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Reading Esther Intertextually

Author : David Firth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567703029
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Reading Esther Intertextually written by David Firth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the Book of Esther through the lens of intertextuality, this collection considers its connections with each division of the Hebrew Bible, along with texts throughout history. Through its exploration, it provides and invites further study into the relationship between Esther and its intertexts, many which are under explored. Topics covered in the book include considerations of Esther alongside the Torah and the prophetic books, as well as in dialogue with the Qumran community. As an edited collection, the book draws together scholars with expertise in the wide variety of texts that are intertextually connected with Esther, offering the reader a more nuanced and informed discussion. By including some reflection on the nature of intertextuality as a 'method', it also enables the reader to appreciate the varying intertextual approaches currently employed in biblical studies. In applying these to a focused analysis of Esther, this collection will facilitate greater insight on both the book of Esther and current methodological research.

Reading Between Texts

Author : Danna Nolan Fewell
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664253936
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Reading Between Texts written by Danna Nolan Fewell and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intertextuality (the reading of one text in terms of another) is a diverse practice. It is a central and prevalent subject in poststructuralist literary theory. Reading between Texts is the first book to address intertextuality as it relates specifically to interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. The contributors bring together lucid theoretical discussion and sophisticated interpretations from a variety of backgrounds, offering biblical scholars and students a helpful and thorough introduction to the issues and possibilities of intertextuality. The Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation series explores current trends within the discipline of biblical interpretation by dealing with the literary qualities of the Bible: the play of its language, the coherence of its final form, and the relationships between text and readers. Biblical interpreters are being challenged to take responsibility for the theological, social, and ethical implications of their readings. This series encourages original readings that breach the confines of traditional biblical criticism.

Reading Job Intertextually

Author : Katharine J. Dell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567552640
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Reading Job Intertextually written by Katharine J. Dell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume fills an important lacuna in the study of the Hebrew Bible by providing the first comprehensive treatment of intertextuality in Job, in which essays will address intertextual resonances between Job and texts in all three divisions of the Hebrew canon, along with non-canonical texts throughout history, from the ancient Near East to modern literature. Though comprehensive, this study will not be exhaustive, but will invite further study into connections between Job and these texts, few of which have previously been explored systematically. Thus, the volume's impact will reach beyond Job to each of the 'intertexts' the articles address. As a multi-authored volume that gathers together scholars with expertise on this diverse array of texts, the range of discussion is wide. The contributors have been encouraged to pursue the intertextual approach that best suits their topic, thereby offering readers a valuable collection of intertextual case studies addressing a single text. No study quite like this has yet been published, so it will also provide a framework for future intertextual studies of other biblical texts.

Narrative and Other Readings in the Book of Esther

Author : Else K. Holt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567697622
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Narrative and Other Readings in the Book of Esther written by Else K. Holt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays considers the Book of Esther from a literary and sociological perspective. In part one, Else Holt outlines the main questions of historical-critical research in the Book of Esther. She also discusses the theological meaning of a biblical book without God, and examines how the book was transmitted through the last centuries BCE. She also explores how the Hebrew and Greek variants of the Book of Esther picture its main character, Esther, the Jewish queen of Persia. In part two, Holt offers deconstructive reading of themes hidden under the surface-levels of the book. Chapters include discussions of Esther's initiation into her role as Persian queen; the inter-textual conversation with two much later texts, The Arabian Nights and The Story of O; and the relationship between Mordecai, the Jew, and his opponent Haman, the Agagite, as a matter of mimetic doublings. The last part of the book introduces the sociological concept of ethnicity-construction as the backdrop for perceiving the instigation of the Jewish festival Purim and the violence connected to it, and looks at the Book of Esther as an example of trauma literature. The concluding chapter analyses the moral quality of the book of Esther, asking the question: Is it a bedtime story?

Turmoil, Trauma and Tenacity in Early Jewish Literature

Author : Nicholas P. L. Allen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110784971
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Turmoil, Trauma and Tenacity in Early Jewish Literature written by Nicholas P. L. Allen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is written in the context of trauma hermeneutics of ancient Jewish communities and their tenacity in the face of adversity (i.e. as recorded in the MT, LXX, Pseudepigrapha, the Deuterocanonical books and even Cognate literature. In this regard, its thirteen chapters, are concerned with the most recent outputs of trauma studies. They are written by a selection of leading scholars, associated to some degree with the Hungaro-South African Study Group. Here, trauma is employed as a useful hermeneutical lens, not only for interpreting biblical texts and the contexts in which they were originally produced and functioned but also for providing a useful frame of reference. As a consequence, these various research outputs, each in their own way, confirm that an historical and theological appreciation of these early accounts and interpretations of collective trauma and its implications, (perceived or otherwise), is critical for understanding the essential substance of Jewish cultural identity. As such, these essays are ideal for scholars in the fields of Biblical Studies—particularly those interested in the Pseudepigrapha, the Deuterocanonical books and Cognate literature.

