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Biblical Literacy And The Creative Mind, Michael Farrell
Biblical Literacy And The Creative Mind, Michael Farrell
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Biblical Literacy and the Creative Mind will explore interpretation tracing the history of English literature back to biblical aspirations and its continued profound influence on Western human perspectives. It will examine the decline in adults reading literary texts and the diminishing number of English majors among prospective students. I am arguing for poetic interpretations over hermeneutic ones, which analyze what is structurally in a sentence to make a reader feel a certain way. I will use the theory of intertextuality, meaning a text comprises the consumption of past texts, to aid my argument. This theory underscores the importance of celebrated …
The Word According To Flannery O'Connor, Eamon Maher
The Word According To Flannery O'Connor, Eamon Maher
Articles
In her relatively short life (1925-1964), one that was greatly curtailed as a result of being diagnosed with lupus (a disease from which her father also died in 1952), Flannery O’Connor managed to leave behind a literary legacy that continues to fascinate scholars and general readers alike. This is all the more surprising when one considers that the work consists of just two novels, Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960), along with 31 short stories.
The Hero And His Temptress : A Re-Analysis Of The Ancient Near Eastern Expression Of The K2111 "Potiphar's Wife Motif" In Light Of Judges 16, Alison K. Hawanchak
The Hero And His Temptress : A Re-Analysis Of The Ancient Near Eastern Expression Of The K2111 "Potiphar's Wife Motif" In Light Of Judges 16, Alison K. Hawanchak
ATS Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Beyond Comparison : A Process For Comparing Israelite And Ancient Near Eastern Literature, Brian Thomas Shockey
Beyond Comparison : A Process For Comparing Israelite And Ancient Near Eastern Literature, Brian Thomas Shockey
ATS Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Retelling The Classics: The Harlem Renaissance, Biblical Stories, And Black Peoplehood, Mina Magalhaes
Retelling The Classics: The Harlem Renaissance, Biblical Stories, And Black Peoplehood, Mina Magalhaes
Celebration of Learning
Applying social identity theory to the process of creating peoplehood can illustrate the positive power that literature has in uplifting marginalized communities by showing their worth. James Weldon Johnson’s “The Creation” and Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain, both composed during the Harlem Renaissance, offer one way to create Black peoplehood by creating depictions of God’s love for His Black people through the repurposing of biblical stories. Through the implementation of social identity theory to Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain and Johnson’s “The Creation,” I argue that these two authors addressed the need among African Americans to …
Understanding The Devil: A Comparative Examination Of Dead Souls, The Master And Margarita, And Revelation 12-3, Thomas "Tj" Kennedy
Understanding The Devil: A Comparative Examination Of Dead Souls, The Master And Margarita, And Revelation 12-3, Thomas "Tj" Kennedy
LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines how the devil is depcicted and characterized in Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, and Revelation 12-13. By exploring their respective historical situations, I connect how all three depictions are linked to satire; however, I reflect upon the differences between the literary and religious, most notably the grotesque physical portrayals and allusory nature of Revelation. The three texts are given their own sections, each divided into three parts: historical situation, textual analysis, and literary commentary. From this analysis, it is shown that the devil carries with them a history of sins within great …
How Public College Students Experience Biblically-Informed Literature Taught As Cultural Documents: A Transcendental Phenomenology, De'lara Khalili Stephens
How Public College Students Experience Biblically-Informed Literature Taught As Cultural Documents: A Transcendental Phenomenology, De'lara Khalili Stephens
Doctoral Dissertations and Projects
This transcendental phenomenology describes the experience of public college students who study biblical or biblically-informed literary texts that are taught merely as cultural documents in literature and humanities courses. Two primary theories informed this study: transformation theory in adult learning and the theory of literary apologetics. Furthermore, qualitative methodologies of data collection included journaling, individual interviews with 13 public college students, and focus groups. Data analysis included epoche, member checks, and horizonalization. Three research questions guided the study: (1) How do public college students describe their experiences with biblical or biblically-informed literary texts when they are taught simply as cultural …
