote them to destruction', herem in Biblical Hebrew) are perhaps the most morally troubling texts of the Hebrew and Christian bibles. Making Sense of Old Testament Genocide: Christian Interpretations of Herem Passages addresses the challenges these texts pose. It presents the various ways in which interpreters from the first century to the twenty-first have attempted to make sense of them. The most troubling approach was no doubt to read them as divine sanction and inspiration for violence and war: the analysis of the use of herem texts in the crusades, the inquisition, and various colonial conquests illustrates this violent way of reading the texts, which has such alarming contemporary relevance. Three additional approaches can also be traced to antiquity, viz. pre-critical, non-literal, and divine-command-theory readings. Finally, critics of Christianity from antiquity via the Enlightenment to today have referenced herem texts: their critical voices are included as well. Christian Hofreiter combines a presentation of a wide range of historical sources with careful analysis that scrutinizes the arguments made and locates the texts in their wider contexts. Influential contributions of such well-known figures as Augustine, Origen, Gregory the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and John Calvin are included, as well as those of critics such as Marcion, Celsus and Matthew Tindal, and less widely known texts such as crusading histories, songs and sermons, colonial conquest accounts, and inquisition manuals. The book thus sheds new light on the ways in which these texts have shaped the thoughts and actions of their readers through the centuries, and offers pertinent insights into how readers might be able to make sense of them today.

Judaism, Liberalism, & Political Theology

Author : Jerome E. Copulsky
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025301039X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Judaism, Liberalism, & Political Theology written by Jerome E. Copulsky and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays propose “a new and richly detailed engagement between Judaism and the political” (Jewish Book World). Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology provides the first broad encounter between modern Jewish thought and recent developments in political theology, arguing in opposition to impetuous associations of Judaism and liberalism and charges that Judaism cannot engender a universal political order. The vexed status of liberalism in Jewish thought and Judaism in political theology is interrogated with recourse to thinking from across the Continental tradition. “This collection of essays, which examines political theology from the distinct perspective of Jewish philosophy, could not be timelier or more useful for scholars and students navigating what is often viewed as very dense and difficult material.”—Claire Elise Katz, Texas A&M University

The Studia Philonica Annual XXXI, 2019

Author : David T. Runia
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 0884144208
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (841 download)

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Book Synopsis The Studia Philonica Annual XXXI, 2019 by : David T. Runia

Download or read book The Studia Philonica Annual XXXI, 2019 written by David T. Runia and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies on Philo and Hellenistic Judaism from experts in the field The Studia Philonica Annual is a scholarly journal devoted to the study of Hellenistic Judaism, particularly the writings and thought of the Hellenistic-Jewish writer Philo of Alexandria. This volume includes articles on allegory, Platonic interpretations of the law, rhetoric, and Philo’s thoughts on reincarnation. Features: Articles on aspects of Hellenistic Judaism written by scholars from around the world Comprehensive bibliography and book reviews

Logos and Muthos

Author : William Wians
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438427433
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Logos and Muthos written by William Wians and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the philosophical dimensions present in the works of ancient Greek poets and playwrights.

Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices

Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107105986
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices written by Anthony Grafton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative intercultural study of the techniques applied by scholars throughout the world to deal with problematic texts and artifacts.

Seeing Through the Veil

Author : Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442667176
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Through the Veil written by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the later Middle Ages, new optical theories were introduced that located the power of sight not in the seeing subject, but in the passive object of vision. This shift had a powerful impact not only on medieval science but also on theories of knowledge, and this changing relationship of vision and knowledge was a crucial element in late medieval religious devotion. In Seeing through the Veil, Suzanne Conklin Akbari examines several late medieval allegories in the context of contemporary paradigm shifts in scientific and philosophical theories of vision. After a survey on the genre of allegory and an overview of medieval optical theories, Akbari delves into more detailed studies of several medieval literary works, including the Roman de la Rose, Dante's Vita Nuova, Convivio, and Commedia, and Chaucer's dream visions and Canterbury Tales. The final chapter, 'Division and Darkness,' centres on the legacy of allegory in the fifteenth century. Offering a new interdisciplinary, synthetic approach to late medieval intellectual history and to major works within the medieval literary canon, Seeing through the Veil will be an essential resource to the study of medieval literature and culture, as well as philosophy, history of art, and history of science.

The Best of the Grammarians

Author : Francesca Schironi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0472130765
Total Pages : 937 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Best of the Grammarians written by Francesca Schironi and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark study of the emergence of Alexandrian and classical philology

European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

Author : Ernst Robert Curtius
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691157006
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages written by Ernst Robert Curtius and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-21 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin literature as the vital transition between the literature of antiquity and the vernacular literatures of later centuries. The result is nothing less than a masterful synthesis of European literature from Homer to Goethe. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a monumental work of literary scholarship. In a new introduction, Colin Burrow provides critical insights into Curtius's life and ideas and highlights the distinctive importance of this wonderful book.