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Margaret Mitchell - Reporter

by Margaret Mitchell

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 Originally published: Athens, Ga.: Hill Street Press, c2000.
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Jeremiah And God'S Plans Of Well-Being

by Barbara Green

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 In Jeremiah and God''s Plans of Well-being, Barbara Green explores the prophet Jeremiah as a literary persona of the biblical book through seven periods of his prophetic ministry, focusing on the concerns and circumstances that shaped his struggles. Having confronted the vast complexity of scholarly issues found in the Book of Jeremiah, Green has chosen to examine the literary presentation of the prophet rather than focus on the precise historical details or the speculative processes of composition. What Green exposes is a prophet affected by the dire circumstances of his life, struggling consistently, but ultimately failing at his most urgent task of persuasion.In the first chapter Green examines Jeremiah''s predicament as he is called to minister and faces royal opposition to his message. She then isolates the central crisis of mission, the choice facing Judah, and the sin repeatedly chosen. Delving into the tropes of Jeremiah''s preaching and prophecy, she also analyses the struggle and lament that express Jeremiah''s inability to succeed as an intermediary between God and his people. Next Green explores the characterizations of the kings with whom Jeremiah struggled and his persistence in his ministry despite repeated imprisonment, and, finally, Green focuses on Jeremiah''s thwarted choice to remain in Judah at the end of the first temple period and his descent into Egypt after the assassination of Gedaliah.In Jeremiah and God''s Plans of Well-being, Green shows the prophet as vulnerable, even failing at times, while suggesting the significance of his assignment and unlikelihood of success. She explores the complexities of the phenomenon of prophecy and the challenges of preaching unwelcome news during times of uncertainty and crisis. Ultimately Green provides a fresh treatment of a complex biblical text and prophet. In presenting Jeremiah as a literary figure, Green considers how his character continues to live on in the traditions of Judaism and Christianity today.
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Samuel And His God

by Marti J. Steussy

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 Samuel and His God explores the relationship among a prophet, his deity, and their people in 1 Samuel. Marti J. Steussy illumines the vexing elements central to this multifaceted narrative and probes the questions it raises, particularly with regard to the authoritative voice of Samuel, of God as portrayed in this account, of the narrator or narrators, and of the Bible itself. In this sense, Samuel becomes a case study in how the Bible''s authors use stories to argue for who may speak for God.Samuel hears the Lord''s calling as a boy, becomes a servant to the priest Eli, and later becomes Eli''s successor. As a leader of the people of Israel and a conduit for God''s message, Samuel is a figure of immense authority, ultimately anointing the first two kings of Israel, Saul and David, and thus precipitating the transformation of Israel from a collection of tribes into a nation under a monarchy. But in biblical and historical portrayals of Samuel''s interactions with his God, their people, and these early kings, the narratives introduce significant discontinuities and disruptions, most famously with respect to the question of whether kingship came to Israel as a sinful human initiative or as a divine gift.Steussy takes up the challenge of helping readers grapple with the possibility that a multitude of storytellers representing disparate agendas may be responsible for aspects of Samuel''s tale, and this makes mapping the cumulative story a problematic but revealing task. Samuel''s story is further complicated by our embedded notions about prophets, God, and the nature of the Bible itself. The relationship between Samuel and God is often contentious, and the God of Samuel is a pre-Axial deity who does not necessarily act according to our usual assumptions about the "biblical God." Samuel is presented as an irascible and ambitious character whose own stakes in his community at times govern how he interprets and represents his relationship to his God. Steussy''s close readings negotiate the plethora of viewpoints to be found here—those of the narrator(s), the characters, and other scholars of Samuel''s story—to give us a comprehensive and richly nuanced portrait of one of the more complex personalities of the Old Testament.
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The Body In Flannery O'Connor'S Fiction - Computational Technique And Linguistic Voice

by Donald E. Hardy

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 A reading of physical obsession in O'Connor through linguistic and literary techniques. This book demonstrates that the many constructions in which the body parts of O'Connor's characters are foregrounded, either as subjects or objects, are grammatical manipulations of semantic variations on what linguists deem the middle voice.
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Gleaning Ruth - A Biblical Heroine And Her Afterlives

by Jennifer L. Koosed

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 The biblical story of Ruth celebrates the power to begin life anew, to gather what has been scattered, to glean what one needs. In this original approach to understanding an ancient love story, Jennifer L. Koosed crafts a multifaceted portrait of the Old Testament character of Ruth and of the demanding agricultural world in which her story unfolds.
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Bathsheba Survives

