Sacred tropes : : Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an as literature and culture / / 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2009. |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Biblical Interpretation Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (560 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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.