This article offers an anthropological look at sacred textuality by exploring the social and theological structure of Jewish religious nationalism in Israel West Bank. It argues that study texts serves as a medium through which Zionists articulate what it means to return ancestral homeland. demonstrates how these is implicated cultivation two different structural modes relate ideas homecoming. ...

This paper attempts to explore the impact of Michael Foucault's theoretical understanding history on New Historicism, a literary school that developed in North America later part twentieth century. While Foucault is known throughout academia for his extraordinarily wide range interests, this aims only focus radical perspective and show how linked vital way development new historicist strategies...

This article concentrates on a couple of semiotic approaches working out, the one hand, mediated character reducing interpretative trajectories to actual translation into language narratives (A. J. Greimas) or textuality (F. Rastier), and, other, direct, apparently unmediated passage visceral physicality verbal signifying system, which make semantic and syntactic components perfunctory interpre...

“The Birthmark” is a short science fiction created by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1843. The story tells of an eighteenth-century scientist who attempts to remove his wife’s birthmark yet takes her life the end. This paper will use Louis Montrose’s theory Historicity Texts and Textuality History disclose dialogic relationship between its historical context Hawthorne’s view science. firstly discusses ...

Abstract The second-century philosopher Celsus disparaged Christians who “alter the original text of Gospel three or four many times” ( Cels. 2.27). Scholars have understood this passage as a critique multiple distinct Gospels, but Celsus’ invective is better explained by comparison with elite polemics (e.g., Gellius, Lucian, Galen) against readers lack discernment and arbitrarily alter manuscr...

Hermes is a complex god, one that representing communication and, therefore, the god of travelers, merchants, and also thieves. present, somehow, in philosophical tradition hermeneutics. What seems to be proper this lack properties territory considered his own. characteristic he inhabits space in-between, there where game appropriations, des-appropriations re-appropriations played; commerce, br...

This paper addresses the cultural impact of genomics and the Human Genome Project (HGP) on human self-understanding. Notably, it addresses the claim made by Francis Collins (director of the HGP) that the genome is the language of God and the claim made by Max Delbrück (founding father of molecular life sciences research) that Aristotle must be credited with having predicted DNA as the soul that...

Last words, the theme for this series of articles that comes out of last spring's graduate conference of the same name, are somewhat disconcerting for a philologist. Philology's traditional obsession has usually been with first words those first and originary scribblings which initialize a culture's, and a nation's, textual history. Last words from a linguistic-philological perspective usually ...