Happy is the man who fills his quiver with them (Ps. 127:5): constructions of masculinities in the Psalms (original) (raw)
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The result is that these two commentaries differ considerably in what they offer to the readership for which they (in fact if not overtly) provide. As the NCBC definition would suggest, Matthews (who includes also Ruth and treats it similarly) does not attempt to reproduce the verse-by-verse style of commentary of an International Critical Commentary or an Anchor Bible volume, which are meant for more serious scholars. Instead, chapter by chapter he includes a translation of the text and engages in discursive commentary. Though every page is generously footnoted with references to literature bearing on matters raised, M. declines to enter into textual debate or scholarly discussion, an exception perhaps being made for Phylis Trible's Texts of Terror on the notorious incident of the Levite's concubine in Judges 19 (pp. 180-90). This admirable economy (in the light of the intended readership) can perhaps blur distinctions, as in the case (p. 181) of M.'s relating the Masoretic Hebrew text to the Septuagint and Vulgate (to clarify the status of the concubine in that chapter). The intention, then, is to point interested students in the direction of fuller treatment. This purpose is also well served by the lengthy chapter on 'Suggested reading', where listing and brief analysis occur of available commentaries, literary studies, redaction studies, feminist studies and more. Other student-friendly components include tables or sidebars and several sections aimed at 'personal reflection, teaching and preaching'. But not an illustration in sight. That intentional omission may serve as a token of the difference in real achievement of these two commentaries. Despite the BBC claim to offer 'a series of scholarly commentaries', to the browser its character may appear most clearly in the inclusion of scores of (often quaint) illustrations. (One wonders, for instance, why one such on the cover depicts Job and Satan.) There is a claim made (p. x) to incorporate patristic, rabbinic and medieval exegesis, which G. qualifies (1) by intending to 'offer a Western, post-Enlightenment perspective'. But any intention of providing 'scholars' with a scholarly approach to Judges is undercut by reducing the biblical book to nine chapters (text in no language included), which provide an uncritical and somewhat bewildering potpourri of superficial comments from all ages in parallel with a large range of illustrations. The result is to make one wonder if the aim is education or diversion. G. gives pride of place to the book's colourful characters, in which admittedly Judges abounds; so we get forty pages on Jael, whose claim to fame rests on her hammering a peg into the head of Sisera (Jgs 4), illustrated with three pages of eleven plates; likewise four pages of sixteen plates on Jephthah's daughter-and much more of the same on Samson! One can only wonder what the Deuteronomist redactor of the traditions behind the book would think of all this. The terms 'trite', 'quaint', 'sensationalist' come to mind; what have well been styled 'texts of terror' are trivialised. The final fifty pages of bibliographies, indexes, a glossary, biographies of a vast range of 'commentators' cannot rescue the work as a 'scholarly commentary'.
Fenton Section 4 Psalms, Solomon, Sacred Writers Adobe
The Holy Bible 1903 Ferrar Fenton Translation in Computer Format - Introduction and Index The Ferrar Fenton translation of the Hebrew Bible is vastly different from the King James version, and imparts a totally different meaning to much of the writing. Its popularity has, no doubt, been affected by the lack of a computer-readable format to use for comparison to other translations. This work, presented here in the five sections that were originally released, is a combined work of three different persons. A university scholar originally scanned the book version, which is in the public domain, a second person was courteous enough to post the .pdf scans of that professor, both of whose names have been lost in the many changes in the computing world, and myself, having spent the last four months translating the work into computer-readable format, a task requiring not only computer skills but also the ability to read the ancient decorated type font used for the section headings and a sufficient knowledge of the basic structure of the original English translations for the location of chapter breaks, section numbering and such, which differs significantly in both form and function from the King James version. The five sections are as follows: Section 1 - The Writings of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers Deuteronomy. Section 2 - The History of the People of Israel: Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings. Section 3 - The Books of the Prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakuk, Zephaniah, Hagai, Zakariah, Malachi. Section 4 - The Psalms, Solomon, and Sacred Writers: The Psalms, Proverbs of Solomon, Book of Job, the Song of Songs, Book of Ruth, the Lamentations of Jeremiah, Ecclesiastes, Book of Esther, Book of Daniel, Ezra, Book of Nehemiah, First book of Chronicles, Second Book of Chronicles. Section 5 - The New Testament.
