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Parabolic Figures or Narrative Fictions?

Author : Charles W. Hedrick
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498224857
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Parabolic Figures or Narrative Fictions? written by Charles W. Hedrick and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hedrick contends that parables do not teach moral and religious lessons; they are not, in whole or part, theological figures for the church. Rather, parables are realistic narrative fictions that like all effective fiction literature are designed to draw readers into story worlds where they make discoveries about themselves by finding their ideas challenged and subverted--or affirmed. The parables have endings but not final resolutions, because the endings raise new complications for careful readers, which require further resolution. The narrative contexts and interpretations supplied by the evangelists constitute an attempt by the early church to bring the secular narratives of Jesus under the control of the church's later religious perspectives. Each narrative represents a fragment of Jesus's secular vision of reality. Finding himself outside the mainstream of parables scholarship, both ecclesiastical and critical, Hedrick explored a literary approach to the parables in a series of essays that, among other things, set out the basic rationale for a literary approach to the parables of Jesus. These early essays form the central section of the book. They are published here in edited form along with unpublished critiques of a thoroughgoing literary approach and his response.

Stories with Intent

Author : Klyne R. Snodgrass
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467449636
Total Pages : 917 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Stories with Intent written by Klyne R. Snodgrass and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2009 Christianity Today Award for Biblical Studies, Stories with Intent offers pastors and students a comprehensive and accessible guide to Jesus' parables. Klyne Snodgrass explores in vivid detail the historical context in which these stories were told, the part they played in Jesus' overall message, and the ways in which they have been interpreted in the church and the academy. Snodgrass begins by surveying the primary issues in parables interpretation and providing an overview of other parables—often neglected in the discussion—from the Old Testament, Jewish writings, and the Greco-Roman world. He then groups the more important parables of Jesus thematically and offers a comprehensive treatment of each, exploring both background and significance for today. This tenth anniversary edition includes a substantial new chapter that surveys developments in the interpretation of parables since the book's original 2008 publication.

Matthew’s Parable of the Royal Wedding Feast

Author : Ruth Christa Mathieson
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 1628373318
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Matthew’s Parable of the Royal Wedding Feast written by Ruth Christa Mathieson and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2023-06-02 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Christa Mathieson’s unique reading of Matthew’s parable of the royal wedding feast (Matt 22:1–14), which concludes with the king’s demand that one of the guests be bound and cast out into the outer darkness, focuses on the means of the underdressed guest’s expulsion. Using sociorhetorical interpretation, Mathieson draws the parable into conversation with early Jewish narratives of the angel Raphael binding hands and feet (1 Enoch; Tobit) and the protocol for expelling individuals from the community in Matt 18. She asserts that readers are invited to consider if the person who is bound and cast out is a danger to the little ones of the community of faith unless removed and restrained.

Unmasking Biblical Faiths

Author : Charles W. Hedrick
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532613032
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Book Synopsis Unmasking Biblical Faiths by : Charles W. Hedrick

Download or read book Unmasking Biblical Faiths written by Charles W. Hedrick and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unmasking Biblical Faiths aims to address many of the challenges to traditional Christian faith in the modern world. Since the eighteenth-century Age of Enlightenment, human reason, formerly tethered by the constraints of organized religion, has been set free to explore the universe relatively unchallenged. The influence of the Bible, on the other hand, weakened due to the successes of modern historical criticism, is found to be inadequate for the task of enabling the faith "once for all delivered to the saints" (Jude 3), in that it cannot adequately respond to the many questions about religious faith that human reasoning raises for modern human beings. In a series of short but tightly reasoned essays, Charles Hedrick explores the confrontation between traditional Christian faith and aggressive human reason, a conflict that is facilitated by Western secular education.

