The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature
Caryl Emerson
Cambridge, Cambirdge University Press, July 2008, 306 pp.
Russian literature arrived late on the European scene. Within several generations, its great novelists had shocked - and then conquered - the world. In this introduction to the rich and vibrant Russian tradition, Caryl Emerson weaves a narrative of recurring themes and fascinations across several centuries. Beginning with traditional Russian narratives (saints’ lives, folk tales, epic and rogue narratives), the book moves through literary history chronologically and thematically, juxtaposing literary texts from each major period. Detailed attention is given to canonical writers including Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bulgakov and Solzhenitsyn, as well as to some current bestsellers from the post-Communist period. Fully accessible to students and readers with no knowledge of Russian, the volume includes a glossary and pronunciation guide of key Russian terms as well as a list of useful secondary works. The book will be of great interest to students of Russian as well as of comparative literature.
• No Russian is required to understand and enjoy this book • All genres of Russian literature are set in their historical and cultural contexts • Includes all the classics as well as the authors most read in Russia today
Contents
Preface; 1. Critical models, committed readers, and three Russian ideas; 2. Heroes and their plots; 3. Traditional narratives; 4. Western eyes on Russian realities: the eighteenth century; 5. The astonishing nineteenth century: Romanticisms; 6. Realisms: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov; 7. Symbolist and modernist world-building: three cities, three novels, and the devil; 8. The Stalin years: socialist realism, anti-Fascist fairy tales, wilderness; 9. Coming to terms and seeking other terms: from the First Thaw (1956) to the end of the millennium; Postscript: the Russian word in a fluid world; Notes; Pronunciations and definitions of Russian words, proper names, and place names occurring in the text (with first occurrence noted); The Russian literary canon in English; Guide to further reading.
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- Challenges traditional readings of the prophetic texts in a clear, systematic and engaging way
- Employs Literary-historical approaches to bring the texts to life
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| Sharon Moughtin-Mumby considers the often unrecognised impact of different approaches to metaphor on readings of the prophtic sexual and marital metaphorical language. She outlines a practical and consciously simplified approach to metaphor, placing strong emphasis on the influence of literary context on metaphorical meaning. Drawing on this approach, she read Hosea 4-14, Jeremiah 2:1-4:4, Isaiah, Ezekiel 16 and 23, and Hosea 1-3 with fresh eyes. Her lucid new readings reveal the way in which scholarship has repeatedly stifled the prophetic metaphorical language by reading it within the ‘default contexts’ of ‘the marriage metaphor’ and ‘cultic prostitution’, which for so many years have been simply assumed. Readers are encouraged instead to read these diverse metaphors and similes within their distinctive literary contexts in which they have the potential to rise vividly to life, provoking the question: how are we to respond to these disquieting, powerful texts in the midst of the Hebrew Bible? |
Readership: Scholars and students of Biblical and Hebraic texts; of literature and language; of early Hebraic culture
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Introduction
1. Hosea 4-14
2. Jeremiah
3. Isaiah
4. Ezekiel 16 & 23
5. Hosea 1-3
Conclusion
Works Cited
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Sharon Moughtin-Mumby |
Катакомбата на Калист в (или под) Рим
Balch, David L.
Roman Domestic Art and Early House Churches
Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2008, XXIV, 296 Seiten + 1 CD-ROM (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 228), ISBN 978-3-16-149383-6 Leinen € 99.00
Bibliographie - Autor
Juden und Christen außerhalb Israels lebten in griechischen und römischen Häusern und Wohnhäusern. Während früher republikanischer und später kaiserzeitlicher Epochen malten Künstler Fresken an die Wände ihrer Herrenhäuser. David Balch untersucht, wie visuelle Darstellungen das Verständnis häuslicher Rituale sowie jüdischer und christlicher Schriften, die an diesen Orten gelesen und gehört wurden, beeinflußt haben könnten. Des weiteren untersucht der Autor die römische Architektur und gewinnt damit neue Einsichten in die Sozialgeschichte des frühen Christentums.
Born 1942; 1974 PhD; 1987-88 Senior Fulbright Scholar, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen; 1983-91 Associate Professor of New Testament, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas; 1991-2006 Professor of New Testament, Brite Divinity School/TCU; since 2006 Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary / GTU, Berkeley, USA.
