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Creation and Emotion in the Old Testament
Creation conjures emotion and thereby shapes how we think and act. People fear snakes and enclosed spaces, and delight in well-watered landscapes. Language about nature evokes these emotional meanings and their consequences. We may construe nature as a mother to enhance love of creation and motivate care for our common home. Mother nature becomes a caregiving source of life rather than an inert resource. Alternatively, we may focus on the dangers or uselessness of a swamp so that we may drain it and plant crops. Creation and the ways we speak about it reflect and shape emotion and influence behavior. Every reference to the natural word in biblical literature involves some emotional resonance...
The Demise of Virtue in Virtual America
Although the financial disaster of 2008 proved devastatingly quick, the evolution of the bad faith that drove the collapse is a more gradual story, and one that David Bosworth powerfully narrates in The Demise of Virtue in Virtual America: The Moral Origins of the Great Recession, his sweeping history of the forces driving ethical, political, and economic change over the last sixty years. Here, Bosworth traces how the commercialization of public spaces and electronic information has created a new and enclosed American place. Chapter by chapter, he then shows how the materialist values of this Virtual America have suffused our everyday lives, co-opting the themes of our narratives, the planks...
Creation and Emotion in the Old Testament
Humans have emotional engagements with the natural world, such as fear of snakes and awe at the Grand Canyon. Biblical writers deploy creation to shape the emotions of the audience and motivate specific behaviors. This book analyzes how writers use language about creation to conjure emotions.
Conscientious Thinking
David Bosworth cuts through all the noise of today's political dysfunction and cultural wars to sound the deeper causes of our discontent. He explores the ways in which Americans are affected by the irreversible forces set loose by technology's drastic revision of our everyday lives.
The Story Within a Story in Biblical Hebrew Narrative
This book is a revision of a dissertation that studies three texts—Genesis 38; 1 Samuel 25; and 1 Kings 13:11–32 + Kings 12:15–20—in which the author finds examples of the literary device, mise-en-abyme ("placement of the abyss").
The Story Within a Story in Biblical Hebrew Narrative
This book is a revision of a dissertation that studies three texts--Gensis 38; Samuel 25; and Kings 13:11-32+Kgs 12:15-20--in which the author finds examples of the literary device, mise-en-abyme ("placement of the abyss").
House of Weeping
David Bosworth draws on modern research on weeping to understand references to the petitioner's tears in biblical and other ancient Near Eastern prayers. Weeping reflects helplessness and being overwhelmed with emotion, and tears can motivate others to help. Similarly, people turn to prayer at times of extreme distress; therefore, weeping and prayer reinforce one another as strategies to move the deity to offer assistance. Bosworth finds that prayer that mention weeping also indicate that the deity is angry, so tears are a means of calming divine wrath. The book includes comparisons of Hebrew Psalms and Akkadian prayers with reference to modern scientific research on weeping.
Bugley and the Fire Demon Island
The inventor of the world's most advanced scientific machine, the Large Haldron Collider, has gone crazy and wants to send the planet into a distant, deathly frozen orbit around the sun. He has an army of zombies to help him, but he needs certain volcanic gases from the Pacific Rim of Fire to succeed. Only Bugley, together with Junior High students Dan and Maia, stand in his way. Bugley is an innocent looking small car that has been secretly modified by advanced scientists and aircraft and drone designers to be much more than he appears. The great tectonic plates under the Pacific Rim of Fire and the volcanoes that spring from them, and the native indigenous people living there, will hold the key to whether they can succeed in saving the world, or not. Bugley and the Fire Demon Island takes them to one of the secret islands of the Pacific. It is the first book of the Bugley and the Rim of Fire series, set in different locations around the Pacific Rim of Fire.
Cuttyhunk and the Elizabeth Islands
Five of the Elizabeth Islands-Naushon, Pasque, Nashawena, Cuttyhunk, and Penikese-date from 1602, when the Englishman Bartholomew Gosnold explored the waters of Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay aboard his ship the Concord. Although the small encampment Gosnold built on Cuttyhunk for trading with the Wampanoags was used for only a few weeks, journals kept by two crew members have survived and give vivid accounts of that voyage. Naushon, Pasque, and Nashawena are currently privately owned. Penikese, once a leper colony, is now the site of a school for troubled boys. Cuttyhunk is now the only island with a village center and easy public access. Captivating photographs and postcards in Cuttyhunk ...
Song of the Jackalope
Set in the picturesque landscape of the American southwest, the jackalope comes alive in this appealing story of young Molly and a series of surprising and revealing adventures. Handicapped by having one antler and ridiculed by the other jackalopes, Molly is aided through the intervention of the mysterious Grandal, who teaches her that the true source of strength is within.
