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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The improvements and additions to the text, the new Index and enlarged Bibliography, the clear fonts and visual presentation, and the added charts make this book a 'must-have' for the regular use of everyone who chants and teaches trop."—Neil Schwartz, Journal of Synagogue Music“Jacobson has delivered an indispensable teaching tool that, quite unusually, is a genuinely fascinating read. . . . Even those who consider themselves experts will learn a lot from this book. . . . Jacobson consistently provides a wealth of interesting historical material to make this a great reference book.”—Susan Miron, The Forward “An authoritative, exhaustively detailed survey of the history, structure, performance, and inculcation of the trope.”—Stuart Schoffman, Jerusalem Report “Monumental in scope and richly detailed, this revised edition of Chanting the Hebrew Bible—enriched by a week-by-week guide to the Torah, haftarah, and megillot readings, and a comprehensive index—is an invaluable contribution to the study and practice of biblical cantillation. Jacobson’s work of impressive scholarship is simultaneously an accessible and engaging practical resource.”—Rabbi Jeffrey A. Summit, author of Singing God’s Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism“This encyclopedic volume is a ‘must-have’ for all serious students of cantillation—and for anyone who wants to learn how to chant Hebrew texts and understand the whys of the cantillation systems.”—Nancy Abramson, cantor and director of the H. L. Miller Cantorial School at Jewish Theological Seminary “The cantillation of Hebrew scripture is an indispensable portal to its authentic interpretation, and Jacobson has extraordinary command of this material. Students and scholars, beginners and experts—everyone who treasures this foundational form of biblical learning has much cause for celebration.”—Richard Cohn, cantor and director of the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion Table of ContentsHow to Use this Book Transliterations, Translations and Text Sources Chapter 1 Cantillation The Ritual Art of Chanting the Hebrew Scriptures The Terminology of Cantillation Chironomy Why Chant? The Scroll Ambiguity in the Consonantal Text The Masoretic Text The Rhythm of Cantillation The Pitches of Cantillation Ekphonetic Notation Transcriptions of the te‘amim Inflection Resolving Ambiguity Chapter 2.1 Parallelism Corresponding Parallelism Parallel Actions Analogous Parallelism Elliptical Parallelism Chapter 2.2 The Primary Dichotomy: Siluk and Etnaḥta The Disjunctive Siluk Meteg The Disjunctive Etnaḥta Chanting Diagramming Phrases Parsing Level One: Contiguous Segments Exception: Verses without Etnaḥta The Pausal Form Word Order Chapter 2.3 Level Two: Tippeḥa The Secondary Dichotomy: Tippeḥa Three Independent Clauses The Simple Sentence The Nominal Clause Chapter 2.4 Conjunctives Recursive Dichotomy Disjunctives and Conjunctives within a SegmentMerekha – The “Servant” of Siluk Merekha – The “Servant” of Tippeḥa Merekha Khefulah Munaḥ Conjunctives and Dagesh Kal The “Conjunctive Soft” Form Chapter 2.5 SubstitutionsTippeḥa Substituting for a Conjunctive One-Word Clauses in Level One Two Te‘amim on a Long WordMayela and Siluk on a Single WordMayela and Etnaḥta on a Single WordMunaḥ and Etnaḥta on a Single WordMerekha and Tippeḥa on a Single Word Two Munaḥs: A Double Conjunctive Chapter 2.6 Level Two: Zakef Stepping Segments Stepping Segments and Nesting Segments The Four Forms of Zakef Munaḥ—The Conjunctive Serving Zakef Katon A New Model Another Upgrade Review: Three Models of Dichotomy Review Verb in Second Position The Word לֵאמרֹ The Vocative Case Chapter 2.7 Level Two: Segol When Does Segol Appear?Munaḥ—The Conjunctive Serving Segol.Shalshelet as a Substitute for Segol Pasek The Seven Occurences of Shalshelet Rabbinic Exegesis of Shalshelet Chapter 2.8 Tevir The Disjunctive Tevir Examples of Tevir Relative Cadences: Tippeḥa and Tevir Upgrading: Tevir Substituting for Merekha The Conjunctives of Tevir: Darga and Merekha A New Model Verb In Terminal Position Chapter 2.9 The Remote Conjunctives of Tevir Kadma And Munaḥ: The Secondary Conjunctives of Tevir Verb in the Middle — Part Two Secondary AccentsMerekha Khefulah and Darga: Two Conjunctives before Tippeḥa More than One Remote Conjunctive Three or More Conjunctives Chapter 2.10 Revia‘ Upgrade: Tevir to Revia‘ The Dichotomy of ListsRevia‘ Analysis Three Level-Three “Stepping” SegmentsDarga—The Remote Conjunctive Of Revia‘ Three Conjunctives before Revia‘ Chapter 2.11 Pashta The Disjunctive Pashta Pashta and Kadma Yetiv—A Substitute for Pashta Munaḥ Upgraded to Pashta or Yetiv The Meteg as Lengthener Substitutions and the Conjunctive-Rafeh Rule Verses with No Conjunctives The Conjunctives of Pashta—Mahpakh and Merekha Derivation of the Name “Mahpakh”Mahpakh and Pashta on The Same WordMahpakh and Yetiv The Retracted Accent—Nasog Aḥor The Remote Conjunctives of Pashta—Kadma or Munaḥ The Third and Fourth Remote Conjunctives of PashtaRevia‘—The Initial Level-Three Disjunctive before Pashta Upgrading