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The Qur'an - A Form-Critical History (Paperback): Karim Samji The Qur'an - A Form-Critical History (Paperback)
Karim Samji
R881 R770 Discovery Miles 7 700 Save R111 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The corpus coranicum eludes familiar categories and resists strict labels. No doubt the threads woven into the fabric are exceptionally textured, varied, and complex. Accordingly, the introductory chapter of this book demonstrates the application of form criticism to the text. Chapter two then presents a form-critical study of the prayer genre. It identifies three productive formulae and addresses distinct social settings and forms associated with them. The third chapter begins by defining the liturgy genre vis-a-vis prayer in the Qur'an. Drawing a line between the hymn and litany forms, this chapter treats each in turn. Chapter four considers the genre classified as wisdom literature. It identifies sapiential formulae and sheds light on wisdom contexts. The fifth chapter examines the narrative genre writ large. It also surveys narrative blocks of the long saga. The subsequent chapter on the proclamation genre inspects a set of vocative formulae, which occurs in the messenger situation. The concluding chapter looks at the corpus through synchronic and diachronic lenses. In the end, Qur'anic genres encapsulate the form-critical elements of formulae, forms, and settings, as well as an historical dimension.

Bhakti Yoga - La Voie de la Devotion (French, Hardcover): Swami Vivekananda Bhakti Yoga - La Voie de la Devotion (French, Hardcover)
Swami Vivekananda; Translated by Mael Seigneur, Quentin Pacinella
R633 Discovery Miles 6 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Koren Talmud Bavli, Vol. 24 - Bava Kamma Part 2, English, Daf Yomi (Hardcover): Adin Steinsaltz Koren Talmud Bavli, Vol. 24 - Bava Kamma Part 2, English, Daf Yomi (Hardcover)
Adin Steinsaltz
R968 Discovery Miles 9 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Offenbarung, Exegese und Ratio (German, Hardcover): Seyed Ali Sadr Offenbarung, Exegese und Ratio (German, Hardcover)
Seyed Ali Sadr
R3,310 Discovery Miles 33 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Melchizedek, King of Sodom - How Scribes Invented the Biblical Priest-King (Hardcover): Robert R Cargill Melchizedek, King of Sodom - How Scribes Invented the Biblical Priest-King (Hardcover)
Robert R Cargill
R2,585 Discovery Miles 25 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The biblical figure Melchizedek appears just twice in the Hebrew Bible, and once more in the Christian New Testament. Cited as both the king of Shalem-understood by most scholars to be Jerusalem-and as an eternal priest without ancestry, Melchizedek's appearances become textual justification for tithing to the Levitical priests in Jerusalem and for the priesthood of Jesus Christ himself. But what if the text was manipulated? Robert R. Cargill explores the Hebrew and Greek texts concerning Melchizedek's encounter with Abraham in Genesis as a basis to unravel the biblical mystery of this character's origins. The textual evidence that Cargill presents shows that Melchizedek was originally known as the king of Sodom and that the later traditions about Sodom forced biblical scribes to invent a new location, Shalem, for Melchizedek's priesthood and reign. Cargill also identifies minor, strategic changes to the Hebrew Bible and the Samaritan Pentateuch that demonstrate an evolving, polemical, sectarian discourse between Jews and Samaritans competing for the superiority of their respective temples and holy mountains. The resulting literary evidence was used as the ideological motivation for identifying Shalem with Jerusalem in the Second Temple Jewish tradition. A brief study with far-reaching implications, Melchizedek, King of Sodom reopens discussion of not only this unusual character, but also the origins of both the priesthood of Christ and the role of early Israelite priest-kings.

The Believer and the Modern Study of the Bible (Hardcover): Tova Ganzel, Yehudah Brandes, Chayuta Deutsch The Believer and the Modern Study of the Bible (Hardcover)
Tova Ganzel, Yehudah Brandes, Chayuta Deutsch
R3,526 R2,889 Discovery Miles 28 890 Save R637 (18%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The essays in this volume address the conundrum of how Jewish believers in the divine character of the Sinaitic revelation confront the essential questions raised by academic biblical studies. The first part is an anthology of rabbinic sources, from the medieval period to the present, treating questions that reflect a critical awareness of the Bible. The second part is a series of twenty-one essays by contemporary rabbis and scholars on how they combine their religious beliefs with their critical approach to the Bible.

