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Poets, Prophets, and Texts in Play - Studies in Biblical Poetry and Prophecy in Honour of Francis Landy (Paperback): Ehud Ben... Poets, Prophets, and Texts in Play - Studies in Biblical Poetry and Prophecy in Honour of Francis Landy (Paperback)
Ehud Ben Zvi, Claudia V. Camp, David M. Gunn, Aaron W. Hughes
R1,505 Discovery Miles 15 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this volume, a list of esteemed scholars engage with the literary readings of prophetic and poetic texts in the Hebrew Bible that revolve around sensitivity to the complexity of language, the fragility of meaning, and the interplay of texts. These themes are discussed using a variety of hermeneutical strategies. In Part 1, Poets and Poetry, some essays address the nature of poetic language itself, while others play with themes of love, beauty, and nature in specific poetic texts. The essays in Part 2, Prophets and Prophecy, consider prophets and prophecy from a number of interpretive directions, moving from internal literary analysis to the reception of these texts and their imagery in a range of ancient and modern contexts. Those in Part 3, on the other hand, Texts in Play, take more recent works (from Shakespeare to Tove Jansson's Moomin books for children) as their point of departure, developing conversations between texts across the centuries that enrich the readings of both the ancient and modern pieces of literature.

Poets, Prophets, and Texts in Play - Studies in Biblical Poetry and Prophecy in Honour of Francis Landy (Hardcover): Ehud Ben... Poets, Prophets, and Texts in Play - Studies in Biblical Poetry and Prophecy in Honour of Francis Landy (Hardcover)
Ehud Ben Zvi, Claudia V. Camp, David M. Gunn, Aaron W. Hughes
R5,137 Discovery Miles 51 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this volume, a list of esteemed scholars engage with the literary readings of prophetic and poetic texts in the Hebrew Bible that revolve around sensitivity to the complexity of language, the fragility of meaning, and the interplay of texts. These themes are discussed using a variety of hermeneutical strategies. In Part 1, Poets and Poetry, some essays address the nature of poetic language itself, while others play with themes of love, beauty, and nature in specific poetic texts. The essays in Part 2, Prophets and Prophecy, consider prophets and prophecy from a number of interpretive directions, moving from internal literary analysis to the reception of these texts and their imagery in a range of ancient and modern contexts. Those in Part 3, on the other hand, Texts in Play, take more recent works (from Shakespeare to Tove Jansson's Moomin books for children) as their point of departure, developing conversations between texts across the centuries that enrich the readings of both the ancient and modern pieces of literature.

Ben Sira and the Men Who Handle Books - Gender and the Rise of Canon-Consciousness (Hardcover, New): Claudia V. Camp Ben Sira and the Men Who Handle Books - Gender and the Rise of Canon-Consciousness (Hardcover, New)
Claudia V. Camp
R1,976 Discovery Miles 19 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What have women to do with the rise of canon-consciousness in early Judaism? Quite a lot, Claudia Camp argues, if the book written by the early second-century BCE scribe, Ben Sira, is any indication. One of the few true misogynists in the biblical tradition, Ben Sira is beset with gender anxiety, fear that his women will sully his honor, their shame causing his name to fail from the eternal memory of his people. Yet the same Ben Sira appropriates the idealized figure of cosmic Woman Wisdom from Proverbs, and identifies her with 'the book of the covenant of the most high God, the law that Moses commanded us'. This, then, is Ben Sira's dilemma: a woman (Wisdom) can admit him to eternity but his own women can keep him out. It is Camp's thesis that these conflicted perceptions of gender are fundamental to Ben Sira's appropriation and production of authoritative religious literature.

Wise, Strange and Holy - The Strange Woman and the Making of the Bible (Paperback, NIPPOD): Claudia V. Camp Wise, Strange and Holy - The Strange Woman and the Making of the Bible (Paperback, NIPPOD)
Claudia V. Camp
R1,536 Discovery Miles 15 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The relationship of the Strange Woman and Woman Wisdom, separate but inseparable in Proverbs 1-9, is the book's analytic starting point, becoming a hermeneutical lens for viewing other texts of strangeness-of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and cultic activity. Wisdom and strangeness mark the narratives of Samson and Solomon, while priestly literature sets strangeness against holiness. Miriam and Dinah, sisters of cultic eponyms Aaron and Levi, are Israelite women defiled or unclean, made strange. Priestly and wisdom constructions of gendered strangeness intersect, illuminating the ideologies of identity that develop in the postexilic period and that shape the beginnings of the biblical canon.

