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Oxford University Press, USA Word and Supplement Speech Acts Biblical Texts and the Sufficiency of Scripture
Book SynopsisWhat are Christians saying when they call the Bible the Word of God? This book tackles such questions by bringing post-modern theory into critical dialogue with the doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture. It constructs 'the sufficiency of Scripture' as both a concept and a doctrine which must remain central to Christian theology and practice.Trade ReviewWard's work merits reading and discussion among both academic and pastoral theologians. * SCottish Journal of Theology *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. Development and Decline ; 3. The Sufficiency of Divine Speech ; 4. The Sufficiency of the Text ; 5. The Sufficiency of the Canon ; 6. Conclusion
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint
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Pennsylvania State University Press Continental Philosophy in Feminist Perspective
Book SynopsisA collection of essays by leading feminist writers from Austria, Germany and Switzerland that represent the range of feminist critique ongoing within this important area of continental philosophy. The introduction puts the essays in context and shows what makes their contribution distinctive.Trade Review“Herta Nagl-Docekal’s and Cornelia Klinger’s long-awaited anthology brings together in translation some of the leading feminist philosophers in the German-speaking countries. Despite the increasing ‘internationalization’ of feminist philosophy, in fact it is Anglo-American and French feminists who have won the battles for translation. This book is an important counterbalance to this tendency, and another step toward creating an international dialogue among feminist philosophers. The articles exemplify the strengths derived from a critical engagement with German philosophy. They reflect critically both on canonical texts in Western philosophy, as well as on positions that have become canonical in feminist philosophy.”—Robin Schott,University of Copenhagen
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Yale University Press Hermeneutics as Politics
Book SynopsisA critique of postmodern thought, reissued in a special 15th anniversary edition. In a new foreword, Robert Pippin argues that the work has rightfully achieved the status of a classic, and he seeks to illuminate the underpinnings of postmodernist thought.Trade Review"Perhaps the most original and philosophically important critical account of hermeneutics - of its philosophical status and historical development - to appear since Gadamer's Truth and Method." Choice "A philosophical polemic of the highest order written in a language of unfailing verve and precision... It will repay manyfold the labour of a slow and considered reading." J. M. Coetzee, Upstream
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Zondervan A CourseGuide for Grasping Gods Word
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Zondervan Reading Hebrews in Context
Book SynopsisStudy Hebrews in its Second Temple ContextFollowing the proven model established in Reading Romans in Context, Reading Mark in Context, and Reading Revelation in Context, this book brings together a series of accessible essays that compare and contrast the theology and hermeneutical practices of the book of Hebrews with various early Jewish literature.Going beyond an introduction that merely surveys historical events and theological themes, this textbook examines individual passages in Second Temple Jewish literature in order to illuminate the ideas and emphases of Hebrews'' varied discourses. Following the rhetorical progression of Hebrews, each chapter in this textbook: pairs a major unit of Hebrews with one or more sections of a thematically related Jewish text introduces and explores the historical and theological nuances of the comparative text shows how the ideas in the comparative text illumi
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Zondervan Modern Genre Theory
Book SynopsisHow a better understanding of genre leads to a better understanding of the biblical text.The Bible, with its gloriously rich diversity of ancient genres, demands a flexible and historically aware approach to genre. Different conceptions of narrative, poetry, gospel, epistle, wisdom, and apocalyptic texts lead to vastly different readings, and our disagreements about what the Bible means often boil down to different assumptions about what the biblical text is. As secular genre theory has experienced a recent renaissance, biblical studies has been left in the dark ages of rigid taxonomies and stubborn essentialism.The Bible deserves better.This book offers students in biblical studies an accessible but comprehensive introduction to modern genre theory, providing access to literary tools for understanding how writers and readers use genre to make meaning.Modern Genre Theory describes the current state of biblical genre theory (as we
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Zondervan The Complete Literary Guide to the Bible
Book SynopsisA Complete Literary Guide to the Bible is consideration of the Bible from a literary perspective, reflecting contemporary interest in the academic world of the Bible as literature. This collection of essays addresses both specific books of the Bible and general topics dealing with the Bible. The four main sections of the book are; The Bible as Literature, The Literature of the Old Testament, The Literature of the New Testament, and The Literary Influence of the Bible.The editors for A Complete Literary Guide to the Bible are Leland Ryken and Tremper Longman III. Contributors include: Fredrick Buechner, Novelist John Sailhamer, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Wilson G. Baroody, Arizona State University William F. Gentrup, Arizona State University Kenneth R.R. Gros, Louis Indiana University Willard Van Antwerpen, Indiana University Nancy Tischler, The Pennsylvania State University Mic
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Zondervan NIV Application Bible Personal Size Leathersoft PinkGray Red Letter Thumb Indexed Comfort Print
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Zondervan NIV Application Bible Large Print European Bonded Leather Black Red Letter Indexed Comfort Print
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Zondervan NIV Application Bible Large Print Leathersoft Brown Red Letter Thumb Indexed Comfort Print
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Zondervan NIV Application Bible Large Print Leathersoft PinkGray Red Letter Thumb Indexed Comfort Print
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Zondervan NIV Quest Study Bible Large Print Bonded Leather
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Zondervan Niv Quest Study Bible Large Print Leathersoft
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Zondervan NIV Application Bible Leathersoft TealGrey Red Letter Thumb Indexed Comfort Print
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Zondervan NIV Application Bible Genuine Leather Calfskin Black Red Letter Comfort Print
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Zondervan NIV Application Bible Large Print Leathersoft Teal Red Letter Comfort Print
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Zondervan NIV Application Bible Large Print Leathersoft Teal Red Letter Thumb Indexed Comfort Print
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Mark D. Ball Tragoedia Macbethi
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iUniverse MUTT CONTAY SAW About French And English In New England
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Translating Words Translating Cultures Classical Interfaces
Book SynopsisLorna Hardwick is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open Unversity.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Interpreting Classical Texts Duckworth Classical Essays
Book SynopsisMalcolm Heath is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. His publications include The Poetics of Greek Tragedy (1987), Political Comedy in Aristophanes (1987), Unity in Greek Poetics (1989) and Hermogenes on Issues (1995).
