A Study Of The Interpretation Of Noah And The Flood In Jewish And Christian Literature

Author : J. Patrick Lewis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004054981
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study of the Interpretation of Noah and the Flood in Jewish and Christian Literature written by J. Patrick Lewis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1968 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack P. Lewis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004676988
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study of the Interpretation of Noah and the Flood in Jewish and Christian Literature written by Jack P. Lewis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004675604
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpretations of the Flood written by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume opens with an analysis of the biblical Flood story within its ancient Oriental context and with two essays devoted to the study of the Flood in Greek literature. Several essays are devoted to the interpretation of the biblical story in diverse ancient Jewish and Christian texts (Old Testament apocrypha, Gnostic mythology, patristic and rabbinic literature). The volume ends with a study about the interpretation of the Flood in the period of the Scientific Revolution and with an interpretation from the perspective of a twentieth-century psycho-analyst.

Author : J. David Pleins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199733635
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Great Abyss Opened written by J. David Pleins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Noah's flood is one of the best-loved and most often retold biblical tales, the inspiration for numerous children's books and toys, novels, and even films. Whether as allusion, archetype, or literal presence--the American landscape is peppered with "recreations" of the ark--the story of Noah's animals and the ark resonates throughout American culture and the world.While most think of Noah's ark as a dramatic myth, others are consumed by the quest for geological and archeological proof that the flood really occurred. Persistent rumors of a large vessel on the mountain of Ararat in Turkey, for instance, have led many pilgrims and explorers over the centuries to visit that fabled peak. Recent finds suggest that there may have been a catastrophic flood on the shores of the Black Sea some 7,600 years ago. Is this then the reality behind the ancient tale of Noah? More to the point, why does it matter?What does the story of the Flood mean to us and why does it so stir the collective imagination? When the Great Abyss Opened examines the history of our attempts to understand the Flood, from medieval Jewish and Christian speculation about the physical details of the ark to contemporary efforts to link it to scientific findings. Unraveling the mythical dimensions of the parallel Mesopotamian flood stories and their deeper social and psychological significance, J. David Pleins also considers the story's positive uses in theology and moral instruction. Noah's tale, however, has also been invoked as a means of justifying exclusion, racism, and anti-homosexual views. Pro-slavery advocates, for example, used the story of Noah's Curse on Ham's son Canaan to rationalize the enslavement of Africans.Throughout this expansive and lively book, Pleins sheds new light on our continuing attempts to understand this ancient primal myth. Noah's Flood, he contends, offers a unique case study that illuminates the timeless and timely question of how fact and faith relate.

Author : Jeremy D. Lyon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498220096
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Qumran Interpretation of the Genesis Flood written by Jeremy D. Lyon and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dead Sea Scrolls have opened up for modern readers the ancient world of Jewish interpretation of the Bible during the Second Temple period. Among these scrolls are several manuscripts dating to the first century BC, the oldest surviving texts dealing with interpretation of the Genesis Flood. A literary analysis of the four primary Qumran Flood texts (1QapGen, 4Q252, 4Q370, and 4Q422) reveals how ancient Jews interpreted and employed the Genesis Flood narrative. These texts contain commentary, paraphrase, and admonition, among other things, addressing issues such as the cause, chronology, and purpose of the Flood. In addition, these fragmentary treasures reveal such ancient understandings of the Flood as a reversal and renewal of creation, a restoration of Eden and anticipation of the Promised Land, and an archetype of eschatological judgment.

Author : David Lyle Jeffrey
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802836342
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature written by David Lyle Jeffrey and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 15 years in the making, an unprecedented one-volume reference work. Many of today's students and teachers of literature, lacking a familiarity with the Bible, are largely ignorant of how Biblical tradition has influenced and infused English literature through the centuries. An invaluable research tool. Contains nearly 800 encyclopedic articles written by a distinguished international roster of 190 contributors. Three detailed annotated bibliographies. Cross-references throughout.

Author : Florentino García Martínez
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004112537
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpretations of the Flood written by Florentino García Martínez and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together interpretations of the story of Noach and the Flood in diverse ancient Jewish and Christian traditions (including the Dead Sea Scrolls, Gnostic mythology, rabbinical tradition). It opens with an analysis of the biblical story within its ancient oriental context and ends with essays by a historian of science and a psycho-analyst.

Author : Géza Xeravits
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 904741893X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Books of the Maccabees: History, Theology, Ideology written by Géza Xeravits and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume publishes papers delivered at the Second International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books (Pápa, Hungary). This conference dealt with the Books of the Maccabees. As such, this was the most extended discussion of these books that ever took place at a scholarly meeting. The volume contains articles on the textual forms, traditions, theology and ideology of the books, and demonstrates the books’ relationship with the contemporary literature of early Judaism.

Author : Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351720708
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Noah as Antihero written by Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction: Russell Crowe's Knees and Darren Aronofsky's Vision -- 1 An Ongoing Tradition: Aronofsky's Noah as 21st-Century Rewritten Scripture -- 2 Rock Giants and the Magic Stone of Torah: Allusions to Esoteric and Extra-Biblical Literature in Noah -- 3 Retelling the Biblical Story of Noah: Jewish and Christian Perspectives -- 4 Moving Beyond 'Fatwā This!': On the Possibility of Human Redemption in Noah, The Ark, and Islamic Tradition -- 5 Seeing Is Believing: Aronofsky's Noah and Cinematic Spectacle -- 6 Commercial Configurations of Scriptural Temporality: Noah as a Blockbuster -- 7 Noah: Aronofsky's Nuancing of the Biblical Epic -- 8 The Presence and Hiddenness of God in Noah -- 9 "How-How Is This Just?!": How Aronofksy and Handel Handle Noah's Curse -- 10 'Real' Women and Multiple Masculinities in Aronofsky's Noah -- 11 'It's Not the End of the World': Aronofsky's Noah and IMAXed Apocalyptic Animals -- 12 The Innocent, the Image, and the White Imagination: Noah as Ecological Mythology -- Index

Author : Davis A. Young
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Biblical Flood written by Davis A. Young and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the biblical flood as an example, Young contends that the church has not always handled evidence well in grappling with scientific matters and issues a call to biblical scholars to interpret the Genesis text more rigorously in light of current scientific knowledge.