Oral and Manuscript Culture in the Bible: Studies on the Media Texture of the New Testament--Explorative Hermeneutics 9781620325407, 9781621895169

The Formation of the Medieval West: Studies in the Oral Culture of the Barbarians

This book is the first extensive study of the oral culture in the early medieval West. Access to this culture is inevita

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Studies in the Manuscript Tradition of the Tragedies of Sophocles

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Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric: The Texture of Political Action 9781782387473

This volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic elements of the global social order emerging in the

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New Studies in the Manuscript Tradition of Njáls saga: The historia mutila of Njála 9781580443067, 9781580443050

Njáls saga is the best known and most highly regarded of all medieval Icelandic sagas and it occupies a special place in

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The New Visibility of Religion: Studies in Religion and Cultural Hermeneutics 9781472549471, 9781847061317, 9781847061324

Since the late 1980s sociologists have been drawing our attention to an international surge in the public visibility of

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Divining the Woman of Endor: African Culture, Postcolonial Hermeneutics, and the Politics of Biblical Translation (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 644) 9780567673671, 9780567673688, 0567673677

An examination of the language of divination in the Hebrew Bible, particularly in 1 Samuel 28:3-25-the oft-called “Witch

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New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair 9781478023708

Through close readings of slave narratives, scrapbooks, travel illustration, documentary film and photography, as well a

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The Digital Plenitude: The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media 9780262039734, 0262039737

How the creative abundance of today's media culture was made possible by the decline of elitism in the arts and the

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The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives (Manuscript Culture in the British Isles, 7) [y First ed.] 1903153654, 9781903153659

Fresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief compendiums of literature in the Middle English period.

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A More Perfect Torah: At the Intersection of Philology and Hermeneutics in Deuteronomy and the Temple Scroll (Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible) 9781575062594, 1575062593

The historical-critical method that characterizes academic biblical studies too often remains separate from approaches t

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