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Puns and Pundits

Author : Scott B. Noegel
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Puns and Pundits written by Scott B. Noegel and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2000 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the use of word play in the literature of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, and Israel, and Medieval Hebrew and Arabic literature; includes such topics as: alliterative allusions, rebus writing, ominous homophony, portentous puns, and paronomasia.

Hebrew Wordplay and Septuagint Translation Technique in the Fourth Book of the Psalter

Author : Elizabeth H. P. Backfish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567689468
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Book Synopsis Hebrew Wordplay and Septuagint Translation Technique in the Fourth Book of the Psalter by : Elizabeth H. P. Backfish

Download or read book Hebrew Wordplay and Septuagint Translation Technique in the Fourth Book of the Psalter written by Elizabeth H. P. Backfish and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines numerous Hebrew wordplays not identified and discussed in previous research, and the technique of the Septuagint translators, by offering another criterion of evaluation – essentially, their concern about the style of translating Hebrew into Greek. Elizabeth Backfish's study analyzes seventy-four wordplays employed by the Hebrew poets of Psalms 90-106, and how the Septuagint renders Hebrew wordplay in Greek. Backfish estimates that the Septuagint translators were able to render 31% of the Hebrew semantic and phonetic wordplays (twenty-four total), most of which required some sort of transformation, or change, to the text in order to function in Greek. After providing a thorough summary of research methods on wordplay, definitions and research methodology, Backfish summarizes all examples of wordplay within the Fourth Psalter, and concludes with examples of the wordplay's replication, similar rendition or textual variation in the Septuagint. Emphasising the creativity and ingenuity of the Septuagint translators' work in passages that commentators often too quickly identify as the results of scribal error or a variant Vorlage from the Masoretic text, Backfish shows how the aptitude and flexibility displayed in the translation technique also contributes to conversations in modern translation studies.

Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary: Daniel

Author : John H. Walton
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310255767
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary: Daniel by : John H. Walton

Download or read book Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary: Daniel written by John H. Walton and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a brief essay that introduces each book, a verse-by-verse commentary follows. Drawing upon linguistic analysis, archaeological evidence, history, other ancient Near Eastern literatures, and the like, the commentary provides the historical and cultural background against which the texts can be read and understood. --from publisher description.

Through a Glass Darkly

Author : Kasia Szpakowska
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589527
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Through a Glass Darkly written by Kasia Szpakowska and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic, dreams and prophecy played important roles in ancient Egypt, as in other Mediterranean societies. Scholars are now approaching the whole topic of divination in antiquity with greatly enhanced attention. In this volume eminent international specialists come together to explore the practice, logic and psychology of divination among ancient Egyptians.

Yahweh's Elegant Speeches of the Abrahamic Narratives

Author : Matthew Michael
Publisher : Langham Monographs
ISBN 13 : 1783689757
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Yahweh's Elegant Speeches of the Abrahamic Narratives written by Matthew Michael and published by Langham Monographs. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a study in the attribution, aesthetics and representations of Yahweh’s speeches in the Hebrew Bible. It describes the literary elegance and beauty of the speeches of Yahweh in the Abrahamic narratives. Employing a synchronic reading of the Abrahamic cycle, it underscores the presence of various literary devices in the divine speeches (12:1-9, 13:1-18, 15:1-21, 17:1-27, 18:1-33, and 22: 1-19). Specifically, it engages the high concentration, literary effects and use of metaphors/metaphoric language, similes, alliterations, wordplays, euphemisms, hyperboles, repetitions, allusions and other distinctive literary features in the speeches of Yahweh which are deliberately denied, and glaringly absent in the speeches of the other main characters of the Abrahamic narratives (e.g. Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar). Similarly, it demonstrates the importance of these elevated speeches in the narrative world of Abrahamic epic. Most importantly, it also highlights the ideological significance of these decorated speeches of Yahweh to the original audience of the narrator who presumably identified with their excessive optimism and rhetoric. Consequently, this book is a pioneering work in the contemporary study of stylistics, characterizations and functions of attributed speeches in the Hebrew narratives.