Jesus and the Gospels, Third Edition

Author : Craig L. Blomberg
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1087753155
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book Jesus and the Gospels, Third Edition written by Craig L. Blomberg and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of Scripture testifies to the person of Jesus, yet the Gospels offer a face-to-face encounter. This newly revised third edition of Jesus and the Gospels prepares readers for an in-depth exploration of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Esteemed New Testament scholar Craig Blomberg considers the Gospels’ historical context while examining fresh scholarship, critical methods, and contemporary applications for today. Along with updated introductions, maps, and diagrams, Blomberg’s linguistic, historical, and theological approach delivers a deep investigation into the Gospels for professors, students, and pastors alike.

Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s - 1960s

Author : Stephanie Newell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1847013821
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s - 1960s written by Stephanie Newell and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundbreaking examination of literary production in West African newspapers and local printing presses in the first half of the 20th century, which adds an African perspective to transatlantic Black studies, and shows how African newsprint creativity has shaped readers' ways of imagining subjectivity and society under colonialism. From their inception in the 1880s, African-owned newspapers in 'British West Africa' carried an abundance of creative writing by local authors, largely in English. Yet to date this rich and vast array of work has largely been ignored in critical discussion of African literature and cultural history. This book, for the first time, explores this under-studied archive of ephemeral writing - from serialised fiction to poetry and short stories, philosophical essays, articles on local history, travelogues and reviews, and letters - and argues for its inclusion in literary genres and anglophone world literatures. Combining in-depth case studies of creative writing in the Ghana and Nigeria press with a major reappraisal of the Nigerian pamphlets known as 'Onitsha market literature', and focusing on non-elite authors, the author examines hitherto neglected genres, styles, languages, and, crucially, readerships. She shows how local print cultures permeated African literary production, charting changes in literary tastes and transformations to genres and styles, as they absorbed elements of globally circulating English texts into formats for local consumption. Offering fresh trajectories for thinking about local and transnational African literary networks while remaining attuned to local textual cultures in contexts of colonial power relations, anticolonial nationalism, the Cold War and global circuits of cultural exchange, this important book reveals new insights into ephemeral literature as significant sites of literary production, and contributes to filling a gap in scholarship on colonial West Africa.

Textual Strategies

Author : Josue V. Harari
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501743422
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Textual Strategies written by Josue V. Harari and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stellar cast of fifteen contributors seeks to show the direction in which continental and continentally oriented American literary criticism has evolved in recent years. Nine of the essays are published here for the first time; five of the remaining six were translated, by the editor, from the French; only one has previously appeared in English. The essays make available some of the most important and most representative work that has been done in the wake of structuralism. Among the topics treated are the relationships between semiology and literature, anthropology and literature, and psychoanalysis and literature; modern American poetics; algebraic models as epistemological operators; the modes of production of a poem; Flaubert's view of history; and poetic language. Professor Harari has arranged the essays to move from the general to the particular and from the abstract to the concrete. In an informative and ambitious introduction, he discusses each essay in relation to the whole and explains the interrelationships among the various theories and strategies that are represented in the anthology. A book meant for the specialist as well as the novice, for the teacher of literature and criticism as well as the student, Textual Strategies is a brilliant introduction to post-structuralist critical theories and practices.

The Callaghan Symposium

Author : David Staines
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 2760343871
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Callaghan Symposium written by David Staines and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Matthean Parables

Author : Ivor H. Jones
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004267263
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Matthean Parables written by Ivor H. Jones and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Matthean Parables offers a fresh approach to the origin of Matthew's Gospel. It builds on current historical, literary, rhetorical and sociological studies of Matthew's Gospel to show how the Matthean parables illuminate the structure, purpose and theology of that gospel. The first part of the book establishes the need for a new attempt to define the genre of Matthew's Gospel, examines what is meant by a parable, and summarises the contribution made by the parables to that new attempt. The second part is a thorough exegetical, historical critical and literary study of all the Matthean parables in the context of the whole gospel and in the light of all the Matthean figurative material. An appendix illustrates the use of syntactical material in defining the character and style of a biblical text.

Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash

Author : Daniel Boyarin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253114617
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash written by Daniel Boyarin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceeding by means of intensive readings of passages from the early midrash on Exodus The Mekilta, Boyarin proposes a new theory of midrash that rests in part on an understanding of the heterogeneity of the biblical text and the constraining force of rabbinic ideology on the production of midrash. In a forceful combination of theory and reading, Boyarin raises profound questions concerning the interplay between history, ideology, and interpretation.

