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Recent advances in cognitive linguistics provide new avenues for
reading and interpreting Biblical Hebrew prophetic text. This
volume utilises a multi-layered cognitive linguistics approach to
explore Jeremiah 1:1-6:30, incorporating insights from cognitive
grammar, cognitive science and conceptual blending theory. While
the modern reader is separated from the originators of these texts
by time, space and culture, this analysis rests on the theory that
both the originators and the modern reader share common features of
embodied experience. This opens the way for utilising cognitive
models, conceptual metaphor and mental spaces theory when reading
and interpreting ancient texts. This volume provides an
introduction to cognitive theory and method. Initially, short
examples from Jeremiah 1:1-6:30 are used to introduce the theory
and method. This is followed by a detailed comparison of
traditional and cognitive approaches to Biblical Hebrew grammar.
These insights are then applied to further examples taken from
Jeremiah 1:1-6:30 in order to test and refine the approach. These
findings show that Jeremiah 1:1-1:3 establishes perspective for the
text as a whole and that subsequent shifts in perspective may be
tracked using aspects of mental spaces theory. Much of the textual
content yields to concepts derived from conceptual metaphor studies
and from conceptual blending theory, which are introduced and
explained using examples taken from Jeremiah 1:1-6:30. The entire
analysis demonstrates some of the strengths and weaknesses of using
recent cognitive theories and methods for analysing and
interpreting ancient texts. While such theories and methods do not
obviate the need for traditional interpretive methods, they do
provide a more nuanced understanding of the ancient text.
In this work, Elizabeth Turner addresses a central question in post-Reconstruction social history: why did middle-class women expand their activities from the private to the public sphere and begin, in the years just before World War I, an unprecedented activism? Using Galveston as a case study, Turner examines how a generally conservative, traditional environment could produce important women's organizations for Progressive reform. She concludes that the women of Galveston, though slow to respond to national movements, were stirred to action on behalf of their local community. Local organizations, particularly Episcopal and Presbyterian churches, and traditional everyday social activities provided a nurturing environment for budding reformers, and a foundation for activist organizations and programs such as poor relief and progressive reform. Ultimately, women became politicized even as they continued their roles as guardians of traditional domestic values. Women, Culture, and Community will appeal to scholars and students of the post-Reconstruction South, women's history, activist history, and religious history.
This book examines a central issue in talmudic studies that concerns the genesis of halakhic (legal) divergence between the Talmuds produced by the Palestinian rabbinic community (c. AD 370) and the Babylonian rabbinic community (c. AD 650). Hayes analyses selected divergences between parallel passages of the two talmuds and debates whether external influences or internal factors best account for the differences.
"Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives" engages current
scholarship on women in Texas, the South, and the United States. It
provides insights into Texas's singular geographic position,
bordering on the West and sharing a unique history with Mexico,
while analyzing the ways in which Texas stories mirror a larger
American narrative. The biographies and essays illustrate an
uncommon diversity among Texas women, reflecting experiences
ranging from those of dispossessed enslaved women to wealthy
patrons of the arts. That history also captures the ways in which
women's lives reflect both personal autonomy and opportunities to
engage in the public sphere. From the vast spaces of northern New
Spain and the rural counties of antebellum Texas to the growing
urban centers in the post-Civil War era, women balanced traditional
gender and racial prescriptions with reform activism, educational
enterprise, and economic development.
Contributors to "Texas Women" address major questions in women's
history, demonstrating how national and regional themes in the
scholarship on women are answered or reconceived in Texas. Texas
women negotiated significant boundaries raised by gender, race, and
class. The writers address the fluid nature of the border with
Mexico, the growing importance of federal policies, and the
eventual reforms engendered by the civil rights movement. From
Apaches to astronauts, from pioneers to professionals, from rodeo
riders to entrepreneurs, and from Civil War survivors to civil
rights activists, "Texas Women" is an important contribution to
Texas history, women's history, and the history of the nation.
The Hebrew Bible discusses difficult and often ineffable subjects
such as life, God, heaven and earth and frequently relies upon
metaphor to do so. This volume of collected essays offers a new
methodological approach to understanding metaphors as
conceptualizing aspects of life. Articles provide close analysis of
metaphors in various biblical books such as Psalms, Job, Judges,
Chronicles, Isaiah, and Hosea.
Although the ethnic-religious tradition that became classical
Judaism solidified around 100 CE, its roots are found in the
ancient biblical tales of the Israelites. Stories of the descent
into Egypt, the Exodus under Moses, and the eventual rise of the
Israelite monarchy are essential to understanding classical
rabbinic Judaism. Through the lens of modern biblical scholarship,
Hayes explores the shifting cultural contexts—the Babylonian
exile, the Roman Empire, the Byzantine period, the rise of
Christianity—that affected Jewish thought and practice, and laid
the groundwork for the Talmudic era and its modern legacy. Thematic
chapters explore the evolution of Judaism through its beginnings in
biblical monotheism, the Second Temple Period in Palestine, the
interaction of Hellenism and Judaism, the spread of rabbinic
authority, and the essence of ethno-religious Jewish identity.
