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Where is God in the Megilloth?

A Dialogue on the Ambiguity of Divine Presence and Absence

By: Brittany Melton

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Where is God in the Megilloth?

A Dialogue on the Ambiguity of Divine Presence and Absence

By: Brittany Melton

In Where is God in the Megilloth? Brittany N. Melton constructs a dialogue among Ruth, Esther, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs centred on this question, in an effort to settle the debate about whether God is present or absent in these books. Their juxtaposition in the Hebrew Bible highlights their shared theme of apparent divine absence, but, paradoxically, traces of God’s presence are unearthed as well. By examining various aspects of this theme, including the literary absence of God, divine abandonment, God-talk, allusive language, God’s providence, and divine silence, it becomes clear that the ambiguity of divine presence and absence in the Megilloth presents a significant challenge to current conceptualizations of divine presence and absence in the Hebrew Bible.

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BRILL

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9004368957

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Teaching Migrant Children in West Germany and Europe, 1949–1992

By: Brittany Lehman

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Teaching Migrant Children in West Germany and Europe, 1949–1992

By: Brittany Lehman

This book examines the right to education for migrant children in Europe between 1949 and 1992. Using West Germany as a case study to explore European trends, the book analyzes how the Council of Europe and European Community’s ideological goals were implemented for specific national groups. The book starts with education for displaced persons and exiles in the 1950s, then compares schooling for Italian, Greek, and Turkish labor migrants, then circles back to asylum seekers and returning ethnic Germans. For each group, the state entries involved tried to balance equal education opportunities with the right to personhood, an effort which became particularly convoluted due to implicit biases. When the European Union was founded in 1993, children’s access to education depended on a complicated mix of legal status and perception of cultural compatibility. Despite claims that all children should have equal opportunities, children’s access was limited by citizenship and ethnic identity.

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Springer

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3319977288

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Where is God in the Megilloth?

A Dialogue on the Ambiguity of Divine Presence and Absence

By: Brittany Melton

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Where is God in the Megilloth?

A Dialogue on the Ambiguity of Divine Presence and Absence

By: Brittany Melton

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Where is God in the Megilloth?

Where is God in the Megilloth?

Teaching Migrant Children in West Germany and Europe, 1949–1992

Teaching Migrant Children in West Germany and Europe, 1949–1992

Where is God in the Megilloth?

Where is God in the Megilloth?

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