Pashta to Revia‘ Chapter 2.12 Zarka Zarka The Conjunctives of Zarka Upgrading Munaḥ-Segol to Zarka-Segol Upgrading for Long Words The Remote Conjunctives of Zarka—Kadma or Munaḥ Munaḥ Instead of Kadma Three Conjunctives before Zarka Four Conjunctives before Zarka Two Subdivisions under Segol Three Subdivisions under Segol Chapter 2.13 Level Four: Geresh Simple Verses and Complex Verses Subdividing a Level-Three SegmentGeresh and Double Geresh The Forms of Geresh Geresh without a Conjunctive Upgrading for Long Words The Conjunctives of Geresh—Kadma and Munaḥ The Remote Conjunctive of Geresh—Telishah Ketanah Munaḥ—The Conjunctive before Telishah Ketanah To Geresh or Not to Geresh? The Geresh Segment In Context Chapter 2.14 Level Four: Legarmeh The Disjunctive Legarmeh Legarmeh or Geresh? The 2+1 Division and Exceptions to the Rule Stepping Level-Four Segments The Conjunctive of Legarmeh—Merekha Three or More Stepping Segments Analysis of Complete Verses Chapter 2.15 Level Four: Pazer The Distribution of Level-Four Terminators The Disjunctive Pazer (Katan) The Conjunctive of Pazer—Munaḥ Level-Four Segments Three Stepping Segments The Pazer Segment in Context Lists Level Five Chapter 2.16 Level Four: Pazer Gadol The Disjunctive Pazer Gadol (Karney-Farah) The Conjunctive of Pazer Gadol—Galgal (Yeraḥ-Ben-Yomo) The Pazer Gadol Clause in Context Chapter 2.17 Telishah Gedolah The Disjunctive Telishah Gedolah Telishah Gedolah as a Substitute for Geresh Telishah Gedolah and Geresh on the Same WordTelishah Gedolah as a Substitute for Pazer Telishah Gedolah as a Level-Five TerminatorTelishah Gedolah as a Substitute for Telishah Ketanah The Telishah Gedolah Clause in Context Chapter 3 Pronunciation The Importance of Correct Pronunciation Halakhic Evidence The Evolution of the Hebrew Language An Official Hebrew Diction The “Elevated” Style About this Guide Consonant “Voicing” The Pronunciation of א The Pronunciation of כ and ח The Pronunciation of ר Other Differences Run-on Words Vowel Length Pure Vowels Consistent Pronunciation Doubled Consonants Becoming Familiar with Dagesh Ḥazak Mappik The Function of Mappik The Sound of Mappik Shin and Sin Matres Lectionis— אִמּוֺת הַקְּרִיאָה Syllables Open Syllables Closed SyllablesDagesh Kal The Conjunctive Soft Form Consonant Endings כ Dagesh Ḥazak in בּ גּ דּ פּ תּ Vocal Sheva (Sheva Na‘) Intermediate Sheva (Sheva Meraḥef) Summary: Prefix ChartKamats FormsKamats before Deḥik Two Approaches to the Rules of Pronunciation Furtive Pataḥ (Pataḥ Genuvah) וּ וֹ And as Consonants Some Words Are Not Pronounced as They Are Written Syllabic Stress: Millera‘ and Mille‘el Marking the Accent The Secondary Accent Syllabic RhythmMakkef Vowel Length Reduction in Connected Words Special Te‘amim for Contiguous Accents Retraction נָסוֹג אֲחוֹר Secondary Stress Observations on Secondary Stress The Euphonic Meteg מֶֽתֶג לְתִיקוּן הַקְּרִיאָהMeteg Summary The Pausal Form צוּרַת הַהֶפְסֵק Vowel Changes in Pausal Form Change Of Stress in the Hiatus Form Change Of Stress in Vav Conversive The Directional (or “Locative”) Suffix ה׳ הַמְּגַמָּה Suffixes and Syllabic Stress Rare Words that Begin with Dagesh Ḥazak ( דְּחיִק ) Pronunciation of the Conjunctive Dagesh The Vocalization of Prefixes The Definite Article ה׳ הַיְדִיעָה כ Prepositional Prefixes בַּ לַ The Word מה The Interrogative Prefix ה׳ הַשְּׁאֵלָהVav Conjunctive ו׳ הַחִבּוּרVav Conversive ו׳ הַהִפּוּךְ The Prepositional Prefixes ב כ ל The Prepositional Prefix מ Formal Classical Pronunciation versus Colloquial Modern Pronunciation General Pronunciation Exercises Chapter 4 Canon And Masorah A History of the Scrolls The Aniquity of Cantillation Where Do the Melodies Come From? The Chanting of Scripture Did Tiberian Notation Represent an Ancient Tradition? The Septuagint Other Ancient Greek Manuscripts Evidence in the Talmud Other Systems of Punctuation The Musical Realization of the Tiberian System The Notation Systems The Tiberian Codices The Aleppo Codex Other Ancient Codices Chapter and Verse Printed Bibles The Soferim and the Consonantal Text Masoretic Annotations and Lists Chapter 5.1 The Te‘amim Disjunctives Conjunctives Other Signs Remote Conjunctives Invariables Upgrading in a Two-Word Domain Upgrading in the Presence of Long Words Substitutions for Musical Considerations Frequency Chart Repeating Te‘amim The Hierarchy of the Te‛amim The Twenty-One Books and the Three Books The Poetic Books: Psalms, Proverbs and Job Chapter 5.2 Two Te‘amim on a Single Word Primary and Secondary AccentsMeteg The Euphonic Meteg Double Conjunctives Double Disjunctives Doubled Invariables Postpositives Prepositives High and Low Accents: Two Traditions The Decalogue The Saga Of Reuben Chapter 5.3 Troubleshooting Commonly Confused Te‘amim Errors in Rhythm Commonly Mispronounced Consonants Commonly Mispronounced Vowels Incorrect Syllabic Stress Biblical Hebrew and Contemporary Hebrew The Last Word Chapter 5.4 Parsing The Hebrew Bible Some Definitions Overview—The Steps Involved in Parsing Identify the Verbs Parallelism—Pairs of Clauses The Verbless (Nominal) Clause Coordinated Verbs More than Two Independent Clauses The Subordinate Clause