Sacred tropes : : Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an as literature and culture / / edited by Roberta Sterman Sabbath.

• TeilnehmendeR: Sabbath, Roberta Sterman.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical Interpretation Series 98.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (560 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; General Introduction /; Introduction To Part I /; Contemporary Readings Of The Qurʾan: Cruel/Compassionate? /; If The Words Be Well Understood: Canticles And The Problematic Of Spiritual Metaphor /; Qurʾan, Canon, And Literature /; Sign, Analogy, And The Via Negativa: Approaching The Transcendent God Of The Qurʾan /; Force Dynamics And The Qurʾân: An Essay In Cognitive Qurʾânic /; The Function Of Tropic Structures In The Fourth Gospel /; Some Aspects Of Narration In The Qurʾan /; Death And The Double: Gothic Aesthetics In Genesis 4.1–16 /; The Baroque Prophets: An Encounter Between The Hebrew Prophets And John Donne /; Introduction To Part II /; Jesus Simulacrum, Or The Gospels Vs. \'The Gospel\' /; Human~Divine Communication As A Paradigm For Power: Al-Tha’Labï’S Presentation Of Q. 38:24 And Q. 38:34 /; In Possession Of The Night: Lilith As Goddess, Demon, Vampire /; Images Of Abraham And G-D In A Jewish Reading Of Genesis /; Introduction To Part III /; Timeless Texts And Modern Morals: Challenges In Islamic Sexual Ethics /; Mary And The Marquise: Reading The Annunciation In The Romantic Rape Tradition /; The Mesopotamian Flood Epic In The Earliest Texts, The Bible, And The Qurʾan /; Call It Magic Surgery: Possessing Members, Possessing Texts/Circumcision And Midrash /; The Trajectory Of Hunger: Appropriation And Prophecy In The Book Of Ruth /; Introduction To Part IV /; The Shaman Meets The Poet: María Sabina And The Curative Powers Of Language /; From Haggadic Exegesis To Myth: Popular Stories Of The Prophets In Islam /; The Right To Write: Power, Irony, And Identity In The Book Of Esther /; The Book Of Job And Shakespearean Subjectivity /; Sacred Tropes: The Laugh Of Abraham And The Birth Of Subjectivity /; Crossing Outlaws: The Life And Times Of Jesse James And Jesus Of Nazareth /; Introduction To Part V /; Mary In The Qurʾan: Rereading Subversive Births /; Sarah’S Gift: Gender, Agency, And The Sacred /; What Happens When Achsah Gets Off Her Ass? Queer Reading And Judges 1:11–15 /; Isaac As The Lamb Of God: A Hermeneutic Crux In The Re-Reading Of Jewish Texts /; Introduction To Part VI /; African Rewritings Of The Jewish And Islamic Solomonic Tradition: The Triumph Of The Queen Of Sheba In The Ethiopian Fourteenth-Century Text Kebrä Nägäst /; Noah’S Nakedness: Islam, Race, And The Fantasy Of The Christian West /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 1282602934; 9786612602931; 9047430964
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Roberta Sterman Sabbath.

Contemporary sacred text scholarship has been stimulated by a number of intersecting trends: a surging interest in religion, sacred texts, and inspirational issues; burgeoning developments in and applications of literary theories; intensifying academic focus on diverse cultures whether for education or scholarship. Although much has been written individually about Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur’an, no collection combines an examination of all three. Sacred Tropes interweaves Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur’an essays. Contributors collectively and also often individually use mixed literary approaches instead of the older single theory strategy. Appropriate for classroom or research, the essays utilize a variety of literary theoretical lenses including environmental, cultural studies, gender, psychoanalytic, ideological, economic, historicism, law, and rhetorical criticisms through which to examine these sacred works.