A Trauma Artist

Author : Mark A. Heberle
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 0877457611
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (774 download)

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Download or read book A Trauma Artist written by Mark A. Heberle and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on recent conversations with Tim O'Brien, previously published interviews, and new readings of all his works -- including Tomcat in Love -- this book is the first study to concentrate on the role and representation of trauma as the central focus of all O'Brien's works. Book jacket.

Parabolas of Science Fiction

Author : Brian Atterby
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 081957368X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Parabolas of Science Fiction written by Brian Atterby and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays about the inherently collaborative nature of science fiction As a geometric term, parabola suggests a narrative trajectory or story arc. In science fiction, parabolas take us from the known to the unknown. More concrete than themes, more complex than motifs, parabolas are combinations of meaningful setting, character, and action that lend themselves to endless redefinition and jazzlike improvisation. The fourteen original essays in this collection explore how the field of science fiction has developed as a complex of repetitions, influences, arguments, and broad conversations. This particular feature of the genre has been the source of much critical commentary, most notably through growing interest in the "sf megatext," a continually expanding archive of shared images, situations, plots, characters, settings, and themes found in science fiction across media. Contributors include Jane Donawerth, Terry Dowling, L. Timmel Duchamp, Rachel Haywood Ferreira, Pawel Frelik, David M. Higgins, Amy J. Ransom, John Rieder, Nicholas Ruddick, Graham Sleight, Gary K. Wolfe, and Lisa Yaszek.

The Brahmavâdin

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brahmavâdin written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Science Fiction Criticism

Author : Rob Latham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474248632
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction Criticism written by Rob Latham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics as: ·Definitions and boundaries of the genre ·The many forms of science fiction, from time travel to 'inner space' ·Ideology and identity: from utopian fantasy to feminist, queer and environmental readings ·The non-human: androids, aliens, cyborgs and animals ·Race and the legacy of colonialism The volume also features annotated guides to further reading on these topics. Includes writings by: Marc Angenot, J.G. Ballard, Damien Broderick, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Samuel R. Delany, Philip K. Dick, Grace Dillon, Kodwo Eshun, Carl Freedman, Allison de Fren, Hugo Gernsback, Donna Haraway, N. Katherine Hayles, Robert A. Heinlein, Nalo Hopkinson, Veronica Hollinger, Fredric Jameson, Gwyneth Jones, Rob Latham, Roger Luckhurst, Judith Merril, John B. Michel, Wendy Pearson, John Rieder, Lysa Rivera, Joanna Russ, Mary Shelley, Stephen Hong Sohn, Susan Sontag, Bruce Sterling, Darko Suvin, Vernor Vinge, Sherryl Vint, H.G. Wells, David Wittenberg and Lisa Yaszek

Teaching Science Fiction

Author : A. Sawyer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230300391
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Science Fiction written by A. Sawyer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Science Fiction is the first text in thirty years to explore the pedagogic potential of that most intellectually stimulating and provocative form of popular literature: science fiction. Innovative and academically lively, it offers valuable insights into how SF can be taught historically, culturally and practically at university level.

Chinese Justice, the Fiction

Author : Jeffrey C. Kinkley
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804739764
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Justice, the Fiction written by Jeffrey C. Kinkley and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a full-length study of Chinese crime fiction in all eras: ancient, modern, and contemporary. It is also the first book to apply legal scholars law and literature inquiry to the rich field of Chinese legal and literary culture.

Parables as Poetic Fictions

Author : Charles W. Hedrick
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597523976
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Parables as Poetic Fictions written by Charles W. Hedrick and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contending that Jesus narrative parables are more poetic than metaphoric, Hedrick argues that parables should be heard solely on their own terms. Hedrick s dissatisfaction with figurative and metaphorical approaches or those that argue for a particular meaning or a single interpretation diverges sharply from the modern consensus and breaks new ground in parable studies.