Irony And Meaning In The Hebrew Bible

Author : Carolyn J. Sharp
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025300344X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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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.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004536337
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irony in the Bible written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is generally agreed that there is significant irony in the Bible. However, to date no work has been published in biblical scholarship that on the one hand includes interpretations of both Hebrew Bible and New Testament writings under the perspective of irony, and on the other hand offers a panorama of the approaches to the different types and functions of irony in biblical texts. The following volume: (1) reevaluates scholarly definitions of irony and the use of the term in biblical research; (2) builds on existing methods of interpretation of ironic texts; (3) offers judicious analyses of methodological approaches to irony in the Bible; and (4) develops fresh insights into biblical passages.

Author : Edwin Marshall Good
Publisher : Nicholson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irony in the Old Testament written by Edwin Marshall Good and published by Nicholson. This book was released on 1965 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lillian R. Klein
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567414981
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Triumph of Irony in the Book of Judges written by Lillian R. Klein and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1988-09-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Triumph of Irony in the Book of Judges focuses on the literary quality of the book of Judges. Klein extrapolates the theme of irony in the book of Judges, seeking to prove that it is the main structural element. She points out how this literary device adds to the overall meaning and tone of the book, and what it reveals about the culture of the time. Chronologically divided into sections, Klein explores the narrative and commentates on the literary properties throughout-plot, character development, and resolution, as well as the main theme of irony.

Author : Jonathan A. Kruschwitz
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725260794
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interludes and Irony in the Ancestral Narrative written by Jonathan A. Kruschwitz and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of Hagar, Dinah, and Tamar stand out as strangers in the ancestral narrative. They deviate from the main plot and draw attention to the interests and fates of characters who are not a part of the ancestral family. Readers have traditionally domesticated these strange stories. They have made them "familiar"--all about the ancestral family. Thus Hagar's story becomes a drama of deselection, Shechem and the Hivites become emblematic for ancestral conflict with the people of the land, and Tamar becomes a lens by which to read providence in the story of Joseph. This study resurrects the question of these stories' strangeness. Rather than allow the ancestral narrative to determine their significance, it attends to each interlude's particularity and detects ironic gestures made toward the ancestral narrative. These stories contain within them the potential to defamiliarize key themes of ancestral identity: the ancestral-divine relationship, ancestral relations to the land and its inhabitants, and ancestral self-identity. Perhaps the ancestral family are not the only privileged partners of God, the only heirs to the land, or the only bloodline fit to bear the next generation.

Author : Magne Sæbø
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647540226
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hebrew Bible / Old Testament. III: From Modernism to Post-Modernism written by Magne Sæbø and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long and complex history of reception and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament through the ages, described in the HBOT Project, focuses in this concluding volume III, Part 2 on the multifarious research and the different methods used in the last century. Even this volume is written by Christian and Jewish scholars and takes its wider cultural and philosophical context into consideration. The perspective is worldwide and ecumenical. Its references to modern biblical scholarship, on which it is based, are extensive and updated.The indexes (names, topics, references to biblical sources and a broad body of literature beyond) are the key to the wealth of information provided.Contributors are J. Barton, H.L. Bosman, A.F. Campbell, SJ, D.M. Carr, D.J.A. Clines, W. Dietrich, St.E. Fassberg, D. Føllesdal, A.C. Hagedorn, K.M. Heim, J. Høgenhaven, B. Janowski, D.A. Knight, C. Körting, A. Laato, P. Machinist, M.A.O ́Brien, M. Oeming, D. Olson, E. Otto, M. Sæbø, J. Schaper, S. Sekine, J.L. Ska, SJ, M.A. Sweeney, and J. de Waard.

Author : Jakob Jónsson
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004075009
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humour and Irony in the New Testament written by Jakob Jónsson and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1985 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yehuda Thomas Radday
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1850757011
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Humour and the Comic in the Hebrew Bible written by Yehuda Thomas Radday and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric A. Seibert
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451424329
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Violence of Scripture written by Eric A. Seibert and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one can read far in the Old Testament without encountering numerous acts of violence that are sanctioned in the text and attributed to both God and humans. Over the years, these texts have been used to justify all sorts of violence: from colonizing people and justifying warfare, to sanctioning violence against women and children. Eric Seibert confrons the problem of "virtuous" violence and urges people to engage in an ethically responsible reading of these troublesome texts. He offers a variety of reading strategies designed to critique textually sanctioned violence, while still finding ways to use even the most difficult texts constructively, thus providing a desperately needed approach to the violence of Scripture that can help us live more peaceably in a world plagued by religious violence. --from publisher description

Author : Thomas Jemielity
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664252298
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Satire and the Hebrew Prophets written by Thomas Jemielity and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Thomas Jemielity demonstrates the striking relationship between satire and Hebrew prophecy by reviewing the role of ridicule in both and analyzing questions of nature, structure, form, and audience. This pioneering study makes compelling reading for all interested in the Bible and Western literature. 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.