Bhakti Yoga - El Camino de la Devocion (Spanish, Hardcover): Swami Vivekananda Bhakti Yoga - El Camino de la Devocion (Spanish, Hardcover)
Swami Vivekananda; Translated by Florimar Aguilar, Begona Varea Kuhn
R627 Discovery Miles 6 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Koren Talmud Bavli, v. 18 - Nedarim, English, Daf Yomi (Hardcover): Adin Steinsaltz Koren Talmud Bavli, v. 18 - Nedarim, English, Daf Yomi (Hardcover)
Adin Steinsaltz
R983 Discovery Miles 9 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Koren Talmud Bavli V3a - Eiruvin, Daf 2a-26b, Noe Color Pb, H/E (Paperback): Adin Steinsaltz Koren Talmud Bavli V3a - Eiruvin, Daf 2a-26b, Noe Color Pb, H/E (Paperback)
Adin Steinsaltz
R285 Discovery Miles 2 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Comedy and Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible - A Subversive Collaboration (Hardcover, New): Melissa Jackson Comedy and Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible - A Subversive Collaboration (Hardcover, New)
Melissa Jackson
R3,826 Discovery Miles 38 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Comedy is both relative, linked to a time and culture, and universal, found pervasively across time and culture. The Hebrew Bible contains comedy of this relative, yet universal nature. Melissa A. Jackson engages the Hebrew Bible via a comic reading and brings that reading into conversation with feminist-critical interpretation, in resistance to any lingering stereotype that comedy is fundamentally non-serious or that feminist critique is fundamentally unsmiling.
Dividing comic elements into categories of literary devices, psychological/social features, and psychological/social function, Jackson examines the narratives of a number of biblical characters for evidence of these comic elements. The characters include the trickster matriarchs, the women involved in the infancy of Moses, Rahab, Deborah and Jael, Delilah, three of David's wives (Michal, Abigail, Bathsheba), Jezebel, Ruth, and Esther. Nine particularly instructive points of contact between comedy and feminist interpretation emerge: both (1) resist definition, (2) exist amidst a self/other, subject/object dichotomy, (3) emphasise and utilise context, (4) promote creativity, (5) acknowledge the concept of distancing, (6) work towards revelation, (7) are subversive, (8) are concerned with containment and control, and (9) enable survival. The use of comedy as an interpretive lens for the Hebrew Bible is not without difficulties for feminist interpretation. While maintaining an uncomfortable, even painful, awareness of the hold patriarchy retains on the Hebrew Bible, feminist critics can still choose to allow comedy's revelatory, subversive, survivalist nature to do its work revealing, subverting, and surviving.

Violent Rituals of the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover): Saul M. Olyan Violent Rituals of the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover)
Saul M. Olyan
R2,305 R2,159 Discovery Miles 21 590 Save R146 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Although seldom studied by biblical scholars as a discrete phenomenon, ritual violence is mentioned frequently in biblical texts, and includes ritual actions such as disfigurement of corpses, destruction or scattering of bones removed from a tomb, stoning and other forms of public execution, cursing, forced depilation, the legally-sanctioned imposition of physical defects on living persons, coerced potion-drinking, sacrificial burning of animals and humans, forced stripping and exposure of the genitalia, and mass eradication of populations. This book, the first to focus on ritual violence in the Hebrew Bible, investigates these and other violent rites, the ritual settings in which they occur, their various literary contexts, and the identity and aims of their agents in order to speak in an informed way about the contours and social aspects of ritual violence as it is represented in the Hebrew Bible.

Jnana Yoga - La Voie de la Connaissance (French, Hardcover): Swami Vivekananda Jnana Yoga - La Voie de la Connaissance (French, Hardcover)
Swami Vivekananda; Translated by Estelle Lasnet, Aurelie Luis
R727 Discovery Miles 7 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Arguing with Aseneth - Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity (Hardcover): Jill Hicks-Keeton Arguing with Aseneth - Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity (Hardcover)
Jill Hicks-Keeton
R2,856 Discovery Miles 28 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Arguing with Aseneth shows how the ancient Jewish romance known as Joseph and Aseneth moves a minor character in Genesis from obscurity to renown, weaving a new story whose main purpose was to intervene in ancient Jewish debates surrounding gentile access to Israel's God. Written in Greco-Roman Egypt around the turn of the era, Joseph and Aseneth combines the genre of the ancient Greek novel with scriptural characters from the story of Joseph as it retells Israel's mythic past to negotiate communal boundaries in its own present. With attention to the ways in which Aseneth's tale "remixes" Genesis, wrestles with Deuteronomic theology, and adopts prophetic visions of the future, Arguing with Aseneth demonstrates that this ancient novel inscribes into Israel's sacred narrative a precedent for gentile inclusion in the people belonging to Israel's God. Aseneth is transformed from material mother of the sons of Joseph to a mediator of God's mercy and life to future penitents, Jew and gentile alike. Yet not all Jewish thinkers in antiquity drew boundary lines the same way or in the same place. Arguing with Aseneth traces, then, not only the way in which Joseph and Aseneth affirms the possibility of gentile incorporation but also ways in which other ancient Jewish thinkers, including the apostle Paul, would have argued back, contesting Joseph and Aseneth's very conclusions or offering alternative, competing strategies of inclusion. With its use of a female protagonist, Joseph and Aseneth offers a distinctive model of gentile incorporation-one that eschews lines of patrilineal descent and undermines ethnicity and genealogy as necessary markers of belonging. Such a reading of this narrative shows us that we need to rethink our accounts of how ancient Jewish thinkers, including our earliest example from the Jesus Movement, negotiated who was in and who was out when it came to the people of Israel's God.

