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Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Judges and Ruth

By: P. Deryn Guest,Gerald West

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Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Judges and Ruth

By: P. Deryn Guest,Gerald West

This extract from the Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible provides Guest and West’s introduction to and concise commentary on Judges and Ruth. The Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible presents, in nontechnical language, the best of modern scholarship on each book of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. Reader-friendly commentary complements succinct summaries of each section of the text and will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers. Rather than attempt a verse-by-verse analysis, these volumes work from larger sense units, highlighting the place of each passage within the overarching biblical story. Commentators focus on the genre of each text—parable, prophetic oracle, legal code, and so on—interpreting within the historical and literary context. The volumes also address major issues within each biblical book—including the range of possible interpretations—and refer readers to the best resources for further discussions.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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146745348X

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African and European Readers of the Bible in Dialogue

In Quest of a Shared Meaning

By: Gerald West,Hans (J.H) de Wit

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African and European Readers of the Bible in Dialogue

In Quest of a Shared Meaning

By: Gerald West,Hans (J.H) de Wit

Far too long, the relationship between European and African biblical scholarship has been a non-relationship. Divergent insights into how biblical texts should be interpreted and made fruitful for the current context, cultural differences, colonial past and post-colonial future, radically different social situations – this all made companionship and real interaction difficult. This rich and multilayered volume (result of a Stellenbosch conference 2006) attempts to disclose new modes of dialogue between readers of the Bible from those two worlds. More than twenty theologians from Africa and Europe reflect together on how readers from radically different contexts – professional and ordinary alike –, may become allies in an ethically accountable way of relating the biblical text to their current (global) situations and how a process of mutual learning may be established. This book provides important insights in intercultural hermeneutics, the relationship between classical historico-literary approaches and new forms of interpretation. It also gives examples of new forms of how to read the Bible in the secularised European context and the HIV/Aids stricken Africa. Particularly enriching is that every contribution is followed by a personal letter of response of another contributor to the book, giving impulses for further dialogue and debate. The book is useful for all biblical scholars and students, in particular for those interested in how to do contextual exegesis in a manner that also takes into account the context of the other.

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448

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BRILL

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9047442407

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9789047442400

Beyond Fragments

Adults, Motivation And Higher Education

By: Linden West

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Beyond Fragments

Adults, Motivation And Higher Education

By: Linden West

Adults now constitute the majority of students in higher education; what they bring to it, want and need are important questions in the development of a more responsive higher education. The author discusses The Relationship Between Motives, Education, And Life History To Explore how culture and history shape people and their motives for learning, taking into account variations in gender, social background and ethnicity, challenging the orthodox view that non-traditional students enter higher educational for vocational/material reasons.

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249

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Routledge

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1136350233

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9781136350238

Smart and Sassy

The Strengths of Inner-City Black Girls

By: Joyce West Stevens

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Smart and Sassy

The Strengths of Inner-City Black Girls

By: Joyce West Stevens

Empirically based, the daily experience of adolescent black females is explicated within an explanatory model of social context and developmental theory. The author argues that adolescence must be seen from strengths and health perspectives. Self-relatedness or intersubjectivity expressed in assertion, empathy, and recognition is the core matrix of development where social contextual responses can be adaptive or maladaptive.

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Oxford University Press

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0195121643

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Assessing Students' Digital Writing

Protocols for Looking Closely

By: Erin Klein,Julie Johnson,Jeremy Hyler,Bonnie Kaplan,Jack Zangerle,Christina Puntel,Stephanie West-Puckett

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Assessing Students' Digital Writing

Protocols for Looking Closely

By: Erin Klein,Julie Johnson,Jeremy Hyler,Bonnie Kaplan,Jack Zangerle,Christina Puntel,Stephanie West-Puckett

In this book, Troy Hicks - a leader in the teaching of digital writing - collaborates with seven National Writing Project teacher consultants to provide a protocol for assessing students' digital writing. This collection highlights six case studies centered on evidence the authors have uncovered through teacher inquiry and structured conversations about students' digital writing. Beginning with a digital writing sample, each teacher offers an analysis of a student's work and a reflection on how collaborative assessment affected his or her teaching. Because the authors include teachers from kindergarten to college, this book provides opportunities for vertical discussions of digital writing development, as well as grade-level conversations about high-quality digital writing. The collection also includes an introduction and conclusion, written by Hicks, that provides context for the inquiry group's work and recommendations for assessment of digital writing.

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167

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Teachers College Press

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0807756695

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9780807756690

Breaking Bread

Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

By: bell hooks,Cornel West

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Breaking Bread

Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

By: bell hooks,Cornel West

In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life. The two friends and comrades in struggle talk, argue, and disagree about everything from community to capitalism in a series of intimate conversations that range from playful to probing to revelatory. In evoking the act of breaking bread, the book calls upon the various traditions of sharing that take place in domestic, secular, and sacred life where people come together to give themselves, to nurture life, to renew their spirits, sustain their hopes, and to make a lived politics of revolutionary struggle an ongoing practice. This 25th anniversary edition continues the dialogue with "In Solidarity," their 2016 conversation at the bell hooks Institute on racism, politics, popular culture and the contemporary Black experience.

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Routledge

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1315437074

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Our Kind of Historian

The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.

By: E. James West

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Our Kind of Historian

The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.

By: E. James West

Journalist, activist, popular historian, and public intellectual, Lerone Bennett Jr. left an indelible mark on twentieth-century American history and culture. Rooted in his role as senior editor of Ebony magazine, but stretching far beyond the boundaries of the Johnson Publishing headquarters in Chicago, Bennett’s work and activism positioned him as a prominent advocate for Black America and a scholar whose writing reached an unparalleled number of African American readers. This critical biography—the first in-depth study of Bennett’s life—travels with him from his childhood experiences in Jim Crow Mississippi and his time at Morehouse College in Atlanta to his later participation in a dizzying range of Black intellectual and activist endeavors. Drawing extensively on Bennett’s previously inaccessible archival collections at Emory University and Chicago State, as well as interviews with close relatives, colleagues, and confidantes, Our Kind of Historian celebrates his enormous influence within and unique connection to African American communities across more than half a century of struggle.

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UMass + ORM

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1613769245

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Solid State Chemistry and Its Applications

By: Anthony R. West

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Solid State Chemistry and Its Applications

By: Anthony R. West

The first broad account offering a non-mathematical, unified treatment of solid state chemistry. Describes synthetic methods, X-ray diffraction, principles of inorganic crystal structures, crystal chemistry and bonding in solids; phase diagrams of 1, 2 and 3 component systems; the electrical, magnetic, and optical properties of solids; three groups of industrially important inorganic solids--glass, cement, and refractories; and certain aspects of organic solid state chemistry, including the ``organic metal'' of new materials.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471908746

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Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Judges and Ruth

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Beyond Fragments

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Assessing Students' Digital Writing

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Breaking Bread

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Our Kind of Historian

Our Kind of Historian

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