Ancient Bible Interpretation and its Legacies: Politics, Literature, and Heresy offers a sweeping exploration of the evolving role of Bible interpretation from ancient times to modernity, revealing its profound impact on religious, political, litera...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003699378)
By focusing on the construction of various kinds of masculinities in early Christian texts, both biblical and extra-biblical, and by showcasing a number of examples of the reception of such texts in the construction and discussion of masculinities,...Loe edasi...
Bringing together scholars from across the world, this publication shows Christians and Muslims individually or together reading the canonical Gospels of the New Testament in conversation with Islamic texts and contexts....Loe edasi...
The Environment of Compassion explores questions of what it means to be in relationship to nature, if and how it is a religious experience, and how understanding humans as part of nature alters theology....Loe edasi...
Analysing the thirty-four surviving manuscript copies, this book studies the way the text was transcribed, the notes that readers made in the margins, and the contexts in which it was copied....Loe edasi...
Eurocentrism, Quranic Translation and Decoloniality contributes to the understanding of Eurocentrism in Translation Studies and engages with the concept through the lens of scholarship on Arabic and Quran translation....Loe edasi...
This book features detailed analysis of an ancient secret scroll from the Middle East known as the Rivers Scroll or Diwan Nahrawatha, providing valuable insight into the Gnostic Mandaean religion....Loe edasi...
The Quran between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic is one of the few book-length studies on an Ottoman Quran commentary. Its premise is that the Ottoman Empire did not come to an end until 1950 so far as Islam was concerned in Turkey....Loe edasi...
Exploring the complex relationship between scriptural texts and real-world acts of violence, this book an essential read for students and academics studying religion and violence, Abrahamic religions, or scriptural interpretation....Loe edasi...
Refractions of the Scriptural is a transdisciplinary collection of essays that seeks to construct a new field of scholarly inquiry with scriptures as a fraught category, analytical wedge, and site for excavation and problematization. The book focuse...Loe edasi...
This book is the first to present current scholarship on gender and in regional and sectarian versions of the Rmyaa. Through the analysis of the representation and treatment of female characters, narrative inventions, structural design, textual vari...Loe edasi...
Charging Steeds or Maidens Performing Good Deeds: In Search of the Original Qurn brings an important contribution to understanding the development of the Qurnic corpus....Loe edasi...
This second edition of a popular introduction to the holy book of Islam includes an essential updated reference guide, including a chronology of the revelation, links to internet resources, and suggestions for further reading....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2014, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199359561)
Aysha A. Hidayatullah offers the first comprehensive examination of contemporary feminist Quranic interpretation, exploring its dynamic challenges to Islamic tradition and contemporary Muslim views of the Quran....Loe edasi...
This study of the Quran arises from an interest in a pressing contemporary issue, the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims (the Ummah and the Other). This text explores how the Quran comments on this relationship as it changed in the cou...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Aug-2013, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199975419)
MisReading America presents original research on and conversation about reading formations in American communities of color, using the phenomenon of the reading of scriptures--scripturalizing--as analytical wedge....Loe edasi...
This sourcebook presents more than sixty new translations of key Islamic texts. Edited and translated by leading specialists it illustrates the growth of Islamic thought from its seventh-century origins to the end of the medieval period....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Jan-2012, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199783175)
Ruth Langer offers an in-depth study of the birkat haminim, a Jewish prayer for the removal of those categories of human being who prevent the messianic redemption and the society envisioned for it. In its earliest form, the prayer cursed Christians...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2011, Kirjastus: OUP India, ISBN-13: 9780198070740)
This book examines the entire range of sacred literature produced between the sixteenth- and nineteenth century to give a comprehensive account of Sikhism. Dealing with the historical evolution of the Sikh tradition, it discuss issues like self-imag...Loe edasi...
This is a study of one of the most important works of medieval commentary on the Quran which is still in use today, and an exploration of the nature of scriptural interpretation in Islam....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Feb-2011, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198068679)
The Buddha and his Dhamma presents B.R. Ambedkars review and analysis of the vast Buddhist canon and literature. This is the first critical edition of the book published posthumously in 1957. Besides a new Introduction, it includes footnotes and a...Loe edasi...
