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Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd The Woman of Courage
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Crony Trading Ltd The Book of the Branch
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Start2finish Books Ecclesiastes from Start2Finish
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Digital Ink Productions Septuagint Job
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Digital Ink Productions Septuagint Psalms and the Prayer of Manasseh
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Brill The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English (Second Edition)
Book SynopsisThis text contains a translation of the non-biblical Dead Sea Scrolls and contains commentaries on these texts.
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Brill Reading the Human Body: Physiognomics and Astrology in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Hellenistic-Early Roman Period Judaism
Book SynopsisThis study deals with physiognomic and astrological texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls that represent one of the earliest examples of ancient Jewish science. For the first time the Hebrew physiognomic-astrological list 4Q186 (4QZodiacal Physiognomy) and the Aramaic physiognomic list 4Q561 (4QPhysiognomy ar) are comprehensively studied in relation to both physiognomic and astrological writings from Babylonian and Greco-Roman traditions. New reconstructions and interpretations of these learned lists are offered that result in a fresh view of their sense, function, and status within both the Qumran community and Second Temple Judaism at large, showing that Jewish culture in Palestine participated in the cultural exchange of learned knowledge between Babylonian and Greco-Roman cultures.
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Brill The Late Medieval Hebrew Book in the Western Mediterranean: Hebrew Manuscripts and Incunabula in Context
Book SynopsisThis collection takes the Hebrew book as a focal point for exploring the production, circulation, transmission, and consumption of Hebrew texts in the cultural context of the late medieval western Mediterranean. The authors elaborate in particular on questions concerning private vs. public book production and collection; the religious and cultural components of manuscript patronage; collaboration between Christian and Jewish scribes, artists, and printers; and the impact of printing on Iberian Jewish communities. Unlike other approaches that take context into consideration merely to explain certain variations in the history of the Hebrew book from antiquity to the present, the premise of these essays is that context constitutes the basis for understanding practices and processes in late medieval Jewish book culture.Table of ContentsA Note on Transliteration and the Use of Foreign Languages Acknowledgements Introduction, Javier del Barco Section 1. Producing and Circulating Manuscripts Commissioned and Owner-Produced Manuscripts in the Sephardi Zone and Italy in the Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries, Malachi Beit-Arié Immigrant Scribes’ Handwriting in Northern Italy from the Late Thirteenth to the Mid-Sixteenth Century: Sephardi and Ashkenazi Attitudes toward the Italian Script, Edna Engel Studia of Philosophy as Scribal Centers in Fifteenth-Century Iberia, Colette Sirat Jewish Book Owners and Their Libraries in the Iberian Peninsula, Fourteenth–Fifteenth Centuries, Joseph R. Hacker Section 2. Conceptualizing the Hebrew Book Inscribing Piety in Late-Thirteenth-Century Perpignan, Eva Frojmovic The Scholarly Interests of a Scribe and Mapmaker in Fourteenth-Century Majorca: Elisha ben Abraham Benvenisti Cresques’s Bookcase, Katrin Kogman-Appel Le‘azim in David Kimhi’s Sefer ha-shorashim: Scribes and Printers through Space and Time, Judith Kogel Section 3. Crossing Linguistic and Religious Boundaries Fifteenth-Century Castilian Translations from Hebrew Literature, Sonia Fellous The Artist of the Barcelona Haggadah, Evelyn Cohen Quotations, Translations, and Uses of Jewish Texts in Ramon Martí’s Pugio fidei, Philippe Bobichon Section 4. Printing in Hebrew on the Eve of the Iberian Expulsion Unknown Sephardi Incunabula, Shimon M. Iakerson What Do We Know about Hebrew Printing in Guadalajara, Híjar, and Zamora?, Adri K. Offenberg Techne and Culture: Printers and Readers in Fifteenth-Century Hispano-Jewish Communities, Eleazar Gutwirth
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Brill Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings
Book SynopsisHebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings offers a new perspective on Judaism, Christianity and Islam as religions of the book. Their problematic relation seems to indicate that there is more that divides than unites these religions. The present volume will show that there is an intricate web of relations between the texts of these three religious traditions. On many levels readings and interpretations intermingle and influence each other. Studying the multifaceted history of the way Hebrew texts were read and interpreted in so many different contexts may contribute to a better understanding of the complicated relation between Jews, Christians and Muslims. These studies are dedicated to Dineke Houtman honouring her work as professor of Jewish-Christian relations.
