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The Verb and the Paragraph in Biblical Hebrew

A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach

By: Elizabeth Robar

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The Verb and the Paragraph in Biblical Hebrew

A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach

By: Elizabeth Robar

Research on the function and semantics of the verbal system in Hebrew (and Semitics in general) has been in constant ferment since McFall’s 1982 work The Enigma of the Hebrew Verbal System. Elizabeth Robar's analysis provides the best solution to this point, combining cognitive linguistics, cross-linguistics, diachronic and synchronic analysis. Her solution is brilliant, innovative, and supremely satisfying in interpreting all the data with great explanatory power. Let us hope this research will be quickly implemented in grammars of Hebrew." Peter J. Gentry, Donald L. Williams Professor of Old Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY. In The Verb and the Paragraph in Biblical Hebrew, Elizabeth Robar employs cognitive linguistics to unravel the notorious grammatical quandary in biblical Hebrew: explaining the waw consecutive, as well as other poorly understood verbal forms (e.g. with paragogic suffixes). She explains that languages must communicate the shape of thought units: including the prototypical paragraph, with its beginning, middle and ending; and its message. She demonstrates how the waw consecutive is both simpler and more nuanced than often argued. It neither foregrounds nor is a preterite, but it enables highly embedded textual structures. She also shows how allegedly anomalous forms may be used for thematic purposes, guiding the reader to the author’s intended interpretation for the text as it stands.

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9004283110

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Judges 1

A Commentary on Judges 1:1 Ð 10:5

By: Mark S. Smith,Elizabeth M. Bloch-Smith

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Judges 1

A Commentary on Judges 1:1 Ð 10:5

By: Mark S. Smith,Elizabeth M. Bloch-Smith

This groundbreaking volume presents a new translation of the text and detailed interpretation of almost every word or phrase in the book of Judges, drawing from archaeology and iconography, textual versions, biblical parallels, and extrabiblical texts, many never noted before. Archaeology also serves to show how a story of the Iron II period employed visible ruins to narrate supposedly early events from the so-called "period of the Judges." The synchronic analysis for each unit sketches its characters and main themes, as well as other literary dynamics. The diachronic, redactional analysis shows the shifting settings of units as well as their development, commonly due to their inner-textual reception and reinterpretation. The result is a remarkably fresh historical-critical treatment of 1:1-10:5.

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Fortress Press

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1506480497

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Sinfonía

By: Elizabeth Ram Rez,Elizabeth Ramírez

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Sinfonía

By: Elizabeth Ram Rez,Elizabeth Ramírez

Sinfonía es una serie de cuentos cortos, escritos con mucho amor y dedicación. Es una nota callada de las letras en donde la fantasía, la alegría, la paradoja, el chiste, el sarcasmo y la intriga, tocan la puerta de cada uno de los cuentos para embullar al lector en la lectura. Consta de una trama sencilla que diluye toda una amalgama de colores en fe, esperanza y gracia. Cada historia atrapa el tiempo para poder encontrar, al final, una diferente de la otra, llena de efervescencia, vivencia, situaciones de aliento, encanto y armonía para formar la melodía que haga retumbar la mente en escalas mágicas de interés. El fin es sentirse sumergido en la lectura y captar cada mensaje que pueda ser aplicado a situaciones diarias o esbozar simplemente una sonrisa. La escritura riega las páginas de imaginación y esfuerzo para deleitar al lector. Todos buscamos un momento de entretención y este libro le dará ratos de esparcimiento y razonamiento. Con mucha ternura para todos: Sinfonía.

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146333348X

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Autobiographical Writing by Early Modern Hispanic Women

By: Elizabeth Teresa Howe

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Autobiographical Writing by Early Modern Hispanic Women

By: Elizabeth Teresa Howe

Women’s life writing in general has too often been ignored, dismissed, or relegated to a separate category in those few studies of the genre that include it. The present work addresses these issues and offers a countervailing argument that focuses on the contributions of women writers to the study of autobiography in Spanish during the early modern period. There are, indeed, examples of autobiographical writing by women in Spain and its New World empire, evident as early as the fourteenth-century Memorias penned by Doña Leonor López de Cordóba and continuing through the seventeenth-century Cartas of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. What sets these accounts apart, the author shows, are the variety of forms adopted by each woman to tell her life and the circumstances in which she adapts her narrative to satisfy the presence of male critics-whether ecclesiastic or political, actual or imagined-who would dismiss or even alter her life story. Analyzing how each of these women viewed her life and, conversely, how their contemporaries-both male and female-received and sometimes edited her account, Howe reveals the tension in the texts between telling a ’life’ and telling a ’lie’.

