Sounding Prophecy

2020 ◽  
pp. 159-187
Author(s):  
Rebecca Maloy
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Biblical Exegesis ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
Musical Rhetoric ◽  
Textual Meaning ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter considers the relationship between the melodies and the semantic content of the texts, thus bearing on the contentious question of whether chant melodies can relate to textual meaning. In the case of the sacrificia, the answer is a resounding yes. Central to this argument is the understanding of textual meaning established in Chapter 3. The author considers the occasion on which the text was sung, its meaning in biblical exegesis, and how and why the creators of the text reworked the biblical source. On this basis, I show that the melodies employ certain strategies of musical rhetoric to fashion a particular understanding of the text. The sacrificia thus pose a challenge to a long-standing belief that chant melodies are indifferent to the texts’ semantic content. On the contrary: their creators possessed an erudite knowledge of biblical interpretation, reworking biblical passages to foreground their Christian interpretation and deploying melody as a rhetorical device to shape how the text was heard. The melodies highlight images of liturgical or doctrinal importance, and underline the strategic reworking of the biblical text. Although the existing melodies do not date from the Visigothic period, it is probable that melody contributed to the bishops’ goals of forming a Nicene Christian kingdom and society.

Biblical Exegesis and Early Modern Legal History in Calvin’s Mosaic Harmony

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-195
Author(s):  
Barbara Pitkin
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Biblical Exegesis ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Relationship

The chapter examines John Calvin’s commentary on Exodus through Deuteronomy (1563) through the lens of sixteenth-century historical jurisprudence, exemplified in the works of Calvin’s contemporaries François de Connan and François Baudouin. Recent scholarship has demonstrated how Calvin’s historicizing exegesis is in continuity with broader contemporary trends in premodern Christian biblical interpretation; this chapter explores another essential context for Calvin’s approach to the Bible. The intermingling of narrative and legal material in these four biblical books inspired Calvin to break with his customary practice of lectio continua and apply his historical hermeneutic more broadly and creatively to explain the Mosaic histories and legislation. Calvin’s unusual and unprecedented arrangement of the material in this commentary and his attention to the relationship between law and history reveal his engagement with his generation’s quest for historical method.

The Pendulum of Exegetical Methodology

2013 ◽  
pp. 249-266
Author(s):  
Sara Japhet
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Biblical Exegesis ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Northern France ◽  
The World ◽  
Liberal Approach ◽  
Jewish Learning

This chapter investigates two exegetical methodologies: peshat and derash. In the first half of the tenth century, a new exegetical methodology broke into the world of Jewish learning, a methodology commonly defined as peshat or peshuto shel mikra. This methodology was first applied to the interpretation of Scripture in the eastern Jewish communities under the rule of Islam, but it soon spread to all the centres of Jewish learning: Spain, Ashkenaz (northern France and Germany), Provence, Italy, Byzantium, and their branches. After dominating the field of biblical exegesis for several centuries, the power of peshat methodology began to wane, until it almost disappeared from the world of Jewish learning. The exegetical methodology that dominated the field of biblical interpretation prior to the appearance of peshat methodology was that designated as derash or midrash, which are, more precisely, umbrella terms for a variety of interpretative strategies. The most important feature of this methodology is its extremely liberal approach to the biblical text, with the waiving of almost any boundary.

The Septuagint and Other Translations

2019 ◽  
pp. 32-54
Author(s):  
Reinhart Ceulemans
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Considerable Extent ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Biblical Exegesis ◽  
Linguistic Form ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Bible ◽  
History Of

This chapter retraces the origins of the Greek Bible, and explains how the Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Torah ultimately defined the (linguistic) form of the entire Greek Old and New Testament. Surveying the most important episodes in the Christian transmission history of the Bible, it argues that that tradition was to a considerable extent a form of biblical exegesis: it offered Christian scribes, revisers, and authors a platform for the inclusion of interpretative views into the Greek biblical text. The same phenomenon can be observed in the transmission of the various Latin and Syriac Bible versions. The fact that most of those can be traced back to translations made by Christians increases the interpretative dimension of their form. The chapter in that sense highlights that the literary corpus that was Christian Scripture, and generated Early Christian biblical interpretation, was itself to a certain extent a product of such interpretation.

ECOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE JONAH NARRATIVE – HAVE THEY SUCCEEDED IN OVERCOMING ANTHROPOCENTRISM?

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Willie Van Heerden
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Text ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
The Relationship

A central concern of ecological biblical hermeneutics is to overcome the anthropocentric bias we are likely to find both in interpretations of the biblical texts and in the biblical text itself. One of the consequences of anthropocentrism has been described as a sense of distance, separation, and otherness in the relationship between humans and other members of the Earth community. This article is an attempt to determine whether extant ecological interpretations of the Jonah narrative have successfully addressed this sense of estrangement. The article focuses on the work of Ernst M. Conradie (2005), Raymond F. Person (2008), Yael Shemesh (2010), Brent A. Strawn (2012), and Phyllis Trible (1994, 1996).

Old Hispanic Chant and the Early History of Plainsong

2014 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Maloy
Keyword(s):  
Early History ◽  
Biblical Exegesis ◽  
History Of ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
Liturgical Chant ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Biblical Sources ◽  
Old Roman

Given the fragmentary evidence about the emergence of Western plainsong, scholars have not reached a consensus about how early liturgical chant was transformed into fully formed Medieval repertories. Proposed explanations have centered on the Roman liturgy and its two chant dialects, Gregorian and Old Roman. The Old Hispanic (or Mozarabic) chant can yield new insights into how and why the creators of early repertories selected and altered biblical texts, set them to specific kinds of music, and assigned them to festivals. I explore these questions from the perspective of the Old Hispanic sacrificia, or offertory chants. Specific traditions of Iberian biblical exegesis were central to the meaning and formation of these chants, guiding their compilers’ choice and alteration of biblical sources. Their textual characteristics and liturgical structure call for a reassessment of the theories that have been proposed about the origins of Roman chant. Although the sacrificia exhibit ample signs of liturgical planning, such as thematically proper chants with unique liturgical assignments, the processes that produced this repertory were both less linear and more varied than those envisaged for Roman chant. Finally, the sacrificia shed new light on the relationship between words and music in pre-Carolingian chant, showing that the cantors shaped the melodies according to textual syntax and meaning.

scholarly journals Paradox and legitimacy in construction: how CSR reports restrict CSR practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Watts ◽  
Scott Fernie ◽  
Andy Dainty
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
Csr Reporting ◽  
Public Body ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Communication Methods

PurposeCorporate social responsibility (CSR) is a prominent topic of debate, and yet remains subject to multiple interpretations. Despite this ambiguity, organisations need to communicate their CSR activity effectively in order to meet varied stakeholder demands, increase financial performance and in order to achieve legitimacy in the eyes of clients and various stakeholders. The purpose of this paper is to explore how CSR is communicated, and the impact such communication methods have on CSR practice. More specifically, it examines the disconnect between the rhetoric espoused in CSR reports and the actualities of the ways in which CSR is practiced.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative content analysis of 100 CSR reports published by nine construction contractors informed the design of qualitative interviews. In total, 17 interviews were then conducted with contractors and public body clients.FindingsStrategic ambiguity explains how contractors circumvent the problem of attending to conflicting stakeholder CSR needs. However, this results in a paradox where CSR is simultaneously sustained as a corporate metric and driver, whilst being simultaneously undermined in being seen as a rhetorical device. By examining this phenomenon through the lens of legitimacy, the study reveals how both the paradox and subsequent actions of clients that this provokes, act to restrict the development of CSR practice.Originality/valueThis is the first study to use the lens of legitimacy theory to analyse the relationship between CSR reporting and CSR practice in the construction industry. In revealing the CSR paradox and its ramifications the research provides a novel explanation of the lack of common understandings and manifestations of CSR within the construction sector.

scholarly journals Reading the Bible in the African context: Assessing Africa’s love affair with prosperity Gospel

