Early Writings: Creed, Scripture, Church (SCE&S / PML Book by Mario Di Gangi,Joseph C. McClelland

From Feasting To Fasting: The Evolution of a Sin

During this hugely unique examine, Veronika Grimm discusses early Christian texts facing nutrients, consuming and fasting. modern-day consuming problems frequently equate nutrition with sin and notice fasting as an try and regain purity, an angle that could even be saw in early Christian ideals within the mortification of the flesh.

Procrustes Problems (Oxford Statistical Science Series)

Procrustean equipment are used to remodel one set of knowledge to symbolize one other set of knowledge as heavily as attainable. The identify derives from the Greek fantasy the place Procrustes invited passers-by in for a delightful meal and a night's relaxation on a paranormal mattress that will 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Kristin Moen Saxegaard demonstrates how personality complexity is portrayed within the outdated testomony, exemplified via the e-book of Ruth. each one personality within the tale has its particular voice which increases a specific subject; Naomi pronounces 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 tendencies of analysis on Ben Sira some time past 20 years. the writer isn't just curious about the complicated textual difficulties of the e-book, but in addition with what gentle will be shed on it by means of the appliance of ways from cultural and feminist reviews. She examines, for instance, the gender theamtic, the use of metaphorical language, and the problem of odor and perfume within the textual content of Ben Sira.