Bringing the Hidden to Light: The Process of Interpretation : Studies in Honor of Stephen A. GellerKathryn F. Kravitz, Diane M. Sharon Geller is Irma Cameron Milstein Professor of Bible at Jewish Theological Seminary. Geller's attention to language and interest in applying the methods of literary analysis to the Hebrew Bible are reflected in his work throughout his career. He has addressed such topics as "The Dynamics of Parallel Verse" in Deuteronomy 32, the "Language of Imagery in Psalm 114," and the literary uses of "Cleft Sentences with Pleonastic Pronoun." Combining a historical orientation with deep exegeses of individual texts, he has focused on the contribution that the literary approach might make to the study of biblical religion. He has developed what he terms a "literary theology," in which, by examining the literary devices in the passage under consideration, he has been able to formulate emerging religious ideas that the ancient writers did not express in systematic treatises. His method is illustrated in his studies of texts that represent the major religious traditions of the Hebrew Bible; these studies have been collected in Sacred Enigmas, published in 1997. The essays in this volume were contributed by colleagues, friends, and students of Stephen A. Geller to mark the occasion of his 65th birthday. Contributors include: Tzvi Abusch, Marc Z. Brettler, Alan Cooper, Frank Moore Cross, Stephen Garfinkel, Edward L. Greenstein, Robert A. Harris, S. Tamar Kamionkowski, Kathryn F. Kravitz, Anne Lapidus Lerner, David Marcus, Yochanan Muffs, Benjamin Ravid, Michael Rosenbaum, Raymond P. Scheindlin, William M. Schniedewind, Diane M. Sharon, Benjamin D. Sommer. |
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... metaphors and meaning. Any interpretation of such a long and complex myth can only focus on a lim- ited line of thought. Thus, I do not claim exclusivity for my interpretation, for surely there are many aspects of the text that I have ...
... metaphors — family meta- phors . God is a father , a punitive father who fears his own children ; he is afraid of being supplanted and abandoned . He wishes to keep humans depen- dent and weak . God fears that if humans become strong ...
... metaphor for God's need for humanity is food, an image which is, in fact, the basic theme in the Mesopotamian mate- rial. Thus, God recognizes that not only need he not fear man but actually he requires his existence. P Source Let us ...
... metaphor that allows us a fuller and more concrete appreciation of God's be- havior in P and of the image of ... metaphor that I suggest for understanding P's account, a metaphor that allows our story to cohere, is Biblical Accounts of ...
... metaphor that allows our story to cohere, is that of a parent who absents himself and leaves his children in charge, with the mandate to be adults: reproduce and rule the earth. He is a parent who creates children and leaves them before ...