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Raymond Holden, Jr.
No full textB&W; 200dpi TIFFA portrait of Raymond Holden, Jr., the son of the author of the Alma Mater. Dr. Holden made an estate gift to endow the Raymond F. Holden, Sr. Scholarship in Science in honor of his father. This digital file was provided by the Holden family in 2009 and may only be used for purposes of promotion of Kalamazoo College, with permission from the family. See PDF correspondence file
Deuteronomy and Environmental Amnesia
No full textModern Westerners suffer from environmental amnesia, our failure to remember properly our intimate connections to the places in our lives and to the other inhabitants of these places, both human and non-human. Although environmental amnesia may be the underlying diagnosis of our contemporary ecological problems, in Deuteronomy and Environmental Amnesia Raymond Person argues that environmental amnesia has roots in ancient Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization, and that ancient forms of environmental amnesia are evident in the book of Deuteronomy. Raymond Person combines the ecological hermeneutics of the Earth Bible project for the first time with an emerging approach in environmental philosophy--that is, environmental hermeneutics which draws significantly from the works of Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas and Ricoeur. As he explores the presence of ancient forms of environmental amnesia in Deuteronomy, he draws extensively from other approaches to the ancient Near East and the Bible that emphasize the interactions between material culture and text and that take seriously the Other as portrayed in the Bible, especially household archaeology, zooarchaeology, feminist approaches, and postcolonial approaches. His analysis discovers not only forms of environmental amnesia that the Deuteronomic school suffered from and promoted ideologically, but also partial remedies for forms of ancient environmental amnesia in some of the Deuteronomic legislation. His reflection on environmental amnesia and its partial remedies in the text of Deuteronomy provides insights into our modern forms of environmental amnesia and how we may begin to lessen its effects on the Earth community. Between the introduction and conclusion, the volume contains two parts. The first part consists of chapters on how environmental amnesia exists in various themes in Deuteronomy: the family household, land versus wildreness, Israel versus the nations, clean versus unclean animals, and urban versus rural. The second part is somewhat more like a traditional commentary, focusing on themes in selected passages, including herem in Deut. 7.1-26, the sabbath year in Deut. 15.1-18, war in Deut. 20.1-20, first-fruits and the third-year tithe in Deut. 26.1-19, and eschatology in Deut. 28.1-68 and 30.1-2
In Conversation with Jonah Conversation Analysis, Literary Criticism and the Book of Jonah
No full textThe author analyses the various conversations that occur between the characters in the Jonah narrative and the 'conversation' that occurs between the text and its readers. The study opens with an introduction to the field of conversation analysis, with a focus on one feature of conversation analysis-that a fundamental structure in the organization of language is adjacency pairs (for example, question/answer and invitation/refusal). Person notes how complex the adjacency pairs in the Jonah narrative are, and shows how they contribute to the narrative elements of plot, characterization, atmosphere and tone. He then refines reader-response theory (especially that of Wolfgang Iser) and provides a reader-response commentary on the book. The study ends with an analysis of the history of the interpretation of the book of Jonah, demonstrating how the structures of adjacency pairs in the narrative have been successfully and unsuccessfully interpreted.Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 CONVERSATION ANALYSIS AND NARRATIVE -- 1. Conversation Analysis -- 2. From 'Ordinary' Conversation to Narrated Conversation -- 3. Summary -- Chapter 2 COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF JONAH FROM A CONVERSATION ANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE -- 1. Translation -- 2. Commentary -- 3. Conclusion: The Use of Adjacency Pairs in the Jonah Narrative -- Chapter 3 NARRATIVE IN THE BOOK OF JONAH -- 1. Plot in the Jonah Narrative -- 2. Character in the Jonah Narrative -- 3. Atmosphere in the Jonah Narrative -- 4. Tone in the Jonah Narrative -- 5. Conclusion: The Jonah Narrative -- Chapter 4 READING THE JONAH NARRATIVE: THE IMPLIED READER -- 1. The Implied Reader: Interaction between Text and Reader -- 2. Principles Guiding the Interaction between Text and Reader -- 3. Who is the Implied Reader of the Jonah Narrative? -- 4. The Implied Reader of Jonah Reads his Narrative -- Chapter 5 READING THE JONAH NARRATIVE: ACTUAL READERS -- 1. The (Almost) Universal Recognition of Jonah's Omitted Refusal (1.3 -- 4.2) -- 2. Omitted Dialogue other than Jonah's Account -- 3. The Narrator's Satirical Tone -- 4. Flashback (4.1-11) -- 5. Conclusions Concerning the Interaction between the Text and Actual Readers -- Chapter 6 CONCLUSION -- Appendix 1 THE EXPLAINING AND HEIGHTENING OF JONAH'S ACCOUNT (4.2) -- Appendix 2 JONAH'S OMITTED ANSWER TO THE LORD'S LAST QUESTION (4.10-11) -- Bibliography -- Index of References -- Index of Authors -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- ZThe author analyses the various conversations that occur between the characters in the Jonah narrative and the 'conversation' that occurs between the text and its readers. The study opens with an introduction to the field of conversation analysis, with a focus on one feature of conversation analysis-that a fundamental structure in the organization of language is adjacency pairs (for example, question/answer and invitation/refusal). Person notes how complex the adjacency pairs in the Jonah narrative are, and shows how they contribute to the narrative elements of plot, characterization, atmosphere and tone. He then refines reader-response theory (especially that of Wolfgang Iser) and provides a reader-response commentary on the book. The study ends with an analysis of the history of the interpretation of the book of Jonah, demonstrating how the structures of adjacency pairs in the narrative have been successfully and unsuccessfully interpreted.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
From Grammar in Everyday Conversation to Special Grammar in Oral Traditions: A Case Study of Ring Composition
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A Rolling Corpus and Oral Tradition: A Not-So-Literate Solution to a Highly Literate Problem
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Review of Yvonne Sherwood, A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives: The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture
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