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Routledge

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1317176928

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Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater

By: Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen

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Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater

By: Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen

Drawing from early modern plays and treatises on the precepts and practices of the acting process, this study shows how the early modern Spanish actress subscribed to various somatic practices in an effort to prepare for a role. It provides today's reader not only another perspective to the performance aspect of early modern plays, but also a better understanding of how the woman of the theater succeeded in a highly scrutinized profession. Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen examines examples of comedias from playwrights such as Lope de Vega, Luis Vélez de Guevara, Tirso de Molina, and Ana Caro, historical documents, and treatises to demonstrate that the women of the stage transformed their bodies and their social and cultural environment in order to succeed in early modern Spanish theater. Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater is the first full-length, in-depth study of women actors in seventeenth-century Spain. Unique in the field of comedia studies, it approaches the topic from a performance perspective, using somaesthetics as a tool to explain how an artist's lived experiences and emotions unite in the interpretation of art, reconfiguring her "self" via the transformation of habit.

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Routledge

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113478080X

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Joanie

By: Elizabeth Deveau

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Joanie

By: Elizabeth Deveau

In 1942, a bewildered six-year-old Joan Crabb and her siblings find themselves wards of the Loyal True Blue and Orange Orphanage in Richmond Hill, Ontario. For seven challenging years, they support one another through the strong bonds of familial love, until at the age of thirteen, Joan and the other Crabb children are taken in by Bill and Grace, a warm and welcoming farm couple, who model and teach the unconditional love of parents. These invaluable life lessons are tested, however, when Joan and her siblings are blindsided, plucked away from Bill and Grace, and taken to Nova Scotia, into the custody of the biological father they have never known. After Joan falls in love and begins her own ever-increasing family in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, it is apparent that her childhood has gifted her with a huge heart for children in need of a mother’s love. She devotes her life to her many biological, adopted and foster children, but at the heart of Joan’s legacy lies a unique bond with a beautiful special-needs child—Chrissy. Written by a loving daughter, Joanie delivers a lively, entertaining, and incredibly moving account of the joys, triumphs, and tragedies of a life that some might see as ordinary; revealing how incredibly and completely extraordinary it truly was.

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FriesenPress

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103914358X

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Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain

By: Elizabeth B. Davis

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Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain

By: Elizabeth B. Davis

The first in-depth analysis of some of the most important epic poems of the Spanish Golden Age, Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain breathes new life into five of these long- neglected texts. Elizabeth Davis demonstrates that the epic must not be overlooked, for doing so creates a significant gap in one's ability to appraise not only the cultural practice of the imperial age, but also the purest expression of its ideology. Davis's study focuses on heroic poetry written from 1569 to 1611, including Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana, undeniably the most significant epic poem of its time. Also included are Diego de Hojeda's La Christiada, Juan Rufo's La Austriada, . Lope de Vega's Jerusalén Conquistada, and Cristóbal de Virués's Historia del Monserrate. Examining these epics as the major site for the construction of cultural identities and Renaissance nationalist myths, Davis analyzes the means by which the epic constructs a Spanish sense of self. Because this sense of identity is not easily susceptible to direct representation, it is often derived in opposition to an "other," which serves to reaffirm Spanish cultural superiority. The Spanish Christian caballeros are almost always pitted against Amerindians, Muslims, Jews, or other adversaries portrayed as backward or heathen for their cultural and ethnic differences. The pro-Castilian elite of sixteenth-century Spain faced the daunting task of constructing unity at home in the process of expansion and conquest abroad, yet ethnic and regional differences in the Iberian Peninsula made the creation of an imperial identity particularly difficult. The epic, as Davis shows, strains to convey the overriding image of a Spain that appears more unified than the Spanish empire ever truly was. An important reexamination of the Golden Age canon, Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain brings a new twist to the study of canon formation. While Davis does not ignore more traditional approaches to the literary text, she does apply recent theories, such as deconstruction and feminist criticism, to these poems, resulting in an innovative examination of the material. Confronting such issues as canonicity, gender, the relationship between literature and Golden Age culture, and that between art and power, this publication offers scholars a new perspective for assessing Golden Age and Transatlantic studies

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University of Missouri Press

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0826262155

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9780826262158

Spanish Lingo for the Savvy Gringo

By: M. F. Jones-Reid,Elizabeth Reid

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Spanish Lingo for the Savvy Gringo

By: M. F. Jones-Reid,Elizabeth Reid

Focusing on the Spanish that is spoken in Mexico, and most frequently in the United States, this book teaches the language and provides insights into Mexican culture and its customs.

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Sunbelt Publications, Inc.

