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 Free Download Eric F. Mason, "With Gentleness and Respect: Pauline and Petrine Studies in Honor of Troy W. Martin " English | ISBN: 9042942746 | 2020 | 451 pages | PDF | 2 MB This volume honors Troy W. Martin and his thirty years of fruitful scholarship in New Testament and related disciplines. Sixteen studies by an international group of scholars explore texts and themes prominent in Martin's own research in the Pauline letters and 1 Peter. Two articles consider rhetorical criticism of Galatians (David E. Aune, A. Andrew Das); four examine key passages and themes in Romans (Laurie J. Braaten, P. Richard Choi, Charles H. Cosgrove, and Mark F. Whitters); five explore issues of interpretation and reception of other Pauline texts (Christopher Forbes, George Lyons, Clare K. Rothschild, Todd D. Still, D. Francois Tolmie); and five address exegetical and rhetorical matters in 1 Peter (Jenny L. DeVivo, Eric F. Mason, Nancy Pardee, Russell B. Sisson, Duane F. Watson). The volume also includes a biographical tribute (Avis Clendenen and Jenny L. DeVivo), an annotated bibliography of Martin's academic publications (Teresa J. Calpino), and indices (compiled by Najeeb T. Haddad).
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 Free Download B Baert, "The Weeping Rock: Revisiting Niobe Through 'Paragone', 'Pathosformel' and Petrification " English | ISBN: 9042942029 | 2020 | 125 pages | PDF | 3 MB Publius Ovid (43 BC-17/18 AD) describes in his Metamorphoses Niobe's transformation into a weeping rock. Niobe's transformation incorporates the form and matter of the medium of sculpture. According to the humanist paragone debate, painting and sculpture struggle to be the medium with the highest qualities of virtuosity. Aby Warburg (1866-1929) refers to the Niobe motif's Nachleben in his Tafel 5: Beraubte Mutter. (Niobe, Flucht und Schrecken). This displays the images of both the bereaved mother (Niobe) and the murderous mother (Medea). The montage also introduces the theme of the descent to the underworld. It becomes clear how the cluster of motifs around the figure of Niobe - hybris, lamentatio and the chthonic substrate - functions as a direct entry to a bipolar hermeneutics of the visual medium: the 'historical psychology of human expression' that navigates between Apollo and Dionysus. The 'weeping rock' that according to legend still stands on Mount Sipylus in Turkey, draws upon deeper anthropological patterns. Petrification indicates inertia, frigidity and a Medusan psychosis of fear. In nature, stones and rocks have a 'slumbering insistence' that can be captivating. Stones are after all visible but impenetrable, they index an irrevocable absence in their presence, and 'have abode' in an otherworldly region of utter blindness and silence. From a psychoanalytical perspective, Niobe's petrifaction symbolises the straitening of her life and the loss of anima within a culture divorced from authentic feeling, nature, and instinct. Here Niobe meets Echo.  Free Download The Use and Abuse of Stories: New Directions in Narrative Hermeneutics by Mark P. Freeman, Hanna Meretoja 2023 | ISBN: 0197571026 | English | 392 pages | True PDF | 22 MB Narrative practice has come under attack in the current "post-truth" era. In fact, many associate "narrative hermeneutics"-the field of inquiry concerned with reflection on the meaning and interpretation of stories-directly with this putative movement beyond truth.
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