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Paratexts and the Reception History of the Apocalypse [PDF]
Abstract Biblical scholarship usually engages with reconstructed texts without taking into account the form and material culture of the manuscripts that transmit the texts used in reconstruction. This article examines the influence of paratexts on biblical studies and reception history, using the book of Revelation as a test case, in an ...
Allen, Garrick V., Allen, Garrick
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Joyce’s Exiles: A Reception History
Exiles — James Joyce’s lone extant play — has been the subject of scholarly neglect for the past century, with scholars dooming it as an Ibsenian knockoff and “a wholly bad play” (Kenner, 9). I suggest that we look at Exiles in a wholly different context,
Alex Benoit
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“But Noah found favor in the sight of yhwh” (Genesis 6, 8): the Biblical Noah in context
The Biblical Flood narrative is part of Israel’s so-called primeval history as narrated in the book of Genesis (Gen 6–9). However, this story about Noah, a human hero and his family, who are saved by God from a devastating flood – sent by the deity ...
Hans Ausloos
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Entanglements in Legal History [PDF]
"Legal History presents a broad panorama of historical processes that trigger theoretical reflections on legal transfers and legal transplants and on the problem of the reception and assimilation laws and other modes of normativity. In this volume, legal
Castro, Fernández +17 more
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In the Traces of Modernism: William Faulkner in Swedish Criticism 1932–1950
This article focusses the reception of William Faulkner in Sweden from the first introduction in 1932 until the Nobel Prize announcement in 1950. Through reviews, introductory articles, book chapters, forewords, and translations, the critical evaluation ...
Mats Jansson
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The article advocates a new approach to the Qur’an: To look at the text as a transcript of the earliest community’s intervention into major debates of its time.
Angelika Neuwirth, Dirk Hartwig
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Old English Enigmatic Poems and Their Reception in Early Scholarship and Supernatural Fiction
The scholarly reception history of the Old English riddles and adjacent “enigmatic poems” of the Exeter Book reveals a long process of creating intelligibility and order out of a complicated and obscure manuscript context.
Patrick Joseph Murphy
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Intimations of Revelation 19–21 in the Early North African Christian Communities
The purpose of this article is to provide a survey of the interpretation of Revelation 19–21 in the early North African Christian communities (II–III century).
Vercesi Martina
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Jonah in 20th Century Literature
The biblical book of Jonah has been the subject of multiple literary retellings, ranging from individual poems to whole novels and theatrical dramas. This article focuses on interaction with the book of Jonah in 20th-century world literature, where Jonah
Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
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VII Summer Readings in Darovoye [PDF]
The article presents an overview of the seventh edition of Darovoe Summer Readings, held in Zaraysk (Moscow region), and in Dostoevsky’s estate in the village of Darovoe.
Vladimir A. Victorovich +1 more
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