1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461849403321

Autore

Campbell Jonathan G (Jonathan Goodson), <1964->

Titolo

The exegetical texts [[electronic resource] /] / Jonathan G. Campbell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : T&T Clark, 2004

ISBN

1-283-20073-2

9786613200730

0-567-57329-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (149 p.)

Collana

Companion to the Qumran scrolls ; ; 4

T & T Clark biblical studies

Disciplina

296.1/55

296.155

Soggetti

Electronic books.

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

Introduction -- Scripture and interpretation -- 4QFlorilegium (4Q174) -- 4QCatenae A-B (4Q177, 182) -- 11QMelchizedek (11Q13) -- 4QAges of creation A-B (4Q180-181) -- 4QTanhumim (4Q176) -- 4QTestinomia (4Q175) -- Scripture and interpretation in the exegetical texts.

Sommario/riassunto

Jonathan G. Campbell provides an introduction to eight sectarian manuscripts from among the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls that can loosely be called the 'Exegetical Texts'. He examines their contents, background, genre, and significance and he provides a history of the relevant research. The Exegetical Texts constitute a particularly diverse strand of sectarian compositions among the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls. For this reason, the eight documents are treated in turn in more or less equal measure, with two introductory chapters to set the scene and a conclusion drawing the discussion to a close. Each c



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789602203321

Titolo

The courtesan's arts [[electronic resource] ] : cross-cultural perspectives / / edited by Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-19-772774-3

0-19-517028-8

1-283-05873-1

9786613058737

0-19-977508-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (425 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FeldmanMartha

GordonBonnie <1968->

Disciplina

306.74/2/08621

Soggetti

Courtesans - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-380) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Making a spectacle of her(self) : the Greek courtesan and the art of the present / James Davidson -- Cutting a good figure : the fashions of Venetian courtesans in the illustrated albums of early modern travelers / Margaret F. Rosenthal -- "Notes of flesh" and the courtesan's song in seventeenth-century China / Judith T. Zeitlin -- The courtesan's voice : Petrarchan lovers, pop philosophy, and oral traditions / Martha Feldman -- On hearing the courtesan in a gift of song : the Venetian case of Gaspar Stampa / Dawn De Rycke -- On locating the courtesan in Italian lyric : distance and the madrigal texts of Costanzo Festa / Justin Flosi -- On music fit for a courtesan : representations of the courtesan and her music in sixteenth-century Italy / Drew Edward Davies -- Royalty's courtesans and God's mortal wives : keepers of culture in precolonial India / Doris M. Srinivasan -- The courtesan's singing body as cultural capital in seventeenth-century Italy / Bonnie Gordon -- Defaming the courtesan : satire and invective in sixteenth-century Italy / Courtney Quaintance -- The masculine arts of the ancient Greek courtesan : male fantasy or female self-representation? / Christopher A. Faraone -- The city geisha and their role in modern



Japan : anomaly or artistes? / Lesley Downer -- In the service of the nation : geisha and Kawabata Yasunari's Snow country / Miho Matsugu -- Going to the courtesans : transit to the pleasure district of Edo Japan / Timon Screech -- Who's afraid of Giulia Napolitana?  Pleasure, fear, and imagining the arts of the Renaissance courtesan / Guido Ruggiero -- The twentieth-century "disappearance" of the Gisaeng during the rise of Korea's modern sex-and-entertainment industry / Joshua D. Pilzer -- Female agency and patrilinieal constraints : situating courtesans in twentieth-century India / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi -- Tawa'if, tourism, and tales : the problematics of twenty-first-century musical patronage of North India's courtesans / Amelia Maciszewski.