| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 534 pages) |
| Series |
Biblical interpretation series, 0928-0731 ; v. 98 |
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Biblical interpretation series ; v. 98.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- General Introduction -- Part I -- Poetics -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction to Part I -- Chapter 2 -- Contemporary Readings of the Qur'an: Cruel/Compassionate? -- Chapter 3 -- If the Words Be Well Understood: Canticles and the Problematic of Spiritual Metaphor -- Chapter 4 -- Qur'an, Canon, and Literature -- Chapter 5 -- Sign, Analogy, and the Via Negativa: Approaching the Transcendent God of the Qur'an -- Chapter 6 -- Force Dynamics and the Qur'226;n: An Essay in Cognitive Qur'226;nic Poetics -- Chapter 7 -- The Function of Tropic Structures in the Fourth Gospel -- Chapter 8 -- Some Aspects of Narration in the Qur'an -- Chapter 9 -- Death and the Double: Gothic Aesthetics in Genesis 4.18211;16 -- Chapter 10 -- The Baroque Prophets: An Encounter between the Hebrew Prophets and John Donne -- Part II -- Negotiating Boundaries: Crossings and Defining the Human and the Divine -- Chapter 11- Introduction to Part II -- Chapter 12 -- Jesus Simulacrum, or the Gospels vs. "The Gospel" -- Chapter 13 -- Human -- Chapter 14 -- In Possession of the Night: Lilith as Goddess, Demon, Vampire -- Chapter 15 -- Images of Abraham and G-D in a Jewish Reading of Genesis -- Part III -- Topographies: Landscape and Body -- Chapter 16 -- Introduction to Part III -- Chapter 17 -- Timeless Texts and Modern Morals: Challenges in Islamic Sexual Ethics -- Chapter 18 -- Mary and the Marquise: Reading the Annunciation in the Romantic Rape Tradition -- Chapter 19 -- The Mesopotamian Flood Epic in the Earliest Texts, the Bible, and the Qur'an -- Chapter 20 -- Call It Magic Surgery: Possessing Members, Possessing Texts/ Circumcision and Midrash -- Chapter 21 -- The Trajectory of Hunger: Appropriation and Prophecy in the Book of Ruth -- Part IV -- Subjectivity -- Chapter 22 -- Introduction to Part IV -- Chapter 23 -- The Shaman Meets the Poet: Mar237;a Sabina and the Curative Powers of Language -- Chapter 24 -- From Haggadic Exegesis to Myth: Popular Stories of the Prophets in Islam -- Chapter 25 -- The Right to Write: Power, Irony, and Identity in the Book of Esther -- Chapter 26 -- The Book of Job and Shakespearean Subjectivity -- Chapter 27 -- Sacred Tropes: The Laugh of Abraham and the Birth of Subjectivity -- Chapter 28 -- Crossing Outlaws: The Life and Times of Jesse James and Jesus of Nazareth -- Part V -- Gift and Sacrifice -- Chapter 29 -- Introduction to Part V -- Chapter 30 -- Mary in the Qur'an: Rereading Subversive Births -- Chapter 31 -- Sarah's Gift: Gender, Agency, and the Sacred -- Chapter 32 -- What Happens When Achsah Gets Off Her Ass? Queer Reading and Judges 1:118211;15 -- Chapter 33 -- Isaac as the Lamb of God: A Hermeneutic Crux in the Re-reading of Jewish Texts -- Part VI -- Imperialism, Revolution, and Community -- Chapter 34 -- Introduction to Part VI -- Chapter 35 -- African Rewritings of the Jewish and Islamic Solomonic Tradition: The Triumph of the Queen of Sheba in the Ethiopian Fourteenth-Century Text K. Bra Nagast -- Chapter 36 -- Noah's Nakedness: Islam, Race, and the Fantasy of the Christian West -- Chapter 37 -- Supplying the Missing Body of Onesimus: Readings of Paul's Letter to Philemon -- Chapter 38 -- Revelation and Revolution: Law, Justice, and Politics in the Hebrew Bible -- Chapter 39 -- Antonin Scalia v. Jonathan Edwards: Romans 13 and the American Theology of State -- Index of Passages from Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an -- Subject Index |
| Summary |
Contemporary sacred text scholarship has been stimulated by a number of intersecting trends: a surging interest in religion, sacred texts, and inspirational issues; burgeoning developments in and applications of literary theories; intensifying academic focus on diverse cultures whether for education or scholarship. Although much has been written individually about Tanakh, New Testament, and Qura (TM)an, no collection combines an examination of all three. Sacred Tropes interweaves Tanakh, New Testament, and Qura (TM)an essays. Contributors collectively and also often individually use mixed lite |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013617
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Qurʼan -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072959
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Bible fast |
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Qurʼan fast |
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Sacred books -- History and criticism
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Judaism -- Sacred books
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Christianity -- Sacred books
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Islam -- Sacred books
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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Christianity
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Islam
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Judaism
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Sacred books
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Heilige Schrift
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Literarische Form
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Monotheismus
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Poetik
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Sacred books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sabbath, Roberta Sterman
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| LC no. |
2009022350 |
| ISBN |
9789047430964 |
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9047430964 |
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1282602934 |
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9781282602939 |
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9004177523 |
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9789004177529 |
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9786612602931 |
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6612602937 |
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