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ntozakhe Cezula
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Prosperity Gospel ◽  
Bible Translation ◽  
African People ◽  
Traditional Religions ◽  
The Bible ◽  
African Context ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Bible Reading ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

The aim of this article is to examine Bible reading in the African context and the willingness and enthusiasm to embrace prosperity gospel in Africa. To achieve this objective, a discussion on the developments in biblical interpretation in Africa will first be presented. This will be done by examining three historical periods: colonial, independence and democratisation periods. This will be followed by an outline of migrations that have taken place from traditional religions to different versions of Christianity in different times in Africa. These migrations will be examined in connection with Bible translation. The relationship between prosperity gospel and African people in Africa will be discussed by considering the tools prosperity gospel uses to appeal to African people, namely the religio-cultural and socio-economic factors. The article will then provide its assessment of contextual reading in the prosperity gospel and a conclusion will follow.

scholarly journals OS SENTIDOS ENTRE O VERBAL E O NÃO VERBAL

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilderlândio Assis de Andrade Nascimento ◽  
Pedro Farias Francelino
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Content ◽  
Compositional Structure ◽  
Magazine Covers ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Dialogic Theory ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Speech Content ◽  
Magazine Cover

Este trabalho objetiva analisar a inter-relação entre elementos verbais e não verbais na construção de sentidos do enunciado capa de revista, evidenciando aspectos sócio-político-ideológicos que instauram o conteúdo do discurso e que se materializam em palavras, cores, imagens, gestos, traços. Para isso, analisa-se o enunciado da capa da revista Veja de 27 de novembro de 2013, que discorre sobre a prisão dos condenados no processo do Mensalão. Mobilizam-se, para essa investigação, os pressupostos teórico-metodológicos do Círculo de Bakhtin e os estudos realizados no âmbito da Análise/Teoria Dialógica do Discurso. A análise mostra que os sentidos do enunciado capa de revista são construídos a partir da relação de interdependência e de complementaridade entre a linguagem verbal e não verbal. O enunciado capa de revista é palco do encontro entre vozes em que o estilo, a construção composicional, o conteúdo semântico-objetal desse enunciado é construído a partir do encontro entre discursos. Abstract: This work aims to analyze the interrelationship between verbal and non-verbal elements at magazine covers, evidencing socio-political-ideological aspects that stablish the speech content that materialize in words, colors, images, gestures, traces. For this, we analyze the utterance from Veja, magazine cover from November 27, 2013, which discusses the imprisonment of convicted in the Mensalão process. We mobilize to this research the theoretical and methodological assumptions from Bakhtin Circle and studies under Analysis/Dialogic Theory of Speech. The analysis shows that the meanings of the utterance are constructed from the relationship of interdependence and complementarity between the verbal and nonverbal. Thus, Magazine cover utterance is like a stage in which, voices, style, compositional structure and objectal-semantic content is built from the meeting between speeches.

scholarly journals The Cruelty of Supersessionism: The Case of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Religions ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
John E. Phelan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Study ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

The impact of the Shoah on Christian biblical and theological studies has been significant. The Christian doctrine of supersessionism, the replacement of the Jews and Judaism by the Christian church, has come in for particular criticism. Some more traditional scholars have either ignored these critiques or suggested that they were shaped not by critical study of the biblical text but by Christian guilt. It is also argued that the supersessionist argument is so thoroughly woven into the Christian story that extracting it would destroy the story itself. For some, it appears that there is no Christianity without supersessionism. This paper argues not only that this challenge to supersessionism was indeed the result of post-Shoah reflection, but that such challenges were appropriate and necessary. It does this in part by considering the case of German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer whose early citations of the “teachings of contempt” were challenged by the violence of Nazis and the clarity of their intent to destroy both the Jews and, eventually, the church. A non-supersessionist Christianity is both possible and necessary, not simply to preserve the relationship between Christians and Jews, but to enable both communities to engage in the work of “consummation” and “redemption” that God has entrusted to them.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document