A Semiotic Analysis of Genesis 2-3
Author: Ellen van Wolde
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-07-17
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9004354417
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lanterna Rally
eBook PDF Download Digital Library
Studies in the Book of Genesis
Author: André Wénin
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 690
ISBN-13: 9789042909342
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Articles ... présentés lors du 48e Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense organisé à Louvain les 28, 29 et 30 juillet 1999..."--Pref.
The Eden Narrative
Author: Tryggve N. D. Mettinger
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1575061414
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a book marked by unusually readable yet academic style, Mettinger transforms our knowledge of the story of Eden in Genesis. He shows us a story focused on a divine test of human obedience, with human disobedience and its consequences as its main theme. Both of the special trees in Eden had a function: the tree of knowledge as the test case, and the tree of life as the potential reward for obedience. Mettinger adopts a two-tiered approach. In a synchronic move, he understakes a literary analysis that yields striking observations on narratology, theme, and genre in the text studied. He defines the genre as myth and subjects the narrative to a functional analysis. He then applies a diachronic approach and presents a tradition-historical reconstruction of an Adamic myth in Ezekiel 28. The presence of both wisdom and immortality in this myth leads to a discussion of these divine prerogatives in Mesopotamian literature (remember Adapa and Gilgamesh). The two prerogatives demarcated an ontological boundary between the divine and human spheres. Nevertheless, the Eden Narrative does not evaluate the human desire to obtain knowledge or wisdom negatively. A piece of fresh, original scholarship in accessible form, this book is ideal for courses on creation, primeval history, the Bible and literature, and the Bible and the ancient Near East.
I Studied Inscriptions from Before the Flood
Author: Richard S. Hess
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780931464881
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Words become Worlds
Author: Ellen van Wolde
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-08-30
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9004493522
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By carefully analyzing the text-semantic features of the texts of Genesis 1-11, this book offers a quite new perspective on the primaeval history. The first part of the book examines Genesis 1-11, which is usually read as a creation story concerning the human being in relation to God, in which the human being falls from bad to worse. In these text-semantic studies it is shown that such is not the case, especially in the rather exciting analysis of the story of the Tower of Babel. In the second part of the book the methodological framework of these text-semantic studies is presented.
Genesis, Isaiah, and Psalms
Author: Katharine Julia Dell
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9004182314
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Studies of Genesis, Isaiah and Psalms, key biblical texts that represent the interests of the honorand, Professor John Emerton. The comparison of biblical texts with the ancient Near East and archaeological finds; intertextual work, literary historical approaches, texts and versions and scholarly interpretations from the past are all represented.
Remembering Eden
Author: Peter Thacher Lanfer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-09-06
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0199926743
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, Peter Thacher Lanfer seeks to evaluate texts that expand and explicitly interpret the expulsion narrative of Adam and Eve in Genesis beyond the biblical canon.
The Plot-structure of Genesis
Author: Todd L. Patterson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-03-06
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9004362517
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The Plot-structure of Genesis Todd L. Patterson argues that Genesis is organized by a development from complication to dénouement. The question 'Will the righteous seed survive?' drives the narrative to climax.
Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes, Second Edition
Author: Alice Ogden Bellis
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2007-07-03
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1611644003
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This best-selling book, now revised and updated, shares the work of many feminist biblical scholars who have examined women's stories for several years. These stories are powerful accounts of women in the Old Testament--stories that have profoundly affected how women understand themselves as well as men's perception of them. Here, Alice Bellis shares the research of feminist biblical scholarship during a quarter of a century, which renders a vast amount of refreshing, exciting, sometimes disturbing material.
Atonement and Comparative Theology
Author: Catherine Cornille
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0823294374
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The central Christian belief in salvation through the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ remains one of the most intractable mysteries of Christian faith. Throughout history, it has given rise to various theories of atonement, many of which have been subject to critique as they no longer speak to contemporary notions of evil and sin or to current conceptions of justice. One of the important challenges for contemporary Christian theology thus involves exploring new ways of understanding the salvific meaning of the cross. In Atonement and Comparative Theology, Christian theologians with expertise in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, and African Religions reflect on how engagement with these traditions sheds new light on the Christian understanding of atonement by pointing to analogous structures of sin and salvation, drawing attention to the scandal of the cross as seen by the religious other, and re-interpreting aspects of the Christian understanding of atonement. Together, they illustrate the possibilities for comparative theology to deepen and enrich Christian theological reflection.