Ben-Naeh, Yaron
Jews in the Realm of the Sultans:
Ottoman Jewish Society in the Seventeenth Century
Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2008. XIV, 503 Seiten (Texts and Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Judaism 22), ISBN 978-3-16-149523-6 Leinen € 109.00
Bibliographie - Autor
Yaron Ben-Naeh zeichnet das Gesamtbild des kaum bekannten Judentums, das im 17. Jahrhundert im Osmanischen Reich lebte. Er zeigt und analysiert die jüdische Gesellschaft als Teil de
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Desecration of Host Not Seen as Free Speech
Confraternity Proposes Prayer Day in Reparation
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, JULY 30, 2008 (Zenit.org).- The Confraternity of Catholic
Clergy is proposing Friday as a national day of prayer and fasting in the wake of
the desecration of the Eucharist by a Minnesota professor.
Father John Trigilio, Jr., the president of the confraternity, a U.S. association of
600 priests and deacons, sent a statement this week asking Catholics "to join in a
day of prayer and fasting that such offenses never happen again."
Paul Myers, a professor of biology at the University of Minnesota at Morris, says he
desecrated the Eucharist by piercing it with a rusty nail, then he threw it into the
trash.
The self-professed atheist wrote about the incident on his blog and posted a photo
of the desecrated host.
The statement of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy said it found the actions of
Myers "reprehensible, inexcusable, and unconstitutional. His flagrant display of
irreverence by profaning a consecrated Host from a Catholic Church goes beyond the
limit of academic freedom and free speech."
"Attacking the most sacred elements of a religion is not free speech anymore than
would be perjury in a court or libel in a newspaper," added the text.
Father Trigilio told ZENIT that the congregation is asking the faithful to make a
holy hour before the Eucharist on Aug. 1, the feast of St. Alphonsus Ligouri, and to
fast in "reparation for the sacrilegious desecration of the Holy Eucharist."
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Святой равноапостольный князь Владимир и крещение Руси |
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Н.И. Милютенко |
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2008 |
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Издательство Олега Абышко |
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978-5-903525-17-1 |
| Формат (размер) |
60х88/16 |
| Объем |
576 с. |
| Тип переплета |
Твердый |
| Тираж |
1000 |
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Офсетная |
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Монография посвящена истории окончательного утверждения христианства на Руси усилиями св. равноап. князя Владимира. Его деятельность отразилась не только в русских, но и в европейских, византийских и ближневосточных источниках, написанных его младшими современниками. В книге рассмотрена биография св. Владимира и история христианского просвещения Руси, начиная с эпохи Константинопольского патриарха Фотия. К исследованию привлечены все возможные источники, в том числе скандинаские саги.
Вокруг крещения и образа святого князя с самого начала складывались легенды, зафиксированные и в русской, и в европейской традициях. Большое внимание уделено истории сложения летописного рассказа о правлении святого князя. История св. Владимира всегда привлекала внимание исследователей, но произведения о крещении Руси и св. Владимире были изучены гораздо хуже циклов житий других русских святых. До сих пор не было издания, включающего все основные произведения о крестителе Руси. В книге изданы наиболее значимые с исторической и литературной точек зрения памятники, в том числе впервые после 1888 г. полностью опубликован текст древнейшей службы.
Для всех интересующихся историей древней Руси и становлением Русской Церкви.
Israel Jacob Yuval
Two Nations in Your Womb
Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Berkeley, University of California Press,
Translated by Barbara Harshav and Jonathan Chipman
An S. Mark Taper Foundation Book in Jewish Studies
$24.95, £14.95 paperback
978-0-520-25818-1
336 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 6 b/w photographs, 2 tables
paperback, July 2008, Available worldwide
“A rich work.”—
Bridges
“The most exciting, and in some ways the most outrageous, work of Jewish history in a long time. . . . His account of Passover and its rituals is especially startling.”—New Republic
Description
Since it was first published in Hebrew in 2000, this provocative book has been garnering acclaim and stirring controversy for its bold reinterpretation of the relationship between Judaism and Christianity in the Middle Ages, especially in medieval Europe. Looking at a remarkably wide array of source material, Israel Jacob Yuval argues that the inter-religious polemic between Judaism and Christianity served as a substantial component in the mutual formation of each of the two religions. He investigates ancient Jewish Passover rituals; Jewish martyrs in the Rhineland who in 1096 killed their own children; Christian perceptions of those ritual killings; and events of the year 1240, when Jews in northern France and Germany expected the Messiah to arrive. Looking below the surface of these key moments, Yuval finds that, among other things, the impact of Christianity on Talmudic and medieval Judaism was much stronger than previously assumed and that a “rejection of Christianity” became a focal point of early Jewish identity. Two Nations in Your Womb will reshape our understanding of Jewish and Christian life in late antiquity and over the centuries.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface to the Hebrew Edition
Preface to the English Edition
1. Introduction: Et Major Serviet Minori
(And the Elder Will Serve the Younger)
The Thematic Framework
The Early Typology: Esau Id Est Edom
The Late Typology: Edom Id Est Roma
The Conciliatory Approach of Modern Research
The Mother, the Daughter, and the Sister
2. Rome or Jerusalem: The Foundations of Jewish-Christian Hostility
The Sons of Ephraim and the Son of Joseph
Vindicta Salvatoris (The Vengeance of the Savior)
Legends of the Destruction—Anti-Christian?