Themelios 44.1, 2019
The NIV Application Commentary series is unique. Any student of the Psalms using this work will quickly find its accessibility a welcoming appetizer before being presented with the main course of world-class Psalms scholarship. This commentary is intentionally designed to be two-way—readers are not only guided backwards to what the text meant in its original contexts, but its meaning and implications are brought forward to bear on the readers’ present context. In this volume, Grant covers Psalms 73–106, while Tucker covers Psalms 107–150. Individually, they have worked on the Psalms for many years. Besides bringing to the table up-to-date scholarship from both sides of the Atlantic, the combination of their strengths makes this second installation a formidable one. Tucker’s earlier work, Constructing and Deconstructing Power in Psalms 107–150 (Atlanta: SBL, 2014), supplied the historical basis for his interpretation of these psalms. Likewise, Grant’s published dissertation, The King as Exemplar: The Function of Deuteronomy’s Kingship Law in the Shaping of the Book of Psalms (Atlanta: SBL, 2004), supplied the literary and theological frameworks for his interpretation of the exilic and Mosaic psalms in books three and four of the Psalter. In other words, they are suitably qualified for this mammoth task. Those familiar with the first volume by Gerald Wilson will be happy to know that Tucker and Grant, who represent a younger generation of Psalms scholarship, have continued the tradition. Even more so, they have now supplied in their introduction what was left unsaid by Wilson (pp. 19–37): two important hermeneutical perspectives—the editorial shape, and the theology of the Psalter. The discussions on the editorial shape of the Psalter have gone somewhat beyond what Wilson had accomplished. For instance, Grant has linked the loss of Jerusalem depicted in Psalm 74 all the way through Psalm 79 and beyond by highlighting certain motifs like “remembrance” (pp. 80, 97, 110, 140, 168, 182). Clearly, the commentary has benefited also from the slew of studies on the canonical shaping of the Psalter since the 1990s.
Table of contents Executive summary �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 133 2.1 Introduction: Land-climate interactions ���������������������� 137 2.1.1 Recap of previous IPCC and other relevant reports as baselines ����������������������������������������� 137 2.1.2 Introduction to the chapter structure ����������������������� 138 Box 2.1: Processes underlying land-climate interactions �������������������������������������������������������������139 2.2 The effect of climate variability and change on land ������������������������������������������������������������������������� 140 2.2.1 Overview of climate impacts on land ���������������������������140 2.2.2 Climate-driven changes in aridity ������������������������������� 142 2.2.3 The influence of climate change on food security ��������������������������������������������������� 142 2.2.4 Climate-driven changes in terrestrial ecosystems ��������������������������������������������������� 143 2.2.5 Climate extremes and their impact on land functioning ������������������������������������������������������������� 144 Cross-Chapter Box 3 | Fire and climate change ������������148 2.3 Greenhouse gas fluxes between land and atmosphere ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 151 2.3.1 Carbon dioxide ����������������������������������������������������������������������� 152 2.3.2 Methane ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 157 2.3.3 Nitrous oxide ��������������������������������������������������������������������������� 160 Box 2.2: Methodologies for estimating national to global scale anthropogenic land carbon fluxes 163 Box 2.3: CO2 fertilisation and enhanced terrestrial uptake of carbon ���������������������������������������������������������165 2.4 Emissions and impacts of short-lived climate forcers (SLCF) from land ������������������������������������������� 166 2.4.1 Mineral dust ����������������������������������������������������������������������������� 166 2.4.2 Carbonaceous aerosols ����������������������������������������������������� 167 2.4.3 Biogenic volatile organic compounds ���������������������� 169 2.5 Land impacts on climate and weather through biophysical and GHG effects ���������������������������������������������������� 171 2.5.1 Impacts of historical and future anthropogenic land cover changes ���������������������������� 171 2.5.2 Impacts of specific land use changes ����������������������� 176 2.5.3 Amplifying/dampening climate changes via land responses ���������������������������������������������������������������� 