God as an Absent Character in Biblical Hebrew Narrative

Author : Amelia Devin Freedman
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820478289
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (782 download)

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Book Synopsis God as an Absent Character in Biblical Hebrew Narrative by : Amelia Devin Freedman

Download or read book God as an Absent Character in Biblical Hebrew Narrative written by Amelia Devin Freedman and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the Hebrew Bible as a whole is centered on God and God's relations with Israel, the character of God appears in most biblical stories only indirectly. How are modern readers to make sense of this paradox? God as an Absent Character in Biblical Hebrew Narrative establishes a set of literary methods that both academic and non-academic readers can use to understand the character of God, who is the single most important character in Hebrew Bible narrative and, strangely, absent from the majority of it.

Interested Readers

Author : James K. Aitken
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589839250
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Interested Readers written by James K. Aitken and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2013-11-10 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of the Hebrew Bible are interested readers, bringing their own perspectives to the text. The essays in this volume, written by friends and colleagues who have drawn inspiration from and shown interest in the scholarship of David Clines, engage with his work through examining interpretations of the Hebrew Bible in areas of common exploration: literary/exegetical readings, ideological-critical readings, language and lexicography, and reception history. The contributors are James K. Aitken, Jacques Berlinerblau, Daniel Bodi, Roland Boer, Athalya Brenner, Mark G. Brett, Marc Zvi Brettler, Craig C. Broyles, Philip P. Chia, Jeremy M. S. Clines, Adrian H. W. Curtis, Katharine J. Dell, Susan E. Gillingham, Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher, Edward L. Greenstein, Mayer I. Gruber, Norman C. Habel, Alan J. Hauser, Jan Joosten, Paul J. Kissling, Barbara M. Leung Lai, Diana Lipton, Christl M. Maier, Heather A. McKay, Frank H. Polak, Jeremy Punt, Hugh S. Pyper, Deborah W. Rooke, Eep Talstra, Laurence A. Turner, Stuart Weeks, Gerald O. West, and Ian Young.

Havdalah

Author : David Birnbaum
Publisher : New Paradigm Matrix
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Havdalah written by David Birnbaum and published by New Paradigm Matrix. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its famous opening chapter, the Hebrew Bible describes creation as consisting of twin acts of making and separating: God creates light on the first day and then separates it from the darkness, just as on the next day God creates the firmament and then sets it in place to separate the waters above from the waters below. And so it follows, at least in theory, that when human beings seek to create through the medium of their own artistry, creativity, or industry—and are obviously unable to mimic the uniquely divine act of creation ex nihilo—they seek to do so through the one part of the process they can imitate: separation. Indeed, the famous quip that the correct way to make a statue of a horse is to take a huge block of marble and then to chip away the parts that don’t look like a horse is just an amusing way of suggesting the same idea: namely, that the human creative process involves the perception of something embedded within something else and then the subsequent liberation of that thing from its former setting so that it may exist on its own and in its own right.

Reading Lamentations Intertextually

Author : Heath A. Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567699595
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Reading Lamentations Intertextually written by Heath A. Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses intertextual connections between Lamentations and texts in each division of the Hebrew Bible, along with texts throughout history. Sources examined range from the Dead Sea Scrolls to modern Shoah literature, allowing the volume's impact to reach beyond Lamentations to each of the 'intertexts' the chapters address. By bringing together scholars with expertise on this diverse array of texts, the volume offers a wide range of exegetical insight. It also enables the reader to appreciate the varying intertextual approaches currently employed in Biblical Studies, ranging from abstract theory to rigid method. By applying these to a focused analysis of Lamentations, this book will facilitate greater insight on both Lamentations and current methodological research.

Reading Proverbs Intertextually

Author : Katharine J. Dell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567667391
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Reading Proverbs Intertextually written by Katharine J. Dell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sitting alongside the partner volumes Reading Job Intertextually (2012) and Reading Ecclesiastes Intertextually (2014) also published in the Library of Hebrew and Old testament Studies, this addition to the series continues the study of intertextuality in the Hebrew Bible. Dell and Kynes provide the first comprehensive treatment of intertextuality in Proverbs. Topics addressed include the intertextual resonances between Proverbs, and texts across the Hebrew canon, as well as texts throughout history, from the Dead Sea Scrolls to African and Chinese proverbial literature. The contributions, though comprehensive, do not provide clear-cut answers, but rather invite further study into connections between Proverbs and external texts, highlighting ideas and issues in relation to the extra texts discussed themselves. The volume gathers together scholars with specific expertise on the array of texts that intersect with Proverbs and these scholars in turn bring their own insights to the texts at hand. In particular the contributors have been encouraged to pursue the intertextual approach that best suits their topic, thereby offering readers a valuable collection of intertextual case studies that address a single biblical book.

Foucault, Feminism, and Power

Author : Nina L. Molinaro
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838752005
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Foucault, Feminism, and Power written by Nina L. Molinaro and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1991 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on Esther Tusquets's published work (four novels and a collection of short stories) and elaborates a potential aesthetics of power as it is manifested in and through narrative. The five analytical chapters are framed by an introduction and a conclusion that suggest theoretical issues and approaches.