Birkat Shalom

Author : Chaim Cohen
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575065908
Total Pages : 1122 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Birkat Shalom written by Chaim Cohen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2008-06-23 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent volume is a compilation of the writings of friends, colleagues, and former students in tribute to Shalom Paul, Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Bible Department at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. More than 60 essayists contribute new ideas in the areas of research most loved by Prof. Paul, such as biblical literature and criticism, prophecy, comparative exegesis and linguistics, ancient Near Eastern historical and cultural milieus, and biblical and Mesopotamian law. Contributors include scholars of renown such as Adele Berlin, Frank Moore Cross, William G. Dever, Michael V. Fox, William W. Hallo, Sara Japhet, André Lemaire, Carol Meyers, Jacob Milgrom, Elisha Qimron, Gary A. Rendsburg, Jack M. Sasson, Shemaryahu Talmon, Emanuel Tov, James C. VanderKam, Joan Goodnick Westenholz, and Ziony Zevit.

Approaches to Literary Readings of Ancient Jewish Writings

Author : Klaas Smelik
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004258566
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Literary Readings of Ancient Jewish Writings written by Klaas Smelik and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume twelve contributions discuss the relevance, accuracy, potential, and possible alternatives to a literary reading of ancient Jewish writings, especially the Hebrew Bible. Drawing on different academic fields (biblical studies, rabbinic studies, and literary studies) and on various methodologies (literary criticism, rhetorical criticism, cognitive linguistics, historical criticism, and reception history), the essays form a state-of-the-art overview of the current use of the literary approach toward ancient Jewish texts. The volume convincingly shows that the latest approaches to a literary reading can still enhance our understanding of these texts.

Poetry in the Song of Songs

Author : Patrick Hunt
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433104657
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Poetry in the Song of Songs written by Patrick Hunt and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking study explores the structure and literary figures in the biblical Hebrew poetry of the Song of Songs. These figures include simile, metaphor, paronomasia, parallelism, sensory cluster, fertility language - flowers, spices, and plants as well as animals and images of wealth - and many other literary devices, delineated but not limited to how they also appear in classical literature as defined by Aristotle, Quintilian, and others. This biblical poetry is also compared to the Greek poetry of Sappho and Egyptian love poetry as well as to the Ramayana and the Kamasutra. The Song of Songs is discreetly yet firmly interpreted as erotic literature.

Allusive Soundplay in the Hebrew Bible

Author : Jonathan G. Kline
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 0884141705
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (841 download)

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Book Synopsis Allusive Soundplay in the Hebrew Bible by : Jonathan G. Kline

Download or read book Allusive Soundplay in the Hebrew Bible written by Jonathan G. Kline and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study to focus exclusively on the use in the Hebrew Bible of soundplay to allude to and interpret earlier literary traditions This book focuses on the way the biblical writers used allusive soundplay to construct theological discourse, that is, in service of their efforts to describe the nature of God and God's relationship to humanity. By showing that a variety of biblical books contain examples of allusive soundplay employed for this purpose, Kline demonstrates that this literary device played an important role in the growth of the biblical text as a whole and in the development of ancient Israelite and early Jewish theological traditions. Features: Demonstrates that allusive soundplay was a productive compositional technique in ancient Israel Identifies examples of innerbiblical allusion that have not been identified before A robust methodology for identifying soundplay in innerbiblical allusions

Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, Volume 8 (2014)

