1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910713736603321

Titolo

Estimated use of water in North Dakota in 1985 and trends during 1960-85 / / by Edwin A. Wesolowski ; prepared by U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with North Dakota State Water Commission

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Bismarck, N.D.] : , : [U.S. Geological Survey], , 1991

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (7 maps on 1 sheet) : color

Collana

Water-resources investigations report ; ; 89-4003

Soggetti

Water use - North Dakota

Water consumption - North Dakota

Water-supply - North Dakota

Water consumption

Water-supply

Water use

Maps.

North Dakota

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale cartografico a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Divided into sections on supply, demand, and distribution.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes text, table, diagram, eighteen graphs, and bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782241403321

Autore

Shields Mary E

Titolo

Circumscribing the prostitute [[electronic resource] ] : the rhetorics of intertextuality, metaphor and gender in Jeremiah 3.1-4.4 / / Mary E. Shields

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : T&T Clark, c2004

ISBN

1-281-80242-5

9786611802424

0-8264-3536-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 387

Disciplina

224

224.206

224/.206

Soggetti

Rhetoric in the Bible

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 INTERTEXTUALITY AS ALLUSION: A FIRST READING OF JEREMIAH 3.1-5; Chapter 2 GENDER CONSTRUCTION AND INTERTEXTUALITY OF CULTURE: A SECOND READING OF JEREMIAH 3.1-5; Chapter 3 JEREMIAH 3.6-11: A NARRATIVE INTERPRETATION OF JEREMIAH 3.1-5; Chapter 4 JEREMIAH 3.12-13: THE IMPOSSIBLE MADE POSSIBLE; Chapter 5 JEREMIAH 3.14-18: A MODEL FOR THE FUTURE; Chapter 6 JEREMIAH 3.19-20: SET AMONG THE SONS-ISRAEL AS FAITHLESS DAUGHTER; Chapter 7 JEREMIAH 3.21-25: A LITURGY OF REPENTANCE; Chapter 8 JEREMIAH 4.1-4: THE REQUIREMENTS FOR RETURN

Chapter 9 NEW SIGHTS FROM AN OLD SEER: RHETORICAL STRATEGIES AND JEREMIAH 3.1-4.4Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

In Jeremiah 3.1-4.4 the prophet employs the image of Israel as God's unfaithful wife, who acts like a prostitute. The entire passage is a rich and complex rhetorical tapestry designed to convince the people of Israel of the error of their political and religious ways, and their need to change before it is too late. As well as metaphor and gender, another



important thread in the tapestry is intertextuality, according to which the historical, political and social contexts of both author and reader enter into dialogue and thus produce different interpretations. But, as Shields shows in her final