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Brill Masters of Psalmody (bimo): Scriptural Shamanism in Southwestern China
Book SynopsisIn Masters of Psalmody (bimo) Aurélie Névot analyses the religious, political and theoretical issues of a scriptural shamanism observed in southwestern China among the Yi-Sani. Her focus is on blood sacrifices and chants based on a secret and labile writing handled only by ritualists called bimo. Through ethnographic data, the author presents the still little known bimo metaphysics and unravels the complexity of the local text-based ritual system in which the continuity of each bimo lineage relies on the transmission of manuscripts whose writing relates to lineage blood. While illuminating the usages of this shamanistic tradition that is characterized by scriptural variability between patrilineages, Aurélie Névot highlights the radical changes it is undergoing by becoming a Chinese state tradition.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Illustrations and Tables Notes to the Reader Introduction 1 Countercurrent Writing: Myths and Blood Lineages in Question Introduction: Yi-centrism versus Han-centrism 1 A Direction of Writing Contrary to Chinese Writing 2 Writing as a Mirrored Avatar and/or as an Expression of a Distinction of Identity? 3 “The Language of the Eyes” 4 Apparent Anarchy, Lineage Lability Conclusion: a Lineage Shamanistic Tradition 2 The Textual Chants of Bimo: Voicing the Written Space Introduction: Graphical Melodies 1 To Meow, to Screech like a Falcon, to Quack like a Wild Duck, to Utter the Chant of the Snake/Dead 2 To Write Then to Psalmodize: Becoming Bimo 3 Invisible Characters, Voice in Completion, Subtle Speech 4 Writing as a Psalmodic Chimera 5 The Written Reflexivity of Bimo Speech Conclusion: the Acoustic Life of Bimo Writing 3 The Physicality of Bimo Books: the Manuscript as a Psalmodic Mask Introduction: Manuscript as a Persona 1 The Space of the Book 2 A Canvas of Writing-Blood 3 Mountain-book, Hillside-pages 4 Facing “Two Cheeks” Conclusion: the Feminine of Writing 4 The Bimo’s Bookish Journey: to Walk through Chanted Lines of Writing Introduction: Bimo Transhumances and Shamanistic Spatialities 1 To Ride, to Walk on Four Hands, to Whirl, to Flow 2 Parallelisms 3 A Concatenation of Textual Chant Conclusion: the Writing, Visible, as Access to the Vocalized Invisible Space 5 Bimo Ritual, nyi: Sacrificial Transsubstantiality Introduction: Blood Sacrifices 1 Setting Up the Ritual Framework 2 “To Build the Center” 3 To Become a mo (Sacrificial Animal) 4 “The Sacrificial Animal’s Speech” Conclusion: Bloods 6 Achema: the Yi-Sani Apologue for the Art of Speaking Introduction: Vocal Co-Dehiscence and Social Reconfiguration 1 The Primacy of Speech 2 Chema: from Snake-Woman to Dead-Woman 3 The Mastery of Speech as a Social Issue, the Art of Speaking as Performance 4 To Imitate Nature’s Babble Conclusion: Voices Echo 7 Bimo Religion as Intangible Cultural Heritage: the Process of Standardizing Writings and Chants Introduction: “Bimo Religion” bìmó jiào 毕摩教 1 Bimo Qualification Certificate 2 From “Blood” to “Image” 3 Current Policies as Rooted in the 19th Century 4 To Rewrite: to Restructure the Writing Pages 5 From Lineage Writings to the Yi Writing of the Stone Forest County 6 From the Secrets of Initiated Men to State Secrets? 7 Bimo Music and Chants as Institutions of the Chinese State Conclusion: Se in the Process of Becoming wén? An Ongoing Shamanistic Schism Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Acro Valle In the Beginning
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Seminit Publications Analyser Léducation du Travail dans Cantique des Cantique
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Infinite Verse The Things That Were There
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Independently Published Psalm 25
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Daily Wisdom
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Independently Published The Book of Hezekiah
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Independently Published Gospel Hub
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Independently Published Righteousness
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Dalcassian Publishing Company Poems
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Mandala Publishing Group Ganesha Goes to Lunch: Classics From Mystic India
Book SynopsisKing Kubera was the greediest man in the world. Hated and feared by many, he schemed to win the love of the beautiful goddess Parvati . . . but learned an important lesson when he invited her elephant-headed son Ganesha over for lunch one day . . . So goes one of the many delightful tales in this decidedly grown-up book of traditional Indian stories, retold for the modern reader. Author Kamla Kapur is well known in her native India as a poet and playwright, and her connection to these age-old stories is the reverent yet individualistic one we might expect from someone whose introduction tells of her hometown, where naked, dreadlocked holy men speed about on motorbikes. To collect these stories, Kapur relied on ancient sacred texts, modern scholarship, and chance encounters with interesting people who just happened to know a really good one about this time that Vishnu sank into the ocean, was incarnated as a pig, and had a really wonderful time. Like myths around the world, these are teaching stories that offer both a window into a fascinating culture that has endured for thousands of years, and a code for living that can be applied to the modern world.
