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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / R. Sabbath -- General Introduction / R. Sabbath -- Introduction To Part I / Peter Heath -- Contemporary Readings Of The Qurʾan: Cruel/Compassionate? / Mehnaz M. Afridi -- If The Words Be Well Understood: Canticles And The Problematic Of Spiritual Metaphor / Jessie Cheney -- Qurʾan, Canon, And Literature / Bruce Fudge -- Sign, Analogy, And The Via Negativa: Approaching The Transcendent God Of The Qurʾan / Rosalind Ward Gwynne -- Force Dynamics And The Qurʾân: An Essay In Cognitive Qurʾânic / R. Sabbath -- The Function Of Tropic Structures In The Fourth Gospel / William W. Kimbrel, Jr -- Some Aspects Of Narration In The Qurʾan / Mustansir Mir -- Death And The Double: Gothic Aesthetics In Genesis 4.1–16 / Andrew Hock Soon Ng -- The Baroque Prophets: An Encounter Between The Hebrew Prophets And John Donne / Yvonne Sherwood -- Introduction To Part II / Andrew Rippin -- Jesus Simulacrum, Or The Gospels Vs. \'The Gospel\' / George Aichele -- Human~Divine Communication As A Paradigm For Power: Al-Tha’Labï’S Presentation Of Q. 38:24 And Q. 38:34 / Marianna Klar -- In Possession Of The Night: Lilith As Goddess, Demon, Vampire / Beth E. Mcdonald -- Images Of Abraham And G-D In A Jewish Reading Of Genesis / Marvin A. Sweeney -- Introduction To Part III / Jonathan Bordo -- Timeless Texts And Modern Morals: Challenges In Islamic Sexual Ethics / Kecia Ali -- Mary And The Marquise: Reading The Annunciation In The Romantic Rape Tradition / Betsy J. Bauman-Martin -- The Mesopotamian Flood Epic In The Earliest Texts, The Bible, And The Qurʾan / Christine Dykgraaf -- Call It Magic Surgery: Possessing Members, Possessing Texts/Circumcision And Midrash / William Thomas Mcbride -- The Trajectory Of Hunger: Appropriation And Prophecy In The Book Of Ruth / Ruth Tsoffar -- Introduction To Part IV / Ngwarsungu Chiwengo -- The Shaman Meets The Poet: María Sabina And The Curative Powers Of Language / Viviana Díaz Balsera -- From Haggadic Exegesis To Myth: Popular Stories Of The Prophets In Islam / Gottfried Hagen -- The Right To Write: Power, Irony, And Identity In The Book Of Esther / J’Annine Jobling and Alan Roughley -- The Book Of Job And Shakespearean Subjectivity / Kathleen Lundeen -- Sacred Tropes: The Laugh Of Abraham And The Birth Of Subjectivity / Roberta Sterman Sabbath -- Crossing Outlaws: The Life And Times Of Jesse James And Jesus Of Nazareth / Robert Paul Seesengood and Jennifer L. Koosed -- Introduction To Part V / Andrew Wernick -- Mary In The Qurʾan: Rereading Subversive Births / Aisha Geissinger -- Sarah’S Gift: Gender, Agency, And The Sacred / Magda Romanska -- What Happens When Achsah Gets Off Her Ass? Queer Reading And Judges 1:11–15 / Ken Stone -- Isaac As The Lamb Of God: A Hermeneutic Crux In The Re-Reading Of Jewish Texts / John C. Ulreich -- Introduction To Part VI / Stephen D. Moore -- African Rewritings Of The Jewish And Islamic Solomonic Tradition: The Triumph Of The Queen Of Sheba In The Ethiopian Fourteenth-Century Text Kebrä Nägäst / Wendy Laura Belcher -- Noah’S Nakedness: Islam, Race, And The Fantasy Of The Christian West / Roland Boer and Ibrahim Abraham.