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A series of articles by scholars from around the world reading the story of Earth in Genesis in the light of the ecojustice principles enunciated in Volume One, 'Readings from the Perspective of Earth'. These readings uncover how Earth may be valued or de-valued, given a voice or denied a voice, dominated or served, depending on the orientation of the text. In Genesis 1, for example, the intrinsic worth of Earth is highlighted in the 'revealing' of Earth's presence but negated when humans are given the right to 'subdue' it. In Genesis 9 the text begins with the Earth community terrified by, an

What does 'performance' mean in Christian culture? How is it connected to rituals, dramatic and visual arts, and the written word? Performing the Sacred: Christian Representation and the Arts explores both the meaning of re-presentation and the role of performance within the Christian tradition between arts and drama. The essays in this book demonstrate that the idea of performance was central to Christian theology and that—from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern era—it became a device through which people saw, prayed, preached, wrote, imagined, officiated rites, celebrated cults, and practiced devotions. Seen that performance is a habitus within Christianity, performing the sacred does not just mean representing it, but rather enacting it in a tangible, visible and involved way.

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The author assumes that the strategy of the ideologues and translators of the Bible of Port-Royal, based on the powerful linguistic-logical, philosophical-theological and methodological basis of "The Grammar" and "The Logic" of Port-Royal, was in many respects to convey latently to the reader, in what they believed to be a correct and adequate interpretation of the Vulgate, key as­pects of the theological and philosophical ideology of Jansenism (going back to Aurelius Augustine). So, the reader, even completely alien to Jansenism, could at times unconsciously absorb elements of this doctrine without even realising it. By way of a philosophical analysis of the poem "The Prophet", the author seeks to bring to light not only some aspects of Pushkin's perception of the Bible of Port-Royal, which he started actively reading in 1825, but also elements of Jansenism ideology (including the "reformation of the inner man"). The poet may also have become acquainted with some of the doctrines of this teaching through the writings of the Jansenist Pascal. The author also sees in Pushkin's "Prophet" an implicit parallel to Augustine's doctrine of the world as a "hierar­chy" of God's creations. The mystical-allegorical description of his "reforma­tion"/"transformation" is consistently correlated by the poet with the Biblical prophetic symbolism of the heavenly fire (in which one can see a parallel to Pas­cal's "Memorial"). The article also reveals the soteriological aspect of the global humanitarian mission of the poet-"prophet". Assuming an implicit influence of Jansenism through the Bible of Port-Royal (and an explicit one through the writings of Pascal) might throw new light on the identification of the creative origins and the transformation of the outlook of other Russian writers of the first half to the middle of the 19th century, as well as on the development of Russian intellectual and political thought (e.g., that of Emperor Alexander I) during this period.

The purpose of this thesis is twofold. First, I will research what a selected group of authors and scholars has stated regarding their search for the biblical city of Raamses. 3 This step will involve research of the motive of those researchers who attempted to match Raamses of Exod 1:11 with geographical locations in Egypt, to follow their search within the social and political context of these scholars. Second, based on these scholars' research, I will attempt to discover what happened when Bible and archaeology interacted in the search for the city of Raamses. The study begins with some pages of background. There, I have included a section covering the many geographical names we will encounter on this topic and their locations. Next, I provide a short introduction to archaeology and then follows the description of a selected group of scholars and their research. I have divided the study into fifty-year periods. The first three scholars covered, Gerardus Mercator, Edward Robinson, and Carl Richard Lepsius, published mainly before 1850. Then we will follow three other scholars, Frederick Charles Cook, Eduard Naville, and John William Dawson, who mainly published between 1850 and 1900, etc., until today. Since many of these scholars published also before and after the period in which they are considered in the present study, I have not followed these somewhat artificial divisions of fifty-year periods too rigidly but sometimes included what they have written later. I have chosen this approach in order to identify some of the major steps in the search for the city of Raamses as well as the development of the relationship between the Bible and archaeology. Each chapter includes a summary of the respective period regarding the views of archaeology for that time-period. Towards the end of the study, before the main conclusion, I include a final discussion about archaeology and the Bible. That chapter is based both on the scholars followed in this study but also on a wider context of what happened when archaeology interacted with the Bible.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Abstract -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- 1.1. Focal Statement -- 1.2. Definition of Retribution -- 1.3. Rationale -- 1.4. Selection of Texts -- 1.4.1. Texts with Linguistic but No Conceptual Post-mortem Import -- 1.4.2. Section Conclusion -- 1.4.3. Texts with Debatable Post-mortem Import -- 1.4.4. Section Conclusion -- 1.5. Review of Literature -- 1.5.1. Section Conclusion -- 1.6. Method: Intertextuality -- 1.6.1. Origin -- 1.6.2. Intertextuality and Biblical Studies -- 1.6.3. Production and Reception-Centred Intertextuality -- 1.6.4. Questioning Intertextuality -- 1.6.5. Intertextuality As a Method in This Dissertation -- CHAPTER 2 The Aspects of Divine Retribution in the Book of Deuteronomy -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Divine Retribution in the Hebrew Bible: The Traditional View -- 2.3. Klaus Koch's Challenge -- 2.4. Towards a More Nuanced Understanding of Divine Retribution -- 2.5. The Aspects of Divine Retribution in the Book of Deuteronomy -- 2.5.1. Impersonal Aspect of Divine Retribution -- 2.5.2. Anthropocentric Aspect of Divine Retribution -- 2.5.3. Theocentric Aspect of Retribution -- 2.5.4. Dissolution of Retribution -- 2.6. Conclusion -- CHAPTER 3 Post-mortem Divine Retribution in Isaiah 26:19 -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Isaiah 24-27: A Distinct Textual Complex -- 3.3. Date of Isaiah 24-27 -- 3.3.1. Lack of Dateable Historical Data -- 3.3.2. Circular Argument of Theological Concept as a Basis for Date -- 3.3.3. Literary Genre -- 3.3.4. Redactional History -- 3.4. Structure of Isaiah 26 -- 3.5. Text: Isaiah 26:19 -- 3.5.1. Grammatical Problem -- 3.5.2. Identity of the Speaker in Isaiah 26:19 -- 3.6. Resurrection: Metaphorical or Literal -- 3.7. Basis and Aspect of Post-mortem Divine Retribution in Isaiah 26:19 -- 3.7.1. The Dead Who Rise -- 3.7.2. The Dead Who Do Not Rise.