Biographical sketches of key figures from patriarchs to prophets,
and primary selections from the Hebrew bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls,
the Talmud, and others, allow for a greater understanding of an
ancient movement, and provide a solid introduction to the origins
of one of the world's most influential religions.
The past has long fingers into the present, but they are not just
the fingers of fact. How we remember the past is at least as
important as the objective facts of that past. The memories used by
a people to define itself have to be understood not just as
(sometimes) bad history but also as historical artifacts
themselves. Texas' pasts are examined in this groundbreaking
volume, featuring chapters by a wide range of scholars. Current
historians' views of Texas in the nineteenth century and especially
the significance of the Alamo as a site of memory in architecture,
art, and film across the years comprise a major element of this
volume. Other nineteenth-century historical events are also
examined through their memorializations in the twentieth century:
the construction of Civil War monuments by the United Daughters of
the Confederacy, public and private Juneteenth celebrations, and
the Tejano memorial on the Capitol grounds commemorating the
history of Mexicans in Texas. Twentieth-century chapters include
collective memories and meaning attached to the Ku Klux Klan, the
significance of the civil rights movement in the eyes of different
generations of Texans, and the lasting (or fading) Texan memories
of Lyndon Baines Johnson. The volume editors offer these studies as
a model of how Texas historians can begin to incorporate memory
into their work, as historians of other regions have done. In the
process, they offer a more nuanced and even a more applied version
of Texas history than many of us learned in school. GREGG CANTRELL
is the Erma and Ralph Lowe Professor of History at Texas Christian
University and the author of Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of
Texas. ELIZABETH HAYES TURNER, an associate professor at the
University of North Texas, is the author of Women, Culture, and
Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920.
Essential reading for those who work in global health, this
practical handbook focuses on what might be the most important
lesson of the last fifty years: that collaboration is the best way
to make health resources count for disadvantaged people around the
world. Designed as a learning resource to catalyze fresh thinking,
"Real Collaboration" draws from case studies of teams struggling to
combat smallpox, river blindness, polio, and other health threats.
In honest appraisals, participants share their missteps as well as
their successes. Based on these stories, as well as on analyses of
many other enterprises, this accessible, engaging book distills the
critical factors that can increase the likelihood of success for
those who are launching or managing a new partnership.
- Features a solutions-oriented approach
- Covers leadership skills, management approaches and lessons from
experienced project teams
- Information is clearly presented in graphics, sidebars,
checklists, and other useful features
- Supplementary teaching aids including a DVD and additional online
resources
Essential reading for those who work in global health, this
practical handbook focuses on what might be the most important
lesson of the last fifty years: that collaboration is the best way
to make health resources count for disadvantaged people around the
world. Designed as a learning resource to catalyze fresh thinking,
"Real Collaboration" draws from case studies of teams struggling to
combat smallpox, river blindness, polio, and other health threats.
In honest appraisals, participants share their missteps as well as
their successes. Based on these stories, as well as on analyses of
many other enterprises, this accessible, engaging book distills the
critical factors that can increase the likelihood of success for
those who are launching or managing a new partnership.
- Features a solutions-oriented approach
- Covers leadership skills, management approaches and lessons from
experienced project teams
- Information is clearly presented in graphics, sidebars,
checklists, and other useful features
- Supplementary teaching aids including a DVD and additional online
resources
Nineteenth-century America was rife with Protestant-fueled
anti-Catholicism. Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez reveals how Protestants
nevertheless became surprisingly and deeply fascinated with the
Virgin Mary, even as her role as a devotional figure who united
Catholics grew. Documenting the vivid Marian imagery that suffused
popular visual and literary culture, Alvarez argues that Mary
became a potent, shared exemplar of Christian womanhood around
which Christians of all stripes rallied during an era filled with
anxiety about the emerging market economy and shifting gender
roles. From a range of diverse sources, including the writings of
Anna Jameson, Anna Dorsey, and Alexander Stewart Walsh and
magazines such as The Ladies' Repository and Harper's, Alvarez
demonstrates that Mary was represented as pure and powerful,
compassionate and transcendent, maternal and yet remote. Blending
romantic views of motherhood and female purity, the virgin mother's
image enamored Protestants as a paragon of the era's cult of true
womanhood, and even many Catholics could imagine the Queen of
Heaven as the Queen of the Home. Sometimes, Marian imagery
unexpectedly seemed to challenge domestic expectations of
womanhood. On a broader level, The Valiant Woman contributes to
understanding lived religion in America and the ways it borrows
across supposedly sharp theological divides.
In this work, Elizabeth Turner addresses a central question in post-Reconstruction social history: why did middle-class women expand their activities from the private to the public sphere and begin, in the years just before World War I, an unprecedented activism? Using Galveston as a case study, Turner examines how a generally conservative, traditional environment could produce important women's organizations for Progressive reform. She concludes that the women of Galveston, though slow to respond to national movements, were stirred to action on behalf of their local community. Local organizations, particularly Episcopal and Presbyterian churches, and traditional everyday social activities provided a nurturing environment for budding reformers, and a foundation for activist organizations and programs such as poor relief and progressive reform. Ultimately, women became politicized even as they continued their roles as guardians of traditional domestic values. Women, Culture, and Community will appeal to scholars and students of the post-Reconstruction South, women's history, activist history, and religious history.
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