The Bible in Arabic Griffith, Sidney H
2013., 20130721, 2013, 2013-07-21, Letnik:
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From the first centuries of Islam to well into the Middle Ages, Jews and Christians produced hundreds of manuscripts containing portions of the Bible in Arabic. Until recently, however, these ...translations remained largely neglected by Biblical scholars and historians. In telling the story of the Bible in Arabic, this book casts light on a crucial transition in the cultural and religious life of Jews and Christians in Arabic-speaking lands.
In pre-Islamic times, Jewish and Christian scriptures circulated orally in the Arabic-speaking milieu. After the rise of Islam--and the Qur'an's appearance as a scripture in its own right--Jews and Christians translated the Hebrew Bible and the Greek New Testament into Arabic for their own use and as a response to the Qur'an's retelling of Biblical narratives. From the ninth century onward, a steady stream of Jewish and Christian translations of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament crossed communal borders to influence the Islamic world.
The Bible in Arabicoffers a new frame of reference for the pivotal place of Arabic Bible translations in the religious and cultural interactions between Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
Early in the archaic period of Greek history, Messenia was annexed and partially settled by its powerful neighbour, Sparta. Achieving independence in the fourth century BC, the inhabitants of ...Messenia set about trying to forge an identity for themselves separate from their previous identity as Spartan subjects, refunctionalising or simply erasing their Spartan heritage. Professor Luraghi provides a thorough examination of the history of Messenian identity and consequently addresses a range of questions and issues whose interest and importance have only been widely recognised by ancient historians during the last decade. By a detailed scrutiny of the ancient written sources and the archaeological evidence, the book reconstructs how the Messenians perceived and constructed their own ethnicity at different points in time, by applying to Messenian ethnicity insights developed by anthropologists and early medieval historians.
Eighteenth-century punch-cutting was not only difficult to execute, it was also difficult to document, therefore, knowledge of early typographic practices is generally limited. Fortunately, the ...punches of one of the century's foremost English printers, John Baskerville (1707-75), still survive as the primary evidence of craftsmanship and the punch-cutters skill and the means of their manufacture. This article looks at what is known and, more importantly, what is not known about the processes, materials and techniques employed in the manufacture of Baskerville's punches. It presents a pilot project designed to explore new methodological approaches to describing and analysing this important typographical material. It also suggests how the methodology can be applied in order to enhance our understanding of Baskerville beyond his books.
La lectura es una actividad compleja dominada por el cerebro humano en la que juegan un papel primordial los esquemas mentales previos. Al leer se activan simultáneamente una serie de esquemas o ...«pantallas», que se activan/desactivan sucesivamente a medida que el lector acepta o rechaza las opciones que se le presentan. Varios esquemas se mantienen abiertos al mismo tiempo, a la par que otros se cierran, recomponen o descartan. Es posible que la teoría de los esquemas arroje luz sobre un proceso en el que la vista, la memoria, el reconocimiento, la experiencia, las lectura previas, etc., tienen un papel primordial a la hora de descifrar un texto, es decir, de leer.
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