This book investigates the Matthean use of bread and the breaking of bread in light of cognitive conceptual metaphor, which are not only intertwined within Matthew's narrative plots but also function to represent Matthew's communal identity and ideological vision. The metaphor o…
Finding a precious object - a gem, a ring or a coin - inside the belly of a fish is a favorite motif in western literatures that can be traced back to the Greek historian Herodotus. In Herodotus' account of the rise and fall of the tyrant Polycrates of Samos, the hero cast his b…
Finding God in Solitude explores the devotional piety of one of America's most important religious figures, Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) of Massachusetts. From his childhood to his death shortly after becoming president of Princeton, and especially from his Christian conversion …
Finding God in Solitude explores the devotional piety of one of America's most important religious figures, Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) of Massachusetts. From his childhood to his death shortly after becoming president of Princeton, and especially from his Christian conversion …
The French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss scoured the Amazon forest for the myths of its primitive peoples. He found that a certain logic governed the construction of these myths--his mythologique; he regarded this logic as innate in the human mind and thus universal. Despit…
"Xi Jinping's 'Soccer Revolution' is unique: the most extensive politicization and geo-politicization of the Global Game. His purpose is to extend the global soft-power projection of 'the Middle Kingdom': an ancient Western imperial mantra -- 'bread and circuses' -- has been rep…
"Xi Jinping's 'Soccer Revolution' is unique: the most extensive politicization and geo-politicization of the Global Game. His purpose is to extend the global soft-power projection of 'the Middle Kingdom': an ancient Western imperial mantra -- 'bread and circuses' -- has been rep…
