justification interpretations nineteenth-century judaeo-christianity

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A Time to Tear Down and a Time to Build Up: A Rereading of Ecclesiastes

1 review
Michael V. Fox

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999

A Scholarly Look at Ecclesiastes
This is not a book of light reading, but I was drawn to the title as a possible source of insight in one of the most problematic books of the Bible- Ecclesiastes or Qohelet as it is known to Jewish scholars. In fact Fox intended "A Time to Tear Down and a Time to Build Up: A Rereading of Ecclesiastes" for Jewish scholars. I am not Jewish or a scholar of biblical texts, but a curious biological ...

Rereading The Rabbis: A Woman's Voice (Radical Traditions)

3 reviews
Judith Hauptman

Westview Press, 1998

The first true feminist reading of the Talmud
There seems to be a great deal of antagonism between feminists and talmudists. It's refreshing to read a book by someone who is both. The talmud isn't the Misogynistic text some make it out to be, and feminism isn't sacreligious. the two can reside together, and both gain from the proximity. Talmudic study is enlightened by feminist methodolgy and crtique. Feminist studies can learn from the ...

Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America

4 reviews
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Vintage, 2003

Our Sexual Foundation
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz says that she was puzzled by the stir in 1994 when Joycelyn Elders made a mild comment mentioning that masturbation might be taught about as part of sex education in schools. Our nation is used to hearing daytime talk show chatter about sexual abuse, homosexuality, prostitution, and more, but mentioning this universal and enjoyable practice as something that should be ...

Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

3 reviews
Daniel Boyarin

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006

Boyarin cannot be so easily dismissed
Daniel Boyarin is a formidable scholar and while there is much to disagree with here, there can be no question that he breaks new ground with what is a significant study of that bewildering oxymoron, "Judaeo-Christianity." Almost anything Boyarin writes about Judaism is worthy of notice and an investment in the time it takes to ponder his theses. He cannot be completely or easily dismissed.

Rereading Paul Together: Protestant and Catholic Perspectives on Justification

Baker Academic, 2006

Protestant and Roman Catholic scholars have conferred in recent decades to reconsider their theological differences. Conversation regarding Paul's doctrine of justification led to a breakthrough in 1999 with the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification. This book recounts, assesses, and continues that conversation. The contributors are David G. Truemper (on the Joint Declaration), David M. Rylaarsdam (patristic interpretation), ...

Composition Studies in the New Millennium: Rereading the Past, Rewriting the Future

Southern Illinois University Press, 2003

A collection of twenty-four essays assessing and challenging the current state of writing instruction, Composition Studies in the New Millennium: Rereading the Past, Rewriting the Future emerges from presentations given at the national Writing Program Administrators conference held at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 2001. Like its acclaimed and widely-used predecessor, Composition in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis and Change, this ...

Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing

19 reviews
Gary Colombo, Robert Cullen, ...

Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007

Loved it
This book opened my mind to many new ideas about public education and helped me articulate what i was thinking!! have used it numerous times as a citation in essays.

Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective

25 reviews
Amina Wadud

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

Everyone should read this
Most Muslims are not Arabs, and consequently don't speak Arabic, the language of the Qur'an. So an awful lot of Muslims themselves have never actually read the Qur'anic verses about women and tried to make sense of them. On the other hand, most non-Muslims have never read the Qur'an, and tend to assume that the Muslim view of women is more or less that of the Taliban or the Saudis. This book, ...

Rereading Fluency: Process, Practice, and Policy

2 reviews
Bess Altwerger, Nancy Jordan, ...

Heinemann, 2007

Rereading Fluency: Process, Practice and Policy
Rereading Fluency: Process, Practice, and Policy is a solid look at the research behind the parameters of the No Child Left Behind Act and a must read for anyone who is interested in what is currently happening to our public education system. Stop blaming the teachers and take a good look at the research behind what teachers and administrators are required to do to meet national education ...

Rereadings: Seventeen writers revisit books they love

3 reviews

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006

Facets of writers; reflections of books seen in different lights
This volume has so little in common with collected interpretations, scholarly or chatty, of single literary works or authors. Nor do the (mostly) books written about suffer the sameness and burden of being "most influential" for the writers. Editor Anne Fadiman brilliantly introduces the act of self-revelation accomplished by passing books through prisms of innocence and then of experience and ...

The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics
Martha Woodmansee

Columbia University Press, 1996

A Rereading of Romans: Justice, Jews, and Gentiles

1 review
Stanley K. Stowers

Yale University Press, 1997

The grammar of Paul
I thought that Stowers approach adds a dimension to the discussion about the new perspective on Paul. His attention to how a Greek speaking Gentile would read Paul's epistle is excellent. The book clearly highlights how modern tendencies to read the Bible in the "plain sense" can be hugely mistaken. His focus on who the epistle was written to and what cultural frame of reference they had is very ...

Rereading Merleau-Ponty: Essays Beyond the Continental-Analytic Divide

Humanity Books, 2000

In recent years, scholarship on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty has expanded at an extraordinary rate. A notable aspect of this surge is its breadth: Merleau-Ponty's thought is being explored and applied by scholars from a wide range of philosophical specialties. A second, equally remarkable aspect is the extent to which Merleau-Ponty scholarship transcends the familiar, entrenched dichotomy between "continental" and "analytic" ...

Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering

1 review
Wendy Lesser

Mariner Books, 2003

On my 'most beloved' shelf.
I read this when it first came out, and have reread it again several times since. Some of it I now know by heart, and it has become a part of me. Which is to say, Wendy Lesser has affected my thinking about Art and the way we view Art through life. It has helped me rediscover books and movies that I had previously written off as a younger man. Some colleagues have told me that it changed ...

Feminist Interpretations of Plato (Re-Reading the Canon) (Re-Reading the Canon)

Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt), 1994

The essays in this anthology explore the full spectrum of Plato's philosophy and are representative of the variety of perspectives within feminist criticism. The essays in the first section focus primarily on Plato's social and political theory, and in particular the place of women within the state. The second section concentrates on examining the role of the feminine within Plato's metaphysics and epistemology. Tuana introduces both sections ...

Feminist Interpretations of Augustine (Re-Reading the Canon)

Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007

Since the establishment of Christianity in the West as a major religious tradition, Augustine (354-430 C.E.) has been considered a principal architect of the ways philosophy can be used for reasoning about faith. In particular, Augustine effected the joining of Platonism with Christian belief for the Middle Ages and beyond. The results of his enterprise continue to be felt, especially with regard to the contested topics of human ...

Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner: "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" and Other Essays

1 review
Frederick Jackson Turner

Yale University Press, 1999

Turner's "Frontier Thesis" Unfiltered
This is a very useful collection of ten essays by University of Wisconsin/Harvard University historian Frederick Jackson Turner written through out his career. Edited and introduced by John Mack Faragher, this book is a very fine entrée point to the thought of Turner. The first of the essays published here is Turner's seminal work, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," an essay ...

Goodbye to the Vikings? Re-reading Early Medieval Archaeology

2 reviews
Richard Hodges

Gerald Duckworth & Company, 2006

An in-depth and insightful study of the historical recordings of the Vikings during the early Middle Ages of European history
Goodbye To The Vikings?: Re-reading Early Medieval Archaeology by Richard Hodges (Director of the Institute of World Archeology, School of World Art Studies, University of East Anglia and Scientific Director of the Butrint Foundation) is an in-depth and insightful study of the historical recordings of the Vikings during the early Middle Ages of European history when Vikings had their largest ...

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