Author : The Interpreter Foundation
Publisher : The Interpreter Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1497494222
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, Volume 8 (2014) written by The Interpreter Foundation and published by The Interpreter Foundation. This book was released on 2014-03-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is volume 8 (2014) of Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture published by The Interpreter Foundation. It contains articles on a variety of topics including narrative theology, Limhi's use of enallage, a book review of The Intolerance of Tolerance, biblical theophanies and Joseph Smith's First Vision, Oliver Cowdery's aborted attempts to describe the First Vision, a book review of Tiki and Temple: The Mormon Mission in New Zealand, thoughts on Christmas from Hugh Nibley, the scale of creation in space and time, a book review of In God's Image and Likeness 2: Enoch, Noah, and the Tower of Babel, Hagar in LDS thought, two book reviews of Letters to a Young Mormon, the NHM inscriptions as evidence for the historicity of the Book of Mormon, chiasmus in Abraham 3, a note on the names Zeezrom and Jershon, two book reviews of Significant Textual Changes in the Book of Mormon: The First Printed Edition Compared to the Manuscripts and to the Subsequent Major LDS English Printed Editions, and a call to Pacific anthropologists on the origin of mankind in the Pacific.

The Mortuary Papyrus of Padikakem

Author : Yekaterina Barbash
Publisher : Yale Egyptology
ISBN 13 : 1950343065
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Mortuary Papyrus of Padikakem written by Yekaterina Barbash and published by Yale Egyptology. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study is the first translation of the papyrus of Padikakem, with an extensive commentary. The complete early Ptolemaic manuscript from the Walters Art Museum contains two uncommon texts in hieratic. The initial text, a Ritual of Introducing the Multitude on the Last Day of Tekh, is identified as a temple liturgy by its rubric title, while its themes recall love poetry and the Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys. The second text, a rarely attested Book III of glorification spells (sakhw) has an exclusively mortuary character. The spells of this section largely originate in the Pyramid Texts and include specific instructions for recitation by the lector priest. The two texts are established as a coherent composition that belongs to the Greco-Roman tradition of merging Egyptian funerary practices with temple liturgies. The diverse sources and themes of the texts shed light on the evolution of Osirian and mortuary theologies from the Old Kingdom onwards. The study also thoroughly examines the development of grammar and paleography among the parallels.

Textual Criticism and Dead Sea Scrolls Studies in Honour of Julio Trebolle Barrera

Author : Andrés Piquer Otero
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004221352
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Textual Criticism and Dead Sea Scrolls Studies in Honour of Julio Trebolle Barrera by : Andrés Piquer Otero

Download or read book Textual Criticism and Dead Sea Scrolls Studies in Honour of Julio Trebolle Barrera written by Andrés Piquer Otero and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes papers on different topics of textual criticism of the Bible, history of the Hebrew text and the Septuagint, and Dead Sea Scrolls studies, contributed by friends and colleagues of Julio Trebolle Barrera to honour him on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The book presents a good selection of current research in the history and composition of the Bible, the Septuagint and the Dead Sea Scrolls, all with the aim of honouring a scholar who has excelled in those areas throughout his career.

The Collected Papers of J. L. Moles - Volume 1

Author : John Marincola
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004538712
Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Papers of J. L. Moles - Volume 1 written by John Marincola and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. L. Moles (1949–2015) made fundamental contributions to the fields of ancient (especially Cynic) philosophy, Greek and Roman historiography and biography, Latin poetry, and New Testament studies. These two volumes gather together all of his major articles and reviews, along with six previously unpublished papers. The papers display Moles’ individual and sometimes iconoclastic approach, his impressive range in both Classical and New Testament texts, and his unrivalled abilities in close reading. This is volume 1.

Extreme Poetry

Author : Yigal Bronner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231151608
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Extreme Poetry written by Yigal Bronner and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the sixth century C.E. and continuing for more than a thousand years, an extraordinary poetic practice was the trademark of a major literary movement in South Asia. Authors invented a special language to depict both the apparent and hidden sides of disguised or dual characters, and then used it to narrate India's major epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, simultaneously. Originally produced in Sanskrit, these dual narratives eventually worked their way into regional languages, especially Telugu and Tamil, and other artistic media, such as sculpture. Scholars have long dismissed simultaneous narration as a mere curiosity, if not a sign of cultural decline in medieval India. Yet Yigal Bronner's Extreme Poetry effectively negates this position, proving that, far from being a meaningless pastime, this intricate, "bitextual" technique both transcended and reinvented Sanskrit literary expression. The poems of simultaneous narration teased and estranged existing convention and showcased the interrelations between the tradition's foundational texts. By focusing on these achievements and their reverberations through time, Bronner rewrites the history of Sanskrit literature and its aesthetic goals. He also expands on contemporary theories of intertextuality, which have been largely confined to Western texts and practices.

