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"EXTRACTS FROM ADAM?S DIARY (1904) and EVE?S DIARY (1906) are essentially send-ups of the scripture, in which Twain parodied Genesis, the parables of creation and original sin, and Eve?s role in the fall of humankind. In EXTRACTS FROM ADAM?S DIARY, published with Fred Strothmann?s humorous cartoons of supposedly ancient stone carvings on every left-hand page, Twain playfully established Niagara Falls Park as the setting of the Garden of Eden, ?the honeymoon capital of the world.? EVE?S DIARY, accompanied by the stunning line drawings of Lester Ralph, was Twain?s moving eulogy to his wife, Livy, who died the previous year. The grief-stricken Samuel Clemens, in a letter to his brother-in-law, Charles Langdon, wrote: ?I am a man without a country. Wherever Livy was that was my country.? Similarly Adam?s tribute to Eve at the end of Eve?s Diary reads, ?Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.? Eve?s story is tender throughout and focuses on the more humorous aspects of Adam and Eve?s relationship and eventual ?marriage.? Like Adam?s story it lacks the darker implications of the other biblical pieces Twain wrote during the last decade of his life."--from amazon.com.

Adam --- Eve --- Bible. --- History of biblical exegesis --- History of Biblical events

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Die Jeremiahomilien des Origenes bilden einen besonders wertvollen Teil seiner Werke. Neben der Homilie über 1 Sam. 28 sind sie seine einzigen auf Griechisch überlieferten Predigten und vermitteln damit einen Eindruck vom Originalton des Predigers Origenes. Zudem ist das Buch Jeremia in der Alten Kirche nicht oft kommentiert worden, und nirgendwo wurden je wieder der Elan und die Intensität erreicht, mit denen Origenes diesen Propheten auslegte. Origenes identifizierte seine Erfahrungen als Prediger mit dem Schicksal des von seinen Adressaten abgelehnten Propheten Jeremia und fand so einen sehr persönlichen Zugang zu diesem biblischen Text. Auffällig sind ferner die zahlreichen antijüdischen Bemerkungen und Exegesen, in denen die kritische Haltung des Origenes gegenüber dem Judentum seiner Zeit deutlich wird.Der Band bietet eine neue deutsche Übersetzung samt ausführlichen Erläuterungen in den Fußnoten. Auch die erhaltenen Fragmente sind, ungeachtet ihrer nicht immer zweifelsfreien Echtheit, aufgenommen. In der Einleitung werden die wichtigsten Daten zur Überlieferung und zum Inhalt dieser Predigten erläutert.

Fathers of the church, Greek. --- Theology --- History --- Origens. --- Biblical exegesis. --- Edition. --- Homilies. --- Jeremiah. --- Origen.

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If in its simplest form, hermeneutics is a quest for understanding, then part of that quest will always include striving to understand being and the meaning of being. This open access book takes that ambition seriously, arguing that hermeneutics and metaphysics, so central to philosophical thought but so rarely put in tandem, are two complementary fundamentals of human existence. Metaphysical Hermeneutics puts forward the argument for a hermeneutical metaphysics in service of philosophy's basic aim: to make sense of our experience. Jean Grondin builds his argument for this combined discipline around the idea of 'sense' - a theme that is both hermeneutical and metaphysical. What we seek to glimpse is not just a figment of the mind but always the meaning of something. Grondin calls on one of the founding figures of contemporary hermeneutics Hans-Georg Gadamer to test his theories, singling out the metaphysical dimension of Gadamer's ideas and questioning his seeming embrace and rejection of that dimension. Rooting these questions in the human search for meaning is a major contribution to the scope and resources of hermeneutic philosophy. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Montreal.

Hermeneutics --- Interpretation (Philosophy). --- Biblical exegesis & hermeneutics --- Phenomenology & Existentialism --- Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology --- History

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Der enge Zusammenhang von Gelehrsamkeit, Politik und Konfession zählt gegenwärtig zu den aktuellsten Themen der Frühneuzeitforschung. Dabei wird vermehrt nach dem wissenschafts- und kulturhistorischen Kontext der europäischen Geschichtsschreibung und -forschung gefragt. Der Band bietet neue Zugänge zu einem kulturwissenschaftlichen Verständnis des europäischen Umgangs mit Geschichte um 1700. Er verweist auf politische, konfessionelle und soziale Hintergründe von Geschichtlichkeit, wie sie etwa in Leibniz' historischen Arbeiten, in der kalvinistischen und jüdischen Bibelexegese oder auch in der Freskenausstattung barocker Kirchen sichtbar werden.Die folgenden drei Artikel sind auf www.degruyter.com frei zugänglich: Historia als Kultur - Einführung Ordensgeschichte als Kulturgeschichte? Wissenschaftshistorische Überlegungen zur Historizität in der benediktinischen Geschichtsforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts (Thomas Wallnig), War Karl Meichelbeck ein "deutscher Mauriner"? (Thomas Stockinger) The close relationship between scholarship, politics and religious denomination is currently one of the major issues in research devoted to the Early Modern Age. In this context, increasing attention is being given to the scientific and cultural-historical context of European historiography and historical research. This volume presents new routes for achieving a cultural-studies-based understanding of the European approach to history around 1700. It illuminates the political, denominational and social backgrounds to historicity, as is revealed for instance in Biblical exegesis by Calvinist and Jewish writers.

Historiography --- History --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History (Theology) --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Religious aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Criticism --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Historiography. --- Biblical Exegesis. --- Early Modern Age. --- Historical Culture. --- History of Science.

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A collection of Pollmann's previously-published essays on early Christian poetry, most newly-translated from German and all updated and corrected. It is a genre that has tended to be overlooked by both Classicists and Patristics scholars and this collection will rectify that.

Christian poetry. --- Christian poetry, English. --- English Christian poetry --- Christianity --- English poetry --- Christian literature --- Religious poetry --- Hymns --- Christian poetry, Latin --- History and criticism. --- Classical texts --- The Early Church --- early christian literature --- poetic aesthetics --- anti-intellectualism --- pagan education --- biblical exegesis --- religion and culture --- myth --- cultural authority --- classical literary tradition --- late antiquity --- God --- Paganism --- Virgil