Sacred tropes : Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an as literature and culture /

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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Other Authors: Sabbath, Roberta Sterman.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Series: Biblical Interpretation Series 98.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2009, ISBN: 9789004222724.

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Call Number: BL71 .S225 2009

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.