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 Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an as Literature and Culture:

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-xxiv)   (157K)
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    • Contents
    • Notes On Contributors
    • Preface
  • General Introduction (1-12)   (92K)
  • Introduction To Part I (13-20)   (69K)
  • Contemporary Readings Of The Qurʾan: Cruel/Compassionate? (21-32)   (95K)
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    • Introduction
  • If The Words Be Well Understood: Canticles And The Problematic Of Spiritual Metaphor (33-40)   (72K)
  • Qurʾan, Canon, And Literature (41-52)   (103K)
  • Sign, Analogy, And The Via Negativa: Approaching The Transcendent God Of The Qurʾan (53-64)   (99K)
  • Force Dynamics And The Qurʾân: An Essay In Cognitive Qurʾânic (65-76)   (102K)
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    • A Pandemonium Of Forces: Kinetics, Semantics And The Qurʾân
    • Force Dynamics In Religious Language: The Qurʾânic Example
    • More On Force Dynamics
    • Verbal Forms And Forces: Pushing Some Further Examples
    • Future Prospects: Drawing Nearer Theistic Force-Fields
  • The Function Of Tropic Structures In The Fourth Gospel (77-92)   (110K)
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    • Introduction
    • “Only In The Stream . . .”: The Problem
    • “. . . Of Thought And Life . . .”: Learning To Understand
    • “. . . Do Words Have Meaning”: The Living Word
    • Conclusion
  • Some Aspects Of Narration In The Qurʾan (93-106)   (108K)
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    • The Living Context Of The Qurʾan
    • The Principle Of Tasrif
    • Association
  • Death And The Double: Gothic Aesthetics In Genesis 4.1–16 (107-114)   (73K)
  • The Baroque Prophets: An Encounter Between The Hebrew Prophets And John Donne (115-140)   (149K)
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    • Literary Study Of The Bible As Deflected Worship: The Misfit Prophets
    • The Aesthetics Of Prophecy And The Aesthetics Of Wisdom: Delicate Wordsmithery Versus World/Word-Splintering Force
    • Audacious Couplings
    • Vile Bodies
    • Broken Names
  • Introduction To Part II (141-146)   (39K)
  • Jesus Simulacrum, Or The Gospels Vs. "The Gospel" (147-158)   (97K)
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    • Four Jesuses
    • Reality Effect
    • Canon And ‘The Gospel’
  • Human~Divine Communication As A Paradigm For Power: Al-Tha'Labï'S Presentation Of Q. 38:24 And Q. 38:34 (159-172)   (115K)
  • In Possession Of The Night: Lilith As Goddess, Demon, Vampire (173-182)   (86K)
  • Images Of Abraham And G-D In A Jewish Reading Of Genesis (183-192)   (86K)
  • Introduction To Part III (193-200)   (69K)
  • Timeless Texts And Modern Morals: Challenges In Islamic Sexual Ethics (201-216)   (119K)
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    • Reformist Methodologies
    • Chastity And Indecency
    • Navigating Within The Boundaries
    • Conclusion
  • Mary And The Marquise: Reading The Annunciation In The Romantic Rape Tradition (217-232)   (136K)
  • The Mesopotamian Flood Epic In The Earliest Texts, The Bible, And The Qurʾan (233-244)   (97K)
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    • Flood Narrative Fundamentals
    • How Does The Qurʾan Present The Flood?
    • That Which Is Missing
    • That Which Is Added
    • The Overarching Messages
  • Call It Magic Surgery: Possessing Members, Possessing Texts/Circumcision And Midrash (245-256)   (91K)
  • The Trajectory Of Hunger: Appropriation And Prophecy In The Book Of Ruth (257-274)   (125K)
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    • Setting A Cultural Limit Through Hunger
    • Mapping Geographies And Genealogies
    • Surviving Total Annihilation
    • Conclusion: Appropriating Hunger
  • Introduction To Part IV (275-282)   (66K)
  • The Shaman Meets The Poet: María Sabina And The Curative Powers Of Language (283-300)   (118K)
  • From Haggadic Exegesis To Myth: Popular Stories Of The Prophets In Islam (301-316)   (125K)
  • The Right To Write: Power, Irony, And Identity In The Book Of Esther (317-334)   (111K)
  • The Book Of Job And Shakespearean Subjectivity (335-348)   (99K)
  • Sacred Tropes: The Laugh Of Abraham And The Birth Of Subjectivity (349-360)   (100K)
  • Crossing Outlaws: The Life And Times Of Jesse James And Jesus Of Nazareth (361-372)   (83K)
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    • Betrayal Of A Bandit
    • Jesse James
    • Jesus Of Nazareth
    • Crossing Outlaws
  • Introduction To Part V (373-378)   (57K)
  • Mary In The Qurʾan: Rereading Subversive Births (379-392)   (102K)
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    • A Note On Methodology
    • Q 19:2–33
    • “She Withdrew From Her Family . . .”
    • “I Am Not A Whore”
    • “O Sister Of Aaron”
    • Irony And Legitimacy
    • Afterword
  • Sarah'S Gift: Gender, Agency, And The Sacred (393-408)   (96K)
  • What Happens When Achsah Gets Off Her Ass? Queer Reading And Judges 1:11–15 (409-420)   (91K)
  • Isaac As The Lamb Of God: A Hermeneutic Crux In The Re-Reading Of Jewish Texts (421-434)   (105K)
  • Introduction To Part VI (435-440)   (55K)
  • African Rewritings Of The Jewish And Islamic Solomonic Tradition: The Triumph Of The Queen Of Sheba In The Ethiopian Fourteenth-Century Text Kebrä Nägäst (441-460)   (179K)
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    • The History Of The Text Of The Kәbrä Nägäst
    • The Story Of The Kәbrä Nägäst
    • The Women Of The Kәbrä Nägäst
  • Noah'S Nakedness: Islam, Race, And The Fantasy Of The Christian West (461-474)   (94K)
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    • Noah And That Sweet Red Wine
    • Latin America
    • Indigenous Australia
    • Conclusion: A Very Different West
  • Supplying The Missing Body Of Onesimus: Readings Of Paul'S Letter To Philemon (475-484)   (80K)
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    • Introduction
    • The Early History Of Paul’S Letter To Philemon
    • Supplying The Missing Body Of Onesimus In The Antebellum Period
  • Revelation And Revolution: Law, Justice, And Politics In The Hebrew Bible (485-492)   (75K)
  • Antonin Scalia V. Jonathan Edwards: Romans 13 And The American Theology Of State (493-504)   (89K)
  • Index Of Passages From Tanakh, New Testament, And Qurʾan (505-512)   (74K)
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    • Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)
    • New Testament
    • Qurʾan
  • Subject Index (513-536)   (161K)