Search Results - "Biblical"

Language and its contexts transposition and transformation of meaning? = Le langage et ses contexts : transposition et transformation du sens? /

Table of Contents: “…Trompe-l'œil et traduction / Pierre-Alexis Mavel -- L'heure viendra, la chose est la, tu la verras? : reading Biblical intertextuality in Beckett's bilingual ouvré / Iain Bailey.…”
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The Historical Jesus and the Literary Imagination 1860–1920 / by Stevens, Jennifer

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Vol. 2 The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary / by Segal, Eliezer

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The Historical Jesus and the Literary Imagination 1860–1920 / by Stevens, Jennifer

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Vol. 2 The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary / by Segal, Eliezer

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Defenders and critics of Franciscan life essays in honor of John V. Fleming /

Table of Contents: “…Cusato -- Tobit's dog and the dangers of literalism : William Woodford, O.F.M., as critic of Wycliff's exegesis / Alastair Minnis -- Part II: Students and scholars -- Franciscan learning : university education and biblical exegesis / William J. Courtenay -- Using, not owning duties, not rights : the consequences of some Franciscan perspectives on politics / Janet Coleman -- Langland and the Franciscans on dominium / Lawrence M. …”
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Ficino, Pico and Savonarola the evolution of humanist theology 1461/2-1498 / by Edelheit, Amos, Ph. D.

Table of Contents: “…Giovanni Caroli, the conduit of the sense of spiritual and political crisis in Florence -- Introduction: Giovanni Caroli and his times -- Liber dierum lucensium : Prooemium and book one -- Liber dierum lucensium, book two -- Liber dierum lucensium, book three -- Humanist theology in practice -- The historical context -- Declamationum liber -- The Turkish danger and its religious connotations -- Classical, biblical, and patristic allusions : the disappearance of the doctors -- The attitude to rhetoric -- Ficino's praedicationes -- Poliziano's sermons -- Rinuccini's sermons -- Nesi's sermons -- Other sermons -- Marsilio Ficino and the conditio religionis : quandiu duram et miserabilem hanc ferrei seculi sortem sustinebimus? …”
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Defenders and critics of Franciscan life essays in honor of John V. Fleming /

Table of Contents: “…Cusato -- Tobit's dog and the dangers of literalism : William Woodford, O.F.M., as critic of Wycliff's exegesis / Alastair Minnis -- Part II: Students and scholars -- Franciscan learning : university education and biblical exegesis / William J. Courtenay -- Using, not owning duties, not rights : the consequences of some Franciscan perspectives on politics / Janet Coleman -- Langland and the Franciscans on dominium / Lawrence M. …”
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Ficino, Pico and Savonarola the evolution of humanist theology 1461/2-1498 / by Edelheit, Amos, Ph. D.

Table of Contents: “…Giovanni Caroli, the conduit of the sense of spiritual and political crisis in Florence -- Introduction: Giovanni Caroli and his times -- Liber dierum lucensium : Prooemium and book one -- Liber dierum lucensium, book two -- Liber dierum lucensium, book three -- Humanist theology in practice -- The historical context -- Declamationum liber -- The Turkish danger and its religious connotations -- Classical, biblical, and patristic allusions : the disappearance of the doctors -- The attitude to rhetoric -- Ficino's praedicationes -- Poliziano's sermons -- Rinuccini's sermons -- Nesi's sermons -- Other sermons -- Marsilio Ficino and the conditio religionis : quandiu duram et miserabilem hanc ferrei seculi sortem sustinebimus? …”
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Morality and masculinity in the Carolingian empire by Stone, Rachel

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Morality and masculinity in the Carolingian empire by Stone, Rachel

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In search of the lost feminine decoding the myths that radically reshaped civilization / by Barnes, Craig S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : rewriting the story of western civilization -- Minoan artifacts challenge the inevitability of patriarchy -- The mystery of Minoan civilization -- An expectation of rebirth or immortality -- Time as a circle rather than a line -- The troubling question of war -- Crete and the issue of female sexuality -- The ecstatic and the divine as inseperable -- Five values dramatically at odds with patriarchy -- The collapse of the Minoan world -- The invasions of 1600 BCE : a war culture emerges -- The Theran explosion : the loss of faith in Mother Earth -- The growth of trade : the diminishment of daughters -- The great civil war over marriage : the end of women-centered culture in the eastern Mediterranean -- A warrior civilization emerges -- Four hundred years of chaos sets the stage -- Values shaped by storytellers -- An exaggerated feminine is made monstrous -- Mother Earth is overthrown -- Jason resists the many shapes of seductive women -- Odysseus rejects Calypso -- Homer poses the choice between love and property -- Clytemnestra is sacrificed on the altar of marriage -- Marriage destroys the mother-daughter bond -- Daughters die for civic good -- A multitude of myths to tame, punish, and disparage women -- Oedipus, the lost son -- A glorious monument enshrining the subordination of women -- Biblical patriarchs match the Greek story -- Objections to the warrior civilization -- Jesus carries forward the Eleusian symbolism of grain and wine -- Jesus takes on the threat of military destruction -- Ancient beliefs spring up among the Celts -- A short-lived Islamic challenge -- The metaphor of the holy grail -- Devil talk and witch burnings -- Closing the book on the patriarchy -- History as a choice of stories -- Women coming home to dignity -- The declining utility of war -- Another story all along.…”
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Dante's Epic Journeys / by Thompson, David, 1938-

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Some Jewish Women in Antiquity / by Bar-Ilan, Meir

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Support for the Poor in the Mishnaic Law of Agriculture: Tractate Peah / by Brooks, Roger

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First Hebrew Shakespeare Translations : A Bilingual Edition and Commentary / by Kahn, Lily

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In search of the lost feminine decoding the myths that radically reshaped civilization / by Barnes, Craig S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : rewriting the story of western civilization -- Minoan artifacts challenge the inevitability of patriarchy -- The mystery of Minoan civilization -- An expectation of rebirth or immortality -- Time as a circle rather than a line -- The troubling question of war -- Crete and the issue of female sexuality -- The ecstatic and the divine as inseperable -- Five values dramatically at odds with patriarchy -- The collapse of the Minoan world -- The invasions of 1600 BCE : a war culture emerges -- The Theran explosion : the loss of faith in Mother Earth -- The growth of trade : the diminishment of daughters -- The great civil war over marriage : the end of women-centered culture in the eastern Mediterranean -- A warrior civilization emerges -- Four hundred years of chaos sets the stage -- Values shaped by storytellers -- An exaggerated feminine is made monstrous -- Mother Earth is overthrown -- Jason resists the many shapes of seductive women -- Odysseus rejects Calypso -- Homer poses the choice between love and property -- Clytemnestra is sacrificed on the altar of marriage -- Marriage destroys the mother-daughter bond -- Daughters die for civic good -- A multitude of myths to tame, punish, and disparage women -- Oedipus, the lost son -- A glorious monument enshrining the subordination of women -- Biblical patriarchs match the Greek story -- Objections to the warrior civilization -- Jesus carries forward the Eleusian symbolism of grain and wine -- Jesus takes on the threat of military destruction -- Ancient beliefs spring up among the Celts -- A short-lived Islamic challenge -- The metaphor of the holy grail -- Devil talk and witch burnings -- Closing the book on the patriarchy -- History as a choice of stories -- Women coming home to dignity -- The declining utility of war -- Another story all along.…”
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Dante's Epic Journeys / by Thompson, David, 1938-

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Some Jewish Women in Antiquity / by Bar-Ilan, Meir

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