Sacred tropes : Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an as literature and culture /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sabbath, Roberta Sterman
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Colección:Biblical interpretation series ; v. 98.
Temas:
Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Qurʼan > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible > Critique, interprétation, etc.
Coran > Critique, interprétation, etc.
Bible
Qurʼan
Sacred books > History and criticism.
Judaism > Sacred books.
Christianity > Sacred books.
Islam > Sacred books.
Livres sacrés > Histoire et critique.
Judaïsme > Livres sacrés.
Christianisme > Livres sacrés.
Islam > Livres sacrés.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Christianity
Islam
Judaism
Sacred books
Heilige Schrift
Literarische Form
Monotheismus
Poetik
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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