Downgrading the Time Stamp Inverted Downgrade Quotations Linked Word Pairs Inconsistency of Style Construct ( סְמִיכוּת ) Followed by a Linked Pair Particles Other Words The Word לֵאמרֹ Lists Emphatic Words The Verb and its Complements Puzzling Punctuation The Limits of Predictability Chapter 5.5 The Pedagogy of Cantillation The Cantillation Class Applying the Paradigm to the Student’s Portion Flash Cards Dictation Listening Activities Teaching Inflection Applying the Melodies to Familiar Words Reinforcing the Patterns Suggestions for Self-Study Preparing to Read from a Scroll Chapter 6.1 Interpreting the Te‘amim Music of the People The Liquid Tradition Becomes Frozen One Tradition among Many Music Serves the Text Transcription of the Te‘amim Rhythmic Notation Pitch Notation The Names of the Te‘amim Syllabic Stress Improvisation Smoothing Redistribution Compensation Pick-Up Pitch Adjustment The Rhythm of Cantillation Reading Complete Phrases High and Low Te‘amim Chapter 6.2 Torah Historical Development of the Public Reading Contemporary Practices in Traditional Synagogues The Cycle of Readings The Combined Pericope פרשה מחוברת The Division of the Pericope Extra Aliyot The Number of Olim The Number of Verses The Maftir Simḥat Torah Customs Procedures Related to the Torah Reading The Correct Reading of the Torah Qualifications for the Ba‘al Keri’ah Correcting An Error In The Reading A Defect in the ScrollTokheḥot Remembering AmalekTa‘amey Ha-‘Elyon Other Special Customs The Melodies of the Cantillation Motifs The Siluk and Etnaḥta Segments The Zakef Segment The Tevir Segment The Pashta/Yetiv Segment The Segol/Shalshelet Segment The Revia‘ Segment The Legarmeh Segment The Geresh SegmentTelishah Gedolah Pazer Munaḥ Galgal Pazer-Gadol The Final Cadence Special MelodiesAkdamut Millin Chanting the Torah Blessings The Kaddish Summary of the Te‘amim The Scale of the Torah Cantillation The Te‘amim according to Abraham Binder Chapter 6.3 Haftarah Contemporary Traditional Practice Historical Development of the Haftarah Customs EtymologyHaftarah Chart The Melodies of the Cantillation Motifs The Siluk and Etnaḥta Segments The Zakef Segment The Tevir Segment The Pashta/Yetiv Segment The Segol Segment The Revia‘ Segment The Legarmeh Segment The Geresh Segment Other Segments The Final Cadence Modulations to the Lamentation Mode BlessingsYatsiv Pitgam Summary of the Te‘amim Chapter 6.4 The Festival Megillot: Song Of Songs, Ruth, and Ecclesiastes The Contemporary Practicea nd its Roots The Song of Songs Ruth Ecclesiastes The Siluk and Etnaḥta SegmentsMerekha Siluk Etnaḥta Tippeḥa The Tevir Segment The Zakef Segment The Pashta/Yetiv Segment The Segol Segment The Revia‘ Segment The Legarmeh Segment The Geresh SegmentGereshayim Telishah Gedolah Pazer The Final Cadence Blessings Summary of the Te‘amim Chapter 6.5 Esther The Contemporary Practice and its Roots The Siluk and Etnaḥta SegmentsTippeḥa The Tevir Segment The Zakef Segment The Pashta/Yetiv Segment The Segol Segment The Revia‘ Segment The Legarmeh Segment The Geresh SegmentTelishah Gedolah Pazer Munaḥ Galgal Pazer-Gadol The Final Cadence The Invitational Cadence Lamentation Verses Exceptional Verses BlessingsShoshannat Ya‘akov Summary of the Te’amim The Scale of the Te‘amim The Axes of the Te‘amim Chapter 6.6 Lamentations (Ekhah) Structure Liturgical Use Lamentations Motifs in other Readings Chanting Chapter Three The Siluk and Etnaḥta SegmentsTippeḥa The Tevir Segment The Zakef Segment The Pashta/Yetiv Segment The Segol Segment The Revia‘ Segment The Legarmeh Segment The Geresh Segment Other Final Cadences Summary of the Te‘amim The Scale of the Cantillation Chapter 6.7 Torah for the High Holiday Morning Service The Siluk and Etnaḥta SegmentsTippeḥa The Tevir Segment The Zakef Segment The Pashta/Yetiv Segment The Segol Segment The Revia‘ Segment The Legarmeh Segment The Geresh SegmentTelishah Gedolah Pazer The Final Cadence Chanting the BlessingsKaddish Summary of the Te‘amim The Scale of the Te‘amim Chapter 7.1 Comparison Chart Chapter 7.2 The Ideal Reader Chapter 7.3 Guide to the Readings Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy Special Torah Readings Simḥat Torah Public Fast DaysRosh Ḥodesh Shavuot High HolidaysHaftarot Genesis — Haftarot Exodus — Haftarot Leviticus — Haftarot Numbers — Haftarot Deuteronomy — Haftarot Special Haftarot Ruth Song of Songs Ecclesiastes (Kohelet) Lamentations Esther Chapter 7.4 Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCome, take your seat as a juror on the Cain v. Abel trial. The prosecution and defense attorneys-angels from Jewish legend-will soon call Cain, Abel, Sin, Adam, Eve, great commentators of Jewish tradition, and God to the witness stand to unpack the emotional, societal, and spiritual influences underlying the world's first murder.Trade Review"This is an engaging book that readers will enjoy as they are introduced to patterns of Jewish biblical interpretation. . . . [The] discussion guide [is] helpful for group Bible study."—Leslie J. Hoppe, Bible Today"Rabbi Dan Ornstein searches within the barebones biblical text for something that could bring us closer to understanding Cain’s motives and character, and the result is this book, a strikingly conceived courtroom drama. . . . Rich, compelling. . . . A literary tour de force."