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Equinox Publishing Ltd How and Why Books Matter: Essays on the Social
Book SynopsisReligious and secular communities ritualize some books in one, two, or three dimensions. They ritualize the dimension of semantic interpretation through teaching, preaching, and scholarly commentary. This dimension receives almost all the attention of academic scholars. Communities also ritualize a text’s expressive dimension through public reading, recitation, and song, and also by reproducing its contents in art, theatre and film. This dimension is receiving increasing scholarly attention, especially in religious studies and anthropology. A third textual dimension, the iconic dimension, gets ritualized by manipulating the physical text, decorating it, and displaying it. This dimension has received almost no academic attention, yet features prominently in the most common news stories about books, whether about e-books, academic libraries, rare manuscript discoveries, or scripture desecrations. By calling attention to the iconic dimension of books, James Watts argues that we can better understand how physical books mediate social value and power within and between religious communities, nations, academic disciplines, and societies both ancient and modern. How and Why Books Matter will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in books, reading, literacy, scriptures, e-books, publishing, and the future of the book. It also addresses scholarship in religion, cultural studies, literacy studies, biblical studies, book history, anthropology, literary studies, and intellectual history.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Iconic Books Project 1. How Books Matter: Three Dimensions of Scriptures 2. Iconic Books and Texts 3. Relic Texts 4. Iconic Digital Texts: How Ritual Makes `Virtual' Texts Material 5. Desecrated Scriptures and the News Media 6. Ancient Iconic Texts 7. Rival Iconic Texts: Ten Commandments Monuments and the U.S. Constitution 8. Book Aniconism: The Codex, Translation and Beliefs about Immaterial Texts 9. Mass Literacy and Scholarly Expertise 10. Why Books Matter: Preservation and Disposal
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Equinox Publishing Ltd Miniature Books: The Format and Function of Tiny
Book SynopsisMiniature books, handwritten or printed books in the smallest format, have fascinated religious people, printers, publishers, collectors, and others through the centuries because of their unique physical features, and continue to captivate people today. The small lettering and the delicate pages, binding, and covers highlight the material form of texts and invite sensory engagement and appreciation. This volume addresses miniature books with a special focus on religious books in Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The book presents various empirical contexts for how the smallest books have been produced, distributed, and used in different times and cultures and also provides theoretical reflections and comments that discuss the divergent formats and functions of books.Table of ContentsReligious Miniature Books: Introduction and Overview Kristina Myrvold and Dorina Miller Parmenter Chapter 1: Ritualizing the Size of Books James W. Watts, Syracuse University Chapter 2: On the Functions of Miniaturizing Books in Jewish Religion Marianne Schleicher, Aarhus University Chapter 3: Words in a Nutshell: Miniaturizing Texts in Early Modern England Lucy Razzall, University College London Chapter 4: Small Things of Greatest Consequence: Miniature Bibles in America Dorina Miller Parmenter Chapter 5: Diminutive Divination and the Implications of Scale: A Miniature Quranic Falnama of the Safavid Period Heather Coffey, OCAD University, Canada Chapter 6: Mite Qurans for Indian Markets: David Bryce in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Kristina Myrvold Chapter 7: Miniature Qurans in the First World War: Religious Comforts for Indian Muslim Soldiers Kristina Myrvold and Andreas Johansson, Lund University Chapter 8: Size Matters! Miniature Mushafs and the Landscape of Affordances Jonas Svensson, Linnaeus University Chapter 9: Gitamahatmya! Paratexts in Miniature Bhagavad Gitas with Special Reference to Pictures and Gender Jon Skarpeid, University of Stavanger, Norway Chapter 10: Sutras Working in Buddha’s Belly and Buddhists’ Pockets: Miniature Sutras in Korean Buddhism Yohan Yoo and Woncheol Yun, both at Seoul National University
