Author: Pablo Neruda File Type: epub The Nobel Prize winner s classic collection of love poems.Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captains Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri—the paradisal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino (The Postman). Surrounded by sea, sun, and Capris natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia before they were married, but didnt publish them publicly until 1963. This complete, bilingual collection has become a classic for love-struck readers around the world—passionately sensuous, and exploding with all the erotic energy of a new love.

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Author: Matthew Larsen File Type: pdf What does it look like to read the texts we now call the gospels like first- and second-century readers? There is no evidence of anyone regarding the gospel as a book published by an author until the end of the second century. So, put differently, what does it mean to read the gospels before the book? For centuries, the ways people discuss the gospels have been shaped by later ideas that have more to do with the printing press and modern notions of the author than ancient writing and reading practices. In Gospels before the Book , Matthew D. C. Larsen challenges several subtle yet problematic assumptions about authors, books, and publication at work in early Christian studies. He then explores a host of under-appreciated elements of ancient textual culture such as unfinished texts, accidental publication, post- publication revision, and the existence of multiple authorized versions of the same work. Turning to the gospels, he argues that the earliest readers and users of the text we now call the Gospel according to Mark treated it not as a book published by an author, but as an unfinished, open, and fluid collection of notes ( hypomnmata ). In such a scenario, the Gospel according to Matthew would not be regarded as a separate book published by a different author, but as a continuation of the same unfinished gospel tradition. Similarly it is not the case that, of the five different endings in the textual tradition we now call the Gospel according to Mark, one is right and the others are wrong. Rather each represents its own effort to fill a perceived deficiency in the gospel. Larsen offers a new methodological framework for future scholarship on early Christian gospels.ReviewI commend this book to a wide reading audience, especially within the guild. All serious readers of Mark -- especially those of us who read it as story -- should engage this book. It invites fresh consideration of the emergence of the Gospel tradition in textual form. -- Danny Yencich, Reading ReligionWith Gospels before the Book , Matthew Larsen offers a crucial intervention in studies of the Christian Gospels. As he demonstrates, anachronistic assumptions about the closed character of books and a persistent investment in the genius of the author have led modern scholars to miss an important fact the Gospels, and Mark in particular, were not regarded as closed texts by early Christian readers. Instead, they were received as unfinished instantiations of a continuous and fluid gospel tradition that remained open to expansion and revision by later writers interested in publishing (in an ancient sense) books of their own. Larsens stunning investigation will forever change the ways that biblical scholars, historians, and textual critics approach texts we thought we knew.--Jennifer Knust, author of To Cast the First Stone The Transmission of a Gospel Story with Tommy WassermanIt is rare that one reads a work of scholarship that changes the terms of engagement for an entire field of study, but that is exactly what Matthew Larsen has done in his Gospels before the Book. In this deeply textured study, he dismantles a host of unhelpful assumptions operative in New Testament studies about ancient authors and the status of ancient books as published documents. Youll never view the Gospels the same way again.-- Stephen J. Davis, author of Christ Child Cultural Memories of a Young JesusHow often does it happen that you read something new and convincing that solves a large and centuries old problem, especially on such an overpublished field as the New Testament Gospels? This book does that! It is probably the best book on the Gospel of Mark and the synoptic Gospels in general, since they were written. It is a truly groundbreaking book that offers a novel and fully convincing interpretation of the Gospel of Mark, namely as incomplete archival notes. The argument is well-crafted, based just as much in deep knowledge of a wide range of sources (Jewish, Greek, Roman, Christian) as in sophisticated critical scholarship. This work is a field changer and will be the foundation for future gospel studies.--AnneMarie Luijendijk, Professor of Religion, Head of Wilson College, Princeton UniversityAbout the Author Matthew Larsen is a Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University. He is a cultural historian of religion whose work focuses on the lived experiences of Jewish and Christian communities in antiquity and late antiquity. Matthews research has been published in the Journal for the Study of Judaism , the Journal for the Study of the New Testament , and various other venues.

Author: Julie K. Maldonado File Type: pdf Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone is an ethnography of the lived experience of rapid environmental change in coastal Louisiana, USA. Writing from a political ecology perspective, Maldonado explores the effects of changes to localized climate and ecology on the Isle de Jean Charles, Grand CaillouDulac, and Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribes. Focusing in particular on wide-ranging displacement effects, she argues that changes to climate and ecology should not be viewed in isolation as only physical processes but as part of wider socio-political and historical contexts. The book is valuable reading for students and scholars in the fields of anthropology, sociology, geography, environmental studies and disaster studies as well as public policy and planning. **