Obedience Across Romans : Tracing A Book Wide Theme And Illustrating Obedience With Greco-Roman Literature, Jason Andrew Myers
Obedience Across Romans : Tracing A Book Wide Theme And Illustrating Obedience With Greco-Roman Literature, Jason Andrew Myers
ATS Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Swapping Housewives, Randall L. Mckinion
Book Review: Swapping Housewives, Randall L. Mckinion
Biblical and Theological Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Book Review: 1-2 Kings, Randall L. Mckinion
Book Review: 1-2 Kings, Randall L. Mckinion
Biblical and Theological Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Theodoret Of Cyrus, Randall L. Mckinion
Book Review: Theodoret Of Cyrus, Randall L. Mckinion
Biblical and Theological Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Book Review: "Yet With A Steady Beat: Contemporary U.S. Afrocentric Biblical Interpretation" By Randall C. Bailey, Vincent L. Wimbush
Book Review: "Yet With A Steady Beat: Contemporary U.S. Afrocentric Biblical Interpretation" By Randall C. Bailey, Vincent L. Wimbush
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
Written at different times for different purposes and occasions, by African American scholars who are differently oriented and differently situated, eight essays have been collected and edited by biblical scholar Randall C. Bailey with a particular focus and purpose in mind. Such focus and purpose are not elaborated upon in the editor's slim introduction. Aside from the issue of the quality of the essays - of uneven quality, as is the case, as everyone knows, with almost all collected essays - what is at stake in this volume, and all volumes that are collections of essays by different authors, is …
The Sabbath In The First Creation Accounts, Jiri Moskala
The Sabbath In The First Creation Accounts, Jiri Moskala
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Sabbath In The First Creation Accounts, Jiri Moskala
The Sabbath In The First Creation Accounts, Jiri Moskala
Jiri Moskala
No abstract provided.
When God Becomes Your Enemy- The Theology Of The Complaint Psalms, Ingvar Floysvik
When God Becomes Your Enemy- The Theology Of The Complaint Psalms, Ingvar Floysvik
Doctor of Theology Dissertation
The experience of being forgotten, rejected or even attacked by God has been very real for people of all times. An untimely death in the family, prolonged sickness, unfair treatment in the community or in court, or on the larger scale, natural disasters, war and persecution, these and other catastrophes may make individuals or whole communities experience God as an enemy. Readers of the Bible recognize that income psalms the psalmists share these experiences. They complain to God that he has abandoned them or that he is angry with them. The present dissertation is an investigation into the theology of …
The Influence Of The Jewish Apocalyptic Writers Upon New Testament Messianism, Mark Robin Fairchild
The Influence Of The Jewish Apocalyptic Writers Upon New Testament Messianism, Mark Robin Fairchild
ATS Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Introducing The Apocalyptic Visions Of Daniel 7, Norman C. Habel
Introducing The Apocalyptic Visions Of Daniel 7, Norman C. Habel
Concordia Theological Monthly
The term "apocalyptic" has come to be used as a broad designation for a particular kind of literature and mode of thinking that was clearly distinguishable by the second century B. C. Rev. 1:1 uses the noun apokalypsis to define the hidden revelation communicated to John through special visions. This essay employs the term apocalyptic in the broad sense indicated above. The characteristics of apocalyptic will be defined in general terms below. The purpose of this essay is to introduce the reader to the distinctive apocalyptic thinking of the writer of Daniel 7 whose "one like a son of man" …
Πειραξμοξ In The New Testament Of The Gospels, Richard Jeske
Πειραξμοξ In The New Testament Of The Gospels, Richard Jeske
Master of Sacred Theology Thesis
What, therefore, is the meaning of Πειραξμóσ? What is the force and power behind it? Has the New Testament taken over older ideas connected with Πειραξμóσ or has it contributed new meaning to the word? How does the substantive relate to its verb form Πειραξω? These and other questions will be answered in the following thesis.
A Study Of The Concepts Of Light And Darkness In The Johannine Gospel And Epistles, With Special Reference To The Dead Sea Scrolls, Earle Hawley
ATS Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Hebrews- A Rhetorical Study, Walter A. Jennrich
Hebrews- A Rhetorical Study, Walter A. Jennrich
Bachelor of Divinity
The present study treats of the Epistle to the Hebrews almost purely from the point of view of external form and is preliminary to a more general study of the whole subject of style and language in the New Testament. If it presents many matters of detail that are more or less tedious and call for patience one must bear in mind that it is only by the examination of details that one may come to a reasonably safe conclusion about principles. Even a cursory study of the works of literary critics will demonstrate the necessity of the warning that …