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Text to Tradition

2014-01-07 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2014-01-07
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Book Synopsis Text to Tradition by : Deven M. Patel

Download or read book Text to Tradition written by Deven M. Patel. This book was released on 2014-01-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the twelfth century, the Naisadhiyacarita (The Adventures of Nala, King of Nisadha) is a seminal Sanskrit poem beloved by South Asian literary communities for nearly a millennium. This volume introduces readers to the poem’s author, his reading communities, the modes through which the poem has been read and used, the contexts through which it became canonical, its literary offspring, and the emotional power it still holds for the culture that values it. The study privileges the intellectual, affective, and social forms of cultural practice informing a region’s people and institutions. It treats literary texts as traditions in their own right and draws attention to the critical genres and actors involved in their reception.

From Text to Tradition

1991 Religion
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Release : 1991
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis From Text to Tradition by : Lawrence H. Schiffman

Download or read book From Text to Tradition written by Lawrence H. Schiffman. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing

2013-11-05 Religion
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Release : 2013-11-05
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing by : Richard A. Horsley

Download or read book Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing written by Richard A. Horsley. This book was released on 2013-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embedded in modern print culture, biblical scholars have been projecting the assumptions and concepts of print culture onto the texts they interpret. In the ancient world from which those texts originate, however, literacy was confined to only a small number of educated scribes. And, as recent research has shown, even the literate scribes learned texts by repeated recitation, while the nonliterate ordinary people had little if any direct contact with written scrolls. The texts that had taken distinctive form, moreover, were embedded in a broader and deeper cultural repertoire cultivated orally in village communities as well as in scribal circles. Only recently have some scholars struggled to appreciate texts that later became "biblical" in their own historical context of oral communication. Exploration of texts in oral performance--whether as scribal teachers' instruction to their proteges or as prophetic speeches of Jesus of Nazareth or as the performance of a whole Gospel story in a community of Jesus-loyalists--requires interpreters to relinquish their print-cultural assumptions. Widening exploration of texts in oral performance in other fields offers exciting new possibilities for allowing those texts to come alive again in their community contexts as they resonated with the cultural tradition in which they were embedded.

Balaam in Text and Tradition

2019-08-19 Religion
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Release : 2019-08-19
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Balaam in Text and Tradition by : Jonathan Miles Robker

Download or read book Balaam in Text and Tradition written by Jonathan Miles Robker. This book was released on 2019-08-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure Balaam has interested exegetes and scribes for millennia. Jonathan Miles Robker examines the different versions of the literary character Balaam as attested in biblical and epigraphic literature. By contrasting the distinct information about Balaam presented in the various sources (the plaster inscription from Della, Numbers 22-24; 31; Deuteronomy 23; Joshua 13; 24; Judges 11; Micah 6; and Nehemiah 13), the author seeks to trace the development of characterizations of Balaam from the oldest available material to the youngest in the Hebrew Bible. In this way, Jonathan Miles Robker advances discourse about the literary and tradition-historical development of the texts that became the Hebrew Bible. Beyond the text of the Hebrew Bible, he also traces the continued development of Balaam's characterization through the texts of Qumran and the New Testament. To this end, the author contributes discussions of the history of religion in Antiquity.

The Book of Tradition

2010-03-01 Religion
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Release : 2010-03-01
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Book Synopsis The Book of Tradition by : Abraham Ibn Daud

Download or read book The Book of Tradition written by Abraham Ibn Daud. This book was released on 2010-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of years before the Inquisition, the Almohade invasion of Spain wiped out many of the Spanish Jewish communities in Muslim Andalusia ending the Golden Age of Spanish Jewry. Thousands of Jews fled north to Christian Spain, where they had to live among Karaite Jews very different from themselves. Philosopher Abraham ibn Daud responded to this upheaval by writing The Book of Tradition, known as Sefer ha-Qabbalah. This epice on Jewish history from ancient times to the 12th century eulogized Spanish Jewry and reminded readers of a once-thriving culture. In JPS's edition of this classic work, first puhlished in 1967, renowned scholar Gerson D. Cohen presents his translation of ibn Daud's entire text, as well as commentary and an extensive introduction that masterfully provides context for the reader.

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