—Merrill Leffler, Jewish Book Council"The alternating courtroom transcripts and commentary by Rabbi Ornstein is an engaging way to learn about the story and its paradoxes that have been vigorously debated for millennia."—Ira S. Slavit, Nassau Lawyer"This is a book that would bring a fresh approach to Torah study groups. It would also make for a fun introduction to the study of sacred text to Hebrew School and Confirmation classes. For those who work with Jewish conversion students, this would also make for an interesting way to introduce Torah study."—heidislowinski.com“What a compelling piece of legitimate courtroom theater! I know the biblical story inside out. If challenged, I could possibly recite it by heart. And yet, as I read Cain v. Abel, it felt almost as though I hadn’t ever encountered it before—that’s how clever and interesting this way of reading the text struck me.”—Rabbi Martin S. Cohen, Shelter Rock Jewish Center, Roslyn, New York“How do you make an ancient story come to life? By making the human drama live. Bringing us the testimony and perspective of every participant, Rabbi Dan Ornstein offers us a riveting read and a chance to expand our own humanity at the same time.”—Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, American Jewish University“Cain v. Abel masterfully leads us to contemplate the essential question by which we live: ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’”—Rabbi Burton L. Visotzky, Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies, Jewish Theological Seminary“An engaging, provocative study of the first murder in the Torah, Cain v. Abel will have readers, like its characters, debating the human condition and how to assess human agency and responsibility.”—Marilyn Francus, professor of English, West Virginia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Reintroducing One of the World’s Oldest Crime Stories 1. Reading Cain and Abel The “Crime Report”: Genesis 4:1–16 2. Balancing Justice and Mercy An Admonition to the Jury Justice and Mercy 3. Introducing Our Expert Witnesses The Talmudic Masters The Medieval Bible Scholars 4. Competent to Stand Trial? Faith, Fate, and Forensics A Forensic Moral Health Assessment for the Heavenly and Earthly Courts 5. Interrogating the Interrogator A Deposition of God Commentary on God’s Deposition 6. Day One of the Trial Opening Arguments of the Prosecution and Defense First Witness of the Day: Cain Commentary on Cain’s Testimony I: Courtroom Poetry Commentary on Cain’s Testimony II: Looking at Cain Commentary on Cain’s Testimony III: What Is in a Name? Second Witness of the Day: Rabbi Yonatan ben Uzziel Commentary on Rabbi ben Uzziel’s Testimony Third Witness of the Day: Rashi Commentary on Rashi’s Testimony Fourth Witnesses of the Day: Rabbi Stama, Rabbi Joshua, and Rabbi Judah Second Witness Rabbi Yonatan ben Uzziel Returns to the Stand Commentary on the Testimonies of Rabbis Stama, Joshua, Judah, and ben Uzziel Fifth Witness of the Day: Rabbi Tanḥuma Commentary on Rabbi Tanḥuma’s Testimony and Cain’s Response to God Final Witness of the Day: Rabbi Eliezer Finkelman Commentary on Rabbi Finkelman’s Testimony Commentary: Wrapping Up Day One of the Trial 7. Day Two of the Trial First (and Only) Witness of the Day: Sin Commentary on Sin’s Testimony 8. Day Three of the Trial First Witness of the Day: Eve Commentary on Eve’s Testimony Second Witness of the Day: Adam Commentary on Adam’s Testimony 9. Day Four of the Trial A Statement by the Blood of Adam Abelson (Recording) 10. Day Four Continues The Tables Turned as God Is Put on Trial Commentary on God’s Testimony I: What Did Cain Really Ask God? Commentary on God’s Testimony II: Preparing for Cain’s Sentence Sentencing of Cain 11. Beyond Cain Commentary on Cain in Exile: Cain Rebuilds Epilogue: Two Dreams Notes Bibliography Discussion and Activity Guide

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Book SynopsisA pair of leaves recently acquired by Houghton Library presents an opportunity to examine the illuminated sequence composed in honor of John the Evangelist. The richly decorated fragments promise to transform our understanding of the special place of Christ’s “beloved disciple” in 14th-century art, liturgy, theology, and mysticism.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the character of the Eucharist as communion in and through sacrifice. It will stimulate discussion because of its controversial critique of the dominant paradigm for Eucharistic theology, its reclamation of St Thomas Aquinas's theology of the Eucharist, and its response to Pope John Paul II's Ecclesia de Eucharistia. Argues that the Eucharist cannot be separated from sacrifice, and rediscovers the biblical connections between sacrifice and communion. Timed to coincide with the Year of the Eucharist, proclaimed by Pope John Paul II. Reclaims the riches of St Thomas Aquinas's theology of the Eucharist, which had recently been reduced to a metaphysical defence of transubstantiation. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: Beyond Eucharistic Idealism. 1. The Desire of Israel. 2. The Eucharist and Expiatory Sacrifice. 3. The Eucharist and the Communion of Charity. 4. Transubstantiation. 5. The Liturgy of the Eucharist. 6. Conclusion: Cruciform Communion. Name Index. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the character of the Eucharist as communion in and through sacrifice. It will stimulate discussion because of its controversial critique of the dominant paradigm for Eucharistic theology, its reclamation of St Thomas Aquinas's theology of the Eucharist, and its response to Pope John Paul II's Ecclesia de Eucharistia. Argues that the Eucharist cannot be separated from sacrifice, and rediscovers the biblical connections between sacrifice and communion. Timed to coincide with the Year of the Eucharist, proclaimed by Pope John Paul II. Reclaims the riches of St Thomas Aquinas's theology of the Eucharist, which had recently been reduced to a metaphysical defence of transubstantiation. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: Beyond Eucharistic Idealism. 1. The Desire of Israel. 2. The Eucharist and Expiatory Sacrifice. 3. The Eucharist and the Communion of Charity. 4. Transubstantiation. 5. The Liturgy of the Eucharist. 6. Conclusion: Cruciform Communion. Name Index. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisDavid Jasper has compiled forty years of his writings on the relationship between the Bible, literature, and art. While acknowledging the Bible as a sacred text in more than one religious tradition, these writings recognise the Bible as literature in conversations with other literary works and traditions as well as the visual arts.Table of Contents Introduction 1. Literature and the Power of the Old Testament 2. On Reading the Scriptures as Literature 3. Settling Hoti's Business: The Impossible Necessity of Biblical Translation 4. "Down through All Christian Minstrelsy": Genesis, James Joyce, and Contemporary Vocabularies of Creation Stories 5. "In the Sermon Which I Have Just Completed, whenever I Said Aristotle, I Meant St. Paul" (Attrib. Revd. William A. Spooner) 6. Evil and Betrayal at the Heart of the Sacred Community 7. Jim Crace: Inventor of Worlds 8. J. M. W. Turner: Interpreter of the Bible 9. The Desert in Biblical Art: William Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat 10. The Bible, Christianity, and War in English Literature 11. Teaching the Bible and Literature Afterword Selected Reading List

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Book SynopsisThe Scottish poet, author, and Christian minister George MacDonald is widely known as an inspiration for the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Lewis Carroll, among others. Nineteenth century photographs of MacDonald present a forbidding visage, embodying Victorian-era solemnity. Yet behind the facade, as Daniel Gabelman writes, lived a whimsical and fantastical muse. Indeed, MacDonald imbued theological weight through childlike lightheartedness. Gabelman ably reveals in MacDonald's writings a bridge between playfulness and seriousness in the modern imagination. George MacDonald delivers a balanced reading of its subject that ultimately lends a new theological and literary weight to whimsy.Trade Review...for anyone interested in the study of fairy tales, or in theology, Gabelman's book comes as a much-needed breath of clear air....". - Dr. John Patrick Pazdziora, University of St Andrews, VII"Gabelman uses explanations of relevant context to clarify and inform, rather than to lecture or instruct. He offers a detailed yet articulate expansion of knowledge, and this eloquence will enlighten both the erudite scholar and the lay reader." - Christine Chettle, The Lion and the Unicorn"…extremely worthwhile…" - Bonnie Gaarden, MythloreTable of Contents Introduction: The Gravity of a Child at Play Part I: Modalities of Levity 1 The Levity of Saints and Angels 2 Ecstasy and Folly Lightening the Self for Its Journey 3 Vanity and Play Liberation from Seriousness for Metamorphosis 4 Carnival and Sabbath A Time for Renewal, Rebellion, and Revelation Part II: MacDonald's Fairytale Levity 5 "Never so Real as When They Are Solemn" Victorians and Seriousness 6 Time Fairyland's Festive Sabbath 7 Space Fairyland's Ecstatic Cosmology 8 Transformation "Shall not the Possible Become the Real?" Conclusion: The Haunting Force of Levity Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGrow in the Scriptures throughout the church year with David deSilva as your mentor. Beginning with Advent and moving through the church year, David deSilva brings his years of experience as a biblical scholar to the church in the form of sermons delivered to his home congregation throughout the church year, now adapted into a thoughtful and inspiring collection of reflections. These reflections, which draw on readings from the Revised Common Lectionary, will inform and inspire your understanding of Scripture, written with Dr. deSilva's characteristic warmth and wisdom. In Season and Out makes for excellent devotional reading that will feed saints both in front of and behind the pulpit.