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Equinox Publishing Ltd Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings
Book SynopsisHuman cultures, especially religious groups but also secular artists and performers, often ritualize bodies as sacred books and books as divine beings. An international team of scholars addresses this theme of books as sacred beings in this volume through an impressively diverse range of primary material and perspectives. These studies show the wide variety of ways in which books, bodies, and beings intermingle in material sacred texts manipulated by human bodies, and also in literary and artistic depictions of transcendent textual bodies. The boundary between material immanence and spiritual transcendence turns out to be very thin indeed when people use books. The chapters on specific book practices in different cultures are bracketed by an introduction to the collection and by a concluding essay that extrapolates on the widespread theme of books as sacred beings.Table of Contents1. Introduction James W. Watts 2. Performing Scriptures: Ritualizing Written Texts in Seolwi-seolgyeong, the Korean Shamanistic Recitation of Scriptures Yohan Yoo 3. Embodying the Qu’ran Katharina Wilkens, LMU Munich 4. Sacred Texts and the Digital Turn: Reflections on Scriptures as Material Objects in a Liminal Age Brad Anderson, Dublin City University 5. Being the Bible: Sacred Bodies and Iconic Books in Bring Your Bible to School Day Dorina Miller Parmenter, Spalding University 6. Body Building in the Hindu Tantric Tradition: The Advantages and Confusions of Scriptural Entextualization in the Worship of the Goddess Kali Rachel McDermott, Barnard College and Columbia University 7. Saints’ Lives as Performance Art Virginia Burrus, Syracuse University 8. Aspiring Narratives of Previous Births: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Written and Visual Media in Ancient Gandhara Jason Neelis, Wilfrid Laurier University 9. Daoist Writs and Scriptures as Sacred Beings: With a Focus on Cosmological Meaning Jihyun Kim, Seoul National University 10. Books as Sacred Beings James W. Watts
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Equinox Publishing Ltd Iconic Books and Texts
Book SynopsisThis volume is the first comprehensive survey of iconic books and texts tracing their development and influence from ancient to modern times and comparing their roles in multiple cultures and religious traditions. All twenty-two essays are original, cutting-edge contributions to this new academic field with wide appeal to students and scholars across the study of religions, literature, book history, archives and libraries.Table of ContentsJames W. Watts, Introduction Part 1: Categorizing Iconic Books JAMES W. WATTS (Syracuse) The Three Dimensions of Scriptures WILLIAM A. GRAHAM (Harvard) 'Winged Words': Scriptures and Classics as Iconic Texts DEIRDRE C. STAM (Long Island) Talking about 'Iconic Books' in the Terminology of Book History Part 2: Images and Texts DORINA MILLER PARMENTER (Spalding) The Iconic Book; The Image of the Bible in Early Christian Rituals MICHELLE BROWN (London) Images to be Read and Words to be Seen: the Iconic Role of the Early Medieval Book S. BRENT PLATE (Hamilton) Looking at Words: The iconicity of the Page ZE'EV ELITZUR (Ben-Gurion) Between the Textual and the Visual: Borderlines of Late Antique Book Iconicity JACOB KINNARD (Iliff) It is what it is (or is it?): Further Reflections on the Buddhist Representation of Manuscripts M. PATRICK GRAHAM (Emory) The Tell-Tale Iconic Book: The Hermeneutics of 16th Century Biblical Illustrations Part 3: Materials & Markets NATALIA SUIT (UNC Chapel Hill) Mushaf and the Material Boundaries of the Qur'an TIMOTHY BEAL (Case Western) The End of the Word as We Know It: The Cultural Iconicity of the Bible in the Twilight of Print Culture DORINA MILLER PARMENTER (Spalding) Iconic Books From Below: The Christian Bible and the Discourse of Duct Tape SHAWN LONER (Syracuse) Be-Witching Scripture: The Book of Shadows