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xvii, 330 p. : Grayscale Illustration ; pages cm. |
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Brown Judaic Studies ; 325. |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. To use this book, or parts of this book, in any way not covered by the license, please contact Brown Judaic Studies, Brown University, Box 1826, Providence, RI 02912. |
| Contents |
De-Doxifying Miriam -- Goddess Worship-Ancient and Modern -- Numinous Nomos: On the Relationship between Narrative and Law -- A "Literary Sermon" in Deuteronomy 4 -- Models of Utopia in the Biblical Tradition -- The Confessions of Jeremiah and Traditional Discourse -- Desire Distorted and Exhibited: Lot and His Daughters in Psychoanalysis, Painting, and Film -- The Gift: World Alteration and Obligation in 2 Kings 4:8-37 -- Contextual Theologies in the Old Testament? -- The Role of the Reader in Ugaritic Narrative -- Entertainment, Ideology, and the Reception of "History": "David's Jerusalem" As a Question of Space -- Village Law and the Book of the Covenant -- The Biblical Prohibition of the Mourning Rites of Shaving and Laceration: Several Proposals -- Clan Sagas As a Source in Settlement Traditions -- "The Mother of All..." Etiologies -- W. F. Albright and His "Household": The Cases of C. H. Gordon, M. H. Pope and F. M. Cross -- Metaphor and Myth: Percy, Ricoeur and Frye -- "The History of Saul's Rise": Saulide State Propaganda in 1 Samuel 1-14 -- Unity and Diversity in the Book of Kings -- Poetry Creates Historiography. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2020. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Funding |
Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. |
| Subject |
Religion.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Added Author |
Shaye J. D. Cohen, Edited by.
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Brown University.
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| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
9781951498375 ebook 9781951498382 |
| Standard No. |
10.26300/ty02-es08 DOI |
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