This book explains Quran translational problems and provides a thorough account of the unique syntactic, semantic, phonetic, prosodic, pragmatic, and rhetorical features of the Quran....Loe edasi...
This book relates the Muslim understanding of Moses in the Quran to the Epic of Gilgamesh, Alexander Romances, Aramaic Targums, Rabbinic Bible exegesis, and folklore from the ancient and medieval Mediterranean....Loe edasi...
This text summarises and critiques the major positions on the issue of the authenticity of traditions (hadiths) which claim to preserve the words and deeds of Muhammad and early Muslim scholars in general and exegetical hadiths in particular....Loe edasi...
Quranic exegesis has become the battleground of political Islam and theological conflict among various Muslim schools of thought. Using comparative and contrastive methodology, examples from the Quran are investigated in the light of various theolo...Loe edasi...
A comprehensive study of the Quranic data about each prophet and a history and study of the general Muslim literature dealing with the prophets....Loe edasi...
Designed for both Muslims and Western non-Muslim students this introduction examines the Quran in Western scholarship and provides an overview of its rich interpretive traditions....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jan-2008, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110204094)
After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (19212007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. The series he founded for that purpose, Studia Judai...Loe edasi...
In this volume A.J. Arberry explains the qualities of the Koran which have made it acceptable to so many people. The selections have been chosen and arranged to illustrate the religious and ethical message of the Koran. The volume was originally pub...Loe edasi...
The Quran is the prime possession of Muslims: how then, are they reading and understanding their sacred Book today? This volume, originally published in 1985 examines eight writers from India, Egypt, Iran and Senegal....Loe edasi...
This book makes the Quran accessible to the English-speaking student who lacks the linguistic background to read it in the original Arabic by offering accessible translations of, and commentary on, a series of selected passages that are representat...Loe edasi...
This is the first work available in English which addresses Zhuangzis thought as a whole. It presents an interpretation of the Zhuangzi, a book in thirty-three chapters that is the most important collection of Daoist texts in early China....Loe edasi...
This is one of the first texts to examine the influential writer al-Ghazalis (1058-1111) interpretations of the Quran. The book explores not only particular interpretations, but also his hermeneutical methods, shedding light on both how an important...Loe edasi...
Containing newly translated writings, this unequalled study of the Sufi Quranic commentaries examines their hermeneutical assumptions and views on text, knowledge and interpretation as well as the variety of styles found within their commentaries....Loe edasi...
Quran plays a central role in Islam and ever since it appeared, has been the subject of debate. This work presents this diversity of thought, approach and school without priority, and provides students and researchers with information covering all...Loe edasi...
Teachings of the Sikh Gurus: Selections from the Scriptures presents a brand new selection of key highlights from the Guru Granth Sahib and Dasam Granth, translated into modern English by two leading experts....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2004, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110892765)
This commentary on the Greek text of the Jewish-Hellenistic Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides, a sapiential poem of the first century BCE or first century CE, offers a full treatment of its sources, structure, perspective, and purpose as well as a vers...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Aug-2004, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110919264)
After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (19212007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. The series he founded for that purpose, Studia Judai...Loe edasi...
Hadith is understood here as the bulk of the texts which contain information on Muhammad and his Companions, having the form of transmissions from them. The reliability of this material as a source for Islam is a highly debated issue. This text pr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-May-2004, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195150674)
Presents a collection of essays, which argue that Zen Buddism actually has a rich and varied literary heritage. Among the significant texts are hagiographic accounts and recorded sayings of individual Zen masters, koan collections and commentaries,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2004, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195168327)
While the standard version of the Ramayana is a 14th-century Sanskrit text by Valmiki, the diversity and adaptability of this narrative are extraordinary. In this volume, fourteen leading Ramayana scholars examine the epic in its myriad contexts t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Mar-2004, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199267125)
In third-century CE Palestine, the leading members of the rabbinic movement put together a treatise entitled Tractate Avot. With an effort to situate Avot within the socio-political and intellectual context of the Graeco-Roman Near East, this book p...Loe edasi...
This text presents an accessible translation of the Vivekacudamani and also includes Upanisadic cross-referencing to most of its 580 verses, extensive notes, a lengthy introduction, list of variant readings, an extensive bibliography and an index...Loe edasi...
