THE PROPHECY FOR "EVERLASTING COVENANT" (JEREMIAH XXXII 36-41): AN EXILIC ADDITION OR A DEUTERONOMISTIC REDACTION?

2003 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-223
Author(s):  
Dalit Rom-Shiloni
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Book Of Jeremiah ◽  
The One ◽  
Exact Relationship

AbstractThis paper draws attention to the exact relationship between the prophecy for "everlasting covenant" (Jer. xxxii 36-41) and the words of the prophet and his ideological agenda on the one hand, and the redactional level of the Book of Jeremiah on the other. Examination of the genre of the prophetical unit presents it to be a quasi-disputation-speech, and a further testimony to the exilic voices in Jeremiah on the controversy between the Jehoiachin exiles and the remnant. A close reading of the verses gives evidence to five different ways of dependence on and independence from both the words of the prophet and the redactional additions to Jeremiah. Hence, this prophecy demonstrates the composition of a new independent prophecy within exilic context, and thus adduces the question whether the exilic material within Jeremiah can still be restricted to Deuteronomistic circles.

Language Pangs

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilit Ferber
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Philosophical Text ◽  
Origin Of Language ◽  
Pain Expression ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

Language and pain are usually thought of as opposites, the one being about expression and communication, the other destructive, “beyond words,” and isolating. Language Pangs challenges these familiar conceptions and offers a reconsideration of the relationship between pain and language in terms of an essential interconnectedness rather than an exclusive opposition. The book’s premise is that the experience of pain cannot be probed without consideration of its inherent relation to language, and vice versa: understanding the nature of language essentially depends on an account of its relationship with pain. Language Pangs brings together discussions of philosophical as well as literary texts, an intersection especially productive in considering the phenomenology of pain and its bearing on language. The book’s first chapter presents a phenomenology of pain and its relation to language. Chapters 2 and 3 provide a close reading of Herder’s Treatise on the Origin of Language (1772), which was the first modern philosophical text to bring together language and pain, establishing the cry of pain as the origin of language. Herder also raises important claims regarding the relationship between human and animal, sympathy, and the role of hearing in the experience of pain. Chapter 4 is devoted to Heidegger’s seminar (1939) on Herder’s text about language, a relatively unknown seminar that raises important claims regarding pain, expression, and hearing. Chapter 5 focuses on Sophocles’ story of Philoctetes, important to Herder’s treatise, in terms of pain, expression, sympathy, and hearing, also referring to more thinkers such as Cavell and Gide.

scholarly journals PETER COMESTOR'S LECTURES ON THE GLOSSA “ORDINARIA” ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN THE BIBLE AND THEOLOGY IN THE TWELFTH-CENTURY CLASSROOM

Traditio ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 203-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEXANDER ANDRÉE
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Traditional Account ◽  
Glossa Ordinaria ◽  
The One ◽  
Alternative Understanding

The traditional account of the development of theology in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is that the emerging “academic” discipline of theology was separated from the Bible and its commentary, that the two existed on parallel but separate courses, and that the one developed in a “systematic” direction whereas the other continued to exist as a separate “practical” or “biblical-moral” school. Focusing largely on texts of an allegedly “theoretical” nature, this view misunderstands or, indeed, entirely overlooks the evidence issuing from lectures on the Bible — postills, glosses, and commentaries — notably the biblical Glossa “ordinaria.” A witness to an alternative understanding, Peter Comestor, master and chancellor of the cathedral school of Paris in the second half of the twelfth century, shows that theology was created as much from the continued study of the Bible as from any “systematic” treatise. Best known for his Historia scholastica, a combined explanation and rewrite of the Bible focusing on the historical and literal aspects of sacred history, Comestor used the Gloss as a textbook in his lectures on the Gospels both to elucidate matters of exegesis and to help him deduce doctrinal truth. Through a close reading of Comestor's lectures on the Gospel of John, this essay reevaluates the teaching of theology at the cathedral school of Paris in the twelfth century and argues that the Bible and its Gloss stood at the heart of this development.

