Meaning and Context in the Thanksgiving Hymns

Download or read book Meaning and Context in the Thanksgiving Hymns written by Trine Bjørnung Hasselbalch and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new reading strategy for the Thanksgiving Hymns Hasselbalch asserts that current theories about the social background of Thanksgiving Hymns are unable to explain its heterogeneous character. Instead the author suggests a reading strategy that leaves presumptions about the underlying social contexts aside to instead consider the collection’s hybridity as a clue to understanding the collection as a whole. Features: Systemic Functional Linguistics applied to four Hodayot Analysis that highlights the role of a mediator in the agency of God An approach that highlights the unity of the collection