Was Ist ein Text?

Author : Ludwig D. Morenz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110184969
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (849 download)

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Book Synopsis Was Ist ein Text? by : Ludwig D. Morenz

Download or read book Was Ist ein Text? written by Ludwig D. Morenz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2007 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Arbeit von gyptologen, Altorientalisten und Bibelexegeten richtet sich auf Texte, die bersetzt, kommentiert und als Quellen verwendet werden. Textproduktion und Textrezeption in diesen eng verflochtenen Kulturen scheinen mit entsprechenden Mustern unserer Welt kaum vergleichbar. Der vorliegende Band ist aus einer Tagung zu jenen Differenzen und Gemeinsamkeiten hervorgegangen und widmet sich der Frage, wodurch in den genannten Kulturen ein sprachlicher "Text" konstituiert wird. Er versammelt Beitr ge zur Rekonstruktion kulturspezifischer Textbegriffe aus der Perspektive der beteiligten F cher.

Esther

Author : Jonathan Grossman
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575066580
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Esther written by Jonathan Grossman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using narrative devices such as allusions and free associations, multivalent expressions, and irony, the author of Esther wrote a story that is about a Jewish woman, Esther, during the time of the Persian exile of Yehudites, and the Persian king, Ahasuerus, who was in power at the time. At various junctures, the author also used secret writing, or we could say that he conveys mixed messages: one is a surface message, but another, often conflicting message lies beneath the surface. For instance, the outer portrayal of the king as one of the main protagonists is an ironic strategy used by the author to highlight the king’s impotent, indecisive, “antihero” status. He may wield authority—as symbolized by his twice-delegated signet ring—but he remains powerless. Among all the concealments in the story, the concealment of God stands out as the most prominent and influential example. A growing number of scholars regard the book of Esther as a “comic diversion,” the function and intention of which are to entertain the reader. However, Grossman is more convinced by Mikhail Bakhtin’s approach, and he labels his application of this approach to the reading of Esther as “theological carnivalesque.” Bakhtin viewed the carnival (or the carnivalesque genre) as a challenge by the masses to the governing establishment and to accepted social conventions. He described the carnival as an eruption of ever-present but suppressed popular sentiments. The connection between the story of Esther and Bakhtin’s characterization of the carnivalesque in narrative is evident especially in the book of Esther’s use of the motifs of “reversal” and “transformation.” For example, the young girl Esther is transformed from an exiled Jewess into a queen in one of the turnabouts that characterize the narrative. Many more examples are provided in this analysis of one of the Bible’s most fascinating books.

Scribal Culture and Intertextuality

Author : JiSeong James Kwon
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161543975
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Scribal Culture and Intertextuality written by JiSeong James Kwon and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JiSeong James Kwon discusses similar linguistic expressions and themes between Job and Deutero-Isaiah, and attempts to find out a common historical background. He argues that both Job and Deutero-Isaiah significantly reflect common scribal ideas, although each text belongs to wisdom and prophetic genre. - From the back of the book

Intertextual Explorations in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature

Author : Jeremy Corley
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110416956
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Intertextual Explorations in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature written by Jeremy Corley and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the fundamentals of intertextual methodology and summarizes recent scholarship on studies of intertextuality in the deuterocanonical books. The essays engage in comparison and analysis of text groups and motifs between canonical, deuterocanonical and non-biblical texts. Moreover, the book pays close attention to non-literary relationships between different traditions, a new feature of research in intertextuality.

The Redaction of the Books of Esther

Author : Michael V. Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Redaction of the Books of Esther written by Michael V. Fox and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Esther Regina

Author : André Lacocque
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Esther Regina written by André Lacocque and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers and scholars often question the inclusion of the Book of Esther in the canon. Where, they wonder, do the book’s flagrant displays of hatred, deceit, violence, and the antidotal grotesqueries of Purim figure in the biblical tradition? Such confusion, this book tells us, arises from a wrong appraisal of Esther’s literary genre. Distinguished scriptural scholar André LaCocque draws on the lessons of Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin to reveal the true comedic nature of the story of Esther and Mordecai. In particular, LaCocque finds in the book’s grotesque elements--from royal banquets that last a half-year to an improbable succession of coincidences and reversals of fortunes neutralizing a planned genocide--a natural fit with Bakhtin’s description of the “carnivalesque.” Bakhtin’s rediscovery of the carnivalesque employs such key notions and categories as the dialogic, the novelistic, the chronotopic, the polyphonic, and authoring-as-creating. Using these and other Bakhtinian tools, LaCocque rereads Esther to show how the book’s comedic mood is paradoxically proportional to the catastrophic predicament of the Jews. Here, as biblical theocentrism shifts to Judeocentrism, we see how the carnivalesque becomes subversive of the Establishment and liberating. In Esther, the underlying conviction is that Jewish survival is providential—and that anti-Semitism is anti-God. This is, as LaCocque tells us with a nod to Aristotle, a worthy lesson disguised as a "low genre."