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Book SynopsisEdition of complex and important early liturgical work. The highly complex combined sacramentary and pontifical presented here, preserved as Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 12052, was apparently written to the order of Ratoldus, abbot of Corbie (d. 986), but in fact has along and complicated history. The sacramentary descends from a book compiled at Saint-Denis, later augmented with material relating to Dol (in Brittany) and Arras, while the pontifical, such as it is, descends in large part froma book drawn up for Oda, archbishop of Canterbury (941-58). Moreover, late-tenth and eleventh-century additions show that Corbie was merely the last link in a fascinating and sometimes puzzling chain. The work is thus of considerable importance to scholars and this edition, with introduction, will be warmly welcomed. Dr NICHOLAS ORCHARD is Deputy Slide Librarian at the Courtauld Institute of Art.Trade ReviewThe introduction is full of rich and thought-provoking details, which cast new light not just on Ratoldus but on the wider liturgical history of both northern France and England in the tenth-century. The edition which follows is exemplary. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *

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Book SynopsisSecond of two-volume edition of twelfth-century Ordinal from Fécamp, giving a detailed view of monastic liturgy. The abbey of Fécamp, reformed in the early years of the eleventh century by William of Volpiano, abbot of St-Bénigne at Dijon, was a key institution in the development of Norman monasticism in the middle ages. As one of the most energetic monastic reformers of his time, William was noted for the attention he paid to the liturgy of the many abbeys he superintended, and his liturgical cursus was influential in English and continental monastic houses. The Fécamp Ordinal, edited here from a manuscript of the early thirteenth century, but transmitting the liturgy observed in the abbey some two centuries earlier, is the first complete source of William's liturgical work tobe printed. It is expanded by readings from complementary Fécamp service books, creating a text which gives a particularly detailed view of medieval monastic liturgy. The first volume contains the Temporale; this volume contains the remainder of the Ordinal (Sanctorale, Commune Sanctorum and Miscellanea), together with comprehensive indexes. DAVID CHADD teaches in the School of Music at the University of East Anglia.Trade ReviewInvaluable in promoting a deeper understanding of monastic life in [medieval] Normandy. JNL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY One of the most important publications of its kind to have appeared in recent years, [it] assumes a central place in the study of monastic liturgical practice in the Middle Ages.... The result is a sort of super-ordinal hardly, if ever, matched in one medieval manuscript alone. And it is all managed with perfect clarity.... This edition shows that the study of medieval liturgical books is in safe and expert hands. Without doubt [the author] deserves our most sincere congratulations. * PLAINSONG & MEDIEVAL MUSIC *

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Book SynopsisNew edition of, and commentary on, one of the most important liturgical books to have come down to us from the late Anglo-Saxon church. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 579, the so-called 'Leofric Missal', is for the most part not really a missal, but a late-ninth or early-tenth-century combined sacramentary, pontifical and ritual with cues for the sung parts of various masses by the original, possibly French or Lotharingian, scribe. Subsequently, over the course of a hundred and thirty or so years, the sacramentary-pontifical-ritual was considerably augmented, first most probably for thesuccessors of Plegmund, archbishop of Canterbury (890-923), the man for whom it was probably originally compiled, then later at Exeter for Bishop Leofric (1050-72).Trade ReviewA work of tremendous intelligence and discrimination.... An excellent edition and an extremely persuasive account of a complex but central document. * SPECULUM *

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Book SynopsisEnglish translation of a variety of texts from women's books of hours, with introduction, notes, and an interpretive essay. The book of hours is said to have been the most popular book owned by the laity in the later middle ages. Women were often patrons or owners of such books, which were usually illustrated: indeed, the earliest surviving exemplar made in England was designed and illustrated by William de Brailes in Oxford in the mid-thirteenth century, for an unknown young lady whom he portrayed in the book several times. This volume brings together a selection of texts taken from books of hours known to have been owned by women. While some will be familiar from bibles or prayer-books, others have to be sought in specialist publications, often embedded in other material, and a few have not until now been available at all in modern editions or translations. The texts are complemented by an introduction setting the book of hours in its context, an interpretive essay, glossary and annotated bibliography.Trade ReviewHas something of interest to those interested in women writers [.] is also a helpful text for those interested in medieval women readers. * YEAR'S WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES *

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Book SynopsisEnglish translation of a variety of texts from women's books of hours, with introduction, notes, and an interpretive essay. The book of hours is said to have been the most popular book owned by the laity in the later Middle Ages. This volume brings together a selection of texts taken from books of hours known to have been owned by women. While some will be familiar from bibles or prayer-books, others have to be sought in specialist publications, often embedded in other material, and a few have not until now been available at all in modern editions or translations. The texts arecomplemented by an introduction setting the book of hours in its context, an interpretive essay, glossary and annotated bibliography.Trade ReviewHas something of interest to those interested in women writers [.] is also a helpful text for those interested in medieval women readers. * YEAR'S WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES *

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Book SynopsisThe liturgical psalter is one of the most important medieval Christian books and the most frequently and richly illuminated of medieval liturgical manuscripts. In its simplest form the psalter included 150 psalms, preceded by a calendar and followed by the canticles for the daily offices, the litany of saints and collects. This basic structure was very stable throughout the Middle Ages and is found in an overwhelming majority of psalters from different countries. In spite of the similarity of core content, psalters were very variable in their size, decoration, choice of supplementary texts and style of presentation, reflecting the interests and requirements of a wide range of lay and religious patrons. Latin Liturgical Psalters in the Bodleian Library contains descriptions of 111 psalters from Britain, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Italy and Spain, ranging in date from the ninth to the sixteenth century. Each entry includes a description of contents, decoration, physical makeup and provenance, together with a bibliography. The entries are supplemented by comparative tables and indices to assist the study of illumination, manuscript presentation and the liturgical use of the psalms. Full colour images of pages from each of the manuscripts are also included, some of which are reproduced here for the first time. This catalogue brings together important information on a stunning selection of manuscripts held in the Bodleian Library, providing an invaluable resource for scholars.Trade Review'This is a splendid catalog. . . . Solopova is particularly to be congratulated for the precise and careful details she gives enumerating the many textual differences among the psalters and their range of purpose and usage. Important, excellent, and extremely helpful, . . . the impeccable entries demonstrate just how carefully and intelligently this catalog was developed and produced.' -- M. J. Toswell * Speculum *'This is a publication to be celebrated for its inspired vision and rigorous scholarship. . . . The introduction is succinct and lucid, and it provides a useful starting point for anyone new to the study of medieval psalters. . . . [But] the greatest achievement of this catalogue is the detailed yet manageable descriptions of the manuscripts. Many of the articles amount to scholarly articles, with the depth and breadth of research rarely matched.' * TLS *

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Book SynopsisNew edition of a collection of songs and ballads from sixteenth-century Scotland, shedding important new light on the English and Scottish Reformation. The Gude and Godlie Ballatis is a collection of religious lyrics from the early years of the Scottish Reformation. It was a highly popular, if controversial, volume, was often reprinted, and is considered one of the most important literary works of vernacular Scots from the period. It contains translations of a number of Psalms, but most of the contents consist of shorter songs and ballads, many of which have been adapted from a secular to a spiritual use. The previous edition of the collection dates from 1897. The new edition not only revises the information given there, but presents the text of the earliest print (1565), which was unknown to the previous editor. The textual development of the collection through the various printings is studied, and is related to the changing historical, political, literary, cultural and theological contexts of Reformation Scotland. The editor addresses questions of authorship, transmission, source material, and the use and significance of these lyrics. Drawing on recent work in book history and English psalmody, as well as a deep knowledge of Older Scots lyric, he demonstrates the close connections between the collection and Continental hymnody, as well as interactions with English and Scots lyric, both sacred and profane. Alasdair A. MacDonald is Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literatureof the Middle Ages, University of Groningen.Trade ReviewThe GGB was an important and enjoyable publication. So is this compendious new edition of that `compendious buke'. * JOURNAL OF THE EDINBURGH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY *Will be much welcomed by scholars of the Scottish Reformation in particular. * INNES REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction General Witnesses (printed) Witnesses (manuscript) Supposed witnesses Changes in contents Printing history Sources of texts The Wedderburns Textual transfers The archaeology of the collection The GGB and literature Cultural significance The value of 1565 GGB Previous editions Text criticism Early fortunes of the GGB: some hypotheses The language of the GGB Conclusion Treatment of Text Texts Commentary Appendix: The Lamentatioun of a Sinner Indices Glossary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisComprehensive catalogue of the hagiographical lessons in Sarum breviaries, with key studies of the most crucial elements. Sarum Use was the most widely used form of the liturgy in late medieval England, but its service books were much less standardized than their modern counterparts. The lack of uniformity is particularly marked in Sarum breviaries' lessons on saints, which can vary enormously from copy to copy. This book is the first comprehensive examination of those lessons and the manuscripts that preserve them. It provides a catalogue of over 80 manuscripts and 12 early printed versions, giving a brief description of each one, sometimes correcting previous views of its date and provenance, and identifying each copy's divergences from the standard Sarum roster of saints. The book also identifies the textual families into which the manuscripts fall and the extent of their divergence from the lessons in both the early printed versions and the inadequate nineteenth-century edition on which modern scholars have previously depended. The author's findings offer an introduction to the unexpectedly rich variety of hagiographical lessons that survive, identify some of the sources behind them, and shed new light on the ways in which the Sarum breviary developed and was disseminated in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One. Catalogue of the manuscripts and early printed editions Part Two. Three studies A. Key findings on the major textual families B. 'Extra' texts for saints in some manuscripts C. Key findings on liturgical regulation and the dating of these manuscripts Conclusion Appendix I Normal saint-related contents of Sarum breviary T and S, c.1400 Appendix II Extent and kinds of variation in Sarum lessons: The case of St Silvester

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Book SynopsisReligions contribute to wars, but they can also contribute to peace. They are its necessary foundation. Here eight different religions join together in peace to pray for peace. Under the auspices of the interfaith organization, The Week of Prayer for World Peace, they bring home vividly the love that is God and the horror that is war. It is not only inner peace - tranquility of soul and mind - which is being sought here, but an end to agony and bloodshed, physical and psychological torture, abuse of every kind taking place in the world of men, women and children. This is a very practical prayer book, earthed in the pain of being human. Peace itself comes in many different forms, and the book is arranged to be flexible and comprehensive, ideal for individual or group use. It consists of seven weeks of prayer, each of which contains eight "days" of prayers and intercessions on particular themes connected with the overall theme of "Peace on earth and goodwill towards mankind".

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Book Synopsis This is a copy of the original book. In this series, we are bringing old books back into print using our own state-of-the-art techniques. Generally, these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way that the author intended. However, as we are working with old material, so occasionally there may be certain imperfections within the text. We are so pleased to ensure these classics are available again for generations to come.