Constructions of Space II - The Biblical City and Other Imagined Spaces (Hardcover): Jon L Berquist, Claudia V. Camp Constructions of Space II - The Biblical City and Other Imagined Spaces (Hardcover)
Jon L Berquist, Claudia V. Camp
R5,815 Discovery Miles 58 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Constructions of Ancient Space Seminar ran as a joint project of the AAR and SBL from 2000-2005, the only cross-society venture of its time. For the first time in the development of biblical studies, participants in the seminar attempted to foreground and critically analyze space with the same theoretical nuance that biblical scholars have traditionally devoted to history. This volume, first, collects five papers focused on biblical cities, and especially Jerusalem. The female personification of Zion allows for, among other things, a specifically feminist slant on spatiality theory. Whereas these essays begin with cities as material realities, the second part of the volume offers two essays that begin with the imagined spaces of apocalyptic literature, though these two are shown to have deep connection to actual lived space. The final essay moves outside the biblical canon to examine real and imagined space in Pure Land Buddhism.

The  Fate of King David - The Past and Present of a Biblical Icon (Paperback, NIPPOD): Tod Linafelt, Timothy Beal, Claudia V.... The Fate of King David - The Past and Present of a Biblical Icon (Paperback, NIPPOD)
Tod Linafelt, Timothy Beal, Claudia V. Camp
R1,638 Discovery Miles 16 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Celebrating the five hundredth volume, this Festschrift honors David M. Gunn, one of the founders of the Journal of Old Testament Studies, later the Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, and offers essays representing cutting-edge interpretations of the David material in the Hebrew Bible and later literary and popular culture. Essays in Part One, "Relating to David," present David in relationship to other characters in Samuel. These essays demonstrate the value of close reading, analysis of literary structure, and creative, disciplined readerly imagination in interpreting biblical texts in general and understanding the character of David in particular. Part Two, "Reading David," expands the narrative horizon. These essays analyze the use of the David character in larger biblical narrative contexts. David is understood as a literary icon that communicates and disrupts meaning in different ways in different context. More complex modes of interpretation enter in, including theories of metaphor, memory and history, psychoanalysis, and post-colonialism. Part Three, "Singing David," shifts the focus to the portrayal of David as singer and psalmist, interweaving in mutually informative ways both with visual evidence from the ancient Near East depicting court musicians and with the titles and language of the biblical psalms. Part Four, "Receiving David," highlights moments in the long history of interpretation of the king in popular culture, including poetry, visual art, theatre, and children's literature. Finally, the essays in Part Five, "Re-locating David," represent some of the intellectually and ethically vital interpretative work going on in contexts outside the U.S. and Europe. >

The  Fate of King David - The Past and Present of a Biblical Icon (Hardcover, New): Tod Linafelt, Timothy Beal, Claudia V. Camp The Fate of King David - The Past and Present of a Biblical Icon (Hardcover, New)
Tod Linafelt, Timothy Beal, Claudia V. Camp
R7,144 Discovery Miles 71 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Celebrating the five hundredth volume, this Festschrift honors David M. Gunn, one of the founders of the Journal of Old Testament Studies, later the Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, and offers essays representing cutting-edge interpretations of the David material in the Hebrew Bible and later literary and popular culture. Essays in Part One, Relating to David, present David in relationship to other characters in Samuel. These essays demonstrate the value of close reading, analysis of literary structure, and creative, disciplined readerly imagination in interpreting biblical texts in general and understanding the character of David in particular. Part Two, Reading David, expands the narrative horizon. These essays analyze the use of the David character in larger biblical narrative contexts. David is understood as a literary icon that communicates and disrupts meaning in different ways in different context. More complex modes of interpretation enter in, including theories of metaphor, memory and history, psychoanalysis, and post-colonialism. Part Three, Singing David, shifts the focus to the portrayal of David as singer and psalmist, interweaving in mutually informative ways both with visual evidence from the ancient Near East depicting court musicians and with the titles and language of the biblical psalms. Part Four, Receiving David, highlights moments in the long history of interpretation of the king in popular culture, including poetry, visual art, theatre, and children's literature. Finally, the essays in Part Five, Re-locating David, represent some of the intellectually and ethically vital interpretative work going on in contexts outside the U.S. and Europe.

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