The Passover of Egypt and the Passover of Jerusalem
Development of the Stories
Parallels between the Jewish Haggadah and the Christian “Haggadahs”
The “Midrash” of the Haggadah
Conclusions
A Note on the Research
3. The Vengeance and the Curse: Hostility to Christianity
among Ashkenazic Jewry
Vengeful Redemption
Proselytizing Redemption
The Curse
The Curse on Yom Kippur
Pour Out Thy Wrath
The Impression of the Curses on Christians
4. Intersecting Stories: From Martyrdom to Ritual Murder Accusations
The Blood
Self-Sacrifice
Sacrifice of Children
The Libel
The Impact of the Blood Sacrifice on Christians
The Libel of Blois and the Story of Bristol
5. Inverted Ceremonies: The Host, the Matzah, and the Quarrel
The Great Sabbath
The Burning of Leaven
The Eruv of Courtyards
The Afikoman
Haroset
Summary
6. The End of the Millennium (1240): Jewish Hopes, Christian Fears
Calculations of the End at the Turn of the Jewish Millennium
Messianism, Immigration to the Land of Israel, and Settling the Land
Fulda 1235, Paris 1240: Christian Reactions?
The Mongolian Threat: The Ten Tribes? Gog and Magog?
A Synchronic Overview
A Jewish End and a Christian End
Index
About The Author
Israel Jacob Yuval is a professor for Jewish History and the Academic Head of “Scholion-Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies” at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is author of Scholars in Their Time: The Religious Leadership of German Jewry in the Late Middle Ages (1988).
Ralph W. Hood, Jr., and W. Paul Williamson
Them That Believe
The Power and Meaning of the Christian Serpent-Handling Tradition
Berkeley, University of Californa Press,
$60.00, £35.00 hardcover
978-0-520-23147-4
Available Now
322 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 12 b/w photographs, 3 line illustrations, 6 tables
September 2008, Available worldwide
“There is no competing work that matches
Them That Believe; it is both original and stimulating. The scholarship is superior, and reflects well the 15 years the authors have worked on this project. This is an outstanding work.”—Margaret Poloma, author of
Main Street Mystics: The Toronto Blessing and Reviving Pentecostalism
“This book provides one of the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched reports on serpent handling Christians ever written. The use of multiple methodological lenses (e.g., sociology, ethnographic participant-observation, phenomenological psychology) adds a depth and richness not seen in other works. The book is very well written and arranged, and the scholarship is excellent.”—Stephen Parker, author of Led by the Spirit: Toward a Practical Theology of Pentecostal Discernment and Decision Making
Description
Although outlawed in many states, serpent handling remains an active religious practice—and one that is far more stereotyped than understood. Ralph W. Hood, Jr. and W. Paul Williamson have spent fifteen years touring serpent-handling churches in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, and West Virginia, conducting scores of interviews with serpent handlers, and witnessing hundreds of serpent-handling services. In this illuminating book they present the most in-depth, comprehensive study of serpent handling to date. Them That Believe not only explores facets of this religious practice—including handling, preaching, and the near-death experiences of individuals who were bitten but survived—but also provides a rich analysis of this phenomenon from historical, social, religious, and psychological perspectives.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
1. “They Shall Take up Serpents”
2. The History of Pentecostalism Absent the Serpent
3. The Media and the Man: George Went Hensley
4. Serpent Handling Endorsed by the Church of God
5. The Serpent: Sign and Symbol
6. Trance States: Tongues Speaking and the Anointing
7. Extemporaneous Sermons in the Serpent-Handling Tradition
8. The Experience of Handling Serpents
9. The Experience of the Anointing
10. Near-Death Experience from Serpent Bites in Religious Settings
11. Music among Serpent-Handling Churches
12. Serpent Handling and the Law: History and Empirical Studies
Epilogue
Appendix
Interpretation
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Index
Figure Captions
Plate Captions
About The Authors
Ralph W. Hood, Jr. is Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. W. Paul Williamson is Associate Professor of Psychology at Henderson State University. Hood and Williamson are coauthors, with Peter C. Hill, of The Psychology of Religious Fundamentalism.
