Download or read book Rhetorical Analysis written by Roland Meynet and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The analysis of biblical rhetoric has been developed only in the last 250 years. The first half of this book outlines the history of the method known as rhetorical analysis in biblical studies, illustrated by numerous texts. The work of Lowth (who focused on 'parallelism'), Bengel (who drew attention to 'chiasmus'), Jebb and Boys (the method's real founders at the turn of the ninteenth century) and Lund (the chief exponent in the mid-twentieth century) are all discussed, as is the current full blooming of rhetorical analysis. The second half of the book is a systematic account of the method, testing it on Psalms 113 and 146, on the first two chapters of Amos, and many other texts, especially from Luke. Translated by Luc Racaut.

Download or read book A New Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels written by Roland Meynet and published by Rhetorica Semitica. This book was released on 2010 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meynet offers a new perspective on the study of the Synoptic Gospels, adding further insights within the growing body of modern research into the meanings of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. He studies the composition of the Gospels as they were written and combines critical analysis with the evangelists' own intentions.

Download or read book Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible written by J. P. Fokkelman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Treatise on Biblical Rhetoric written by Roland Meynet and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a summary of the laws Biblical and Semitic rhetoric, which includes not only the Hebrew Bible and the Deuterocanonical books, but also the New Testament.

Download or read book Narrative Art and Poetry in the Books of Samuel written by Jan P. Fokkelman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /KING DAVID -- Preface /KING DAVID -- Introduction /KING DAVID -- INTERPRETATION OF ACT I (II SAM. 9-12) /KING DAVID -- The triangle: David - Ziba - Mephibosheth /KING DAVID -- II Sam. 10-11: War, sexuality, and violence (scenes 2-4) /KING DAVID -- II Sam. 12: Confrontation and repentance; mourning, harmony, and victory /KING DAVID -- INTERPRETATION OF ACT II (II SAM. 13-14) /KING DAVID -- II Sam. 13: “Chips off the old block” (scenes 8-9) /KING DAVID -- II Sam. 14: Interventions /KING DAVID -- INTERPRETATION OF ACT III (II SAM. 15-20) /KING DAVID -- II Sam. 15-16:14, Absalom rebels and David flees /KING DAVID -- Absalom and his two counsellors; David warned /KING DAVID -- The outcome on the battlefield, David informed /KING DAVID -- Joab intervenes and the people deliberate /KING DAVID -- On the way back: David's conversations at the Jordan /KING DAVID -- The schism between Israel and Judah /KING DAVID -- INTERPRETATION OF ACT IV (I KINGS 1-2) /KING DAVID -- David decides about the succession /KING DAVID -- David's testament and the posthumous execution(s) /KING DAVID -- Synthesis and conclusion /KING DAVID -- Epilogue: prospects /KING DAVID -- Titles and abbreviations /KING DAVID -- Index of biblical verses treated /KING DAVID -- Appendix I /KING DAVID -- Appendix II /KING DAVID.

Download or read book Narrative Art and Poetry in the Books of Samuel written by J. P. Fokkelman and published by Brill. This book was released on 1990 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative Art and Poetry in the Books of Samuel is the vast undertaking to interpret all the material in Samuel. Everything that the text has to offer can only be understood and appreciated to the full, and its interpretation can only lay claim to full validity by means of an integral view. Therefore the author has developed a textual model which regards and covers the composition of the Samuel books as a hierarchy of twelve levels. This volume bridges the gap between volume I and II. Throne and City carries on the work according to the principles of a sound and independent narratology. It differentiates II Sam. 2-5:5 (Act IX) and 5:6-18 (Act X) as the two final phases of David's long march to pow

Download or read book Tradition and Transformation in the Book of Chronicles written by P.C. Beentjes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph contributes to a better understanding of the Book of Chronicles. The past forty years have seen a complete transformation in the study of the Book of Chronicles. The former domination of Chronicles by parallel texts in the Books of Samuel and Kings made way for studying the historical, sociological, literary, theological, and ideological aspects of Chronicles in their own right. This book/document is now increasingly recognized as being of major interest to the Second Temple Period. Reading the book of Chronicles, it appears that the Chronicler is constantly transforming Israel's tradition(s) into a new theological and ideological system. In this study, attention is, therefore, paid both to specific texts, such as 1 Chronicles 17; 21; 2 Chronicles 20; 26, and to particular central themes, such as the special function of Jerusalem, and the peculiar way of how the Chronicler presents prophets, war narratives, and genealogies.

Download or read book Ancient Texts and Modern Readers written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters of this volume address a variety of topics that pertain to modern readers’ understanding of ancient texts, as well as tools or resources that can facilitate contemporary audiences’ interpretation of these ancient writings and their language. In this regard, they cover subjects related to the fields of ancient Hebrew linguistics and Bible translation. The chapters apply linguistic insights and theories to elucidate elements of ancient texts for modern readers, investigate how ancient texts help modern readers to interpret features in other ancient texts, and suggest ways in which translations can make the language and conceptual worlds of ancient texts more accessible to modern readers. In so doing, they present the results of original research, identify new lines and topics of inquiry, and make novel contributions to modern readers’ understanding of ancient texts. Contributors are Alexander Andrason, Barry L. Bandstra, Reinier de Blois, Lénart J. de Regt, Gideon R. Kotzé, Geoffrey Khan, Christian S. Locatell, Kristopher Lyle, John A. Messarra, Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé, Jacobus A. Naudé, Daniel Rodriguez, Eep Talstra, Jeremy Thompson, Cornelius M. van den Heever, Herrie F. van Rooy, Gerrit J. van Steenbergen, Ernst Wendland, Tamar Zewi.

