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portada The Parthenon
Type
Physical Book
Language
English
Pages
128
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
21.6 x 14.0 x 1.0 cm
Weight
0.29 kg.
ISBN13
9781532690020

The Parthenon

George Hobson (Author) · Richard B. Hays (Preface by) · Resource Publications (CA) · Hardcover

The Parthenon - Richard B. Hays

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Synopsis "The Parthenon"

The twenty-seven poems in this collection were written over a period of many years. They vary greatly in style and length. The poems in the first two sections are lyrical. Natural beauty evokes wonder and tugs at memory. Creatures dance and sing. There is joy. The last poem in Part II, ""The Generations,"" shifts tone abruptly. There is conflict and loss. In the end, with the dolphins, beauty renews hope. ""The Generations"" is a bridge to the complex narrative poems and dramatic lyrics in Part III. Here the tragic is displayed, but also the divine power that redeems it. Part IV plunges into our modern abyss. The poems are an anguished cry from the heart of the fog enveloping our civilization. The long poem, ""The Fog,"" evokes the plight of lost and lonely individuals tending their private campfires in the night of the world, cut off from transcendence and marooned in the abstract unreality of the digital universe. Part V carries forward this momentum, referencing the genocidal violence of our age, but then moves from darkness and horror up into the light of revelation and peace.
Richard B. Hays
  (Preface by)
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Richard Burnett Hays fue un teólogo y biblista estadounidense, reconocido por su trabajo riguroso en el Nuevo Testamento y la hermenéutica bíblica. Su enfoque se caracterizó por una lectura literaria y teológica de las Escrituras, atenta a las resonancias internas del texto bíblico más que a interpretaciones aisladas o puramente históricas. Hays combinó erudición académica con una prosa clara y argumentativa, evitando el tecnicismo vacío y apostando por lecturas con peso ético y teológico real.

Su obra más influyente incluye Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels, donde propone leer los Evangelios como textos profundamente entrelazados con la tradición hebrea, y Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul, ya considerada un clásico contemporáneo. El aporte central de Hays fue enseñar a leer “con oído”, detectando ecos, alusiones y estructuras narrativas que transforman la interpretación bíblica. No simplificó el texto: lo volvió más exigente. Y más interesante.
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