Author : Calum Carmichael
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,63 MB
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 1108422950
Examines the varied, enormously sophisticated contents of the Bible and sees how certain Western authors were inspired by them.
Author : Howard Clark Kee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 2007-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521869973
The Cambridge Companion to the Bible, Second Edition focuses on the ever-changing social and cultural contexts in which the biblical authors and their original readers lived. The authors of the first edition were chosen for their internationally recognized expertise in their respective fields: the history and literature of Israel; postbiblical Judaism; biblical archaeology; and the origins and early literature of Christianity. In this second edition, all of their chapters have been updated and thoroughly revised, with a view towards better investigating the social histories embedded in the biblical texts and incorporating the most recent archaeological discoveries from the Ancient Near East and Hellenistic worlds.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
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Category : Bible
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Author : Colin McAllister
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 31,15 MB
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 1108422705
Apocalytic literature has addressed human concerns for over two millennia. This volume surveys the source texts, their reception, and relevance.
Author : John Barton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 1998-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521485937
This guide to the state of biblical studies features 20 chapters written by scholars from North America and Britain, and represents both traditional and contemporary points of view.
Author : Stephen B. Chapman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1316577961
This Companion offers a concise and engaging introduction to the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Providing an up-to-date 'snapshot' of scholarship, it includes essays, specially commissioned for this volume, by twenty-three leading scholars. The volume examines a range of topics, including the historical and religious contexts for the contents of the biblical canon, and critical approaches and methods, as well as newer topics such as the Hebrew Bible in Islam, Western art and literature, and contemporary politics. This Companion is an excellent resource for students at university and graduate level, as well as for laypeople and scholars in other fields who would like to gain an understanding of the current state of the academic discussion. The book does not presume prior knowledge, nor does it engage in highly technical discussions, but it does go into greater detail than a typical introductory textbook.
Author : Markus Bockmuehl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2001-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521796781
This Companion offers an integrated introduction to the study of Jesus.
Author : Brian Nelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827278
Emile Zola is a towering literary figure of the nineteenth century. His main literary achievement was his twenty-volume novel cycle, Les Rougon-Macquart (1870–93). In this series he combines a novelist's skills with those of the investigative journalist to examine the social, sexual and moral landscape of the late nineteenth century in a way that scandalized bourgeois society. In 1898 Zola crowned his literary career with a political act, his famous open letter ('J'accuse...!') to the President of the French Republic in defence of Alfred Dreyfus. The essays in this volume offer readings of individual novels as well as analyses of Zola's originality, his representation of society, sexuality and gender, his relations with the painters of his time, his narrative art, and his role in the Dreyfus Affair. The Companion also includes a chronology, detailed summaries of all of Zola's novels, suggestions for further reading, and information about specialist resources.
Author : Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 31,65 MB
Release : 2007-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1139827421
This volume introduces students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical and interpretative questions surrounding the rabbinic texts of late antiquity. The editors, themselves well-known interpreters of Rabbinic literature, have gathered an international collection of scholars to support students' initial steps in confronting the enormous and complex rabbinic corpus. Unlike other introductions to Rabbinic writings, the present volume includes approaches shaped by anthropology, gender studies, oral-traditional studies, classics, and folklore studies.
Author : Susan M. Felch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1316757269
Each essay in this Companion examines one or more literary texts and a religious tradition to illustrate how we can understand both literature and religion better by looking at them in tandem. Unlike most literature and religion books, which tend to focus on Christianity and take a highly theoretical approach inappropriate for non-specialists, The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Religion offers an accessible treatment of both Dharmic and Abrahamic traditions. It provides close readings of texts rather than surveys of large topics, making it an ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students of literature and religion.
