Dieu éducateur: Une novelle approche d'un concept de la by Patrick Pouchelle

From Feasting To Fasting: The Evolution of a Sin

During this hugely unique learn, Veronika Grimm discusses early Christian texts facing foodstuff, consuming and fasting. modern-day consuming issues frequently equate foodstuff with sin and spot fasting as an try to regain purity, an perspective which could even be saw in early Christian ideals within the mortification of the flesh.

Procrustes Problems (Oxford Statistical Science Series)

Procrustean tools are used to remodel one set of information to symbolize one other set of information as heavily as attainable. The identify derives from the Greek fable the place Procrustes invited passers-by in for a delightful meal and a night's relaxation on a paranormal mattress that may precisely healthy any visitor. He then both stretched the visitor at the rack or bring to an end their legs to lead them to healthy completely into the mattress.

Character Complexity in the Book of Ruth (Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe)

Kristin Moen Saxegaard demonstrates how personality complexity is portrayed within the previous testomony, exemplified through the publication of Ruth. each one personality within the tale has its particular voice which increases a specific subject; Naomi publicizes her bitterness, Boaz is the merry personality, Ruth stresses that she is a foreigner, and Yahweh is silent.

For Wisdom's Sake: Collected Essays on the Book of Ben Sira (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft)

This selection of 24 essays displays broader developments of analysis on Ben Sira some time past 20 years. the writer isn't just excited about the advanced textual difficulties of the booklet, but additionally with what gentle should be shed on it via the applying of techniques from cultural and feminist stories. She examines, for instance, the gender theamtic, the use of metaphorical language, and the problem of smell and body spray within the textual content of Ben Sira.