????? ???? ??? (Multiple languages, Hardcover): Noam Kaplan סידור נועם השם (Multiple languages, Hardcover)
Noam Kaplan
R950 Discovery Miles 9 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Jeremiah in History and Tradition (Hardcover): Jim West, Niels Peter Lemche Jeremiah in History and Tradition (Hardcover)
Jim West, Niels Peter Lemche
R4,467 Discovery Miles 44 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Jeremiah in History and Tradition examines aspects of the Book of Jeremiah from a variety of perspectives including historical, textual, redaction, and feminist criticism, as well as the history of its reception. The book looks afresh at the Book of Jeremiah through the lens of intertextuality and reception history in the broadest sense, exploring Jeremiah in its historical context as well as the later history and interpretation of the text, and also reconsidering aspects of the Book of Jeremiah's traditions. This volume features essays from a unique assembly of scholars, both seasoned and new. It is divided into two parts: "Jeremiah in History", which explores a variety of readings of Jeremiah from the point of view of classical historical criticism; and "Jeremiah in Tradition", which discusses the portraits and use of both the book and the figure of Jeremiah in extra-biblical traditions. Offering challenging new theories, Jeremiah in History and Tradition is invaluable to scholars and students in the field of Biblical Studies. It is a useful resource for anyone working on the interpretation of the biblical text and the readings of the text of Jeremiah throughout history.

Rethinking Scripture - Essays from a Comparative Perspective (Paperback): Miriam Levering Rethinking Scripture - Essays from a Comparative Perspective (Paperback)
Miriam Levering
R767 Discovery Miles 7 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Jnana Yoga - El Camino del Conocimiento (Spanish, Hardcover): Swami Vivekananda Jnana Yoga - El Camino del Conocimiento (Spanish, Hardcover)
Swami Vivekananda; Translated by Mariana Garcia Naranjo, Helena Martin Gallego
R720 Discovery Miles 7 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Qur'an The - A Translation (Paperback, UK ed.): Kader Abdolah Qur'an The - A Translation (Paperback, UK ed.)
Kader Abdolah 1
R411 R380 Discovery Miles 3 800 Save R31 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Koren Talmud Bavli V2d - Shabbat, Daf 67b-90b, Noe Color Pb, H/E (Paperback): Adin Steinsaltz Koren Talmud Bavli V2d - Shabbat, Daf 67b-90b, Noe Color Pb, H/E (Paperback)
Adin Steinsaltz
R273 Discovery Miles 2 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Heresy, Forgery, Novelty - Condemning, Denying, and Asserting Innovation in Ancient Judaism (Hardcover): Jonathan Klawans Heresy, Forgery, Novelty - Condemning, Denying, and Asserting Innovation in Ancient Judaism (Hardcover)
Jonathan Klawans
R2,860 Discovery Miles 28 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

It is commonly asserted that heresy is a Christian invention that emerged in late antiquity as Christianity distinguished itself from Judaism. Heresy, Forgery, Novelty probes ancient Jewish disputes regarding religious innovation and argues that Christianity's heresiological impulse is in fact indebted to Jewish precedents. In this book, Jonathan Klawans demonstrates that ancient Jewish literature displays a profound unease regarding religious innovation. The historian Josephus condemned religious innovation outright, and later rabbis valorize the antiquity of their traditions. The Dead Sea sectarians spoke occasionally-and perhaps secretly-of a "new covenant," but more frequently masked newer ideas in rhetorics of renewal or recovery. Other ancient Jews engaged in pseudepigraphy-the false attribution of recent works to prophets of old. The flourishing of such religious forgeries further underscores the dangers associated with religious innovation. As Christianity emerged, the discourse surrounding religious novelty shifted dramatically. On the one hand, Christians came to believe that Jesus had inaugurated a "new covenant," replacing what came prior. On the other hand, Christian writers followed their Jewish predecessors in condemning heretics as dangerous innovators, and concealing new works in pseudepigraphic garb. In its open, unabashed embrace of new things, Christianity parts from Judaism. Christianity's heresiological condemnation of novelty, however, displays continuity with prior Jewish traditions. Heresy, Forgery, Novelty reconsiders and offers a new interpretation of the dynamics of the split between Judaism and Christianity.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead - Or the After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's... The Tibetan Book of the Dead - Or the After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering (Hardcover, 4th Revised edition)
W.Y. Evans-Wentz; Foreword by Donald S. Lopez
R1,732 Discovery Miles 17 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Tibetan Book of the Dead was traditionally used as a mortuary text, read or recited in the presence of a dying or dead person. As a contribution to the science of death and of rebirth, it is unique among the sacred books of the world. The texts have been discovered and rediscovered in the West during the course of almost the entire 20th century, starting with Oxford's edition by W Y Evans-Wentz in 1927. The new edition includes a new foreword, afterword and suggested further reading list by Donald S Lopez Jr to update and contextualize this pioneering work. Lopez examines the historical background of OUP's publication, the translation against current scholarship, and its profound importance in engendering both scholarly and popular interest in Tibetan religion and culture.

