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Truth Is Stranger Than Folklore: Hugh Nibley, The Man And The Legend, Boyd J. Petersen
Truth Is Stranger Than Folklore: Hugh Nibley, The Man And The Legend, Boyd J. Petersen
Boyd J Petersen
Separating the folklore from the fact proved difficult in creating a biography of Mormon scholar Hugh Nibley.
"Sabbath Is A Happy Day!" What Does Isaiah 58:13-14 Mean?, Ed Christian
"Sabbath Is A Happy Day!" What Does Isaiah 58:13-14 Mean?, Ed Christian
Journal of the Adventist Theological Society
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Seeking The Rhetoric Of Jesus, Susan L. Trollinger
Seeking The Rhetoric Of Jesus, Susan L. Trollinger
English Faculty Publications
I come to the questions posed by this volume from a somewhat different background than one might expect. Whereas one might anticipate that I was an Anabaptist first and a scholar second, just the opposite was the case. I Before beginning my graduate studies I had never heard of Anabaptism. Indeed, I was poring over Aristotle's Rhetoric before I was even a Christian. I thus went through much of my graduate studies (not to mention all of college, high school, and elementary school) without giving a thought to how my studies were impacting my faith-never mind how my faith might …
“Landscapes Of Seduction: Terry Tempest Williams’S Desert Quartet And The Biblical Song Of Songs”, Boyd J. Petersen
“Landscapes Of Seduction: Terry Tempest Williams’S Desert Quartet And The Biblical Song Of Songs”, Boyd J. Petersen
Boyd J Petersen
Like the Song of Songs, Terry Tempest Williams's Desert Quartet submerges its reader in a highly erotic landscape. And both use that landscape—a garden in the Song and a desert in Desert Quartet—to create eros in the text. Yet while the Song of Songs uses metaphor to transform the body of the beloved into a garden of delights, Desert Quartet uses personification to transform the desert landscape into a passionate lover. In the Song of Songs, the body becomes the landscape where seduction takes place; in Desert Quartet, the landscape becomes the body which seduces. Both works also invite allegorical …