An Everlasting Name
An Everlasting Name

Author: Maoz Azaryahu

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-03-08

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 3110723026

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The ever-growing interest in cultural memory has generated an impressive body of academic literature on public commemoration, but not enough attention has been paid until now to the power and appeal of names to transcend death. This book is the first to investigates onymic commemoration as a technology of immortality. Bringing together issues as diverse as casualty lists on public display and honorific street-names, the inquiry expands on the commemorative capacity of an “everlasting name” as a site of remembrance. It explores how notions about names, being, fame and an afterlife have coalesced into prestigious and time-honored commemorative practices and traditions that demonstrate the cultural power of an “everlasting name” to confer immortality through remembrance. By linking ancient traditions and modern practices, this book offers a cross-cultural analysis of onymic commemoration that is broad in scope and covers a wide time frame, encompassing diverse historical periods, cultural contexts and geopolitical settings.

The Priestly Blessing in Inscription and Scripture
The Priestly Blessing in Inscription and Scripture

Author: Jeremy Daniel Smoak

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0199399972

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Jeremy Smoak presents a synthesis of recent discoveries bearing upon the early history and function of the biblical priestly blessing of Numbers 6:24-26. The book gives special focus to the importance of the discovery of the blessing on two silver amulets from Jerusalem dating to the late Iron Age and several other Iron Age inscriptions containing parallels to the blessing. The analysis of the inscriptions provides a new way to approach the meaning and significance of the instructions for the blessing in the biblical book of Numbers.

Acts of Naming
Acts of Naming

Author: Michael Ragussis

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 0195040708

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Michael Ragussis re-reads the novelistic tradition by arguing that acts of naming--such as bestowing, earning, slandering or protecting a name--lie at the center of fictional plots from the 18th century to the present.

The Deuteronomistic History and the Name Theology
The Deuteronomistic History and the Name Theology

Author: Sandra L. Richter

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 3110899353

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This monograph is a comparative, socio-linguistic reassessment of the Deuteronomic idiom, leshakken shemo sham, and its synonymous biblical reflexes in the Deuteronomistic History, lashum shemo sham, and lihyot shemo sham. These particular formulae have long been understood as evidence of the Name Theology - the evolution in Israelite religion toward a more abstracted mode of divine presence in the temple. Utilizing epigraphic material gathered from Mesopotamian and Levantine contexts, this study demonstrates that leshakken shemo sham and lashum shemo sham are loan-adaptations of Akkadian shuma shakanu, an idiom common to the royal monumental tradition of Mesopotamia. The resulting retranslation and reinterpretation of the biblical idiom profoundly impacts the classic formulation of the Name Theology.

The Body
The Body

Author: Angela Roskop Erisman

Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press

Published: 2022-10-20

Total Pages: 551

ISBN-13: 0878207058

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The clothed and adorned body has been at the forefront of Nili S. Fox's scholarship. In her hallmark approach, she draws on theoretical models from anthropology and archaeology, and locates the text within its native cultural environment in conversation with ancient Near Eastern literary and iconographic sources. This volume is a tribute to her, a collection of essays on dress and the body with original research by Fox's students. With the field of dress now garnering the attention of biblical and Ancient Near Eastern scholars alike, this book adds to the growing literature on the topic, demonstrating ways in which both dress and the body communicate cultural and religious beliefs and practices. The body's lived experience is the topic of section one, the body lived. The body and the social construction of identity is discussed in section two, the body cultured, while section three, the body adorned, analyzes the performative nature of dress in the biblical text.

INSCRIBED
INSCRIBED

Author: ZEAL MEHTA

Publisher: Spectrum Of Thoughts

Published: 2024-09-28

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13:

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Inscribed is an anthology that comprises 25 talented writers who have woven stories in the most elegant way. Inscribed is a compilation that consists of the author's experiences from travel to women's empowerment, and spirituality to motivation. For all those bibliophiles out there, this anthology will keep you engrossed for a while.