... biblical “sources” for the Qurʾan because the field originated in a methodology that was fundamentally polemical rather than exegetical. This essay proposes models from within the Christian and Muslim traditions that can pave the way toward a break from Biblicist tropes toward an interfaith understanding...

...Rob Wilson Abstract By a transfigurative recoding of selfhood and quasi-biblical analogizing of historical events across space and time, Bob Dylan enacted in his poetic name change from Zimmerman to Dylan (as he would writing across the larger body of his song-poetry) what Norman O. Brown had...

... century. Griffith finds Kachouh’s arguments for so early a date unconvincing. While not excluding the possible existence in pre-Islamic­ Arabic of short written biblical texts to serve as aides de mémoire (the phrase is Griffith’s) for preachers among Arabic-­speaking Christians, Griffith argues...

... of the history of European biblical exegesis from St. Augustine to the medieval patristic exegetes in his great essay “Figura.” I do this for two reasons, besides providing a conveniently precise summary of the essence of figural interpretation and the concept of history it assumes. First, since Auerbach...

... of translation proposed here draws on the work of the French philosopher Alain Badiou. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 I gratefully acknowledge the Nida Institute for Biblical Scholarship at the American Bible Society for enabling me to share this research at the Society for Biblical Literature...

.... By “public theologies” the forum referred to discourses that speak from within a religious tradition, invoking categories of faith and biblical criteria, as opposed to natural law or social ethics exclusively, to address large issues in the culture, helping “to shape the way problems and policies...

..., decide their destiny and create their laws through the exercise of free will, much as the biblical God cre- ates the earth ex nihilo. Modern liberal democracies thus preserve a weak idea of sovereignty that prevents their complete slide into bureaucratiza- tion, though they are hardly ideal states...

..., sold, and all those birds named after Biblical prophets, the wren, Isaiah, the jay, Ezekiel, the cardinal, John the Baptist, all now sold into bondage, their cages, empty. No way to say Mass at midnight again, hymns and incense, altar gold, pixilated with poinsettias. Your mother...

... to wear language on the body as a sign and memorial of redemption, as a constant reminder of the exodus from Egypt and of the transition and translation from slavery to freedom. The house bound to the arm has only one compartment with one long scroll containing all four biblical passages, while the house...

.... Most of this apocalyptic discourse, however, is not drawn from him but from the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation.7 This discourse, presupposing biblical inerrancy, also proposes that a limited number of saved souls, these Elect, depending on the state of their souls at the time, will be lifted...

... participated in the renewal of classical learning, in the higher criticism of biblical and religious texts (and authority), but also in the rise of Orientalism and West- ern imperialism. It has too often done so in the name of the modernizing translation project, on a worldwide scale, that celebrates...

... of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. Birla, Ritu. Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. Boer, Roland. Political Myth: On the Use and Abuse of Biblical Themes. New Slant: Religion, Politics, Ontology. Durham, N.C.: Duke University...

... University Press, 1999. Kitzberger, Ingrid Rosa, ed. The Personal Voice in Biblical Interpretation. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Lazarus, Neil. Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World...

... The refer- ence to Schopenhauer is, in some ways, a red herring here (though one that is relevant to our argument, in that Schopenhauer’s task, set against that of Hegel, was to unify or globalize Western philosophy with Eastern). Actually, the intertext is biblical and can be found in Paul’s First...

... hermeneutic’s ‘‘inwardness’’ with the object, attesting the interpreter’s sympathy with the interpreted text (a moti- vation extending through belles lettres ‘‘appreciation’’ back to biblical exege- sis), now appears as an ideological entrapment that critique must struggle, however vainly, to breach...

... to mastering biblical knowledge. For a student who enters the program with an interest in studying translations of the Qurʾan in England, the program will require them to prioritize mastery of the Bible, not the Qurʾan. And so this program has set a student up for a study of the Qurʾan that inflects back...

... the method a vast general relevance, while other broad modalities do not have either boundary 2 33:1, 2006. Copyright © 2006 by Duke University Press. 78 boundary 2 / Spring 2006 this semiotic depth or this cultural—and significantly religious—usage. Even prophecy and typology in biblical...

..., vol. 37 (Moscow: Interna- tional Publishers, 1996). 66 boundary 2 / August 2015 “relative surplus population” and “industrial reserve army,” which represent the extreme limits of the use-­value of labor power, and whose name, Laza- rus, refers to the biblical tale par excellence...

...,” Cavell proceeds with this biblical instruction, “is the Old Testament command specifically at the time of Passover, as a sign to the angel of death to pass the house and spare its first born.”12 “Accordingly” (Cavell now connects biblical with philosophical instruction), “it is in obedience...

... to the participants of a seminar at the University of Bochum in July 1985 in which he examines “Ortswechsel,” directly linking the poem to a specific biblical text—namely, Isaiah 60:19: “The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto...