scholarly journals Authorial changes to the biblical text: quotations in sermons by Simeon of Polotsk

Slovene ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-147
Author(s):  
Anastasia A. Preobrazhenskaya
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
Made In

The article is devoted to a linguistic analysis of biblical quotations from the collection of sermons “Obied dushevnyi” (1681), compiled by the first court preacher Simeon of Polotsk (1629–1680). More than one third of all the identified quotations can be characterized as inexact quotations: they demonstrate the author’s interference with grammar, word order, and lexis of the biblical text. Such changes in biblical texts, introduced by Simeon, can be conditioned by several causes, among which are the influence of the revision of liturgical books, the influence of textual models in other languages, and the rhetorics and pragmatics of a sermon as a literary genre. The article focuses on the most significant linguistic changes to the biblical text introduced by Simeon: changes made in the context of the revision of liturgical books, and changes that continue and develop the revision, and apply it in a more consistent way. In addition, changes connected to the rhetorics and pragmatics of a sermon as a literary genre are briefly listed. The linguistic analysis of biblical texts in “Obied” provided in the article forms a base for further complex linguistic and philological research on the language of Simeon’s sermons.

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).

Reception History and the Interpretation of Revelation

2020 ◽  
pp. 375-393
Author(s):  
Ian Boxall
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Music Drama ◽  
History Of Interpretation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Biblical Texts

The chapter describes the discipline of reception history as the study of the ongoing use, interpretation, and impact of a biblical text. If the history of interpretation has often focused on the ways biblical texts are understood in commentaries and theological writings, reception history also considers how a book was received in spirituality and worship, in music, drama, literature, visual art, and textual criticism. Criteria for selecting and organizing materials useful for reception history are discussed, and there is a review of recent attempts to provide broad overviews of Revelation’s reception history, along with specific examples of the value of the discipline for interpreting Revelation.

Psalm Culture in the English Renaissance: Readings of Psalm 137 by Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, and Others

2002 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 224-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannibal Hamlin
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
English Civil War ◽  
English Renaissance ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Renaissance England ◽  
Biblical Texts

Psalm 137, “By the Waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, “ one of the most widely known biblical texts in Renaissance England, provided consolation for spiritual and political exiles, as well as giving Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton language in which to express such alienation — language especially powerful for poets, since the psalm troped alienation as the inability to sing. The Psalm's closing cry for vengeance, seen as un-Christian by some, was used as a call to arms by polemicists on both sides of the English Civil War. This study examines a range of translations, paraphrases, commentaries, sermons, and literary allusions that together reconstruct a biblical text as it was interpreted by its Renaissance readers.

‘Incrementing’ in conversation. A comparison of practices in English, German and Japanese

Pragmatics ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 513-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen ◽  
Tsuyoshi Ono
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
The Other ◽  
Preliminary Survey ◽  
Linguistic Study ◽  
Made In ◽  
Prior Action

This cross-linguistic study focuses on ways in which conversationalists speak beyond a point of possible turn completion in conversation, specifically on turn extensions which are grammatically dependent, backward-looking and extend the prior action. It argues that further distinctions can be made in terms of whether the extension is prosodically integrated with the prior unit, its host, (Non-add-on) or not, and in terms of whether it repairs some part of the host (Replacement) or not. Added-on, non-repairing extensions are further distinguished in terms of whether they are grammatically fitted to the end of the host (Glue-ons) or not (Insertables). A preliminary survey of TCU continuation in English, German and Japanese conversation reveals a number of significant differences with respect to frequency and range of extension type. English is at one extreme in preferring Glue-ons over Non-Add-ons and Insertables, whereas Japanese is at the other extreme in preferring Non-add-ons and Insertables over Glue-ons. German occupies an intermediary position but is on the whole more like Japanese. The preference for Glue-ons vs. Insertables appears to reflect a language’s tendency towards syntactic left- vs. right headedness. In conclusion the study argues for a classification of ‘increment’ types which goes beyond the English-based Glue-on, attributes a central role to prosodic delivery and adopts a usage-based understanding of word order.

Exploring Metaphors for the Reception History of the Lord’s Prayer

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-65
Author(s):  
David Clark
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Original Form ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Lord's Prayer ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
Biblical Texts

AbstractIn his work Nomadic Text: A Theory of Biblical Reception History, Brennan Breed argues that texts are nomads which – existing without original form and without original context – have no homeland to claim as their own. Their entire history has been marked by unpredictable movement and variation. He therefore proposes that the study of reception history should primarily be an exploration of the potentiality of textual meanings. The suggestion that meaning progresses without relationship to hermeneutical antecedents, however, runs contrary to Gadamer’s assertion that the contemporary effect (Wirkung) of a text always exists in unity with its historical effects. Following Gadamer, the reception historian may still explore hermeneutical potentiality – but does so with a sense of historical consciousness. In this light, the nature of a biblical text may be more suitably characterized by the metaphor of an emigrant rather than that of a nomad. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the usefulness of these divergent metaphors in our attempt to define both the nature of biblical texts and the task of the reception historian. Our test case will be the early interpretation history of the Lord’s Prayer. Given that the original form and context of this prayer are irretrievable, Breed’s theory is applicable in many respects. Yet it will also be seen that in the early reception history of the Lord’s Prayer there are also patterns of synchronic continuity. Amidst diverse agendas of theology and praxis, we find that interpretations of the Lord’s Prayer were consistently rooted in an inherited conceptualization of Jesus Christ – what we will call a canonical remembrance of his life and proclamation.

scholarly journals Wat dateer ons? Enkele opmerkings rondom die datering van Bybelse tekste

2002 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Lombaard ◽  
J.H. Le Roux
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Biblical Texts

What are we dating? Some remarks on the dating of biblical textsWhen a date is ascribed to a Biblical text, it is at times unclear precisely what is being dated. Does the date relate so some historical event which may have occurred, or alternatively, is it projected into another era? Does it refer to the possible formation date of an oral tradition, or is it perhaps some phase in its development through history which is being dated? Is it the a quo date for when a text is judged to have been written down, or the date ad quem, or some process of rewriting – either between these two dates, or possibly some minor editorial alteration after the ad quo date – which is to be given? Is it referring to a time when an interpretative frame was placed around existing text? This article provides an overview of what it is about a text that may be dated. It concludes with an appeal for greater accuracy of formulation in the already precarious matter of dating biblical texts.

'Job the Dog': Hélène Cixous on Wounds, Scars and the Biblical Text

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 438-448
Author(s):  
Hugh Pyper
Keyword(s):  
Helene Cixous ◽  
Clarice Lispector ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Allusions ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
The Way

AbstractHélène Cixous' engagement with biblical texts is a significant but neglected aspect of her work. In this essay, the biblical allusions in several of her works are traced, particularly centring around the theme of the dog and the bite or wound. The Bible represents for Cixous both an example of the unbounded writing she sees as feminine, and a text that is confined by masculine authority and taboo. These two aspects come together in her engagement with the writings of Clarice Lispector whose grammatically paradoxical phrase in Portuguese eles a biblia—'those he-bible', as translations inadequately represent it—embodies that tension. The tension between these styles of writing in the Bible opens up as a wound in the text which allows a penetration below the surface. The power of the Bible is in the way that this opening lets the reader see 'the meat we are' in an encounter with the 'root' of being.

Phonological Processing and Right minus Left Hand Skill

1992 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Annett
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Variation ◽  
Word Order ◽  
Phonological Processing ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Group Test ◽  
Rhyme Awareness ◽  
Skill Groups ◽  
Experiment Individual ◽  
Made In

Two experiments tested the hypothesis that children at the left of the distribution of right minus left (R-L) hand skill are at risk for poor phonological processing. In the first experiment, individual assessments of spoken rhyme awareness were made in 5- to 8-year-olds. In the second experiment, a group test of word order memory for spoken confusable and nonconfusable items was given to 9- to 11-year-olds. Evidence of poorer phonological processing in those at the left of the R-L distribution was found in both experiments. Rhyme judgements and word order memory were both associated with reading ability, but reading did not interact with effects for hand skill. A group test of homophone comprehension was given to the same children tested for word order memory. Homophone errors did not differ between hand skill groups, showing a dissociation between the two tasks for R-L hand difference. The findings suggest that some risks for phonological processing could be due to normal genetic variation associated with the hypothesized rs + gene (Annett, 1972, 1978).

scholarly journals QUESTÕES DE HERMENÊUTICA BÍBLICA À LUZ DA ESTÉTICA DA RECEPÇÃO

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (127) ◽  
pp. 419
Author(s):  
Antonio Geraldo Cantarela
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
Construction Of Meaning ◽  
Text Reading ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
Wolfgang Iser ◽  
Reception Aesthetics

O artigo propõe algumas questões de interesse de hermenêutica bíblica, discutidas sob o foco teórico da estética da recepção – teoria que destaca o leitor como polo dinamizador do processo da leitura do texto. Na construção de sentido, que se dá no ato da leitura, o leitor poderá sobrepor-se ao texto (o da Bíblia ou qualquer outro), submetendo-o ao próprio interesse ou necessidade, fazendo dele “tabula rasa” para projeção de sentimentos ou usando-o de forma fundamentalista e autoritária. Existiriam “controles” para evitar o uso arbitrário do texto bíblico? Para discutir esta e outras questões correlacionadas ao tema, o artigo apresenta, primeiro, em linhas essencialíssimas, a estética da recepção, a partir de seus dois principais representantes: Hans Robert Jauss e Wolfgang Iser. Volta-se, em seguida à questão central: Como evitar o historicismo e o fundamentalismo na leitura dos textos bíblicos? Como deixar que o texto apresente sua alteridade e diga, ele mesmo, alguma coisa?ABSTRACT: This article proposes some issues relating to biblical hermeneutics, discussed under the theoretical approach of reception aesthetics. This theory emphasizes the reader as a core facility of the text reading. In the construction of meaning that takes place in the act of reading, the reader may override the biblical text or any other text. Then the reader submits the text to his interest or need, making it a “tabula rasa” projection of feelings, or uses the text in a fundamentalist and authoritarian way. Is there any sort of controls to prevent arbitrary use of the biblical text? To discuss this and other related issues, this article presents firstly the aesthetics of reception, from the point of view of two experts: Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser. Then, the text returns to the central question: How to avoid historicism and fundamentalist reading of biblical texts? How to make the text itself presents its alterity and be able to mean something?

scholarly journals Egzegeza literalna Starego Testamentu jako źródło herezji. Stanowisko Filastriusza z Brescii

Vox Patrum ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 619-629
Author(s):  
Mariusz Szram
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Orthodox Interpretation ◽  
Biblical Texts

In the last part of the treatise Diversarum hereseon liber (from chapter 128 to 156), Filastrius of Brescia presents heresies based on the erroneous exegesis of the various biblical texts of the Old Testament. The author of the article dis­cusses several examples of the exegesis considered by Filastrius to be heretical, and wonders whether they indeed had signs of heresy and whether they could pose a significant threat to ecclesiastical orthodoxy. In the light of the examined texts, the Bishop of Brescia appears as a follower of the allegorical exegesis. As for the whole of the Alexandrian tradition from Origen, the overriding criterion of orthodox interpretation of the Scriptures was a spiritual advantage (utilitas spiritalis, scientia caelestis, scientia salutaris). If the proposed interpretation of the biblical text not carried out for such spiritual benefit, it was designated by the Bishop of Brescia as heretical, even if it did not materially harm the doctrinal truths contained in the Rule of the Church’s faith.

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