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Book SynopsisIn the second decade of the sixteenth century medieval piety suddenly began to be attacked in some places as 'idolatry', or false religion. Wherever these ideas became accepted, churches were sacked, images smashed and burned, relics destroyed, and the Catholic Mass abolished. This study calls attention to the centrality of the idolatry issue for the Reformation. It traces the development of Protestant iconoclastic theology and practice, provides a survey and synthesis of its unfolding from Erasmus through Calvin, and lays a foundation for understanding the Reformed ideology that stood in conflict with Catholicism and Lutheranism. Professor Eire's main thesis is that the argument against 'idolatry' was central to Reformed Protestantism, both in its theological aspect and in its political ramifications, and that it reached its fullest and most enduring expression in Calvinism.Trade Review"Eire paints on a large canvas in order to tell for the first time the whole story of iconoclasm...the author has made an important contribution." The Times Literary Supplement"...Eire's lucid synthesis cuts a broad furrow across the intellectual and political terrain of the sixteenth century...specialists and non-specialists alike can find here an interpretation of sixteenth-century history that illuminates what the Reformation meant to its creators and to posterity." Canadian Journal of History"Excellently researched and argued, this book illustrates the clear connection between ideas and action and the significance ofverstehen." Christian Sociologist NewsletterTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The state of lay devotion in the late middle ages; 2. Erasmus as critic of late medieval piety; 3. Early reformers and the question of idolatry; 4. Iconoclasm, revolution, and the reformation in Switzerland and Geneva, 1527–1536; 5. Humanism and reform in France: the seeds of calvinism; 6. John Calvin's attack on idolatry; 7. Calvin against the nicodemites; 8. From iconoclasm to revolution: the political dimensions of the war against idolatry; Conclusion; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis important work engages with a long historical debate: were the earliest Christians under the direction of ordained ministers, or under the influence of inspired laypeople?Trade Review"This is an important, very well organized, clearly argued book." Église et Théologie"This book is a good historical overview of the consensus which has shaped much of our thinking about leadership within churches..." EARL (John Hopkins)"...highly instructive, well documented and very well written....an important contribution to the study of the relationship of Hellenistic synagogue and Church in agenda and organization. The identification of this relationship is a valuable addition to the debate on office in the early Church." Enrique Nardoni, Theological Studies"...lucid and accessible...an original contribution to the age-old and ongoing controversy concerning leadership structures in the initial Christian communities." Priests and People"Professor Burtchaell has written an important book on the origins of ordained ministries....a pleasure to read, even at its most challenging." Gerard S. Sloyan, Worship"In this learned and significant study James Burtchaell, professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, challenges the long standing and often reiterated Protestant 'consensus' positing a discontinuity between church and synagogue." E. Glenn Hinson, Church History"Burtchaell's reading of the history of the debate is...convincing....he correctly challenges the idea that ritual and structure are alien to true religion, suggesting that true religion is also found in the institutional expressions of community, even in Christianity." James C. Hanges, Critical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface; 1. The Reformation: challenge to an old consensus; 2. The nineteenth century: a new consensus is formulated; 3. The early twentieth century: the consensus is disputed; 4. The last fifty years: the consensus restated, rechallenged, reused; 5. A search for a new hypothesis; 6. Jewish community organization in the later Second Temple period; 7. The officers of the synagogue; 8. Community organization in the early Christian settlement; 9. A conclusion; Index auctorum; Index locorum.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive historical treatment of the Latin liturgy in medieval England. Richard Pfaff constructs a history of the worship carried out in churches - cathedral, monastic, or parish - primarily through the surviving manuscripts of service books, and sets this within the context of the wider political, ecclesiastical, and cultural history of the period.Trade Review'This is a very impressive achievement. It is the product of decades of work: reading liturgical manuscripts, discussing them, teaching them. Its strength is not only in many historical insights into the religious culture of medieval England, but in its assured usefulness as an essential reference book for medieval historians of religion, Anglo-Saxonists, historians of music and liturgy. Early Reformation scholars will also find it a necessary tool in evaluating English religious life on the eve of Reformation." Miri Rubin, Queen Mary, University of London'… this book is a valuable and important work … it is commendable in presenting church history as not only led from the top by bishops and cathedrals, but shaped at the bottom by those who used the books." -Church Times"Pfaff's prose is clear, frequently humorous, and free of academic jargon.' Times Literary Supplement"This study of regular formal public worship in England c600-1535 is a work of immense scholarship and the fruit of decades of research." -Jane E.A.Dawson, The Expository Times"a wide-ranging, yet detailed, survey of the liturgy in medieval England approached primarily through surviving liturgical books, written by a scholar of quite exceptionally wide experience of the books and of earlier commentaries on them. Thus it will be a gold mine to the expert liturgiologist...It will also serve as a guide to all medievalists who have to come to terms with liturgical evidence; to them it is an answer to prayer...To cover the whole story in this manner from the age of Bede to the eve of the Reformation in a single volume is a tour de force." -Christopher N. L. Brooke, Speculum"The book will serve for many as a standard reference; its self-contained chapters and ample cross-referencing are designed to facilitate this kind of use... As the first comprehensive survey [of what can be known about liturgical observance in England], the book will be an invaluable resource to many scholars who will be able to avail themselves of Pfaff’s vast knowledge." -Katherine Zieman, Journal of British Studies"[a] magisterial overview… This is the book that it has been Richard Pfaff’s to write, and it has grown out of forty years of work on the primary manuscripts. It should find a hungry audience…it will become the essential work of reference for Medievalists seeking to understand the changing forms of Christian worship in England" -James Willoughby, The Library"Pfaff is to be congratulated on an excellent and informative work which will be an essential companion to medieval liturgical study for many years to come." -Gordon Jeanes, Anaphora"Magisterial is a word often debased by overuse, but one can think of no other characterization for this book, despite its remarkable modesty of tone. It will be teaching medievalists interested in the liturgy for many, many years." -Milton McC. Gatch, Church HistoryTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Early Anglo-Saxon England: a partly traceable story; 3. Later Anglo-Saxon: liturgy for England; 4. The Norman conquest: cross fertilizations; 5. Monastic liturgy, 1100–1215; 6. Benedictine liturgy after 1215; 7. Other monastic orders; 8. The non-monastic religious orders: canons regular; 9. The non-monastic religious orders: friars; 10. Old Sarum: the beginnings of Sarum use; 11. New Sarum and the spread of Sarum use; 12. Exeter: the fullness of secular liturgy; 13. Southern England: final Sarum use; 14. Regional uses and local variety; 15. Towards the end of the story.

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