Author: Marie Turner File Type: pdf Qoheleth is one of the most challenging and intriguing of the biblical authors. Above all, he is attentive to lifes realities, neither optimistic about the world nor unappreciative of its goodness and pleasures. In this volume, Turner examines the writings of Qoheleth in the book of Ecclesiastes and provides an ecological reading of the text that gives readers clear insights into how biblical wisdom literature can be used to respond to the challenges facing the environment in the present day, as well as advancing the field of ecological hermeneutics. In this commentary Turner looks at the concept of Qoheleths eternal earth, moving through the chapters of Ecclesiastes with an ear attuned to the voice of the Earth as it struggles to be heard above the voice of the economy. Such a voice is not necessarily antagonistic to that of Earth, but neither is it neutral. The ecological reader knows that a prudent economy is necessary for living, but if it is given precedence at the expense of Earth, there will be no future, let alone eternity, for Earth. Eco-justice demands that contemporary readers should be mindful of future generations and heed Qoheleths counsel to value the fruits of ones labour without greed, allowing ecological hermeneutics to provide insights into contemporary environmental issues. Illustrating how a biblical framework for environmentally responsible living may be generated, Turners analysis is vital both to those studying Qoheleth and to those invested in the Bible and ecology. **About the Author Marie Turner is an adjunct Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Flinders University of South Australia, Australia.

Author: Sophocles File Type: pdf Sophocles tragedies--from Antigone to Oedipus Tyrannus--are filled with highly wrought, vivid, and emotionally powerful poetry. Yet most translations sacrifice the poetry to convey only the sense of the lines as dramatic speech. This is the first book in English to present Sophocles exclusively as a poet, and the only volume to reveal the full force and beauty of his verse. With a fresh and consistent attention to structure, language, and rhythm across Sophocles writings, Reginald Gibbons has translated a selection of odes from Sophocles surviving plays as well as fragments from his lost works. What emerges is a genuinely new sense of a Sophocles who was as much poet as dramatist. Bringing the Greek poet and his world surprisingly close to us, these translations also restore a sense of the long continuity of poetry. Complete with an introduction, this edition reveals Sophocles poetic brilliance as never before.From the Inside FlapThe brilliance of Reginald Gibbonss translations of Sophocles lies in an empathetic leap of imagination that has allowed him to situate these ancient poems at an intersection where the passion of outcries, songs, and declamations encounters the elegance of the written word.--Stuart Dybek, author of I Sailed with MagellanReginald Gibbons gives us Sophocles poetry sprung free from plot and dramatic action. Elemental, swift, kaleidoscopic, the odes and fragments are forcefully present in Gibbonss spare style, and they can take ones breath away. Here is a distillate of Sophocles, strangely new and strangely familiar.--Rosanna Warren, author of Departure PoemsFor years now, Reginald Gibbons has been writing some of the best poetry in America, and at the same time he has distinguished himself as one of the most brilliant and accomplished translators of Greek tragedy. In this beautiful and indispensable book, he renders the poetry of Sophocles as no one has done before. In Gibbonss hands, the complex power and musical precision of Sophoclean song and verse radiate a verbal and imagistic energy that feels both ancient and immediate.--Alan Shapiro, author of Old War PoemsAttuned to the nuances of the original, Gibbonss verse delivers a Sophoclean stateliness of bearing in an idiom that is supple enough to communicate the heat of Eros, the horror of war, and the awe inspired by the natural world.--Brooks Haxton, author of They Lift Their Wings to Cry PoemsTo read these dramatic odes as poems is invigorating and invites us to see Sophocles in a new way. And making poems out of the fragments and including them alongside the odes is a brilliant stroke, providing instances of the Sophoclean lyric imagination. These translations are remarkably true to the Greek.--Stephen Scully, Boston UniversityAbout the AuthorReginald Gibbons is a poet, translator, and professor of English and classics at Northwestern University. He has translated Sophocles Antigone and Euripides Bakkhai (both with the late Charles Segal). His most recent collection of poetry is Creatures of a Day. Sophocles tragedies--fromAntigonetoOedipus Tyrannus--are filled with highly wrought, vivid, and emotionally powerful poetry. Yet most translations sacrifice the poetry to convey only the sense of the lines as dramatic speech. This is the first book in English to present Sophocles exclusively as a poet, and the only volume to reveal the full force and beauty of his verse. With a fresh and consistent attention to structure, language, and rhythm across Sophocles writings, Reginald Gibbons has translated a selection of odes from Sophocles surviving plays as well as fragments from his lost works. What emerges is a genuinely new sense of a Sophocles who was as much poet as dramatist. Bringing the Greek poet and his world surprisingly close to us, these translations also restore a sense of the long continuity of poetry. Complete with an introduction, this edition reveals Sophocles poetic brilliance as never before.