An Ancient Israelite Historian

Author : Isaac Kalimi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004358765
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book An Ancient Israelite Historian written by Isaac Kalimi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Kalimi, one of the esteemed specialists of the Chronicler’s work... has provided us an intriguing historical and theological study about the Chronicler’s work that will surely provoke further discussion.” — Stefan Beyerle, In: Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period 37 (2006). “Among Biblical scholars of Jewish background, Kalimi shows an outstanding ability to see and draw relationships between original passages and sources as well as ancient and modern commentaries.... Kalimi accomplished what he promised in the title of the book: to demonstrate that the Chronicler is “an ancient Israelite historian.'" - Chen Yiyi, In: Journal of Ancient Civilizations 24 (2009). “The book is another important contribution to the study of Chronicles by an eminent expert on that field, and as such is indispensable on every scholar’s desk, not only in the field of Chronicles but also for everyone with an interest in biblical historiography in general.” – M. Marciak, In: The Polish Journal of Biblical Research 8 (2009). “Professor Kalimi is to be congratulated for these two works, which are perhaps the finest analysis of Chronicles in the recent decades. Tons of ink has been spent on discussions that have gone above basic questions that the author has analyzed point by point, and no doubt studies in the future have come in the work of Kalimi a base and inescapable benchmark for discussions.” – J.M. Tebes, In: Antiguo Oriente 8 (2010).

Isaiah

Author : Zondervan,
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
ISBN 13 : 0310527678
Total Pages : 771 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Isaiah written by Zondervan, and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many today find the Old Testament a closed book. The cultural issues seem insurmountable and we are easily baffled by that which seems obscure. Furthermore, without knowledge of the ancient culture we can easily impose our own culture on the text, potentially distorting it. This series invites you to enter the Old Testament with a company of guides, experts that will give new insights into these cherished writings. Features include • Over 2000 photographs, drawings, maps, diagrams and charts provide a visual feast that breathes fresh life into the text. • Passage-by-passage commentary presents archaeological findings, historical explanations, geographic insights, notes on manners and customs, and more. • Analysis into the literature of the ancient Near East will open your eyes to new depths of understanding both familiar and unfamiliar passages. • Written by an international team of 30 specialists, all top scholars in background studies.

BMH as Body Language

Author : W. Boyd Barrick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567473511
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book BMH as Body Language written by W. Boyd Barrick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is customarily assumed that the Hebrew word BMH denotes a "high place," first a topographical elevation and derivatively a cult place elevated either by location or construction. This book offers a fresh, systematic, and comprehensive examination of the word in those biblical and post-biblical passages where it supposedly carries its primary topographical sense. Although the word is used in this way in only a handful of its attestations, they are sufficiently numerous and contextually diverse to yield sound systematic, rather than ad hoc, conclusions as to its semantic content. Special attention is paid to its likely Semitic and unlikely Greek cognates, pertinent literary, compositional, and text-critical matters, and the ideological and iconographical ambiance of each occurrence. This study concludes that the non-cultic word BMH is actually *bomet, carrying primarily (if not always) an anatomical sense approximate to English "back," sometimes expanded to the "body" itself. The phrase bmty->rs (Amos 4:13, Micah 1:3, and CAT 1.4 VII 34; also Deut. 32:13a, Isa. 58:14ab-ba, and Sir. 46:9b) derives from the international mythic imagery of the Storm-God: it refers originally to the "mythological mountains," conceptualized anthropomorphically, which the god surmounts in theophany, symbolically expressing his cosmic victory and sovereignty. There is no instance where this word (even 2 Sam. 1:19a and 1:25b) is unequivocally a topographical reference. The implications of these findings for identifying the bamah-sanctuary are briefly considered.