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....” Past and Present , no. 118 ( February ): 25 – 64 . Žižek Slavoj . 2003 . The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Bread God, Blood God: Wonderhosts and Early Encounters with Secularization c. j. g o r d o n , u n i v e r s i...

... in this generic romance turn out to define ethical relation and to establish limits and laws that determine the form of relations between selves and others. The novels taken as a pair gesture past notions of ethical retirement by proposing through this drama of genres that faithful relation to God and vulnerable...

... Annette ( Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1990 ), 30 - 50 ---. “ Judaism and Revolution ,” in Nine Talmudic Readings , 94 - 119 , ---. “ Loving the Torah more than God ,” Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism , trans Hand Sean ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins , 1990...

... IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS R. CLIFTON SPARGO, MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY The blame for the first fratricide, so Regina M. Schwartz supposes in The Curse of Cain (1997), may be laid as much on a stingy monotheistic God as on his tragically unsuccessful worshipper. Having approached God in all...

...Kevin Dunn COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 WORKS CITED Balentine Samuel E . The Hidden God: The Hiding of the Face of God ( Oxford, U.K. : Oxford UP , 1983 ). Benjamin Walter . Illuminations , trans. Zohn Harry ( Glasgow : Fontana...

.... Hannay Margaret Kinnamon Noel Brennan Michael . Vol. 2 . Oxford : Clarendon Press . Spenser Edmund . 1912 . Poetical Works , ed. Smith C. G. de Sélincourt Ernest . Oxford : Clarendon Press . Zenger Erich . 1996 . A God of Vengeance? Understanding...

... nightmare visions of sorcerers tampering with the substances of life on a global scale. The Domdaniel rebel against an Islamic God's patterning 1 As Tim Fulford highlights, Thalaba's Gothic elements of undeath and sorcery resonate with those in "Kubla Khan," "Christabel," and Frankenstein...

... country"(l 16). It is not surprising that this rousing cry for national unity should be cited far more often than the caveat Jefferson immediately appended: "But whether at the close of such a war, we should be as free as we are now, God knows." In examining the internecine strife that concludes...

... with his next trick. When Michal learns that Saul intends to kill David, she puts an idol—one of the teraphim or household gods—in David's bed, with a pillow of goats hair at its head, in the place of her husband, whom she helps escape out the window. This effigy in the bed trick became the staple...

... to Jerusalem. He did not know "the hour of his visitation" (19:44). The name Zechariah means "God remembers" and the bearer of that name is performing the inherently commemorative ritual of a priest. But what Gabriel communicates to him he apparently finds both unprec- edented and unfathomable: "How...

... environment. The novel proves a counternarrative: the destruction of a nation in place of God’s promise to build a nation, for which reason Polen describes the novel as a set of “events that crushed the faith of a young boy growing up in world of faith” (22). Young Eliezer, as Polen reminds his...

... writers (again excepting Milton) were not themselves radicals, she terms their verse “radical” because it combines something like “the desire for individual intimacy with God that was so important to radical separatists” (25) with “similar commitments to those of writers who self-consciously embraced...

... again, the concerns of prophecy seem far different, especially in their traditional theological articula- tions. As the privileged agent of an otherworldly God, the prophet tends uti- mately to sing of a future that is paradoxically extra-temporal, a future that will reveal the hellish or heavenly...

... to fable can be understood in at least two different senses: a certain type of tale, or the property of fiction characteristic of this tale. As a type of story, fable implies either a moral tale or a classical story of the gods' exploits, either Aesop or Ovid.19 It is probably to the latter...

... Ulysses jeremy colangelo According to the convention of perspective there is no visual reciprocity. There is no need for God to situate himself in relation to others: he is himself the situation. The inherent contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single...

..., a chorus which with its many-voiced melodic word and harmonized movements praised the gods and heroes, and meritorious citizens and politicians who had pleased the people, opening up an expanse for the lyrical self-definition of the all-national state.10 Thus lyrical self...

... . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Gaiman Neil . 2001 . American Gods . New York : Harpertorch . ———. 2003 . The Sandman: Endless Nights . New York : Vertigo . ———. 2006 . The Absolute Sandman: Volume One . New York : Vertigo (nos. 1 – 20) . ———. 2007...

... . New York : Marlowe , 1981 . —. Jonah's Gourd Vine . 1934 . London : Virago , 1993 . Johnson James Weldon . God's Trombones . 1927 . New York : Penguin , 1990 . Jones LeRoi/Amiri Baraka . Blues People: Negro Music in White America . 1963 . New York : Quill...

... (and cosmic) hierarchies existed was taken for granted, even if these hierarchies were thought about in various ways. Thus, for example, the historical beginnings of the kind of functionalism that both Bourdieu and Guillory employ are to be found in the theodicy that defended God's creation of evils...

... right theory modified that theo- ry in light of the [1688] revolution. The idea that conquest, rather than heredity alone, might be God's way of declaring the monarch he favored, anathema to Tory legitimists during Charles's reign, now was accepted by many clergymen.. . . More...