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0932653596

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9780932653598

The Handless Maiden

Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain

By: Mary Elizabeth Perry

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The Handless Maiden

Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain

By: Mary Elizabeth Perry

In 1502, a decade of increasing tension between Muslims and Christians in Spain culminated in a royal decree that Muslims in Castile wanting to remain had to convert to Christianity. Mary Elizabeth Perry uses this event as the starting point for a remarkable exploration of how Moriscos, converted Muslims and their descendants, responded to their increasing disempowerment in sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century Spain. Stepping beyond traditional histories that have emphasized armed conflict from the view of victors, The Handless Maiden focuses on Morisco women. Perry argues that these women's lives offer vital new insights on the experiences of Moriscos in general, and on how the politics of religion both empowers and oppresses. Drawing on archival documents, legends, and literature, Perry shows that the Moriscas carried out active resistance to cultural oppression through everyday rituals and acts. For example, they taught their children Arabic language and Islamic prayers, dietary practices, and the observation of Islamic holy days. Thus the home, not the battlefield, became the major forum for Morisco-Christian interaction. Moriscas' experiences further reveal how the Morisco presence provided a vital counter-identity for a centralizing state in early modern Spain. For readers of the twenty-first century, The Handless Maiden raises urgent questions of how we choose to use difference and historical memory.

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Princeton University Press

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069113054X

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9780691130545

Labors Appropriate to Their Sex

Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900–1930

By: Elizabeth Quay Hutchison

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Labors Appropriate to Their Sex

Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900–1930

By: Elizabeth Quay Hutchison

DIVThe first systematic account of Chilean women's labor from 1885 to 1930 showing how women's paid labor became a locus of anxiety for a society confronting social problems linked to modernization./div

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Duke University Press

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0822327422

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9780822327424

Canadian Who's Who 2007

By: Elizabeth Lumley

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Canadian Who's Who 2007

By: Elizabeth Lumley

Now in its ninety-seventh year of publication, this standard Canadian reference source contains the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical information on notable living Canadians. Those listed are carefully selected because of the positions they hold in Canadian society; or because of the contribution they have made to life in Canada. The volume is updated annually to ensure accuracy, and 600 new entries are added each year to keep current with developing trends and issues in Canadian society. Included are outstanding Canadians from all walks of life: politics, media, academia, business, sports, and the arts, from every area of human activity. Each entry details birth date and place, education, family, career history, memberships, creative works, honours and awards, and full addresses. Indispensable to researchers, students, media, business, government, and schools, Canadian Who's Who is an invaluable source of general knowledge.

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0802040616

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9780802040619

The Verb and the Paragraph in Biblical Hebrew

A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach

By: Elizabeth Robar

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The Verb and the Paragraph in Biblical Hebrew

A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach

By: Elizabeth Robar

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The Bully Pulpit, Presidential Speeches, and the Shaping of Public Policy

By: Jeffrey S. Ashley,Marla J. Jarmer

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The Bully Pulpit, Presidential Speeches, and the Shaping of Public Policy

By: Jeffrey S. Ashley,Marla J. Jarmer

Issue framing is the way that people, especially politicians, get other people to view a particular problem or issue. By framing the issue in a particular way, the goal is to get people to think about the issue, to believe that an action is required and, most importantly, to believe that a particular action (the one being proposed by the framer) is the right one. The use of language and imagery is an essential part of issue framing and has been an integral part of the presidency since our nation’s founding, but it has become particularly important since Theodore Roosevelt began to take his message directly to the people. This work examines a selected speech delivered by every president from Roosevelt through Barack Obama to show how language has been instrumental in directing policy. Each chapter will examine the situation or background for the problem, include a transcript of the speech the president delivered, and conclude with an analysis of the speech in terms of the particular frame that the speech utilized and the eventual outcome, or policy direction, inspired by the speech.

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Lexington Books

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1498501966

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The Verb and the Paragraph in Biblical Hebrew

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Judges 1

Sinfonía

Sinfonía

Autobiographical Writing by Early Modern Hispanic Women

Autobiographical Writing by Early Modern Hispanic Women

Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater

Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater

Joanie

Joanie

Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain

Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain

Spanish Lingo for the Savvy Gringo

Spanish Lingo for the Savvy Gringo

The Handless Maiden

The Handless Maiden

Labors Appropriate to Their Sex

Labors Appropriate to Their Sex

Canadian Who's Who 2007

Canadian Who's Who 2007

The Verb and the Paragraph in Biblical Hebrew

The Verb and the Paragraph in Biblical Hebrew

The Bully Pulpit, Presidential Speeches, and the Shaping of Public Policy

The Bully Pulpit, Presidential Speeches, and the Shaping of Public Policy

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