Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an as Literature and Culture (Biblical Interpretation Series, 98) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004177523 ISBN 13: 9789004177529

Publisher: Brill, 2009

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Roberta Sabbath, Ph.D. (1994) Comparative Literature, University of California, Riverside, teaches in the English Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She focuses on Tanakh-inspired literary traditions, including her monograph-in-progress, Re-Membering the Body: Figurative Readings of the Jewish Sense of Wonder.

From the Back Cover

Contemporary sacred text scholarship has been stimulated by a number of intersecting occurrences: 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. Though 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, 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004177523
• ISBN 13: 9789004177529
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 560
• Editor: Sabbath Roberta