Beauty and the Enigma
Beauty and the Enigma

Author: Francis Landy

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2001-03-01

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0567533131

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This book is a collection of Landy's studies on the poetics of the Hebrew Bible. The Song of Songs is featured alongside the prophetic voices of Amos, Hosea and Isaiah, and essays on the Binding of Isaac and on the book of Ruth. Throughout, the emphasis throughout is on the subversiveness, richness and ambiguity of the text, but above all its (often enigmatic) beauty. The thread of psychoanalysis and its metaphorical technique draws together this collection from one of the Bible's most sensitive and distinctive literary critics.

The Enigma Of Creation
The Enigma Of Creation

Author: Rick Brower

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-04-28

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1387762990

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In recent years, few topics have generated more interest and prompted more debate across the broad spectrum of Christian denominations, than that of the Biblical creation texts. And in particular, the text of Genesis 1 has played a controversial role. So then, the goal of this work is only to encourage a deeper and more sensitive approach to the creation text of Genesis 1. This approach must necessarily incorporate the ancient perspectives of the original, Biblical audience, as well as the spiritual aspects of the text which are explicitly revealed to us.

The Borges Enigma
The Borges Enigma

Author: Cynthia Lucy Stephens

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 185566349X

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Borges once stated that he had never created a character: 'It's always me, subtly disguised'. This book focuses on the ways in which Borges uses events and experiences from his own life, in order to demonstrate how they become the principal structuring motifs of his work. It aims to show how these experiences, despite being 'heavily disguised', are crucial components of some of Borges's most canonical short stories, particularly from the famous collections Ficciones and El Aleph. Exploring the rich tapestry of symmetries, doubles and allusions and the roles played by translation and the figure of the creator, the book provides new readings of these stories, revealing their hidden personal, emotional and spiritual dimensions. These insights shed fresh light on Borges's supreme literary craftsmanship and the intimate puzzles of his fictions.

Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma
Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma

Author: Curtis A. Gruenler

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess

Published: 2017-04-30

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13: 0268101655

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In this book, Curtis Gruenler proposes that the concept of the enigmatic, latent in a wide range of medieval thinking about literature, can help us better understand in medieval terms much of the era’s most enduring literature, from the riddles of the Anglo-Saxon bishop Aldhelm to the great vernacular works of Dante, Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, and, above all, Langland’s Piers Plowman. Riddles, rhetoric, and theology—the three fields of meaning of aenigma in medieval Latin—map a way of thinking about reading and writing obscure literature that was widely shared across the Middle Ages. The poetics of enigma links inquiry about language by theologians with theologically ambitious literature. Each sense of enigma brings out an aspect of this poetics. The playfulness of riddling, both oral and literate, was joined to a Christian vision of literature by Aldhelm and the Old English riddles of the Exeter Book. Defined in rhetoric as an obscure allegory, enigma was condemned by classical authorities but resurrected under the influence of Augustine as an aid to contemplation. Its theological significance follows from a favorite biblical verse among medieval theologians, “We see now through a mirror in an enigma, then face to face” (1 Cor. 13:12). Along with other examples of the poetics of enigma, Piers Plowman can be seen as a culmination of centuries of reflection on the importance of obscure language for knowing and participating in endless mysteries of divinity and humanity and a bridge to the importance of the enigmatic in modern literature. This book will be especially useful for scholars and undergraduate students interested in medieval European literature, literary theory, and contemplative theology.

Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures
Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures

Author: Ágnes Kriza

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-03-04

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 3110779226

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Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures is a thematic essay volume to investigate the history and function of enigma in Orthodox Slavic cultures with a special focus on the cultural history of Rus and Muscovy. Its seventeen case studies across disciplinary boundaries analyze Slavic biblical and patristic translations, liturgical commentaries, occult divinatory texts, and dream interpretations. Slavic riddles inscribed on walls and compilations of riddles in question-and-answer format are all subjects of this volume. Not only written, but also pictorial enigmas are examined, together with their relationships to texts suggesting novel methodologies for their deciphering. This kaleidoscopic survey of Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures by an international group of scholars demonstrates the historiographical challenges that medieval enigmatic thought poses for researchers and offers new approaches to the interpretation of medieval sources, both verbal and visual.

Magnus
Magnus

Author: Matthew Dickens

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2008-05

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1604777877

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Synopsis for Magnus by Matthew Dickens What do the following things have in common Christ's parable about the Mustard Tree. Samson's riddle to the Philistines. NicoloPaganini's 13th Caprice. Mary Shelleys novel Frankenstein. The The Luciferian symbols in Napoleon's tomb. The Massorah Magna of the Hebrew Bible. The first edition mustard-colored jacket cover for Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. The resurrection of Judas Iscariot. And the Apostle Paul's prophetic writings about the Mystery of Iniquity. Only one man can decipher this ancient enigma. A man nearly two thousand years old. He is not Longinus or the Wandering Jew. He is something else, a living foreshadow of the returning Christ. Born in the Bethlehem in 23 A.D. to parents of great power, Magnus the Lehohn soon discovers his life has been marked by a parabolic shadow that will take him across the centuries. Though born a prince in the Tribe of Judah, his Gentile mother prepares him for the life of a warrior after his father and brother are murdered by a Cappadocian assassin. But his earthly training in the elite cavalry units of the Roman Army is just the beginning. On the eve of Jerusalems fall, Magnus is crowned by the Archangel Michael as the next champion in the Shekinah Legacy. Gifted with the preternatural abilities of Old Testament champions, and a secret power which no demon or angel can stand against, Magnus begins his journey through time to discover the truth. And when he does, the Word of God will shake Heaven and Earth like never before. Biography: Matthew Dickens has been a writer and Biblical researcher for nearly fifteen years. He is represented by Peter Rubie, CEO of theNew York based agency Fine Print Literary Management.