Literary Motifs And Patterns In The Hebrew Bible

Author : Shemaryahu Talmon
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575068540
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Motifs and Patterns in the Hebrew Bible written by Shemaryahu Talmon and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection gathers together Professor Shemaryahu Talmon’s contributions to the literary study of the Bible, and complements his acclaimed Literary Studies in the Hebrew Bible: Form and Content: Collected Studies (Jerusalem: Magnes / Leiden: Brill, 1993). The articles included herein span a broad range of topics, closely and comprehensively assessing fundamental themes and stylistic conceits present in biblical literature. Each study picks up one of these motifs or patterns, and traces its meaning and usage throughout the entire Bible. In Talmon’s estimation, these literary markers transcend all strata of the Bible, and despite diachronic developments, they retain their basic meanings and connotations throughout, even when employed by different authors over a span of hundreds of years. He demonstrates this convincingly by marshaling dozens of examples, each of which is valuable in its own right, and when taken all together, these building-blocks form a solid edifice that validate his approach. He judiciously employs this synchronic method throughout, frequently invoking an exegetical principle according to which one biblical verse can be employed to interpret the other, if they are found in similar contexts and with overlapping formulation. To use an expression that he coined elsewhere, his hermeneutical method can be described first and foremost as “The World of the Bible from Within.” Throughout the articles that appear in this volume, one is repeatedly struck by his sensitivity to the language and style of the biblical authors. He was blessed with a rich literary intuition, and shares with his readers his ability to see, hear, and understand the rhythms and poetics of biblical literature. In this volume, many of Talmon’s contributions are made accessible in fresh form to the benefit of both those who already know his work and to a newer generation of scholars for whom his work continues to prove important.

Author : Shemaryahu Talmon
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004677038
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Studies in the Hebrew Bible written by Shemaryahu Talmon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies assembled in this volume focus on two issues: firstly, the analysis and illustration of literary techniques employed by authors and compilers of the books of the Hebrew bible. In several instances, their development is followed into the early post-biblical Qumran writings and Apocrypha. Thus, the essays in this section relate to biblical literature qua literature, an issue which has especially attracted scholars in the field of recent times. In a second group of essays, the author sets out to probe the interconnection of literature and society in biblical Israel. Literary patterns, foremost motifs, are analyzed in the attempt to extract from them facets of underlying conceptual or speculative thought. Since biblical authors refrained, on the whole, from presenting systematically their world of ideas, the proposed evaluation of literary patterns may help in better gauging the conceptual universe of Israel in the biblical period

Author : Piotr Lorek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788360567012
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The motif of exile in Hebrew Bible written by Piotr Lorek and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Diane M. Sharon
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 1575060523
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patterns of Destiny written by Diane M. Sharon and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2002 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Diane Sharon uses the tools of structuralist literary criticism to uncover social and theological patterns in the literature of the Hebrew Bible. After providing a brief framework for understanding the approach used in her study, she demonstrates that the social activity of eating and drinking, when accompanied by other literary motifs, is part of a pattern portending the establishment or condemnation of a cultural entity. This pattern she refers to as the Pattern of Destiny." "In addition to defining the "destiny pattern," Sharon shows that the "direction" of the eating and/or drinking event provides clues regarding the nature of the destiny portended: whether the event will turn out to the positive or negative for the individual or cultural entity is signaled by clues within the eating/drinking event, sometimes in opposition to the surface structure of the text in which these clues are embedded." --Book Jacket.

Author : Norman K. Gottwald
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451415257
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hebrew Bible written by Norman K. Gottwald and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * A landmark textbook made accessible for the beginning college student * Thoroughly updated charts and graphs, reflection guides, and study questions * Richly illustrated with maps and photographs * Companion Web site features professor - and student-friendly resources

Author : George W. E. Nickelsburg
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah written by George W. E. Nickelsburg and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishing. This book was released on 1981 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Grace Kwan Sik Tsoi
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666722391
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Is to Blame for Judges 19? written by Grace Kwan Sik Tsoi and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The horrific text of Judges 19 is puzzling, especially to Chinese Christians who read the Chinese Union Version. This dominant translation of the Bible seems to place the blame for the tragedy on the concubine, which in turns legitimizes violence against women. Using tools of narrative, intertextual, and ideological criticism, Tsoi reveals an anti-Levite rhetoric in the text that has been neglected by translators. An examination of the translation context suggests that an anti-concubinage agenda in the social context of Republican China might have contributed to the bias in the translation, resulting in more than a century of misinterpretation among Chinese Christians.

Author : Guy Darshan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100934448X
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories of Origins in the Bible and Ancient Mediterranean Literature written by Guy Darshan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the genre of origin stories, and their appearance in the Hebrew bible and the Ancient Mediterranean literature.

Author : Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138886896
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Myths of Exile written by Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Babylonian exile in 587-539 BCE is often presented as a key factor for the religious and literary developments found in the Hebrew Bible. However, the theme of exile should not be viewed as an echo of a single traumatic historical event, but rather as a literary motif that is repeatedly reworked by biblical authors. Myths of Exile provides a critical and comparative assessment of motifs of estrangement and belonging in the Hebrew Bible and related literature. Demonstrating that such tales are a common formative narrative in the literature of the ancient Near-East, this book forms the basis for a fresh understanding of these exile myths as identity-building literary phenomena.

Author : Jerome T. Walsh
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814683762
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Style And Structure In Biblical Hebrew Narrative written by Jerome T. Walsh and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pages of the Hebrew Bible are filled with stories - short and long, funny and sad, histories, fables, and morality tales. The ancient narrators used a variety of stylistic devices to structure, to connect, and to separate their tales - and thus to establish contexts within which meaning comes to light. What are these devices, and how do they guide our reading and our understanding of the text? Style and Structure in Biblical Hebrew Narrative explores some of the answers and shows scriptural interpretation can be a matter of style." Part one of Style and Structure in Biblical Hebrew Narrative examines a wide variety of symmetrical patterns biblical Hebrew narrative uses to organize its units and subunits, and the interpretive dynamics those patterns can imply. Part two addresses the question of boundaries between literary units. Part three examines devices that biblical Hebrew narrative uses to connect consecutive literary units and subunits. Chapters in Part One: Structures of Organization are "Reverse Symmetry," "Forward Symmetry," "Alternating Repetition," "Partial Symmetry," "Multiple Symmetry," "Asymmetry." Chapters in Part Two: Structures of Disjunction are "Narrative Components," "Repetition," and "Narrative Sequence." Chapters in Part Three: Structures of Conjunction are "Threads," "Links: Examples," "Linked Threads: Examples," "Hinges: Examples," and "Double-Duty Hinges: Examples." Jerome T. Walsh, PhD, is a professor of theology and religious studies at the University of Botswana. He is the author of 1 Kings in the Berit Olam (The Everlasting Covenant) Studies in Hebrew Narrative and Poetry series for which he is also an associate editor. "