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Are the Writings a miscellaneous collection of books, as is so often asserted, or do they have a purposeful design or arrangement? Over the past 35 years, there has been a significant amount of scholarly interest in the shape of the Law, Former Prophets, Twelve Minor Prophets and the Psalms, while examinations of the shape of the Writings were almost nonexistent until very recently. The 11 essays in this volume explore this often-neglected issue from a variety of critical perspectives-reader-centered approaches, canonical, structural-canonical, and redactional-made more robust by the mix of German- and English-language scholarship on this question, including 4 articles translated from German into English. Essays range from the historical development of the collection, to analysis of the collection's different arrangements, to the relationship of books and subcollections within the Writings, to the reception of the collection in Jewish and Christian sources. Every book in the Writings is discussed, with particular attention given to Job, Ruth, and 1 and 2 Chronicles. The volume closes with 3 critical responses from John Barton, Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, and Christopher Seitz.

Bible. --- Agiografi --- Hagiographa --- Kethubim --- Ketuvim --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Theology. --- Origines. --- Canon. --- Christian theology --- Theology --- Theology, Christian --- Christianity --- Religion --- Bible --- Canon des Écritures --- Histoire deutéronomiste --- Critique et exegese. --- Canon --- Preuves, autorité, etc. --- Critique canonique --- Critique et exégèse juives --- Critique et exégèse --- critique biblique)

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In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a historical curiosity. In this ambitious intellectual and literary history, Greif recovers this lost line of thought to show how it influenced society, politics, and culture before, during, and long after World War II. During the 1930s and 1940s, fears of the barbarization of humanity energized New York intellectuals, Chicago protoconservatives, European Jewish émigrés, and native-born bohemians to seek "re-enlightenment," a new philosophical account of human nature and history. After the war this effort diffused, leading to a rebirth of modern human rights and a new power for the literary arts. Critics' predictions of a "death of the novel" challenged writers to invest bloodless questions of human nature with flesh and detail. Hemingway, Faulkner, and Richard Wright wrote flawed novels of abstract man. Succeeding them, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Flannery O'Connor, and Thomas Pynchon constituted a new guard who tested philosophical questions against social realities--race, religious faith, and the rise of technology--that kept difference and diversity alive. By the 1960s, the idea of "universal man" gave way to moral antihumanism, as new sensibilities and social movements transformed what had come before. Greif's reframing of a foundational debate takes us beyond old antagonisms into a new future, and gives a prehistory to the fractures of our own era." -- Publisher's description

American fiction --- Roman américain --- Critique et exégèse --- Crise (psychologie) --- Humanité --- Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) --- 1933-1973 --- History and criticism --- Etats-Unis --- Roman américain --- Critique et exégèse --- Humanité

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Livre des morts --- Traductions françaises --- Critique et exégèse --- Incantations, Egyptian --- Egyptian language --- Egyptian hieroglyphics --- Hieroglyphics, Egyptian --- Manuscripts, Hieroglyphic (Papyri) --- Manuscripts (Papyri) --- Egyptian incantations --- Book of the dead. --- Per-m-hru --- Reu nu pert em hru --- Ṡāt per em heru --- Kitāb al-Mayyitūn --- Libro de los muertos --- Libro dei morti --- Totenbuch --- Todtenbuch --- Księga umarłych --- Chapters of coming forth by day --- Book of coming forth by day --- Rw prt m hrw --- Ru pert em heru --- Book of going forth by day --- Egyptian book of the dead --- Livre des morts égyptien --- Ägyptisches Totenbuch --- Sifr al-khurūj ilá al-nahār --- Kitāb al-mawtá lil-Miṣrīyīn al-qudamāʼ --- Pyramid texts --- Coffin texts