Feasting, Fowling and Feathers
Author: Michael Shrubb
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-09-26
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1408159902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA highly readable review of some 700 years of avian exploitation.
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Author: Michael Shrubb
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-09-26
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1408159902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA highly readable review of some 700 years of avian exploitation.
Author: Heidy Steidlmayer
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2012-02-28
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 0810152223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner, 2013 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner, 2012 John C. Zacharias First Book Award for best debut book by a Ploughshares writer A remarkably mature first collection of poems, Heidy Steidlmayer’s Fowling Piece is the debut of a highly original voice. As they search for meaning in both the extraordinary and the everyday, these poems, in exquisitely compressed language, display a fierce attention to the history of individual words and a surprising wit. In Steidlmayer's poetic landscape, words strike the reader as at once familiar and exotic, becoming instruments through which she is able to access and make sense of the most profound, irreducible aspects of human experience. Her mastery of and experiments in form are exceptional for a poet of any age. Fowling Piece offers the rare gift of a new poet whose work is truly new.
Author: Tyler R. Yoder
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2016-08-25
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1575064596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe metaphor is a hallmark of Classical Hebrew poetry. Some metaphors, such as “Yhwh is king” or “Yhwh is warrior,” play a foundational role. The same does not hold for metaphors from the fishing industry. Because they had access to only two major freshwater sources, archaeological research demonstrates that this industry did not play a major socioeconomic role in ancient Israel. Fishing has nevertheless made a substantial contribution to prophetic and wisdom literature. All metaphors manifest reality, but given the physical circumstances of a largely agrarian, nonmarine society, what does the sustained presentation of fishing metaphors in the Hebrew Bible communicate? Examining the use of fishing images in the Hebrew Bible is a formidable task that demands an open mind and a capacity to mine the gamut of contemporaneous evidence. In Fishers of Fish and Fishers of Men, Tyler Yoder presents the first literary study devoted to the fishing images used in the Hebrew Scriptures as well as in the Mesopotamian textual records. This calls for a penetrating look into cultural contact with Israel’s neighbors to the east (Mesopotamia) and southwest (Egypt). Though nearly all fishing metaphors in the Hebrew Bible carry overt royal or divine connotations that mirror uses well-attested in Mesopotamian literature, this comparative analysis remains a largely untapped area of research. In this study of the diverse literary qualities of fishing images, Yoder offers a holistic understanding of how one integral component of ancient Near Eastern society affected the whole, bringing together the assemblage of disparate materials related to this field of study to enable scholars to integrate these data into related research and move the conversation forward.
Author: Thomas Burgeland Johnson
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Published: 1848
Total Pages: 1102
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 1262
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 1530
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 270
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