as Scripture within Wicca/Neopagan Witchcraft Part 4: Book Rituals KRISTINA MYRVOLD (Lund) Engaging with the Guru: Sikh Beliefs and Practices of Guru Granth Sahib JOANNE PUNZO WAGHORNE (Syracuse) A Birthday Party for a Sacred Scripture: The Gita Jayanti and the Embodiment of God as the Book YOHAN YOO (Seoul) Possession and Repetition: Ways in which Korean Lay Buddhists Appropriate Scriptures BRIAN MALLEY (Michigan) The Bible in British Folklore Part 5: Power & Scholarship KARL IVAN SOLIBAKKE (Syracuse) The Pride and Prejudice of the Western World: Canonic Memory, Great Books and Archive Fever PHILIP P. ARNOLD (Syracuse) Indigenous 'Texts'of Inhabiting the Land: George Washington's Wampum Belt and the Canadaigua Treaty JASON LARSON (Bates) The Gospels as Imperialized Sites of Memory in Late Ancient Christianity CLAUDIA CAMP (TCU) Possessing the Iconic Book: Ben Sira as Case Study JAMES W. WATTS (Syracuse) Ancient Iconic Texts and Scholarly Expertise
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Enitharmon Press Daodejing
Book Synopsis"so both thrive both discovering bliss-real power is female it rises from beneath" These 81 brief poems from the 5th century BCE make up a foundational text in world culture. In elegant, simple yet elusive language, the Daodejing develops its vision of humankind's place in the world in personal, moral, social, political and cosmic terms. Martyn Crucefix's superb new versions in English reflect - for the very first time - the radical fluidity of the original Chinese texts as well as placing the mysterious 'dark' feminine power at their heart. Laozi, the putative author, is said to have despaired of the world's venality and corruption, but he was persuaded to leave the Daodejing poems as a parting gift, as inspiration and as a moral and political handbook. Crucefix's versions reveal an astonishing empathy with what the poems have to say about good and evil, war and peace, government, language, poetry and the pedagogic process. When the true teacher emerges, no matter how detached, unimpressive, even muddled she may appear, Laozi assures us "there are treasures beneath".
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Gruyter, Walter de GmbH Eastern Christians Engagement with Islam and the
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Theologischer Verlag Vom Frohlichen Hans Und Dem Heiligen Franz: Die
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Verlag Herder Psalmen 1 - 50
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Verlag Herder Jesaja 55-66
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Verlag Herder Freiheit Kommt Von Innen: In Der Lebensschule Der
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Verlag Herder Gott Glauben - Judisch, Muslimisch, Christlich
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Brill Schoningh Judith Butler and Theology
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V & R Unipress GmbH Ist Gott größer als der Himmel
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Theologischer Verlag Zurcher Bibel
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The University of Chicago Press Rethinking the Mahabharata A Readers Guide to the
Book SynopsisEmploying a range of theories, the author draws on historical and comparative research in an attempt to discern the spirit and techniques behind the Mahabharata epic. He focuses on Yudhisthira's education, and shows how this figures relationships with others provides a thread through the stories.
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The University of Chicago Press The Talmud of the Land of Israel V 28 Baba Qamma
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The University of Chicago Press The Talmud of the Land of Israel V 29 Baba Mesia
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The University of Chicago Press The Talmud of the Land of Israel V 30 Baba Batra
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The University of Chicago Press The Talmud of the Land of Israel V 31 Sanhedrin
Book SynopsisEdited by the acclaimed scholar Jacob Neusner, this thirty-five volume English translation of the Talmud Yerushalmihas been hailed by the Jewish Spectator as a project...of immense benefit to students of rabbinic Judaism.
