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The Transjordanian Palimpsest

The Overwritten Texts of Personal Exile and Transformation in the Deuteronomistic History

By: Jeremy M. Hutton

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The Transjordanian Palimpsest

The Overwritten Texts of Personal Exile and Transformation in the Deuteronomistic History

By: Jeremy M. Hutton

This study analyzes several passages in the Former Prophets (2 Sam 19:12-44; 2 Kgs 2:1-18; Judg 8:4-28) from a literary perspective, and argues that the text presents Transjordan as liminal in Israel’s history, a place from which Israel’s leaders return with inaugurated or renewed authority. It then traces the redactional development of Samuel-Kings that led to this literary symbolism, and proposes a hypothesis of continual updating and combination of texts, beginning early in Israel’s monarchy and continuing until the final formation of the Deuteronomistic History. Several source documents may be isolated, including three narratives of Saul’s rise, two distinct histories of David’s rise, and a court history that was subsequently revised with pro-Solomonic additions. These texts had been combined already in a Prophetic Record during the 9th c. B.C.E. (with A. F. Campbell), which was received as an integrated unit by the Deuteronomistic Historian. The symbolic geography of the Jordan River and Transjordan, which even extends into the New Testament, was therefore not the product of a deliberate theological formulation, but rather the accidental by-product of the contingency of textual redaction that had as its main goal the historical presentation of Israel’s life in the land.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110212765

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9783110212761

Translating Empire

Tell Fekheriyeh, Deuteronomy, and the Akkadian Treaty Tradition

By: C. L. Crouch,Jeremy M. Hutton

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Translating Empire

Tell Fekheriyeh, Deuteronomy, and the Akkadian Treaty Tradition

By: C. L. Crouch,Jeremy M. Hutton

In this volume, C. L. Crouch and Jeremy M. Hutton offer a data-driven approach to translation practice in the Iron Age. The authors build on and reinforce Crouch's conclusions in her former work about Deuteronomy and the Akkadian treaty tradition, employing Hutton's "Optimal Translation" theory to analyze the Akkadian-Aramaic bilingual inscription from Tell Fekheriyeh. The authors argue that the inscription exhibits an isomorphic style of translation and only the occasional use of dynamic replacement sets. They apply these findings to other proposed instances of Iron Age translation from Akkadian into dialects of Northwest Semitic, including the relationship between Deuteronomy and the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon and the relationship between the treaty of Assur-nerari V with Mati?ilu and the Sefire treaties. The authors then argue that the lexical and syntactic changes in these cases diverge so significantly from the model established by Tell Fekheriyeh as to exclude the possibility that these treaties constitute translational relationships.

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358

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161590260

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9783161590269

Reading Fiction: Opening the Text

By: Peter Childs

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Reading Fiction: Opening the Text

By: Peter Childs

In what ways does the opening of a novel relate to the narrative that unfolds from it? What are the different approaches to close reading a page of prose fiction? How does reading a text for a second time affect our understanding of the significance of its opening? In this unique book, Peter Childs discusses the opening lines of 24 widely-studied literary texts from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. These analyses amount to both an overview of modes of fiction over the last 300 years and also a guide to techniques of close reading. The extracts are taken from the work of novelists ranging from Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie. This stimulating and illuminating book will be a useful text for undergraduates studying the novel and involved in critical appreciation and close textual analysis. Texts discussed: Robinson Crusoe, Tristram Shandy, Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Silas Marner, Tess of the D'urbervilles, The Turn of the Screw, Heart of Darkness, The Good Soldier, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Life and Death of Harriet Frean, A Passage to India, Mrs Dalloway, Brave New World, The Road to Wigan Pier, Goodbye to Berlin, Under the Volcano, Wide Sargasso Sea, The Bloody Chamber, Shame and The Buddha of Suburbia.

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180

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137081082

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9781137081087

Contemporary Novelists

British Fiction since 1970

By: M. Hutton

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Contemporary Novelists

British Fiction since 1970

By: M. Hutton

Peter Childs offers accessible analyses of the work of twelve prominent contemporary British writers, including Hanif Kureishi, Pat Barker, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson. This expanded second edition has been revised and updated throughout, and now also features a new chapter on the younger "generation" of novelists born in the 1970s.

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408

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350309036

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9781350309036

Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors of Members of the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century, 1915-1975

By: Mary Louise M. Hutton

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Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors of Members of the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century, 1915-1975

By: Mary Louise M. Hutton

Given by Eugene Edge III. (copy 1).

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0806313102

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9780806313108

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The Transjordanian Palimpsest

The Transjordanian Palimpsest

Translating Empire

Translating Empire

Reading Fiction: Opening the Text

Reading Fiction: Opening the Text

Contemporary Novelists

Contemporary Novelists

Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors of Members of the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century, 1915-1975

Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors of Members of the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century, 1915-1975

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