Download or read book Neotestamentica Et Semitica written by Edward Earle Ellis and published by T. & T. Clark Publishers. This book was released on 1969 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Oldest Gospel and the Formation of the Canonical Gospels written by Matthias Klinghardt and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 1426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I: The Gospel that was part of Marcion's collection in the first half of the 2nd century is the oldest of all Gospels. The author presents a meticulous reconstruction and argues that all canonical Gospels are dependent on this Gospel. This sheds new light on the formation and tradition history of the gospels, contributes new insights on the history of the New Testament text and textual criticism, and has significant consequences for how to assess the formation of the canonical edition of the New Testament and the history of earliest Christianity in general. Part I contains the methodological foundation, substantiating the hypothesis that canonical Luke is a revised edition of this oldest Gospel. On this ground, a model of the Gospels' tradition history is developed. A detailed epilogue comments on recent research on and reconstructions of Marcion's Gospel and analyzes the methodological differences of these approaches. Part II: Reconstructing the text of Marcion's Gospel is essential for the two basic tasks of establishing this Gospel's priority over canonical Luke and understanding the formation process from this oldest Gospel to the canonical Four-Gospel book. Part. II offers a reconstruction of the oldest Gospel. Its text is established on the basis of evidence provided by the heresiological witnesses and the textual variants. A detailed commentary makes every single decision of the reconstruction transparent and carefully traces the steps of the tradition history for individual sayings and pericopes. The volume includes an English translation as well as an extensive list of the correspondences between the attestations for Marcion's Gospel and the variants of canonical Luke.

Download or read book Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible written by Pierre Van Hecke and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hebrew Bible abounds in metaphors and other figurative speech. The present volume collects fifteen essays on this fascinating aspect of biblical language, written by specialists in the field. Attention is paid both to the recent methodological developments in the study of metaphor and to the importance of metaphor studies for the interpretation of biblical texts.

Download or read book Bonds of Love written by R. Abma and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonds of love offers a fresh interpretation of a selection of prophetic texts that present the covenant relationship as a marital relationship. The accent in this study is on method: historical and biographical categories such as ‘the prophet’ and ‘his career’ are left aside in order to concentrate on the composition and internal cohesion of the text. The reading strategy developed in this book is both synchronic and communication-oriented. Since prophetic texts essentially consist of speech, it is insufficient to study the text in abstraction from the audience that it addresses. The texts have a communication purpose, and a three-part model is developed in order to investigate the communication effects of the text on the implied audience and the contemporary reader. The studies of Isaiah 50 and 54, Hosea 1-3 and Jeremiah 2-3 reveal that a synchronic interpretation of these texts can be very fruitful. Larger patterns of coherence come to the surface when one refrains from the procedure of atomizing the texts in original and secondary parts.The final chapter is devoted to the theological implications of the marriage imagery. What intriguing model of divine and human partnership is presented here? And what sort of intimate interaction between Yhwh and Israel is precisely envisioned?

Download or read book Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture written by Brevard S. Childs and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Introduction attempts to offer a different model for the discipline from that currently represented. It seeks to describe the form and function of the Hebrew Bible in its role as sacred scripture for Israel. It argues the case that the biblical literature has not been correctly understood or interpreted because its role as religious literature has not been correctly assessed.

Download or read book Protest Or Propaganda written by Aarnoud van der Deijl and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, the war stories from the Old Testament book of Kings are compared to ten extrabiblical texts. Narratological analysis is applied to deconstruct the ideology of the repective literary compositions. The Old Testament ideology of war seems to be neither typically Israelite, as Gerhardt von Rad put it, nor commonly Ancient Near Eastern, as Manfred Weippert thought it to be. This poses the question whether the reading experience of biblical war stories is so very different from, for instance, Assyrian royal inscriptions, both in terms of its literary value and its ideological bias. Narratological analysis turns out to be a strong tool for explaining the similarities and distinctive features of the respective texts. Book jacket.

Download or read book Tradition and Innovation in Biblical Interpretation written by Willem Th. van Peursen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-07 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of this volume in honour of Eep Talstra is ‘Tradition and Innovation in Biblical Interpretation’, with an emphasis on the innovative role of computer-assisted textual analysis. It focusses on the role of tradition in biblical interpretation and of the innovations brought about by ICT in reconsidering existing interpretations of texts, grammatical concepts, and lexicographic practices. Questions addressed include: How does the role of exegesis as the ‘clarification of one’s own tradition, in order to understand choices and preferences’ (Talstra) relate to the critical role which Scripture has towards this tradition? How does the indebtedness to tradition of computer-driven philology relate to its innovative character? And how does computer-assisted analysis of the biblical texts lead to new research methods and results?

Download or read book Untold Stories written by Mark S. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of Ugaritic studies and their impact on the study of the Bible. From the first discoveries in the late 1920s through the end of the millennium, Ugaritic studies have revolutionized the modern understanding of the Bible. The stories told in this book combine analysis of the major trends and intellectual approaches taken in various periods with firsthand accounts of the major Ugaritic and biblical scholars drawn from personal interviews and letters, including previously unknown sources from several archival collections.

Download or read book Dead Sea Media written by Shem Miller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dead Sea Media Shem Miller offers a groundbreaking media criticism of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Although past studies have underappreciated the crucial roles of orality and memory in the social setting of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Miller convincingly demonstrates that oral performance, oral tradition, and oral transmission were vital components of everyday life in the communities associated with the Scrolls. In addition to being literary documents, the Dead Sea Scrolls were also records of both scribal and cultural memories, as well as oral traditions and oral performance. An examination of the Scrolls’ textuality reveals the oral and mnemonic background of several scribal practices and literary characteristics reflected in the Scrolls.