The Death Wish In The Hebrew Bible

Author : Hanne Løland Levinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108833659
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death Wish in the Hebrew Bible written by Hanne Løland Levinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the texts in the Hebrew Bible in which a character expresses a wish to die.

Author : Samuel Hildebrandt
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1506485499
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vast As the Sea written by Samuel Hildebrandt and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2023 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetry of the Old Testament articulates the painful experiences of being human. Vast as the Sea shows how texts like Job, Jeremiah, and the Psalms provide honest and healing expressions for life's struggles. This book is a rich resource for scholars and readers of the Bible, as well as for psychologists and pastoral counselors.

Author : Rhiannon Graybill
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300274572
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jonah written by Rhiannon Graybill and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative translation and commentary on the book of Jonah by a trio of award-winning scholars The book of Jonah, which tells the outlandish story of a disobedient prophet swallowed by a great fish, is one of the Bible’s best-known narratives. This tale has fascinated readers for millennia and has inspired countless interpretations. This commentary features a new translation of Jonah as well as an introduction outlining the major interpretive issues in the text. The introduction traces the composition history of the book, paying special attention to the psalm in the second chapter; and the authors explore new theories surrounding the time and place where Jonah delivers his message to Nineveh, as well as the city’s act of repentance. In addition to these features, this volume draws on a variety of critical approaches to biblical literature—including affect theory, animal studies, performance criticism, postcolonial criticism, psychological criticism, spatial theory, and trauma theory—to reveal the book’s many interpretive possibilities. An updated treatment of Jonah’s reception history includes analyses of the story in religious traditions, art and literature, and popular culture.

Author : Gerald Friedlander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer written by Gerald Friedlander and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Suriano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190844744
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible written by Matthew Suriano and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmortem existence in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament was rooted in mortuary practices and conceptualized through the embodiment of the dead. But this idea of the afterlife was not hopeless or fatalistic, consigned to the dreariness of the tomb. The dead were cherished and remembered, their bones were cared for, and their names lived on as ancestors. This book examines the concept of the afterlife in the Hebrew Bible by studying the treatment of the dead, as revealed both in biblical literature and in the material remains of the southern Levant. The mortuary culture of Judah during the Iron Age is the starting point for this study. The practice of collective burial inside a Judahite rock-cut bench tomb is compared to biblical traditions of family tombs and joining one's ancestors in death. This archaeological analysis, which also incorporates funerary inscriptions, will shed important insight into concepts found in biblical literature such as the construction of the soul in death, the nature of corpse impurity, and the idea of Sheol. In Judah and the Hebrew Bible, death was a transition that was managed through the ritual actions of the living. The connections that were forged through such actions, such as ancestor veneration, were socially meaningful for the living and insured a measure of immortality for the dead.

Author : Matthew J. Suriano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780190844769
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible written by Matthew J. Suriano and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meaning of the afterlife in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament is studied through the ideals of a good death, beginning with burial customs. This book uses burial remains from Iron Age Judah to shed important light on the images of death found in biblical literature.

Author : Varunaj Churnai
Publisher : Langham Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783684569
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Justice written by Varunaj Churnai and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, scholars have tended to interpret what Job says about death in one of two ways. They interpret it either as part of the broader reading of death in the Old Testament, or by imposing Ancient Near Eastern mythological concepts upon the text disregarding its nature as part of the Old Testament’s wisdom tradition. Varunaj Churnai attempts to redress the latter interpretation and treats the book of Job, and its development and understanding of death, contextually. Churnai specifically looks at how Job presents the two faces of God: God’s wrathful face and God’s gracious face. Beyond Justice demonstrates that the retribution principle allows humans to know the hidden God as it illuminates the relationship between individual and Creator. Through Job’s experiences and heartfelt outpouring of his soul before both God’s wrathful face and God’s gracious face we can know God more fully. Churnai shows how these faces of God are reconciled in the two divine speeches of YHWH, which invite both Job and the reader to move beyond retribution theology to trust in the graciousness of God.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Bible Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert S. Kawashima
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253003201
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode written by Robert S. Kawashima and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by literary theory and Homeric scholarship as well as biblical studies, Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode sheds new light on the Hebrew Bible and, more generally, on the possibilities of narrative form. Robert S. Kawashima compares the narratives of the Hebrew Bible with Homeric and Ugaritic epic in order to account for the "novelty" of biblical prose narrative. Long before Herodotus or Homer, Israelite writers practiced an innovative narrative art, which anticipated the modern novelist's craft. Though their work is undeniably linked to the linguistic tradition of the Ugaritic narrative poems, there are substantive differences between the bodies of work. Kawashima views biblical narrative as the result of a specifically written verbal art that we should counterpose to the oral-traditional art of epic. Beyond this strictly historical thesis, the study has theoretical implications for the study of narrative, literature, and oral tradition. Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature -- Herbert Marks, General Editor

Author : Arthur J. Droge
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Noble Death written by Arthur J. Droge and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1992 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pathbreaking study provides a stunning reappraisal of the early history of this controversial human freedom. A Noble Death challenges the often unquestioning attitudes we have toward suicide and traces the evolution of these attitudes from the time of Socrates to the present day. Droge and Tabor reveal the extraordinary fact that early Christians and Jews did not absolutely condemn suicide, but instead focused on whether or not it was committed for noble reasons. In.