{"title":"The Appealing Qur'an: On the Rhetorical Strategy of Vocatives and Interpellation in the Qur'an","authors":"Thomas Hoffmann","doi":"10.3366/jqs.2020.0409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2020.0409","url":null,"abstract":"Muslim subjectivity is created and shaped by means of certain linguistic-rhetorical traits and techniques prevalent in the Qur'an. This hypothesis implies that rhetorical choices and strategies wer...","PeriodicalId":43884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quranic Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"5-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43701877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Vocabulary of Revelation: Divine Intent and Self-Disclosure in the Qur'an","authors":"A. Afsaruddin","doi":"10.3366/jqs.2020.0416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2020.0416","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how the uniqueness of the Qur'anic revelation has been perceived by primarily Sunnī Muslim commentators through time in the context of four main analytical aspects of revelati...","PeriodicalId":43884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quranic Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"192-215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46170880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rhetorical Battles: Jesus as Speaker in the Gospel of Mark","authors":"T. Østmoe","doi":"10.3366/jqs.2020.0410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2020.0410","url":null,"abstract":"Building on research relating the New Testament to Greek and Roman literary culture, the article explores the Gospel of Mark's representation of Jesus as speaker. In focus are dialogues in the Gosp...","PeriodicalId":43884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quranic Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"31-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45627753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conceptions of Language and Rhetoric in Ancient and Medieval Judaism","authors":"L. Glinert","doi":"10.3366/jqs.2020.0414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2020.0414","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores conceptions of language and rhetoric in ancient and medieval Jewish life and writings which relate to Hebrew, other languages, and language per se, reflecting both ‘religious’ n...","PeriodicalId":43884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quranic Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"133-171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3366/jqs.2020.0414","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45089242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"God Loves not the Wrongdoers (ẓālimūn): Formulaic Repetition as a Rhetorical Strategy in the Qur'an","authors":"J. Christiansen","doi":"10.3366/jqs.2020.0413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2020.0413","url":null,"abstract":"The Qur'an contains various types of repetition. One of them is the formula, a sequence of words or roots that occurs more than once in a text corpus. The formula as a literary feature is applied d...","PeriodicalId":43884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quranic Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"92-132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3366/jqs.2020.0413","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47994955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Divine Sensations: Sensory Language and Rhetoric in Bernard of Clairvaux's ‘On Conversion’","authors":"L. Engh","doi":"10.3366/jqs.2020.0411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2020.0411","url":null,"abstract":"What does it mean to speak of God in a sensory language? Christian exegetes in the middle ages were steeped in a Biblical language of visions and voices, not to mention the anthropomorphic and sens...","PeriodicalId":43884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quranic Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"51-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44558066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The sabab-khāṣṣ—ʿāmm Process as an Instructional Technique within Qur'anic Rhetoric","authors":"Ramon Harvey","doi":"10.3366/jqs.2020.0412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2020.0412","url":null,"abstract":"In his al-Itqān fī ʿulūm al-Qurʾān, al-Suyūṭī (d. 911/1505) draws attention to a Qur'anic rhetorical device by which an extra-scriptural occasion of revelation (sabab) causes the placement of a ver...","PeriodicalId":43884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quranic Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"78-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46038747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction. Originating Canons and Communities: Theories of Language and Rhetoric in the Qur'an, the Bible, and Exegetical Literatures","authors":"U. Mårtensson, T. Østmoe","doi":"10.3366/jqs.2020.0408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2020.0408","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quranic Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42498890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prophetic Clarity: A Comparative Approach to al-Ṭabarī's Theory of Qur'anic Language, Rhetoric, and Composition","authors":"U. Mårtensson","doi":"10.3366/jqs.2020.0417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2020.0417","url":null,"abstract":"The article is a comparative study of Muḥammad b. Jarīr al-Ṭabarī's (d. 310/923) concepts of Qur'anic language, rhetoric, and composition. Al-Ṭabarī identified the Qur'an semantically and generical...","PeriodicalId":43884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quranic Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"216-268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44315707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}