Storymaking Textual Development And Varying Cultic Centralizations
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Storymaking, Textual Development, and Varying Cultic Centralizations
"How did the use of earlier narrative and legal material within Chronicles and other Second Temple texts illumine instances of unevenness that later interpreters smoothed to a degree but retained in the text? Benjamin D. Giffone shows how community memory existing outside the written texts provided limits on the changes that could be introduced by scribes. Narrativity as a key feature of the texts allowed certain memoires to be retained, framed by various techniques to suit the storymakers' aims." --
My Salvation Is Close at Hand
Author: Benjamin D. Giffone
language: en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date: 2025-02-25
Christians in the West are wondering just how God is at work their world today. North Americans are at a loss to explain why churches that used to be full are now in decline and why older models of evangelism and church growth seem less successful than anticipated. In response, Christians should seek to retrieve the Old Testament basis of their New Testament faith. Isaiah 56–66, sometimes called “Third Isaiah,” belongs to a time when the people of Judea were under Persian rule—things were not as bad as they had been under Babylonian captivity, but not nearly as good as the “halcyon days” of the pre-exilic Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. They wondered why things were not better than they were, given the promises of restoration through other prophets. This book offers careful reflection on Isaiah 56–66 for Christian believers who face similar cultural issues: immigration and diaspora; national decline and an internationalizing setting; how to be faithful in difficult times; family, sexuality, and gender; economics and social justice; and more. Christian readers will explore the roots of their faith through concepts such as the Mosaic law, ritual purity and the sacrificial system, and predictive prophecy.
The Essential Cult TV Reader
Author: David Lavery
language: en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date: 2021-09-15
The Essential Cult TV Reader is a collection of insightful essays that examine television shows that amass engaged, active fan bases by employing an imaginative approach to programming. Once defined by limited viewership, cult TV has developed its own identity, with some shows gaining large, mainstream audiences. By exploring the defining characteristics of cult TV, The Essential Cult TV Reader traces the development of this once obscure form and explains how cult TV achieved its current status as legitimate television. The essays explore a wide range of cult programs, from early shows such as Star Trek, The Avengers, Dark Shadows, and The Twilight Zone to popular contemporary shows such as Lost, Dexter, and 24, addressing the cultural context that allowed the development of the phenomenon. The contributors investigate the obligations of cult series to their fans, the relationship of camp and cult, the effects of DVD releases and the Internet, and the globalization of cult TV. The Essential Cult TV Reader answers many of the questions surrounding the form while revealing emerging debates on its future.