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Dialogue on monarchy in the Gideon-Abimelech narrative : ideological reading in light of Bakhtin's dialogism
\"In Dialogue on Monarchy, Albert Sui-hung Lee applies Bakhtin's dialogism to interpret the \"unfinalized\" dialogue on monarchical ideologies in the Gideon-Abimelech narrative. Lee associates the Bakhtinian concepts of \"double-voiced dialogue,\" \"authoring,\" \"unfinalizability,\" and heteroglossia with the literary features of \"twoness,\" dual images, and macrostructure of the dialogical narrative to illustrate the dialogue of genres as well as that of ideological voices, wherein the pro- and anti-monarchical voices constantly interact with each other. Studying archaeological evidence and literary examinations of prophetic books together, Lee explores the narrative redactor's intention of engaging both remnant and deportee communities in an unfinalized dialogue of different forms of polity for the restoration of their unity and prosperity in exilic and post-exilic contexts\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The hermeneutical challenge of reading digital biblical texts in Africa
This article explores the hermeneutical challenges and possibilities of reading digital biblical texts (Biblia Digitalia) in Africa, building upon Mazamisa’s concept of dialectica reconciliae. The shift from printed Bibles to Biblia Digitalia is the third major transformation in media technology, following the transitions from orality to literacy and from scrolls to codices. This digital shift presents both opportunities and challenges, including the potential for a de facto digital canon, the influence of algorithmic curation and the blurring of boundaries between the text and the reader. The article proposes several avenues for African scholarship, including the creation of open-source online commentaries, increased online availability of African biblical scholarship, intentional engagement with international platforms from an African hermeneutical perspective and critical awareness of the algorithms that govern online content.ContributionThe article emphasises the need for a balanced and contextually relevant approach to interpreting digital biblical texts in Africa.
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Cognitive Linguistic Explorations in Biblical Studies
Writing, reading, and interpretation are acts of human minds, requiring complex cognition at every point. A relatively new field of studies, cognitive linguistics, focuses on how language and cognition are interconnected: Linguistic structures both shape cognitive patterns and are shaped by them. The Cognitive Linguistics in Biblical Interpretation section of the Society of Biblical Literature gathers scholars interested in applying cognitive linguistics to biblical studies, focusing on how language makes meaning, how texts evoke authority, and how contemporary readers interact with ancient texts. This collection of essays represents first fruits from the first six years (2006–2012) of that effort, drawing on cognitive metaphor study, mental spaces and conceptual blending, narrative theory, and cognitive grammar. Contributors include Eve Sweetser, Ellen van Wolde, Hugo Lundhaug and Jesper T. Nielsen.
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Before There Were Kings
Following the great periods of national leadership by Moses and
Joshua, the book of Judges depicts the stewardship of various
judges that rose to power to solve local religious and military
challenges in the premonarchic period. This volume provides a close
reading of the entire book of Judges, taking seriously the distinct
elements of the book and how they are interconnected.
Elie Assis explores the ways in which the ideology and theology
of Judges unfold through a careful literary analysis. Moving beyond
the cycle of sin, punishment, and salvation, Assis demonstrates how
differences in the descriptive language applied to each judge, as
well as the evaluations in the opening and concluding chapters,
provide clues as to the organization and message of the text. Most
works on Judges focus on the historical background of the period or
the historical process of the book's composition and seek to
dissolve its stories into component parts. In contrast, Before
There Were Kings points to the deep underlying unity of Judges
and the function of the individual stories within the whole.
New and carefully drawn insights related to the purpose of each
section and the themes that shape the book as a whole make this a
groundbreaking, programmatic contribution to research on the book
of Judges. It will be of particular interest to students and
scholars of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Bible.
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The Torah Unabridged
The Torah Unabridged is a detailed examination of legal
reasoning in the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on the exegetical
operations by which biblical laws related to intermarriage were
applied to circumstances and persons that lie outside the sphere of
their explicit content, this book reconstructs the ways in which
laws regarding intermarriage evolved, were interpreted, and were
applied across time and place.
William A. Tooman argues that the \"exegetical impulse\" to expand
upon the gaps left by laws relating to marriage in the Torah is
expressed in several distinctive ways in later texts in the Hebrew
Bible. Adopting a diachronic approach, Tooman examines the
techniques biblical writers used in their appropriation, expansion,
and manipulation of legal ideas within earlier biblical texts in
order to apply the laws to more situations, circumstances, and
people. Tooman's analysis reveals that from Exodus to
Ezra-Nehemiah, legal reasoning on intermarriage moved in a singular
direction: toward an ever-greater restriction of marriage between
Israelites/Jews and gentiles. The final chapter sums up the ways
that this was accomplished, summarizing the logical and exegetical
operations executed in the process of expanding the relevance of
these laws, and describing the hermeneutical assumptions that
motivated the process.
Grounded in a detailed philological analysis of the Hebrew
texts, this tightly argued monograph is an important impetus to
further debate in the field. It will be welcomed by biblical
scholars and by specialists in the history of law.
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Violence & virtue : Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith slaying Holofernes
\"Violence and Virtue examines a single, uniquely powerful painting: Judith Slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi. A quintessential example of early Baroque painting, this work has, more than any other picture in her oeuvre, come to define Gentileschi as an early modern woman and a superb Baroque painter. Eve Straussman-Pflanzer explores the circumstances surrounding the painting's creation and the meanings conveyed by the image itself. Among other topics of investigation, the author addresses the role of women artists and patrons in the 17th century and the fascination with violence and the importance of female heroes during the Baroque era. A comparative analysis between Gentileschi's masterpiece and other paintings and works on paper by artists such as Caravaggio, Botticelli, Cristofano Allori, and Felice Ficherelli, among others, testifies to the importance of Gentileschi's portrayal of the heroine Judith\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Paul and the Vocation of Israel
The Apostle Paul was the greatest early missionary of the Christian gospel. He was also, by his own admission, an Israelite. How can both these realities coexist in one individual? This book argues that Paul viewed his mission to the Gentiles, in and of itself, as the primary expression of his Jewish identity. The concept of Israel's divine vocation is used to shed fresh light on a number of much-debated passages in Paul's letter to the Romans.
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