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Hebrew Bible (hebrew + bible)
Selected AbstractsNationalism and the Hebrew Bible,NATIONS AND NATIONALISM, Issue 2 2005David Aberbach The Hebrew Bible, though generally seen mainly as a religious document, has also provided models of secular national identity. A number of biblical motifs have been revived in modern cultural nationalism: for example, the importance of moral regeneration, attacks on internal and external enemies of the nation, and the unification of disparate groups despite geographic dislocation. The Hebrew Bible also anticipates various forms of conflict in modern national identity: between the individual and the group, chosenness and egalitarianism, the narrowly national and the universal. In the two centuries after the invention of printing, the Hebrew Bible in vernacular translation had a decisive influence on the evolution of nationalism, particularly in Britain. The Bible was essential in the culture of empires but also, paradoxically, inspired defeated, suppressed and colonised people to seek freedom. A number of modern national poets, notably Whitman and the Hebrew poets Bialik and Greenberg, adopt a free verse neo-prophetic mode of expression. The Hebrew Bible can, therefore, be read as the archetypal, and most influential, national document from ancient times to the rise of modern nationalism. [source] Translations of the Bible into KaraimRELIGION COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 4 2009Henryk Jankowski The aim of this paper is to present the state of research on Bible translations into Karaite Turkic, which in Turkic studies is called Karaim. The term Bible is employed in its narrower meaning, which designates the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. This article tries to show how the translators approached the original text and gives a few samples to demonstrate differences between several selected translations. [source] Performance Criticism of the Hebrew BibleRELIGION COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 3 2008Terry Giles Performance criticism is a critical methodology that is based upon the premise that select portions of the Hebrew Bible (and Christian New Testament as well) are literary variations of originally oral compositions that were read or recited before live audiences. Those readings and recitations were performative in nature and understanding the performative dynamics at work in the material, being read or recited, can yield fresh insights into the meaning of the material. Performance criticism applies concepts commonly used in performative studies to the Hebrew Bible in an effort to better understand the conventions and structures enabling communication. [source] Priestly Sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible: A Summary of Recent Scholarship and a Narrative ReadingRELIGION COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 1 2008David Janzen The field of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament has come to no consensus on the meaning of sacrifice in ancient Israel. The most influential theory of the meaning of biblical sacrifice, at least in the Priestly Writing (P) of the Pentateuch, is that of Jacob Milgrom. Milgrom argues that the purification sacrifice, as presented by P in Leviticus 1,7, is key to understanding P's sacrificial system, as its blood provided a ritual detergent on the altar for Israel's unintentional sins and impurities, thus permitting the continued presence of God in the sanctuary. Milgrom's theory has recently come under challenge, and a reading of P's narrative throughout the entire Pentateuch, and not only in Leviticus 1,7, shows that, for the Priestly Writing, sacrifice seems to draw Israel's attention to the differences between the divine and human realms, and thus points to Israel's moral failings in relationship to the divine law, as well as to the punishment Israel will suffer for this failure. [source] Prophets, Performance, and Power: Performance Criticism of the Hebrew Bible , By William Doan and Terry GilesRELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 1 2007Marvin A. Sweeney No abstract is available for this article. [source] Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible: At the Interface of Prosody and Structural Analysis.RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 4 2006J. P. Fokkelman, Volume IV: Job 15-4 No abstract is available for this article. [source] The Dissenting Reader: Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible , Eryl W. DaviesRELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 4 2006Shane Kirkpatrick No abstract is available for this article. [source] Magic and Divination in Ancient IsraelRELIGION COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 6 2007Ann Jeffers Despite officially condemning all magicians and divinatory practitioners, the Old Testament/Hebrew scriptures is replete with references to magic and divination. In an attempt to map out and understand the great variety of divinatory practices in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible from techniques as varied as astrology, lot casting, necromancy or hepatoscopy to cite only a few, this article will re-examine the concept of ,magic' and re-evaluate the ways in which the Western world, especially since the nineteenth century, has viewed ,magic' as part of a series of dichotomies: religion vs. magic, science vs. magic; ,magic' is even seen as part of gender divisions (magic/women vs. religion/men). ,Emic' and ,etic' categories are also examined and a new definition situating magic as an ,emic' category is proposed: magic and divination are part of a complex system of religious intermediation where all the components of the cosmos interrelate. In this regard, ancient Israel shares the same worldview as its ancient Near Eastern neighbours and in particular a belief in cosmic forces originating and controlled by the dominant deity or deities. While the rational underpinning of such practices are examined (and questions about control and gender touched upon), it is also argued that a proper understanding of magic and divination in ancient Israel can only be viewed as an integral part of its cosmology. An ,emic' definition of magic suggests its connection with Torah and wisdom. [source] | ||||||||||