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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
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‘Who is the Gael who Would Not Weep?’: The Book of the O’Conor Don, Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, and Late Bardic Poetry of Exile

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
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"Mesjańskie fragmenty" Biblii hebrajskiej w przekładzie Tanach Izaaka Cylkowa

Colloquia Theologica Ottoniana, 2017
In this article we will present how Isaac Cylkow, a representative of Progressive Judaism, reflects and comments on selected Messianic prophecies in his translation of the Hebrew Bible into Polish. The first point will be presented a short description of
Piotr Goniszewski
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Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia

, 2021
Esperanza Alfonso, J. D. Barco
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The Pedagogy of the Pentateuch: The Undergraduate Classroom at a Large State University

Teaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to the three questions suggested for this symposium on the pedagogy of the Pentateuch, I focus here less on what we teach and instead emphasize the values within our discipline. Students need to learn how to read the Bible as part of the humanities: as the work of thinkers who were reflecting on their place in the world and ...
Bernard M. Levinson
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The Prophet and Divine Manifestation: On the Translation of the Word “Prophet” in the Shona Union Bible

Old Testament Essays, 2017
The translators of the Shona Union Bible of 1950, which happens to be the commonly used version of the Bible among the Shona of Zimbabwe, did not translate the word “prophet”. Instead, they chose to transliterate it.
Lovemore Togarasei
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Re-Examining Israelite Patriarchy through Marriage Laws of Deuteronomy

Spectrum, 2019
The book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible contains an extensive list of laws, from cultic regulations to laws addressing everyday affairs. As a legal collection, it can be observed as a symbol of practices and values of the ancient Israelites (the ...
Hyun-Joo Lim
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Expanded Sample Syllabus for Introduction to Hebrew Bible by David Carr

, 2021
David M. Carr
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Teaching the Pentateuch: Challenges and Opportunities

Teaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What are best practices for teaching the Pentateuch and the Hebrew Bible more broadly? How can we introduce students to ways of reading biblical texts that are eye‐opening, empowering, and accessible? In this paper, I explore some of the challenges and opportunities that we face as biblical studies professors, and I profile a handful of ...
Sara Milstein
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