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Robert E. Longacre (August 13, 1922–April 20, 2014) was an American linguist and missionary who worked on the Triqui language and a text-based theory and method of discourse analysis. [1]
Metanarrative has a specific definition in narratology and communications theory. According to John Stephens and Robyn McCallum, a metanarrative "is a global or totalizing cultural narrative schema which orders and explains knowledge and experience " [ 19 ] – a story about a story, encompassing and explaining other "little stories" within ...
Per the introduction by Levine for The Historical Jesus in Context: . There is a consensus of sorts on a basic outline of Jesus' life. Most scholars agree that Jesus was baptized by John, debated with fellow Jews on how best to live according to God's will, engaged in healings and exorcisms, taught in parables, gathered male and female followers in Galilee, went to Jerusalem, and was crucified ...
Bernard Levinson seeks to bring the academic biblical scholarship to the attention of a broader, non-specialist readership [6] In this vein, he has recently written on the impact of the King James Version of the Bible upon the American Founding; [7] drawn attention in the national press to the role of early feminist Bible scholars like ...
Robert Alter was born in a Jewish American family, and first learned Hebrew as part of his religious upbringing. [3] earned his bachelor's degree in English (Columbia University, 1957) and his master's degree (1958) and doctorate (1962) from Harvard University in comparative literature.
provides an extended examination of the film Blade Runner in the context of theories of postmodernism, especially the subgenre of cyberpunk and Charles Jencks's understanding of metanarrative: 'a narrative that talks about the process of its own making’ and 'inquires about its constituent nature’ and its appropriation of and 'similitude ...
Bauckham was born in London and studied at the University of Cambridge, where he read history at Clare College (1966–72) and was a fellow of St John's College (1972–75). He taught theology for one year at the University of Leeds and for fifteen years at the University of Manchester from 1977–1992.
He served as president of the Society for Old Testament Study (1973) and of the British Association for Jewish Studies (1978), and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1993. [6] [7] He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1977. [8]