182 2.5.4 Non-local and downwind effects resulting from changes in land cover �������������������������������������������� 184 Cross-Chapter Box 4 | Climate change and urbanisation �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������186 2.6 Climate consequences of response options ����������������� 188 2.6.1 Climate impacts of individual response options 189 2.6.2 Integrated pathways for climate change mitigation ���������������������������������������������� 195 2.6.3 The contribution of response options to the Paris Agreement ����������������������������������������������������� 199 2.7 Plant and soil processes underlying land-climate interactions ����������������������������������������������������������� 201 2.7.1 Temperature responses of plant and ecosystem production ���������������������������������������������� 201 2.7.2 Water transport through soil-plant-atmosphere continuum and drought mortality �������������������������������������������������������� 202 2.7.3 Soil microbial effects on soil nutrient dynamics and plant responses to elevated CO 2 ����������������������� 202 2.7.4 Vertical distribution of soil organic carbon ����������� 203 2.7.5 Soil carbon responses to warming and changes in soil moisture ����������������������������������������� 203 2.7.6 Soil carbon responses to changes in organicmatter inputs by plants ������������������������������� 204 Frequently Asked Questions �������������������������������������������������������������������205 FAQ 2.1: How does climate change affect land use and land cover? ����������������������������������������������������������������205 FAQ 2.2: How do the land and land use contribute to climate change? ���������������������������������������������������205 FAQ 2.3: How does climate change affect water resources? ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������205 References ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 206 Appendix ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 243 Land-climate interactions Chapter 2
The Book of Psalms, Where Men Are Men … On the Gender of Hebrew Piety
Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight' (Ps. 144.1 KJV). The speaker is a male, since in ancient Israel, as in most societies, it is the males who do the fighting. But the readers of the psalm, its end-users, have been both male and female, and all the textbooks represent the Book of Psalms in general as an expression of an ungendered Hebrew piety. No one ever says, This is a male text, this Book of Psalms, and men and women alike should be on their guard in case they learn from it and internalize attitudes and prejudices that are specifically male-and therefore partial and discriminatory. But that is the burden of this chapter.
Fenton Section 3 The Books of the Prophets Adobe
The Holy Bible 1903 Ferrar Fenton Translation in Computer Format - Introduction and Index The Ferrar Fenton translation of the Hebrew Bible is vastly different from the King James version, and imparts a totally different meaning to much of the writing. Its popularity has, no doubt, been affected by the lack of a computer-readable format to use for comparison to other translations. This work, presented here in the five sections that were originally released, is a combined work of three different persons. A university scholar originally scanned the book version, which is in the public domain, a second person was courteous enough to post the .pdf scans of that professor, both of whose names have been lost in the many changes in the computing world, and myself, having spent the last four months translating the work into computer-readable format, a task requiring not only computer skills but also the ability to read the ancient decorated type font used for the section headings and a sufficient knowledge of the basic structure of the original English translations for the location of chapter breaks, section numbering and such, which differs significantly in both form and function from the King James version. The five sections are as follows: Section 1 - The Writings of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers Deuteronomy. Section 2 - The History of the People of Israel: Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings. Section 3 - The Books of the Prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakuk, Zephaniah, Hagai, Zakariah, Malachi. Section 4 - The Psalms, Solomon, and Sacred Writers: The Psalms, Proverbs of Solomon, Book of Job, the Song of Songs, Book of Ruth, the Lamentations of Jeremiah, Ecclesiastes, Book of Esther, Book of Daniel, Ezra, Book of Nehemiah, First book of Chronicles, Second Book of Chronicles. Section 5 - The New Testament.