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Destiny Image Discovering the Miracle of the Scarlet Thread in Every Book of the Bible A Simple Plan for Understanding the Bible
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University of Ottawa Press They Divided the Sky
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Thomas Nelson Publishers ESV MacArthur Study Bible 2nd Edition Leathersoft
Book SynopsisJohn MacArthur''s exhaustive study notes provide access to over 50 years of ministry to aid in a better understanding of God''s word.Over 4 million readers around the world have had their spiritual lives enriched and their understanding of God’s Word expanded by The MacArthur Study Bible. Drawing on more than fifty years of dedicated pastoral and scholarly work, Dr. John MacArthur’s verse-by-verse study notes, book introductions, and articles display an unparalleled commitment to interpretive precision—with the goal of making God known through His Word.Trusted by readers worldwide, the MacArthur Study Bible has been recognized with the ECPA Platinum Award for selling over 4 million copies across translations.Features include: Fully redesigned second edition with updated study notes and expanded selection of maps and charts Bible book i
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Oxford University Press Inc Newman and Gadamer
Book SynopsisThomas K. Carr examines the religious epistemology of John Henry Newman alongside the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer. The two writers are found to cover a surprising amount of common ground: They make similar claims, and they fall into similar errors. A critical examination of four of Newman''s leading ideas -- first principles, antecedent probability, doctrinal development, and the illative sense -- are compared with such Gadamerian themes as self-understanding, Bildung, projection, tradition, and the fusion of horizons. Carr concludes with a constructive proposal that applies a Newman-Gadamer synthesis to questions about knowledge of God.
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Springer Parallel Text Processing Alignment and Use of Translation Corpora 13 Text Speech and Language Technology
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RosettaBooks Close to the Sun
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University of Hawai'i Press Found in Translation
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Vanderbilt University Press Invisible Work
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Vanderbilt University Press Invisible Work
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Vida Publishers Hermenéutica
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Vida La lectura eficaz de la Biblia cuarta edicion
Book SynopsisEn un lenguaje claro y sencillo, La lectura eficaz de la Biblia te ayuda a comprender con precisión las distintas partes de la Biblia – su significado para las audiencias antiguas y sus implicaciones para ti hoy – de modo que puedas descubrir la inagotable riqueza de la Palabra de Dios.Más de medio millón de personas han recurrido a La lectura eficaz de la Biblia para comprender la Biblia en toda su plenitud. Esta tercera edición presenta una serie de revisiones importantes de acuerdo con los más recientes estudios académicos, los nuevos recursos y los cambios culturales. Las actualicaziones incluyen: lenguaje actualizado un nuevo prefacio del autor una renovación completa de varios capítulos para facilitar su lectura una lista actualizada de recursos útiles y comentarios recomendados
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Scripture Truth Publications The Tabernacles Typical Teaching
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Esperanto-Asocio de Britio Traduku
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Barfield Press UK History Guilt and Habit
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Barfield Press UK What Coleridge Thought
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Parallel World Books The Rise of Mystery Babylon The Way of Cain Part 1
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Cambridge University Press Fundamentals of Translation
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Cambridge University Press Multiscriptal English in Transliterated
Book SynopsisIn this monograph, ''multiscriptal English'' is theorised. Unorthodox and unconventional this may sound, a salient sociolinguistic reality is emerging globally. That is, while standardised English (Roman script) is routinely taught and used, English in superdiverse, multilingual, and/or (post)colonial societies is often camouflaged in local scripts and ''passes off'' as local languages in these places'' linguistic landscapes through transliteration (at lexical, phrasal and sentential levels). To illustrate, documentary evidence from Arabic, Malay (Jawi), Nepali, Urdu, Tamil, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Thai, etc. is presented. Through inter-scriptal rendition, English is glocalised and enshrined in seemingly ''exotic'' scripts that embody different socio-political and religious worldviews. In the (re)contextualisation process, English inevitably undergoes transformations and adopts new flavours. This gives English a second life with multiple manifestations/incarnations in new contexts. This points to the juggernaut of English in our globalised/neoliberal world. The existence of multiscriptal English necessitates more coordinated and interdisciplinary research efforts going forward.
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Cambridge University Press Hypertranslation
Book SynopsisHypertranslation refers to a vast and virtual field of mobile relations comprising the interplay of signs across languages, modes, and media. In hypertranslation, the notions of source/target, directionality, and authenticity are set in perpetual flow and flux, resulting in a many-to-many interactive dynamic. Using illustrations drawn from a wide range of literary and artistic experiments, this Element proposes hypertranslation as a theoretical lens on the heterogeneous, remediational, extrapolative, and networked nature of cultural and knowledge production, particularly in cyberspace. It considers how developments in artificial intelligence have led to an expansion in intersemiotic potentialities and the liquidation of imagined boundaries. Exploring the translational aspects of our altered semiotic ecology, where the production, circulation, consumption, and recycling of memes extend beyond human intellect and creativity, this Element positions hypertranslation as a fundamental condition of contemporary posthuman communication in Web 5.0 and beyond.
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