The Rise of

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Gannagé
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Negative Theology ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
First Philosophy

On First Philosophy is the most emblematic work of Abū Yūsuf Ya‛qūb b. Isḥāq al-Kindī’s (ca. 801–ca. 870) surviving treatises. Aiming primarily to prove the oneness of God, the surviving part of the treatise consists of four chapters that form a consistent unit. The chapter provides a close reading of and commentary on the four chapters and shows how the texts unfold by following a very tight argument leading to the thesis toward which the whole treatise seems to aim: the true One, who is the principle of unity and hence the principle of existence of all beings, on the one hand, and the absolutely transcendent God, which can be approached only through a negative theology, on the other, are one and the same principle. In the meantime, al-Kindī would have demonstrated the noneternity of the world and shown the impossibility of finding sheer unity in the sensible world.

Lying on the Edge of the Burning Ground: Rethinking Tinais

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manu Devadevan
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Prevailing Paradigm ◽  
Economic Practices ◽  
The One

AbstractThis paper seeks to interrogate the prevailing paradigm in the historiography of early Tamil Nad, which treats tinais as constituting the geographic basis for early economic practices. On the one hand the case of Kodumanal excavations is juxtaposed as an archaeological instance vis-à-vis tinais. On the other, it is argued through a close reading of Sangam texts that tinais were aesthetic structures employed in the configuration of space in Sangam mythopoeic imagination. It is also argued that the form and content of the tinai-based aesthetics reveals the crisis of a milieu in transition towards early statedom. Cet article cherche à interroger le paradigme régnant en historiographie du Tamoul tôt Nad, ce qui traite des tinais en tant que constitution de la base géographique pour des pratiques économiques tôt. D'une part la caisse d'excavations de Kodumanal est juxtaposée comme exemple archéologique vis-à-vis des tinais. De l'autre, on lui discute par une lecture étroite des textes de Sangam que les tinais étaient les structures esthétiques utilisées dans la configuration de l'espace dans l'imagination mythopoeic de Sangam. On lui discute également que la forme et le contenu de l'esthétique tinai-basée indique la crise d'un milieu dans la transition vers le statedom tôt.

Language and the Gendered Body: Butler's Early Reading of Merleau‐Ponty

Hypatia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 767-783 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Petronella Foultier
Keyword(s):  
Early Reading ◽  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Phenomenology Of Perception ◽  
Poststructural Theory ◽  
Feminist Phenomenology ◽  
The One ◽  
Blind Spots

Through a close reading of Judith Butler's 1989 essay on Merleau‐Ponty's “theory” of sexuality as well as the texts her argument hinges on, this paper addresses the debate about the relation between language and the living, gendered body as it is understood by defenders of poststructural theory on the one hand, and different interpretations of Merleau‐Ponty's phenomenology on the other. I claim that Butler, in her criticism of the French philosopher's analysis of the famous “Schneider case,” does not take its wider context into account: either the case study that Merleau‐Ponty's discussion is based upon, or its role in his phenomenology of perception. Yet, although Butler does point out certain blind spots in his descriptions regarding the gendered body, it is in the light of her questioning that the true radicality of Merleau‐Ponty's ideas can be revealed. A further task for feminist phenomenology should be a thorough assessment of his philosophy from this angle, once the most obvious misunderstandings have been put to the side.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Ju Xian in Movie Farewell My Concubine

Humaniora ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1187
Author(s):  
Fu Ruomei
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

As the main female character in movie "Farewell My Concubine", Ju Xian was a brave, smart, worldly-wise but kindhearted woman. Even though she was a prostitute, she was longing for an ordinary life. She loved Xiao Lou, moreover, in order to engross Xiao Lou, she even tried to drive a wedge between Die Yi and Xiao Lou. She used her wisdom to save and protect Xiao Lou, but on the other hand, she was also the one who destroyed Xiao Lou and her own life. Article tried to through close reading analyze the character of Ju Xian and her relationships with Die Yi and Xiao Lou. Article revealed the inescapable tragic fate of Ju Xian.  

