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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sabbath, Roberta Sterman.

Series:

Biblical interpretation series ; v. 98.

Biblical interpretation series, 0928-0731 ; v. 98

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Qurʼan--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Qurʼan.

Sacred books--History and criticism.

Sacred books.

Judaism--Sacred books.

Judaism.

Christianity--Sacred books.

Christianity.

Islam--Sacred books.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (560 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-60293-4

9786612602931

90-474-3096-4

OCLC:

607555098

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004177529.i-536 DOI