Seeking out the wisdom of the ancients [[electronic resource] ] : essays offered to honor Michael V. Fox on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday / / edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kelvin G. Friebel and Dennis R. Magary

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781317203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Winona Lake, Ind., : Eisenbrauns, 2005
• ISBN: 1-57506-562-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (536 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): TroxelRonald L. <1951->; FriebelKelvin G. <1952->; MagaryDennis Robert <1951->
• Disciplina: 223/.06
• Soggetti: Wisdom literature - Criticism, interpretation, etc
• 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: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Michael V. Fox: A Tribute -- The Publications of Michael V. Fox: Overview and Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Part 1 "Seeking Out Wisdom and Concerned with Prophecies" (Sirach 39:1): Studies in Biblical Texts -- Observations on Ezekiel as a Book Prophet -- The Decrees of Yahweh That Are "Not Good": Ezekiel 20:25-26 -- Ellipsis Involving Negation in Biblical Poetry -- Psalm 18 and 2 Samuel 22: Two Versions of the Same Song -- The Wisdom of Creation in Psalm 104 -- "Come, O Children . . . I Will Teach You the Fear of the Lord" (Psalm 34:12): Comparing Psalms and Proverbs -- A Proverb in the Mouth of a Fool -- Genericity, Tense, and Verbal Patterns in the Sentence Literature of Proverbs -- Word Order in the Book of Proverbs -- Exegetical and Stylistic Analysis of a Number of Aphorisms in the Book of Proverbs: Mitigation of Monotony in Repetitions in Parallel Texts -- Forming "Fearers of Yahweh": Repetition and Contradiction as Pedagogy in Proverbs -- Visual Metaphors and Proverbs 5:15-20: Some Archaeological Reflections on Gendered Iconography -- The Instruction of Amenemope and Proverbs 22:17-24:22 from the Perspective of Contemporary Research -- The Woman of Valor and A Woman Large of Head: Matchmaking in the Ancient Near East -- The Fly and the Dog: Observations on Ideational Polarity in the ; Book of Qoheleth -- A Sense of Timing: A Neglected Aspect of Qoheleth's Wisdom -- The Little Sister and Solomon's Vineyard: Song of Songs 8:8-12 as a Lovers' Dialogue -- Answering Questions, Questioning Answers: The Rhetoric of Interrogatives in the Speeches of Job and His Friends -- Part 2 "Preserving the Sayings of the Famous" (Sirach 39:2): Text, Versions, and Method -- The Mysterious Disappearance of Zerubbabel -- Textual Criticism of the Book of Deuteronomy and the Oxford Hebrew Bible Project -- What's in a Name? Contemporization and Toponyms in LXX-Isaiah -- Characterization in the Old Greek of Job -- On the Influence of Job on Jewish Hellenistic Literature -- Becoming Canon: Women, Texts, and Scribes in Proverbs and Sirach -- Translating Biblical Words of Wisdom into the Modern World -- The Text-Critical Value of the Septuagint of Proverbs -- Christian Aramaism: The Birth and Growth of Aramaic Scholarship in the Sixteenth Century -- Spying out the Land: A Report from Genology -- What's in a Calendar? Calendar Conformity, Calendar Controversy, and Calendar Reform in Ancient and Medieval Judaism -- Competing Commentaries -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture
• Sommario/riassunto: Michael V. Fox, long-time professor in the Dept. of Hebrew and Semitic Studies at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, is known both for his scholarship and his teaching. As the editors of this volume in his honor note, the care and sensitivity of his reading of the Hebrew text are well known, and he lavishes equal attention on his own writing, to the benefit of all who read his work, which now includes the first of two volumes in the Anchor Bible commentary on Proverbs (the next volume is in preparation), as well as monographs on wisdom literature in ancient Israel and elsewhere, and many articles. The rigor that he brought to his own work he also inflicted on his students, and they and a number of his colleagues honor him with their contributions to this volume.Contributors include: Menahem Haran, Kelvin G. Friebel, Cynthia L. Miller, Theron Young, Adele Berlin, William P. Brown, James L. Crenshaw, John A. Cook, Robert D. Holmstedt, Shamir Yona, Christine Roy Yoder, Carol R. Fontaine, Nili Shupak, Victor Avigdor Horowitz, Tova Forti, Richard L. Schultz, J. Cheryl Exum, Dennis R. Magary, Theodore J. Lewis, Sidnie White Crawford, Ronald L. Troxel, Karl V. Kutz, Heidi M. Szpek, Claudia V. Camp, Johann Cook, Leonard Greenspoon, Stephen G. Burnett, Carol A. Newsom, Shemaryahu Talmon, and Frederick E. Greenspahn.The book is organized around themes that reflect Prof. Fox's interests and work: Part 1: "Seeking Out Wisdom and Concerned with Prophecies" (Sir 39:1): Studies in Biblical Texts"; Part 2: "Preserving the Sayings of the Famous" (Sir 39:2): Text, Versions, and Method.

Autobiography and independence : selfhood and creativity in North African postcolonial writing in French / / Debra Kelly [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782400403321
• Autore: Kelly Debra
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2005
• ISBN: 1-78138-616-1; 1-84631-262-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 400 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; ; 2
• Disciplina: 840.9961
• Soggetti: North African literature (French) - History and criticism; Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : a place in the word -- ; 1. Life/writing in the colonial and postcolonial contexts -- ; 2. Mouloud Feraoun : life story, life-writing, history -- ; 3. Albert Memmi : fictions of identity and the quest for truth -- ; 4. Abdelkebir Khatibi : the deciphering of memory and the potential of postcolonial identity -- ; 5. Assia Djebar : history, selfhood and the possession of knowledge -- Conclusion : a place in the world.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book offers an in-depth study of the autobiographical writings of four twentieth-century writers from North Africa, Assia Djebar, Mouloud Feraoun, Abdelkébir Khatibi and Albert Memmi, as they explore issues of language, identity and the individual's relationship to history. The book places these writers in a clearly defined theoretical context, introducing and contextualising each of the four through the application of postcolonial studies and literary theory on autobiography linked to close textual reading of their works. Avoiding both psychoanalytical theory and approaches concerned primarily with the writer's 'testimony value', Kelly concentrates instead on the poetic and literary qualities of each author's work, dwelling on the politics and poetics of identity, as well as the ethics and aesthetics of this literature. She includes clear discussions of key terms such as 'postcolonial', 'Francophone', and 'autobiography', which current academic discourse has rendered very complex and even opaque. The book includes a ; fascinating photograph of two stone tablets inscribed with Punic and Numidian scripts, now held in the British Museum, which Assia Djebar writes about at length in one of the texts studied in the book.