Imagining the King’s Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793–1796, John Barrell, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 196-208
Author(s):  
Danny Hayward
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Second Line ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The One

Abstract This review essay has two divisions. In its first division it sets out a brief overview of recent Marxist research in the field of ‘Romanticism’, identifying two major lines of inquiry. On the one hand, the attempt to expand our sense of what might constitute a ruthless critique of social relations; on the other, an attempt to develop a materialist account of aesthetic disengagement. This first division concludes with an extended summary of John Barrell’s account of the treason trials of the middle 1790s, as set out in his book Imagining the King’s Death. It argues that Barrell’s book is the most significant recent work belonging to the second line of inquiry. In its second division the review responds to Barrell’s concluding discussion, in which the aesthetic consequences of the treason trials are established by means of a close reading of some of the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The division finishes with some more general remarks on the subject of a materialist aesthetics of disengagement.

The True Perplexity: The Guide of the Perplexed Part II, Chapter 24

1991 ◽  
pp. 159-174
Author(s):  
Tzvi Langermann
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Third ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Guide Of The Perplexed

This chapter focuses on part II, Chapter 24 of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed, which discusses the incompatibility of the models used by professional astronomers with the basic tenets of the Aristotelian world-view. On the one hand, the epicycles and eccentrics employed by astronomers seem to violate the principle that the motion of the heavenly bodies be uniform, circular, and about a fixed centre. On the other hand, the results achieved through the use of these very devices are startlingly precise. This, Maimonides says, is the ‘true perplexity’. The chapter then looks at three aspects of this true perplexity. It also compares the views expressed in the Guide with the rules laid down in the third chapter of the ‘Laws Concerning the Basic Principles of the Torah’, which forms the first section of the Mishneh Torah. It is particularly concerned with two questions: did Maimonides consider the true configuration of the heavens to be inscrutable? And can a close reading of both texts offer any clues about this true configuration? Finally, the chapter considers the views of some of Maimonides’ followers on these questions.

Ideas of Poetics and the Close Reading of Poetry

CounterText ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-97
Author(s):  
Jonathan Locke Hart
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Great Benefit ◽  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Rhetorical Tradition ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Aristotelian Tradition

Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller provide different but productive ways to think about poetics and to read poetry closely and with attention. As a poet, reader and critic of poetry, I welcome their thoughts on the theory and practice of poetry. Whereas Miller sees the reading of poems as subjective and selective, Ghosh views it as universal and shared. Both readers help us in the drama of meaning, the tension between them. As convivial and suggestive as that difference between Miller and Ghosh may be, it allows us to experience the different sides of poetry and the philosophy of poetry, if we think about, say the Socratic, Platonic, and Aristotelian tradition of thinking about poetry and even Philip Sidney's response on the one hand and the rhetorical tradition of reading poetry on the other. Ghosh, although having mastered Western literature and poetry, as Miller has, also provides us with Eastern views, and this is also of great benefit to the reader of Thinking Literature Across Continents ( 2016 ). One of the great centres of literature is language and poetry is compressed and memorable language that forms the heart of literature: it is a key to thinking about Ghosh and Miller thinking literature across the various parts of the world.

Hip Hop and the University

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-97
Author(s):  
Sara Hakeem Grewal
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Education ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Mutual Interest ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
Book Knowledge

While hip hop and the university appear to operate within radically different social (and socioeconomic) spheres, we nevertheless see increasing overlap between the two that demonstrates a mutual interest and perhaps desire between the two. With the rise of hip hop studies on the one hand and a remarkable array of hip hop songs and films that address the university space and/or university education on the other, these two discursive spheres produce knowledges that are both complementary and contradictory. By analyzing several texts—major academic works of hip hop scholarship; films on hip hop and the university, especially Method Man and Redman’s 2001 How High; and the rap oeuvres of Kanye West and J. Cole—this article examines the ways in which the epistemologies of hip hop and the university interact and conflict. By examining these texts, I show that academic epistemologies, or what I term “book knowledge,” inadvertently impose a hierarchical and colonizing frame on rap and hip hop, such as the practice of “close reading” rap as poetry. Instead, I argue that we can learn how to ethically inhabit and transform the university space by drawing from hip hop’s commitment to producing the radical, decolonial, and embodied practices of “street knowledge.”

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