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Product Description: Images of books appear in art, advertising and commercial logos to symbolize learning, knowledge and wisdom. In religious and secular rituals around the globe, people carry, show, wave, touch and kiss books and other texts, as well as read them...read more
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9781845539856 | Equinox, May 16, 2013, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: This volume is the first comprehensive survey of iconic books and texts tracing their development and influence from ancient to modern times and comparing their roles in multiple cultures and religious traditions.
9780517473573, titled "Memory and Desire" | Random House Value Pub, August 1, 1982, cover price $3.99 | also contains Memory and Desire
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9781781792544 | Reprint edition (Equinox, July 7, 2015), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Images of books appear in art, advertising and commercial logos to symbolize learning, knowledge and wisdom.
9780226723204, titled "Piranesi: Early Architectural Fantasies, a Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings" | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 1987), cover price $48.00 | also contains Piranesi: Early Architectural Fantasies, a Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings
Product Description: James Watts uses rhetorical analysis for this detailed exposition of Leviticus 1-10. In dialogue with a wide variety of contemporary scholarship on Leviticus, this commentary also engages the history of the book's interpretation and the history of Jewish and Christian ritual practices...read more
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9789042929845 | Peeters Bvba, October 4, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: James Watts uses rhetorical analysis for this detailed exposition of Leviticus 1-10.
Product Description: Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus uses rhetorical analysis to expose the motives behind the writing of the central book of the Torah/Pentateuch and its persuasive function in ancient Judaism. Rhetorical analysis of Leviticus has implications not only for the form and contents of that book, but also for understanding the later history of the rhetoric of priesthood, of sacrifice, and especially of scripture...read more
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9780521871938 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 31, 2007), cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus uses rhetorical analysis to expose the motives behind the writing of the central book of the Torah/Pentateuch and its persuasive function in ancient Judaism.
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9781107407954 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 4, 2012), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus uses rhetorical analysis to expose the motives behind the writing of the central book of the Torah/Pentateuch and its persuasive function in ancient Judaism.
Product Description: This book addresses the literary, historical and methodological issues which have been raised by the appearance of psalms in narrative contexts of the Hebrew Bible. The narrative role of each psalm is explored to determine the reasons for its present position...read more
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9781850753438 | Sheffield Academic Pr, October 1, 1992, cover price $120.00
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9780567564108 | T&t Clark Ltd, November 1, 2009, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This book addresses the literary, historical and methodological issues which have been raised by the appearance of psalms in narrative contexts of the Hebrew Bible.
Product Description: This collection of essays focuses on the book of Job, exploring the complex interplay of methodology and hermeneutics. There are two major parts: approaches that are primarily historical, i.e. the recovery of what the text 'meant'; and those that are contextual, i...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781841272436 | T&t Clark Ltd, July 1, 2002, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: This collection of essays focuses on the book of Job, exploring the complex interplay of methodology and hermeneutics.
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9781589830158 | Scholars Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $29.95
Product Description: Watts here argues that conventions of oral rhetoric were adapted to shape the literary form and contents of the Pentateuch. The large-scale structure-stories introducing lists of laws that conclude with divine sanctions-reproduces a common ancient strategy for persuasion...read more
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9781850759973 | T&t Clark Ltd, June 1, 1999, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: Watts here argues that conventions of oral rhetoric were adapted to shape the literary form and contents of the Pentateuch.
Product Description: These essays are written in honour of John D.W. Watts, formerly Professor of Old Testament at Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky and Old Testament editor of the Word Biblical Commentary, well known for his contributions, especially to scholarship on the prophetic books...read more
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9781850756415 | T&t Clark Ltd, October 1, 1996, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: These essays are written in honour of John D.
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