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The University of Chicago Press Emergency
Book SynopsisNine short essays exploring the K'iche' Maya story of creation, the Popol Vuh. Written during the lockdown in Chicago in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, these essays consider the Popol Vuh as a work that was also written during a time of feverish social, political, and epidemiological crisis as Spanish missionaries and colonial military deepened their conquest of indigenous peoples and cultures in Mesoamerica. What separates the Popol Vuh from many other creation texts is the disposition of the gods engaged in creation. Whereas the book of Genesis is declarative in telling the story of the world's creation, the Popol Vuh is interrogative and analytical: the gods, for example, question whether people actually need to be created, given the many perfect animals they have already placed on earth. Emergency uses the historical emergency of the Popol Vuh to frame the ongoing emergencies of colonialism that have surfaced all too clearly in the global health crisis of COVID-19. In Trade Review"A work concerned with multiplicity. . . . Garcia’s Emergency is a reorientation, a shift in perspective, while recognizing there is no such thing as a return to originality nor to a specific origin point. What if origin is a weaving, a constant wearing of stories and timetables, perpetual changes and cyclical advantages?" * Cleveland Review of Books *“Garcia contributes a penetrating and eloquent exposition of a unique document of the indigenous Americas. He shows how the Popol Vuh extends our understanding of oppression and ecological ruin in our time.” -- Alphonso Lingis, author of Irrevocable: A Philosophy of Mortality“In this brilliant exegesis, Garcia reveals the Popol Vuh as a living document, a dialogical story of creation crafted in conditions of colonial emergency, which still bears urgent relevance today. Consisting of a series of short and lyrical essays on a wide range of topics, Emergency is a thought-provoking commentary essential for anyone who engages with this foundational text.” -- Claudia Brittenham, author of The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico“I would like to believe that the exquisite tapestry of this book, which weaves together history, myth, philosophical reflection, and literary criticism, heralds a new era of poetic scholarship in the humanities (‘poetic’ in Vico’s sense). We are in need of this kind of imaginative reanimation of our academic vocation.” -- Robert Pogue Harrison, author of Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our AgeTable of ContentsBirds Wealth Caves Television Demons Migrations Love The Sun Mormons Afterword References Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Mahabharata Volume 1 Book 1 The Book of the
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The University of Chicago Press The Mahabharata Volume 2 Book 2 The Book of
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Columbia University Press The Lotus Sutra
Book SynopsisA translation of "The Lotus Sutra" which has been regarded as one of the illustrious scriptures in the Mahayana Buddhist canon.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Expedient Means 3. Simile and Parable 4. Belief and Understanding 5. The Parable of the Medicinal Herbs 6. Bestowal of Prophecy 7. The Parable of the Phantom City 8. Prophecy of Enlightenment for Five Hundred Disciples 9. Prophecies Conferred on Learners and Adepts 10. The Teacher of the Law 11. The Emergence of the Treasure Tower 12. Devadatta 13. Encouraging Devotion 14. Peaceful Practices 15. Emerging from the Earth 16. The Life Span of the Thus Come One 17. Distinctions in Benefits 18. The Benefits of Responding with Joy 19. Benefits of the Teacher of the Law 20. The Bodhisattva Never Disparaging 21. Supernatural Powers of the Thus Come One 22. Entrustment 23. Former Affairs of the Bodhisattva Medicine King 24. The Bodhisattva Wonderful Sound 25. The Universal Gateway of the Bodhisattva Perceiver of the World's Sounds 26. Dharani 27. Former Affairs of King Wonderful Adornment 28. Encouragements of the Bodhisattva Universal Worthy
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University of California Press A Concordance of the Quran
Book SynopsisSuitable for those who have no command of the Arabic language and yet desire to understand the Qur'an, this title utilizes the semantic structure of Arabic vocabulary in revealing the meaning of the Qur'an on given issues, points or concepts.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Abbreviations Table of Transliterations Introduction A. The Qur'an: An Introductory Comment B. How to Use the Concordance C. The Language of the Qur'an Appendix: A Numerical and Chronological List of the Chapters of the Qur'an The Concordance --The Divine Name (Allah)--100 pages --The Remaining Vocabulary of the Qur'an--1250 pages The Index I. Terms Associated with the Divine Name 2. A. Divine Attributes 2. B. Proper Nouns 2. C. General Index
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Harvard University Press Uttararcika
Book SynopsisThe Samaveda contains the earliest tradition of music from India. It presents largely Rigvedic textual material in a form arranged for singing in the solemn Srauta ritual. This edition is based on manuscripts collected from all over India and Europe. B. R. Sharma presents the accented text, its Padapa?ha, and commentaries.
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Harvard University Press Recitational Permutations of the Saunakiya
Book SynopsisThis is a critical edition of the Kramapatha and Jatapatha forms of recitational permutations of sections of the Saunakiya Atharvaveda available in six rare manuscripts found in Pune, India. As these variations are no longer available in the surviving oral tradition in India, the texts provide rare access.
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