My Rebbe (Hardcover): Adin Steinsaltz My Rebbe (Hardcover)
Adin Steinsaltz
R606 Discovery Miles 6 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For legendary Talmud scholar and prolific author Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, the Lubavitcher Rebbe embodied a lifelong mission to better the world. Far surpassing the role of teacher, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was at once a scientific mind and faithful believer; educational innovator and social activist; spiritual guide and master network builder.

My Rebbe is Rabbi Steinsaltz's long-awaited personal testament to the man whose passion and vision transformed Chabad-Lubavitch from a tiny group of Chassidim into an educational and spiritual movement that spans the globe. With the admiration of a close disciple, the astute observation of a scholar and the spiritual depth of a mystic, Steinsaltz crafts an intimate portrait of a revolutionary religious leader whose dedication to intellectual, religious, and spiritual principles impacted generations of followers.

Studies in Tractate Eruvin of the Talmud Bavli - Structure, Language, Redaction, and Halakha (Hardcover): Uri Zur Studies in Tractate Eruvin of the Talmud Bavli - Structure, Language, Redaction, and Halakha (Hardcover)
Uri Zur
R3,286 R2,694 Discovery Miles 26 940 Save R592 (18%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume collects several articles by scholar Uri Zur on various areas in the field of Jewish studies. Topics discussed include different types of structure in Talmudic texts from a literary point of view, the study of the Aramaic language utilized in the Bible and the Talmud from a linguistic and interpretive perspective, the redaction of sugyot in the Talmud Bavli analyzed from a textual point of view, and matters of halakha and halakhic rules. The author also examines contemporary topics such as modern Judaism in Israel and peacemaking efforts grounded in the Pentateuch and Jewish tradition.

Reading Hebrew Bible Narratives (Hardcover): J. Andrew Dearman Reading Hebrew Bible Narratives (Hardcover)
J. Andrew Dearman
R2,854 Discovery Miles 28 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Reading Hebrew Bible Narratives introduces readers to narrative traditions of the Old Testament and to methods of interpreting them. Part of the Essentials of Biblical Studies series, this volume presents readers with an overview of exegesis by mainly focusing on a self-contained narrative to be read alongside the text. Through sustained interaction with the book of Ruth, readers have opportunities to engage a biblical book from multiple perspectives, while taking note of the wider implications of such perspectives for other biblical narratives. Other select texts from Hebrew Bible narratives, related by theme or content to matters in Ruth, are also examined, not only to assist in illustrating this method of approach, but also to offer reinforcement of reading skills and connections among different narrative traditions. Considering literary analysis, words and texts in context, and reception history, this brief introduction gives students an overview of how exegesis illuminates stories in the Bible.

Women and Men in the Qur'an (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018): Asma Lamrabet Women and Men in the Qur'an (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Asma Lamrabet; Translated by Muneera Salem-Murdock
R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book distinguishes Islam as a spiritual message from the sociopolitical context of its revelation. While the sacred text of the Quran reveals a clear empowerment of women and equality of believers, such spirit is barely reflected in the interpretations. Trapped between Western rhetoric that portrays them as submissive figures in desperate need of liberation, and centuries-old, parochial interpretations that have almost become part of the "sacred," Muslim women are pressured and profoundly misunderstood. Asma Lamrabet laments this state of affairs and the inclination of both Muslims and non-Muslims to readily embrace flawed human interpretations that devalue women rather than remaining faithful to the meaning of the Sacred Text. Full of insight, this study carefully reads the Qur'an to arrive at its deeper spiritual teachings.

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