by Sara M. Koenig

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 A portrait of a biblical woman seen through the centuries as everything from adviser to temptress to victimBathsheba is a mysterious and enigmatic figure who appears in only seventy-six verses of the Bible and whose story is riddled with gaps. But this seemingly minor female character, who plays a critical role in King David's story, has survived through the ages, and her "afterlife" in the history of interpretation is rich and extensive. In Bathsheba Survives, Sara M. Koenig traces Bathsheba's reception throughout history and in various genres, demonstrating how she has been characterized on the spectrum from helpless victim to unscrupulous seductress.Early Jewish interpretations, Koenig argues, highlight Bathsheba's role as Solomon's mother and adviser, while texts from the patristic era view her as a type: of sinful flesh, of the law, or of the gentile church. Works from the medieval period depict Bathsheba as a seductress who wants to tempt David, with art embellishing her nudity, while reformers such as Luther and Calvin treated Bathsheba in a generally critical light as indiscreet and perhaps even devious. During the Enlightenment period, Koenig claims Bathsheba was most frequently discussed in commentaries that used historical critical methods to explain her character and her actions. Koenig then demonstrates how Bathsheba is understood in today's popular media as both seductress and victim, being featured in novels, films, and in music from such artists as Leonard Cohen and Sting. The minor, enigmatic biblical character Bathsheba, Koenig writes, has survived through time by those who have received her and spoken about her in varying ways. Though she disappears from the biblical text, she resurfaces in thought and study and will continue to survive in the centuries to come.
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Eudora Welty - Writers' Reflections Upon First Reading Welty

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 A collection of over two hundred contemporary reviews of the work of Eudora Welty.
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Applied Pedagogies - Strategies For Online Writing Instruction

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Exploring Cause And Explanation - Historical Ecology, Demography, And Movement In The American Southwest

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Enoch - A Man For All Generations

by James C. Vanderkam

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 Credited with predicting the flood and foretelling a second punishment but mentioned only briefly in the Hebrew Bible, Enoch is one of the most intriguing yet little-known characters of ancient Jewish and Christian literature. This book examines ancient references to Enoch and to Enochian themes.
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Readings In Wood - What The Forest Taught Me

by John Leland

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 Artful and comic essays of keen appreciation and thoughtful study of the invaluable wooded world
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Have You Considered My Servant Job? - Understanding The Biblical Archetype Of Patience

by Samuel E. Balentine

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 An in-depth examination and analysis of the chapters focused on the patient biblical character
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Economic Bubbles & Financial Pyramids - Logistic Analysis & Management

by Professor Dalia, Ph.D. Streimikiene, Stasys Girdzijauskas e Vera Moskaliova

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Ezra And The Law In History And Tradition

by Lisbeth S. Fried

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 An in-depth examination that separates the historical Ezra from the biblical legend
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Jeremiah And God'S Plan Of Well-Being

by Barbara Green

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Lean Down Your Ear Upon The Earth And Listen - Thomas Wolfe'S Greener Modernism

by Robert Taylor Ensign

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 This ecocritical study of Thomas Wolfe's body of fiction explores how the celebrated writer's storytelling is founded on his dramatization - and apprehension - of the natural world's integral presence in human lives.
Baruch Ben Neriah - From Biblical Scribe To Apocalyptic Seer

by J.Edward Wright

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 This work traces the evolution of a biblical figure whose legacy grew from that of a scribe who edited or wrote the Book of Jeremiah to a divine sage granted a tour of heaven itself.
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Gleaning Ruth - A Biblical Heroine And Her Afterlives

by Jennifer L. Koosed

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 The biblical story of Ruth celebrates the power to begin life anew, to gather what has been scattered, to glean what one needs. In this original approach to understanding an ancient love story, Jennifer L. Koosed crafts a multifaceted portrait of the Old Testament character of Ruth and of the demanding agricultural world in which her story unfolds.
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Gardening Notes For South Carolina

by The Columbia Garden Club

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 Suitable for beginners and intermediate gardeners, this book includes expert advice on planting and maintaining gardens in the unique conditions of the Palmetto State. It offers specific tips for planting by season as well as details on cultivating perennials, annuals, trees, and lawns.
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Jesus In The Mist - Stories

by Paul Ruffin

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 Includes fourteen darkly comic and artfully crafted Deep South tales.
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Myrtle Beach - A History, 1900-1980

by Barbara F. Stokes

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 Myrtle Beach has earned an international reputation as a tourism mecca on the South Carolina coast. This book provides a comprehensive history of the community's rise to prominence and maps the development of the Grand Strand's centerpiece. It provides an account of the historical, economic, climatic, and cultural forces that shaped Myrtle Beach.
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Vale Of Humility - Plain Folk In Contemporary North Carolina Fiction

by George Hovis

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 A look at the influence of the yeoman's small farm on six modern southern writers. In a deft analysis of works by Doris Betts, Reynolds Price, Fred Chappell, Lee Smith, Clyde Edgerton, and Randall Kenan, this book explores the lives of the plain folk, white and black, who populate the worlds of contemporary North Carolina fiction.
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Green Revolver

by Worthy Evans

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 Features a collection of verses and poems that explores the imaginative versions of the poet as confident or frightened, loving or hateful, bold or timid, lost or profound.
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Samuel And His God

by Marti J Steussy

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