Treasures Old and New Images in the Lectionary |
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| Author:
| Ramshaw, Gail |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8006-3189-5 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2002 |
| Publisher: | 1517 Media
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| Imprint: | Augsburg Books |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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Treasures Old and New Gail Ramshaw illuminates forty primary images from the three-year lectionary. With each of the images she considers related terms, exploring a total of nearly two hundred words and phrases in light of biblical history, typological relationships, poetic nuances, metaphoric meanings, and liturgical year connections.
Sample constellations of images include:
- Creation: beginning, creation, firstborn, new creation, virgin birth
- Fire: ashes,...
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In
Treasures Old and New Gail Ramshaw illuminates forty primary images from the three-year lectionary. With each of the images she considers related terms, exploring a total of nearly two hundred words and phrases in light of biblical history, typological relationships, poetic nuances, metaphoric meanings, and liturgical year connections.
Sample constellations of images include:
- Creation: beginning, creation, firstborn, new creation, virgin birth
- Fire: ashes, burning bush, fire, tongues
- Light: blindness, darkness, day, light, morning star, night, sight, star, sun
- Treasure: gifts, gold-frankincense-myrrh, pearl, rich fool, treasure, widow's coin
- Water: exodus, flood, Jordan, river, sea, water, well
Treasures Old and New offers a guide to rich symbolic speech for those who preach and teach, yet remains accessible and inviting to the reader seeking a resource for devotion and meditation on the scriptures. Extensively indexed to support the Revised CommonLectionary as well as the Roman Catholic lectionary.